Fiction, November 2004

General Fiction |Mysteries |Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

General Fiction

Anderson, Robert: Little Fugue (December 2004)

Flannery O'Connor Award winner Anderson explores how Sylvia Plath's death affected her husband, his mistress and a young devotee, the author himself.
Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories: A Novel (November 2004)

This new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson is a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. As private detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge.
Auchincloss, Louis: East Side Story (December 2004)

For his 60th novel, the author follows the fortunes of the Scottish Carnochans, who prospered on New York's Upper East Side in the 19th century. This is a loving and wicked look at New York's own.
Baker, Kyle: Plastic Man: On the Lam (November 2004)

Comics' most pliable hero takes the spotlight in this offbeat book by critically acclaimed creator Kyle Baker. Watch as Plas — with the help of sidekick Woozy Winks — gets into all sorts of trouble, as his not-so-innocent past as "Eel" O'Brian comes back to haunt him. Our hero is framed for a crime he didn't commit, and now he's on the lam!
Bell, Madison Smartt: The Stone That the Builder Refused (November 2004)

The finale in the Toussaint Louverture trilogy spans the last two years of Toussaint's life, his triumphant struggle and the compromises made for a free Haiti. Toussaint was the legendary leader of the only successful slave revolution in history.
Brockmann, Suzanne: Hot Target (December 2004)

Troubleshooter, Inc., a special ops team, is hired as bodyguards to protect a movie producer whose controversial new film makes her the target of extremist groups.
Buffett, Jimmy: A Salty Piece of Land (November 2004)

Jimmy Buffett, bestselling author of Tales from Margaritaville and hero to "parrotheads" everywhere, flies back into view with a novel set in the Caribbean, involving a lighthouse, a mystery, a wild cast of characters and more than a few bottles of tequila. Raucous, wise and familiar with the world's wonderful strangeness, A Salty Piece of Land is escapism at its best.
Chabon, Michael: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (November 2004)

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out — a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case — the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot — beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller.
Chabon, Michael: McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (November 2004)

A stellar group of contemporary fiction masters offer their original takes on the tried-and-true genres of adventure, science fiction, crime story, romance, horror and more. Contributors include Michael Chabon, Roddy Doyle, Heidi Julavitz, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Peter Straub and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Clark, Mary Higgins: The Christmas Thief (November 2004)

The bestselling mother-and-daughter authors create an entertaining and suspenseful tale featuring two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters, Alvirah and Willy, who become embroiled in a Yuletide mystery in Manhattan when the Christmas tree destined for Rockefeller Center disappears.
Clement, Peter: The Inquisitor : A Medical Thriller (December 2004)

Terminal cancer patients in a SARS-infected hospital start complaining about out-of-body near-death experiences and Dr. Earl Garnet sets out to discover why.
Cookson, Catherine: The Glass Virgin (December 2004)

Only child Annabella Lagrange only occasionally wondered why her parents never took her beyond the gates of their magnificent country estate. When she was 10, she decided that when she grew up she would marry her handsome cousin Stephen and never be lonely again. But when she was 18, Annabella learned the circumstances of her birth, and her entire world crashed around her.
Cussler, Clive: Black Wind (December 2004)

Intricate plotting, taut suspense and nonstop action highlight this latest Dirk Pitt adventure. Now the new head of NUMA, Pitt and his children must find two World War II–era Japanese subs — each carrying a biological virus — before a madman does.
DeMille, Nelson: Night Fall: A Novel (November 2004)

Five years after the crash of Flight 800, two members of the Elite Anti-terrorist Task Force suspect it was no accident and set out to recover the one piece of evidence to prove it: a videotape that shows a couple making love on the beach as the airliner crashes
Fforde, Katie: Paradise Fields (December 2004)

Armed with a plan and the support of her friends and family, Nel Innes attempts to rally the community to save the picturesque Paradise Fields and local farmer's market from development. Yet she can't help but be distracted by Jake, the handsome lawyer — and her opposition — who repeatedly pops up at just the right moment.
Follett, Ken: Whiteout (December 2004)

Like no other suspense author in his genre, Follett reinvents the thriller with each new story line. But nothing matches the intricate, knife-edge drama of this novel which centers around a missing canister of a deadly virus and those out to profit from the drug that offers a cure.
Gordimer, Nadine: Telling Tales (December 2004)

All proceeds from this anthology will go to the Treatment Action Campaign, a non-profit organization whose funds are used entirely for the treatment and support of people suffering from HIV and AIDS. The collection features Woody Allen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arthur Miller, Paul Theroux and John Updike.
Gordon, Bill: Mary After All (December 2004)

