Here's a representative listing of new crime fiction titles being released in August, including new titles by Harlan Coben, Faye Kellerman, Michael Koryta, Margaret Maron, Kathy Reichs, Markus Sakey, and Marcia Talley among many others. You can check out the links at the bottom for more!
Harlan Coben: The Final Detail (August 25, 2009). Win and Myron are looking into the murder of a client—a troubled New York Yankees baseball player apparently shot to death by Esperanza Diaz, who just happens to be Myron's best friend and partner in the sport's agency. Esperanza is hiding something, but Myron isn't sure if it has to do with her job or with her private life. His search for the truth takes him back to a shabby incident from his own past and to times he would rather forget
Colin Cotterill: The Merry Misogynist (August 1, 2009) Dr. Siri Paiboun (6th). On a trip to the hinterlands, Siri discovers that a beautiful female corpse bound to a tree has already risen to the status of a rural myth. This has happened many times before. He sets out to investigate this unprecedented phenomenon—a serial killer in peaceful 1978 Buddhist Laos—only to discover when he has identified the murderer that not only pretty maidens are at risk. Seventy-three-year-old coroners can be victims, too.
Ellen Crosby: The Riesling Retribution (August 4, 2009). Lucie Montgomery, Wine Country (4th) When Lucie Montgomery stumbles across a skull in her vineyard—just after the tornado that almost kills her—little does she suspect the skeletons in the family closet to which the discovery will lead.
Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in a Topaz Tango (August 4, 2009). Midnight Louie (20th) Temple Barr, Las Vegas PR whiz, goes undercover at a charity dance contest featuring celebrities like Temple's radio star fiancé, Matt Devine, while tomcat sleuth Louie provides backup. The Barbie Doll stalker has been targeting local teen talent, and soon contestants in the dance competition start to suffer accidents.
Susan Dunlap: Civil Twilight (August 1, 2009) Darcy Lott (3rd). San Francisco stunt double Darcy Lott specializes in creating the illusion of serious danger. But when her lawyer brother calls and asks her to wine and dine a mysterious client, the danger is no illusion.
Joseph Finder: Vanished (August 18, 2009). Special Forces' Nick Heller, high-powered intelligence investigator, gets a call from his nephew after an attack in Georgetown leaves his mother in a coma and his step-dad, Roger, Nick's brother, vanished without a trace. Nick and Roger have been on the outs since the conviction of their father, the notorious "fugitive financier," Victor Heller. As Nick searches for his brother, he's on a collision course with one of the most powerful corporations in the world—and they will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
Brent Ghelfi: The Venona Cable (August 18, 2009). Alexei "Volk" Volkovoy (3rd). The past erupts into the present when the police arrest Alexei Volkovoy at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and take him to a murder scene. At first, the dead man appears to be just one more victim of Moscow’s out-of-control violence. But Volk soon discovers that he is a famous Hollywood filmmaker whose reputation was destroyed in 1995 when the CIA released documents from the Venona cables—the top-secret crypto-analysis of Soviet messages that implicated the Rosenbergs.
J.G. Goodhind: Menu for Murder. (August 1, 2009) Honey Driver (4th). A film crew has arrived in Bath and, to the satisfaction of hotel owner and police liaison officer Honey Driver, some of the visitors are staying in her hotel. Plus, there's the thrilling possibility that she and her daughter might be cast as extras. But then the film's impossibly demanding star is found dead by Honey herself and she's arrested. Sexy DI Steve Doherty races to the rescue, and the pair embark on a mission to uncover the truth.
Suzette A. Hill: Bone Idle (August 1, 2009) Francis Oughterard (3rd). Reverend Oughterard has managed to elude arrest (for now), but when another murder occurs, Oughterard panics. Embarrassing complications ensue, and, once again, world-weary cat Maurice and intrepid mongrel Bouncer must help the reverend escape trouble.
Faye Kellerman: Blindman's Bluff (August 11, 2009) Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (18th). LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, find themselves blindsided by a brutal multiple murder.
Michael Koryta: The Silent Hour (August 4, 2009) Lincoln Perry (4th). What seems at first like the simplest of jobs proves to be an undertaking that will challenge both PI Lincoln Perry’s abilities as a detective and his commitment to that calling. With a new partner to train and a case that leads straight to the heart of the Cleveland organized crime scene, Perry finds himself glancing over his shoulder at every turn, pushing the bounds of safety even as he backs away.
Margaret Maron: Sand Sharks (August 13, 2009) Deborah Knott (15th). When Judge Deborah Knott travels to Wrightsville Beach for a summer conference, she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. Meanwhile, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, is in Virginia with his son, tying up loose ends left by the death of his first wife. When another judge is found murdered at the conference, it soon becomes evident that Deborah may be the killer's next target.
Nick Oldham: The Nothing Job (August 1, 2009) Henry Christie (13th) Reluctantly agreeing to track down three dangerous criminals, DCI Henry Christie is asked to close down an investigation into a fatal police shooting, and he uncovers a number of worrying connections. Henry charges headlong into a terrifying conspiracy and finds himself much closer to the cutting edge than even he would have wanted.
Kathy Reichs: 206 Bones (August 25, 2009). The twelfth Temperance Brennan novel from Kathy Reichs opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Is she buried alive? In some kind of cell? Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct.
David Rosenfelt: New Tricks (August 6, 2009) In Rosenfelt's seventh legal thriller to feature defense attorney Andy Carpenter, Andy takes on another canine client—Waggy, a Bernese mountain puppy, who's somehow connected to the murder of Walter Timmerman, a semi-titan in the pharmaceutical industry.
Priscilla Royal: Chambers of Death (August 1, 2009) Prioress Eleanor (6th). When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor and finds herself in the middle of two murders. Will Eleanor discover the dark secrets that have led to this string of killings before the murderer strikes again?
Marcus Sakey: The Amateurs (August 6, 2009). What was supposed to be a victimless crime has become a bloody nightmare. People have been killed. A child is in danger. Ruthless men pursue four friends with relentless fury. And tensions they thought were long-buried threaten to destroy them. As their whole world begins to unravel, each will have to choose between their own life and the lives of others.
George D. Shuman: Second Sight (August 4, 2009) Sherry Moore (4th) Beautiful psychic Sherry Moore delves into the darkest corners of the pharmaceutical trade and risks her life to set right an injustice buried deep in the past.
Andy Straka: Kitty Hitter (August 31, 2009) Frank Pavlicek (4th). Separating felines from their rightful owners is the crime in shamus Frank Pavlicek's latest case, and Frank's not happy about it. Still, the obligations of friendship are pressing, and Darla Barnes had been an NYPD cop alongside Frank before they both went private. More than that, she'd once saved his life. So in response to Darla's call, Frank offers to help in the curious case of the purloined kitten, testing Frank in ways he couldn't have imagined.
Marcia Talley: Without a Grave (August 1, 2009) Hannah Ives (8th). When controversy arises over the construction of a Bahamas luxury resort that could devastate the coral reef, Hannah dives in. Acts of vandalism, a deadly wildfire, a missing scientist - Hannah suspects a connection, but her investigation stalls when Hurricane Helen slams into the island. Before the skies clear, a dynasty is threatened by a venomous sibling rivalry, environmentalists face-off against progressive island fathers, and somebody else will die.
For more of the new hardcover, trade paperback, and paperback releases (as well as reissues), check out the following sites from The Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, Books N Bytes, San Diego's Mystery Books, Powells Books, the Bloodstained Bookshelf, and Fantastic Fiction.
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