Fiction, July 2004

General Fiction |Mysteries |Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

General Fiction

Audouard, Antoine: Farewell, My Only One (August 2004)

The medieval love story of Heloise and Abelard is told in the voice of a young Oxford student named William, who meets the star-crossed lovers and becomes their confidant. This historical novel was nominated for the Goncourt Prize in France.
Binchy, Maeve: Nights of Rain and Stars (September 2004)

In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together in unexpected ways when tragedy suddenly strikes.
Bowker, David: I Love My Smith and Wesson (August 2004)

L. A. noir meets gangland Manchester, England, in this underworld thriller starring antihero hitman Rawhead.
Brown, Sandra: White Hot (August 2004)

Sayre Lynch returns to her hometown of Destiny, Louisiana, for her brother's funeral and, when she decides to investigate his last days, uncovers a family scandal.
Butler, Robert Olen: Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards (August 2004)

Pulitzer prize–winning author Butler uses his collection of early 20th-century postcards as inspiration for his short stories.
D'Ancona, Matthew: Going East (July 2004)

Both a mystery and a love story, Going East follows political consultant Mia Taylor to London's gritty East End as she struggles to understand how her safe world was destroyed overnight.
Deaver, Jeffery: Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936 (July 2004)

Mob hitman Paul Schumann poses as a journalist covering the summer Olympics to disguise his real mission: assassinate a key member of Hitler's Third Reich.
Downs, Tim: Chop Shop (July 2004)

While on academic probation, entomologist Nick Polchak helps the local coroner analyse some corpses and discovers a black market in transplant organs.
Elphinstone, Margaret: Voyageurs: A Novel (August 2004)

This gripping and enjoyable adventure, set against the magnificent backdrop of 19th-century Canada, addresses the timeless themes of war, love, and the emotional bonds that bind us to one another.
Emerson, Earl W.: Pyro (August 2004)

From the author of Vertical Burn and Into the Inferno comes a thriller based on true events involving arson and murder.
Gerritsen, Tess: Body Double: A Novel (August 2004)

Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles identifies the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin and enlists the help of Detective Rick Ballard to probe her sister's past.
Hayter, Sparkle: Bandit Queen Boogie: A Madcap Caper of Two Accidental Criminals (July 2004)

Chloe and Blackie's romp through Europe suddenly gets a whole lot wilder with good and bad guys in pursuit of these two attractive young women who were last seen with a now-dead man and his Ganesh statue.
Jance, Judith A.: Day of the Dead (July 2004)

The Walker family survived the atrocities perpetrated by a serial killer and his crazed acolyte in both Hour of the Hunter and Kiss of the Bees. But can they escape the vengeance of a new killer or killers whose sights are set on their precious daughter, Lani?
Keizer, Gregg: The Longest Night (August 2004)

Keizer's debut puts a new spin on the World War II suspense novel: what if the Resistance had approached the notorious Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky for help?
Mattison, Alice: The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman (August 2004)

From critically acclaimed author Mattison comes a lyrical and moving meditation on love, marriage and identity.
Moning, Karen Marie: The Immortal Highlander (August 2004)

When a curse strips arrogant Adam Black of his immortality and makes him invisible, his only hope for return to the Faery world, and for survival, is in the hands of the one woman who can see actually see him.
Mosher, Howard Frank: Waiting for Teddy Williams (August 2004)

Haunted by a dark mystery in his family's past, eight-year-old E. A. is an outcast in his Vermont town, except when it comes to baseball. A drifter named Teddy, who is determined to do one decent thing in his life, teaches E. A. how to really play ball.
Nunn, Kem: Tijuana Straits: A Novel (August 2004)

From the National Book Award–nominated author of Tapping the Source comes a suspense novel that pits a young Mexican woman and an aging American surfer against three killers out for revenge.
Oates, Joyce Carol: The Falls (September 2004)