Meet Mary Noland (nee Morelli), a tough-talking Jersey City native who comes of age during the turbulent 1970s. Marrying young to escape her parents, Mary finds herself shipwrecked by life with her philandering husband. Financially dependent on but emotionally abandoned by him, struggling to raise their two young sons virtually alone, Mary finally hits rock bottom. How she pulls herself up by her bootstraps is the story she tells in this remarkable debut.
Gregory, Phillippa: The Virgin's Lover (November 2004)

Blending historical fact with contemporary rumor, the bestselling author of The Queen's Fool creates a dark and tense novel of Tudor times, which casts Elizabeth I in a light no one has suggested before. Passionate, fearful, emotionally needy, this is a queen who rules over a feverishly plotting, pleasure-seeking court.
Griffin, W. E. B.: By Order of the President (December 2004)

At an airfield in Angola, two men board a leased Boeing 727; then, once it is in the air, they slit the pilot's throat and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, FAA and other agencies race to find out what has happened.
Jagt, Marek van der: The Story of My Baldness (November 2004)

In this darkly funny novel, an obsessive Viennese philosophy student is in search of l'amour.
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray): Life Expectancy (December 2004)

Koontz returns with an emotional rollercoaster tale of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy — a story that will challenge the way readers perceive good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.
Krentz, Jayne Ann: Falling Awake (December 2004)

When a dream researcher and a highly classified government agent meet, a waking nightmare begins. A suspicious hit-and-run leads them into a perilous web of passion, betrayal and murder, and forces them to walk the razor-thin line between dreams and reality.
Lambright, Slim: The Sweethearts of Soul (December 2004)

In this lively, outrageous novel, a legendary female singing group hits the heights in the heyday of rock and roll and then comes down to earth to deal with real life after the 1960s.
Liddle, Rod: Too Beautiful for You: Tales of Improper Behavior (December 2004)

The stories in this collection sweep readers into the lives of characters whose sexual frustrations and deviant desires lead them to the very edge of acceptable behavior — and sometimes way beyond.
Lowy, Jonathan: The Temple of Music (December 2004)

Spanning years, countries and classes, this novel paints a portrait of a young United States at the turn of the century — a time when everything was new, every day had the power to change history, and larger-than-life figures brushed shoulders and sometimes collided with wretchedly poor working men.
Martel, Yann: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (December 2004)

Written earlier in Yann Martel's career, these four unforgettable tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless.
McCall Smith, Alexander: The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa (December 2004)

Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and grew up hearing stories that so enchanted him, he passed them along to his own children. He now shares them in this jewel of a book.
McLaughlin, Emma: Citizen Girl: A Novel (November 2004)

Citizen Girl follows an ambitious and idealistic young woman as she confronts what it means to be young and female in the new economy, where a college degree entitles one to make copies and color-coordinate file folders — if one is lucky. From the authors of The Nanny Diaries.
McMurtry, Larry: Loop Group (December 2004)

Award-winning author Larry McMurtry takes his act on the road in this irresistible tale of friendship, sisterhood, love, loss, sex and Hollywood. This is the story of Maggie and Connie, two women rapidly approaching their sunset years but fiercely determined to have one last grand adventure before it's too late.
Miles, Rosalind: The Lady of the Sea: The Third of the Tristan and Isolde Novels (December 2004)

As the final episode of this saga unfolds, Queen Isolde faces devastating challenges that threaten to undo her nation and break her heart. Warrior Picts invading from the north menace Ireland's sovereignty. Isolde's marriage to King Mark of Cornwall has soured. And scheming forces inside the court jeopardize the ancient Mother-right that grants Isolde her authority. Worst of all, Isolde must wrestle these demons without the support of Tristan of Lyonesse, the knight whose love sustains her sanity. In desperation, she turns to the mystical Lady of the Sea for guidance. Rosalind Miles weaves her intricate knowledge of Celtic history into this lavish tale of politics, destiny and betrayal.
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad): Magic Seeds (November 2004)

A present-moment novel that takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who use terrorism as an ideal and a way of life, this is a moving tale of a man searching for his life and fearing he has wasted it, and the conflicts between the rich and the poor.
Nye, Joseph S.: The Power Game: A Washington Novel (November 2004)

In his debut novel, a former Clinton administration official gives readers an insider's view of high-stakes contemporary politics, exposing Washington's power struggles, temptations and deceptions.
Palmer, Elizabeth: The Distaff Side (December 2004)

