The list of new crime fiction releases this month is so overwhelming, it's really too large a task to cover in detail in one blog posting, but I thought I'd post a few summarized highlights. For fans of series, there's certainly plenty to cheer about, including reader favorites Mark Billingham: Death Message (Tom Thorne in the series); Michael Connelly: Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, 14th); Patricia Cornwell: The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, 17th); Joanne Fluke: Plum Pudding Murder (Hannah Swense, 13th); Charlaine Harris: Grave Secret (Harper Connelly 4th); Reginald Hill: Midnight Fugue (Dalziel and Pascoe 24th); Alex Kava: Black Friday (Maggie O'Dell 7th); Jonathan Kellerman: Evidence (Alex Delaware 24th); Ralph McInerny: Stained Glass(Father Dowling 29th); Marcia Muller: Locked In (Sharon McCone 26th); Robert B. Parker: The Professional (Spenser 38th), Ruth Rendell: The and Monster in the Box (Inspector Wexford 22nd).
Several non-series novels also coming to a bookstore near your include David Baldacci's True Blue, Barbara Taylor Bradford's Breaking the Rules, John Connolly's The Gates, Allan Folsom's The Hadrian Memorandum, and Stuart Neville's The Ghosts of Belfast.
If you're looking for some debut novels, look no further than The Lazarus Covenant by John Fenzel, a senior Army Special Forces officer, and Final Approach by Rachel Brady featuring a skydiving protagonist.
There are even some short-story anthologies: A Rumpole Christmas: Stories by the late John Mortimer, a collection of five holiday stories-never before published in book form; The Price of Love and Other Stories by Peter Robinson, author of the Detective Inspector Alan Banks series; and A Touch of Dead: The Complete Stories, a collection of Sookie Stackhouse stories by Charlaine Harris.
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.
Merry Christmas! I wish you a lot of gifts and luck in the new year.
Posted by: Antivirus_man | December 05, 2010 at 09:11 AM