- Dunne, John Gregory
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Nothing Lost (May 2004)
Dunne's fascination with the emptiness of the American heartland is the bedrock of a story that twists through the media, the prisons, the courts and politics.
- Barth, John
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The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories (April 2004)
The postmodern master is back with his 16th book and third collection of fiction which gathers for the first time in one volume stories previously published in various journals.
- Berger, Thomas
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Adventures of the Artificial Woman (May 2004)
Ellery feels he finally has created an artificial woman who can pass as real. Phyllis is the perfect wife, fulfilling his every wish, from gourmet meals to sexual pleasure. Unfortunately for Ellery, he may have made her too much in his own image.
- Bond, Larry
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Larry Bond's First Team (May 2004)
A unique military unit, authorized to track vital intelligence and then take immediate action, must locate and neutralize an unseen enemy with a dirty bomb and terrifying intentions.
- Chaon, Dan
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You Remind Me of Me (June 2004)
Why do we become who we become? Through the intertwined threads of the characters' lives, this question is explored in this first novel from the National Book Award finalist.
- Child, Lee
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The Enemy (May 2004)
Jack Reacher, once an elite military cop, is fighting a new kind of war. He's taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris, to a confrontation with an enemy he didn't know he had.
- Cody, Paul
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Shooting the Heart (May 2004)
Cody journeys into the mind of Earl Madden, a former Boston schoolteacher who has been committed to a state mental hospital. Manic depressive and heavily sedated, Earl is haunted by the disturbing question: Did I kill my wife?
- Coonts, Stephen
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Liars and Thieves: A Tommy Carmellini Novel (May 2004)
A beautiful woman is being blackmailed, an illegal break-in occurs, and a massacre at a government safe house puts CIA agent Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.
- Everett, Percival
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American Desert (May 2004)
A man is decapitated in a car accident then comes back to life in this experimental, satirical, bizarre and oddly humorous novel that lampoons the press, religion, academia and our culture.
- Green, Jane
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To Have and to Hold (May 2004)
English rose Alice moves to New York with her breathtaking but swinish husband and while he's busy being unfaithful she rediscovers herself by fixing up their new country home in Connecticut.
- Howatch, Susan
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The Heartbreaker (May 2004)
The financial heart of London is a place where sex and solace are just two more commodities and where Gavin Blake, a high-class rent boy, is coming undone. Carta Graham quickly feels connected to Blake when he comes looking for help at St. Benet's church where years before she had shown up in a state much like his. Gavin is desperate to escape his world of prostitution, violence and pornography. But as his involvement with Carta and St. Benet's deepens, the woman who once controlled his life tries to tighten her grip on him again.
- Kelman, James
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You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (May 2004)
Jeremiah Brown, a Scottish immigrant in his early thirties, has lived in the United States for 12 years. He has moved as many times, from the east coast to the west coast and back again, all in the hope his luck would change. To add to his restlessness and indecision, he now has a nonrefundable ticket to Glasgow to visit his mother for the first time in seven years. The question is, will the visit help him get over the pain of separation from a woman he met and loved in New York and with whom he had a little girl, or will it make it worse?
- Keyes, Marian
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The Other Side of the Story (May 2004)
Author Keyes' new, warm-hearted novel takes place in the whirlwind world of book publishing and concerns the fate of three women trying to climb the ladders of career, karma and that elusive bestseller list.
- McFadden, Bernice L.
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Camilla's Roses (May 2004)
Known for bringing to life a host of endearing characters who reveal tender truths about humanity, McFadden now turns her storytelling talents to a woman who is deeply troubled and haunted by the past.
- Nevin, David
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Meriwether: A Novel of Meriwether Lewis and the Lewis & Clark
Expedition (May 2004)
Nevin brings his talents to a familiar tale.
- Quick, Amanda
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The Paid Companion (May 2004)
The Earl of St. Merryn seeks a woman to pose as his fiance for a few weeks to keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his business. The plan never included falling in love.
- Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor
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Sullivan's Law (May 2004)
Carolyn Sullivan, a busy mother of two, law student and probation officer, becomes embroiled in a dangerous, high-profile case that puts her family at risk when she's assigned to supervise convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic Daniel Metroix.
- Sandford, John
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Hidden Prey
Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian with government connections was killed.
- Toibin, Colm
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The Master (June 2004)
A celebrated Irish novelist reimagines the life of the
celebrated novelist Henry James.
- Akunin, Boris
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Murder on the Leviathan (April 2004)
Paris, March, 1878: When Lord Littleby is discovered in his rue Grenelle residence with his head bashed in, surrounded by the bodies of seven servants and two children who appear to have died from overdoses of morphine, the distinguished Paris police commissioner Gauche is determined to solve the case.
- Bishop, Claudia (editor)
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Death Dines In (May 2004)
Sixteen culinary capers, all with new recipes included, featuring authors Carole Nelson Douglas, Lyn Hamilton, Claudia Bishop, Donna Andrews, Rhys Bowen, Anne Perry and many more.
- Bowen, Michael
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Unforced Error (April 2004)
Rep and Melissa Pennyworth go to a re-enactment of a Civil War battle in Kansas City, Missouri, in search of a cutting-edge copyright case for Rep and find a corpse instead.
- Black, Michael A.
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Windy City Knights (April 2004)
It is just a few weeks before Ron Shade contends for the Full Contact Karate Heavyweight championship. While training, he continues to work a security job at a Chicago hotel bar where he intercedes when a guy manhandles a woman who turns out to be Ron's high school sweetheart. Later, he learns she was killed in a hit and run accident and that he is under suspicion.
- Cohen, Mark
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The Fractal Murders (May 2004)
Cohen's experience as a former JAG and as a municipal judge in Boulder infuses his mystery novel with an insider's unique perspective and true-life details.
- Forrest, Katherine V.
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Hancock Park (May 2004)
Lambda Award winner and best-selling author Forrest sets her dogged Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield on an investigation in which cold-blooded murder is only the beginning.
- Fowler, Christopher
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Full Dark House (June 2004)
When a bomb claims the life of his partner of over 50 years, Detective Arthur Bryant must revisit their first case to uncover the killer's identity.
- Kandel, Susan
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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason: A Cece Caruso Mystery (June 2004)
This debut novel that takes us on a romp through California's past and present, complete with robber barons and the haute couture of the '40s.
- Pattison, Eliot
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Beautiful Ghosts (April 2004)
Disgraced former Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun has been living in the remote mountains of Tibet since his unofficial release from a work camp. But now there's apparently been a murder in a ruined monastery and the very officials who exiled Shan are after his help.
- Scottoline, Lisa
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Killer Smile (June 2004)
Lawyer Mary DiNunzio gets a new take on her latest case when she starts receiving ominous threats.
- Seranella, Barbara
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Unwilling Accomplice: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel (May 2004)
Seranella pits her charismatic heroine against a puzzling organized crime ring involving exploited children, burglary and murder in this seventh installment of the Munch Mancini series.
- Tracy, P. J.
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Live Bait (April 2004)
Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored until the current crime drought ends with a series of killings.
- White, Kate
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'Til Death Do Us Part (May 2004)
Bailey Weggins has to act fast when fellow bridesmaids from a friend's wedding begin dropping like flies in freak accidents.