This beautifully crafted family saga is set in post–World War I England, complete with stolen family jewels, kidnapping, illicit forbidden passion, Russian spies, stiff upper class body parts and murder. The tale combines the wit of Jane Austen and story line of Sherlock Holmes.
Perlman, Elliott: Seven Types of Ambiguity (December 2004)

A psychological thriller and deeply romantic novel that speaks with unforgettable force about the redemptive power of love, this story is told in seven parts, by six different narrators whose lives are entangled in unexpected ways.
Pinnock, Patricia Schonstein: A Time of Angels (December 2004)

When a gifted clairvoyant's wife leaves him for his best friend, he casts a spell that will conjure dark, unexpected consequences for them all in his efforts to win her back.
Plain, Belva: Red Leaves (December 2004)

Jean Wright is a widow in a small New England city and the owner of a venerable glassworks company. When a tragic car accident robs her of a loved one, Jean must put aside her grief to raise the surviving child, the one-year-old Guin, as her own. As the child blossoms into an independent young woman, the two generations clash. When Guin defies the only mother she's ever known by striking out on her own — pursuing a completely different kind of career and marrying the man she loves despite his shady antecedents — their relationship seems irreparably damaged. It is only when Guin has a child of her own, a little girl who is so very like Jean in personality, that events come full circle and these women find that the qualities that drive you apart can also draw you together. Belva Plain works her magic once again with this compelling, emotional story about women, their ties and the bonds of loving.
Proulx, Annie: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (November 2004)

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes a stellar collection of short stories set in Wyoming.
Rambaud, Patrick: The Retreat (November 2004)

A gripping historical novel focused on Napoleon's dramatic invasion of Russia, The Retreat is a stirring follow-up to The Battle, winner of France's Goncourt Prize.
Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead (November 2004)

In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
Sinha, Indra: The Death of Mr. Love (November 2004)

Sinha's sensuous and compelling novel of passion and vengeance, fact and fiction is based on a real-life murder in 1950s Bombay.
Slaughter, Carolyn: A Black Englishman (November 2004)

Set against the backdrop of India in the 1920s, this novel is the tale of a powerful and erotic love affair that combines the themes of colonial exploitation, political and ethnic tensions, race and sexuality, and the many forms of partition, both secular and religious.
Smith, Martin Cruz: Wolves Eat Dogs: A Novel (November 2004)

With Arkady Renko, Smith created one of the iconic sleuths of contemporary fiction. Renko returns to investigate international plots that drive one of Russia's billionaire businessmen to jump to his death.
Svenson, Peter: Washed Up With a Broken Heart in Rock Hall (November 2004)

Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one-way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay with only his cat for company — and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him; his home and possessions are gone, but he's determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised fictional bestseller about this lonely passage in his life.
Thayer, Nancy: The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again (December 2004)

Four women meet at the Hot flash Club's Golden Moments spa where they bond instantly and make a pact to help each other with their toxic relatives.
Turteltaub, H. N.: Owls to Athens (December 2004)

Return to the ancient world with Menedemos and Sostratos, the squabbling traders of the Aegean main.
Cauwelaert, Didier Van: Out of My Head (December 2004)

From the author of One-Way (2003) comes this novel about one man's struggle to reclaim his identity.
Vila-Matas, Enrique: Bartleby & Co. (December 2004)

In Bartleby & Co. Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature and examines the writers and non-writers reminiscent of Herman Melville's scrivener Bartleby, who answers any question or demand: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville and J. D. Salinger, Bartleby & Co. could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through the annals of literature. Written as a series of footnotes, Bartleby embarks on such questions as why do we write, why do we exist? The answer lies in the novel itself: told from the point of view of a hermetic hunchback who has no luck with women, and is himself unable to write, Bartleby is utterly engaging, a work of profound and philosophical beauty.
Weldon, Fay: Mantrapped (December 2004)

After brushing past each other on the stairs above their local laundromat, Trice and Peter instantly and mysteriously switch souls. But none of this is half as awkward as when they both come home to face Peter's wife and have to decide who will sleep where.
Winegardner, Mark: The Godfather Returns (November 2004)

Winegardner — whose proposal for this novel was chosen in an international competition — brings new artistry and vision to Mario Puzo's mythic characters.
Wolfe, Tom: I Am Charlotte Simmons (November 2004)

With his signature eye for detail, the New York Times bestselling author draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s.
Yan, Mo: Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel (November 2004)

The winner of China's most prestigious prize for fiction — soon banned after it ran afoul of the guardians of official morality — spans seven time periods, from the end of the Qing dynasty to China's post-Mao years, presenting the female body as the book's most important image and metaphor.
York, Alissa: Mercy: A Novel (November 2004)

This debut novel, nominated for Canada's McNally Robinson Award for Best Book 2003, pairs a single night in the past with a single night in the present, as they both unfold in the town of Mercy, Manitoba, and in the neighboring black spruce bog.