In her new novel, set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-20th century, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis.
Pamuk, Orhan: Snow (August 2004)

Ka, a Turkish poet, is drained of feeling and inspiration by years of lonely political exile in Germany. But when he becomes stranded in a Turkish border town, he will discover whether he is brave enough to seize a last chance for happiness.
Simon, Michael: Dirty Sally: A Novel (August 2004)

Dirty Sally is the debut of a new series featuring Dan Reles — Austin homicide unit's only Yankee, and only Jew — as he investigates a murder and searches for justice in the mansions and ghettos of corrupt, post-oil-boom Texas.
Sosnowski, David: Vamped: A Novel (August 2004)

A hot beach read, Sosnowski's Vamped is the story of a very different world — one where vampires and humans are the near-extinct minority.
Thomas, Edwin: The Blighted Cliffs: Book One of the Reluctant Adventures of Lieutenant Martin Jerrold (August 2004)

This is the first of a trilogy set at the turn of the 19th- -century, when Britain was fighting to rule the waves — a swashbuckling adventure series with a new hero.

Mysteries

Cleverly, Barbara: The Damascened Blade (August 2004)

The deadly edge of the final days of the Raj is the background for the third novel in the series of a Scotland Yard detective stationed in post World War I India.
Cornwell, Patricia: Trace (September 2004)

Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, to help solve a perplexing crime. Under strange and less-than-ideal circumstances, she investigates the death of a 14-year old girl to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.
Donoghue, Emma: Life Mask (September 2004)

The author of Slammerkin turns her attention to the Beau Monde of late 18th-century England, transforming the private drama of three celebrated Londoners in a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world, and lives, on the brink of revolution.
Hambly, Barbara: Dead Water (August 2004)

The Benjamin January mystery series continues with an installment that sets a free man of color on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable passage to death and murder.
Kernick, Simon: The Murder Exchange (July 2004)

Ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to an ill-fated rendezvous in a deserted North London industrial estate.
MacDonald, Patricia: The Girl Next Door: A Novel (July 2004)

When her father is murdered 15 years after being convicted for killing her mother, struggling actress Nina Avery must dig into the past to find the real killer before she becomes the next victim.
Maron, Margaret: High Country Fall (August 2004)

With friends and family overreacting to her announcement that she plans to marry Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott seizes the opportunity to work a week on the bench at Cedar Gap. But her peaceful break is interrupted by murder.
Michaels, Kasey: Maggie Without a Clue (August 2004)

Things heat up for mystery author Maggie Kelly and her favorite character Saint Just, as they try to solve the mystery of why her literary agent ended up waking up next to a dead man.

Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

Marillier, Juliet: Foxmask (August 2004)

Norse warrior Evyind and his priestess bride Nessa live contentedly with the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles, but their peace is threatened by young Thorvald, son of Eyvind's outcast war leader Somerland, who sets off to find the father he never knew.
Mieville, China: Iron Council (July 2004)

Wars and revolutions spawn treachery and violence in Mieville's third urban grunge fantasy set in the sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon.
Odom, Mel: The Destruction of the Books (July 2004)

When it becomes clear that dark forces are out to destroy those who might defend the world against them, it is up to two librarians at the Great Libraries to secure the sacred volumes that will lead to a new era of darkness if they fall into the wrong hands.
Pike, Christopher: Alosha (July 2004)

Aided by a reluctant leprechaun and a loyal troll, and with her three closest friends by her side, a young girl who has just learned she is Queen of the Fairies begins her quest to save the world from armies of elves and dwarves.
Rainey, Stephen Mark: The Lebo Coven (July 2004)

When Barry Riggs returns home after a 10-year absence to find his brother missing and his house ransacked, he learns that a Satanic drifter named Ren may be involved.
Weis, Margaret: The Dragon's Son (July 2004)

The twin offspring of a high priestess and a dragon hold the key to man's future but their identity must be held secret, even from each other, until they mature.