Fiction: Mysteries & Thrillers
PEGASUS CRIME
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The Language of the Dead by Stephen
Kelly (Apr. 15, hardcover, $25, ISBN 978-
1-60598-696-8). Det. Chief Insp. Thomas
Lamb investigates the brutal killing of an
old man, the subject of a demonic local legend, while the Battle of Britain rages in the
skies above the English countryside. Lamb
follows a twisted trail of evidence, including an emotionally disturbed boy’s cryptic
drawings.
Werewolf Cop by Andrew Klavan
(Mar. 10, hardcover, $25.95, ISBN 978-1-
60598-698-2). Zach Adams, a Houston
homicide detective known for his integrity
under fire, pursues a European gangster
who has taken over the American underworld. Along the way, Zach gets transformed into something horrible—and
deadly.
PENGUIN
Thursday’s Children: A Frieda Klein
Mystery by Nicci French (June 30, paper,
$16, ISBN 978-0-14-312721-5). In her
fourth outing, solitary London psycho-
therapist Frieda Klein faces her most per-
sonal case yet when a former classmate
appears at her door, begging for her help.
Maddie Capel’s teenage daughter, Becky,
claims that she was raped in her own bed
one night while her mother was down-
stairs.
PERMANENT
The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove by
Paul Zimmer (Feb. 28, hardcover, $28,
ISBN 978-1-57962-388-3). Cyril Solver-
son, a Wisconsin nursing home resident
obsessed with biographical trivia, woos a
new resident, a sophisticated, French-born
woman, while dealing with a menacing
thug who once kidnapped him and stole
his wallet before abandoning him in a
snowstorm.
POISONED PEN
Satan’s Lullaby: A Medieval Mystery
by Priscilla Royal (Feb. 3, hardcover,
$24.95, ISBN 978-1-4642-0354-1). In
the 11th medieval whodunit featuring Pri-
oress Eleanor, the imperious Fr. Etienne
Davoir travels from France to inspect the
operations of Eleanor’s Tyndal Priory in
East Anglia. The night before Davoir’s
arrival, a soldier escorting his party has his
throat slit.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS/
SEVENTH STREET
See Also Murder: A Marjorie Tru-
maine Mystery by Larry D. Sweazy (May
5, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-63388-006-
1). In a North Dakota town in 1964,
indexer Marjorie Trumaine is yanked out of
her quiet, bookish routine when the sheriff
asks her to help solve the grisly murders of
a married couple in their bedroom. Two
grown sons living in the house claim to
have heard nothing.
PUTNAM
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
(Mar. 31, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-
399-17167-3). Biographer Carter makes
her fiction debut with a thriller set in 1837
colonial India. William Avery, an officer of
the Honorable East India Company in Cal-
cutta, assists the Sherlock Holmes–like
Jeremiah Blake, a former company officer
now designated a special inquiry agent, in
finding a missing author of popular
romance fiction.
PUTNAM/MARIAN WOOD
The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr
(Apr. 7, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-
399-16764-5). In the 10th WWII-era
Bernie Gunther novel, Josef Goebbels
orders the former Berlin cop to Croatia, in
search of a German movie actress’s missing
father, who turns out to be a vicious war
criminal.
QUERCUS
Season of Fear by Brian Freeman (Mar.
3, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-62365-
407-8). An assassin fatally shoots Birch
Fairmont, a congressional candidate from
a newly formed third party, at a Florida
political fund-raiser. Ten years later,
Birch’s widow, who’s running for governor
of Florida, worries she’ll be the killer’s next
target.
RANDOM/HARD CASE CRIME
RANDOM/TITAN
Kill Me, Darling: A Mike Hammer
Novel by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan
Collins (Mar. 24, hardcover, $22.99, ISBN
978-1-78329-138-0). PI Mike Hammer’s
secretary and partner, Velda, has walked
out on him without explanation, and Mike
is just surfacing from a four-month bender.
Then an old cop turns up murdered, an old
cop who once worked with Velda on the
NYPD Vice Squad.
RIVERHEAD
Too Bad to Die by Francine Mathews
(Mar. 3, hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-
59463-179-5). At the critical Tehran Con-
ference in 1943, Ian Fleming, a Royal Navy
intelligence officer and the future creator of
James Bond, gets wind of a Nazi plot to
assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Sta-
lin.
ST. MARTIN’S
Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scot-
toline (Apr. 14, hardcover, $27.99, ISBN
978-0-250-01011-7). A sociopath has sets
his sights on Dr. Eric Parish, chief of one of
America’s top psychiatric units. Recently
separated from his wife and trying to be a
good single dad to his seven-year-old
daughter, Eric is more vulnerable than he
realizes.
ST. MARTIN’S/DUNNE
Pinnacle Event by Richard A. Clarke
(May 19, hardcover, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-
250-04798-4). While in power, the South
African apartheid regime made nuclear
weapons. Later, its leaders told the U.N.
that the weapons were destroyed. In fact,
the weapons were secretly stored by a
white South African exile group. Now