Mysteries

Andrews, Donna: Access Denied (December 2004)

When Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Personality extraordinaire, learns a criminal's once-dormant credit card has been doing a lot of shopping lately, she does some sleuthing. But luring the guilty party out might very well get everyone "accidentally" deleted.
Balzo, Sandra: Uncommon Grounds (November 2004)

Recently divorced Maggy Thorsen arrives at her new coffee shop for its grand opening and finds the body of her business partner dead in a puddle of milk. As Maggy and the new young sheriff of Bookhills, Wisconsin, investigate what appears to be an accidental electrocution, they uncover evidence not only of wire tampering but corrupt small town politics, kickbacks, missing campaign ballots and illicit affairs.
Bannister, Jo: The Depths of Solitude: A Brodie Farrell Mystery (December 2004)

This psychological thriller introduces sleuth Brodie Farrell who is searching for answers about her friend's disappearance. Secrets from his past make Brodie fear for his safety until a mysterious chain of events puts a halt to her inquiries and leaves her fearing for her own safety as well.
Braun, Lilian Jackson: The Cat Who Went Bananas (December 2004)

When the Theatre Club's new play does not continue past opening night because a member of the cast is killed in a car accident, Qwill and his clever cats have their work cut out for them.
Buckley, Fiona: The Siren Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court (December 2004)

The latest richly evocative and impressively researched mystery in a series that seamlessly blends riveting authenticity and masterful storytelling reveals the inside story behind Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots.
Cain, Chelsea: Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: Nancy Drew Tells All! A Parody (November 2004)

In this delicious and affectionate parody of the beloved Nancy Drew series, Nancy Drew-Nickerson insists she was not a fictional character, and Carolyn Keene was not a hardworking team of writers. In fact, Carolyn was Nancy's college roommate, who shamelessly plagiarized the tales from Nancy's exploits and, in the process, got a whole lot wrong.
Collins, Max Allen: Road to Purgatory (December 2004)

This powerful narrative follow-up to the acclaimed graphic novel Road to Perdition opens with Michael O'Sullivan returning to Chicago and his old war against the Capone mob. Interwoven is the parallel tale of his father, chief enforcer to Irish godfather John Looney.
Cotterill, Colin: The Coroner's Lunch (December 2004)

When an elderly doctor takes over as state coroner of newly formed Communist Laos in the late 1970s, he unexpectedly stirs the bureaucratic pot and unravels three complicated and intertwined murder plots his superiors want to sweep under the carpet.
Crawford, Charles R.: Bluff Walk: A John McAlister Mystery (December 2004)

Private investigator John McAlister's search for a missing son of a family friend takes him from the highest levels of society to redneck roadhouses and the urban world of crack, leading him finally to a rogue policeman and a former judge who have taken it upon themselves to rid a city of its criminal elements.
Dams, Jeanne M.: Winter of Discontent (December 2004)

In the weeks before Christmas, Dorothy Martin pursues the killer of her best friend's gentleman caller.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (November 2004)

Leslie S. Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late 19th- and early 20th-century book editions.
Eglin, Anthony: The Blue Rose: An English Garden Mystery (December 2004)

The Blue Rose is a well-plotted story that should appeal to gardeners everywhere about what happens when amateurs tinker with the ever-favorite rose species and come up with a "killer."
Garcia-Roza, L.A.: A Window in Copacabana: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (January 2004)

A ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in the seductive bestselling Brazilian crime series set in Rio de Janeiro.
Goodger, John: The Druperman Tapes (November 2004)

A fascinating guide to the underbelly of Las Vegas, The Druperman Tapes is a fast, twisty, fun thriller in the spirit of Ocean's Eleven.
Hasburgh, Patrick: Aspen Pulp (December 2004)

Filled with hilarious digs at its ostentatious home, this title stars former TV writer-turned-PI Jake Wheeler who is hired to find a runaway cheerleader. Using what little he's learned from TV detective shows, Jake uncovers a complex crime ring that lies deep within the old mine shafts of Aspen Mountain.
Havill, Steven F.: Convenient Disposal: A Posadas County Mystery (November 2004)

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigates the beating of a middle school student and the disappearance of her neighbor, the county manager. Estelle suspects Carmen's suspension from school may have caused her to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Kaminsky, Stuart M.: The Last Dark Place: An Abe Lieberman Mystery (December 2004)

One of Kaminsky's most memorable characters, Abe Lieberman is a veteran detective who uses his head and heart more than his gun. With this installment, Lieberman and his Irish partner Bill Hanrahan, known on the streets as the Rabbi and the Priest, have their hands full with dark matters both professional and personal.
Kelly, Jim: The Fire Baby (December 2004)

Reporter Philip Dryson hopes to blow open a murder story with the help of a dying woman and his own comatose wife. This is the follow up to Kelly's debut, The Water Clock, which was shortlisted for Britain's John Creasey Award.
Mortimer, John Clifford: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (December 2004)

The author tells the story of Rumpole's very first case which began to shape him into the eccentric and cantankerous defender of justice and reciter of poetry that readers know and love.
Pearce, Michael: The Face in the Cemetery (December 2004)

Egypt, 1914. The outbreak of war in Europe casts ripples that can be felt even in Cairo. Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of the Khedives Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. But in a land where the adoption of foreign nationality is a popular means of avoiding trial by an Egyptian court, determining who counts as a German proves contentious. And then there's the face in the cemetery. A cat cemetery, at that. Who disturbed the mummified remains by placing a human corpse among them? Owen has a more pressing concern in the shape of missing rifles and dubious gun-toting ghaffirs. The face in the cemetery, though, refuses to go away and Owen comes to realize that it poses questions that are not just professional but uncomfortably personal.
Pearce, Michael: Dead Man in Trieste (November 2004)

This first volume in a new series introduces Seymour of Special Branch, set in the British embassies and consulates around the Empire in the early 1900s.
Roberts, Gillian: Till the End of Tom: An Amanda Pepper Mystery (December 2004)

Prep school English teacher and amateur sleuth Amanda Pepper is hired by a privileged Philadelphia family to investigate the mysterious death of one of their own.
Royal, Priscilla J.: Tyrant of the Mind (December 2004)

In the winter of 1271, Death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, and her sub-infirmarian, Sister Anne, to save the child with prayers and healing talents. Escorting them to the remote fortress is Brother Thomas, an unwilling monk fighting his private demons. Soon after the trio arrives, an important guest is murdered. The prioress's brother, bloody dagger in hand, stands over the corpse. All others may believe in his guilt, but Eleanor is convinced her brother is innocent. As passions rise with the winter wind and time runs short, Eleanor, Anne and Thomas struggle to find the real killer.
Smiley, Patricia: False Profits (November 2004)

Featuring a fresh new voice and cast of characters, False Profits will appeal to fans of the novels by Janet Evanovich.

Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

Abbey, Lynn: Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune (December 2004)

A recent storm has left a ship filled with exotic cargo and arcane secrets wrecked off the shore of Sanctuary in this second of a new series of shared world anthologies that continues its story with tales of necromancers and assassins, urchins and knaves, and of course, thieves. This unexpected booty leads to boons and curses for the world-weary residents, as well as the usual power struggle among factions wishing to take deadly advantage at any new turn of events. These are all new stories by Lynn Abbey, Stephen Brust, C.J.Cherryh, Jeff Grubb, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Dennis McKiernan, Andrew Offutt, Robin Wayne Bailey, Diana Paxson, Jody Lynn Nye, Selina Rosen and Jane Fancher.
Baker, Kage: The Life of the World to Come (December 2004)

In the newest novel of the Company series, a time-traveling botanist is stranded 150,000 years in the past. Grieving for the lover she lost twice, Mendoza meets a reincarnation of her love again.
Baxter, Stephen: Exultant (December 2004)

Humanity battles to survive against an implacable alien force in the second installment of the Destiny's Children trilogy.
Drake, David: Master of the Cauldron (November 2004)

In this sixth book in the Lord of the Isles series, magic is stronger than at any time since the fall of the Old Kingdom in a cataclysm of uncontrolled magic. The son of a former innkeeper, now the Regent of the Isles, must unite the Isles before the magic overwhelms them all.
Fallon, Jennifer: Treason Keep: Book Two of the Hythrun Chronicles (November 2004)

Featuring a heady blend of political intrigue, war and one of the great love-hate relationships in fantasy fiction, Treason Keep is sure to please the many fans of epic fantasy.
Gould, Steven: Reflex (December 2004)

A mysterious group has kidnapped a teleport to use his abilities. His wife unexpectedly shares his teleporting ability and may be the only one able to rescue him.
Tyson, Donald: Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred (December 2004)

Fans of Lovecraftian magic and occult fiction will delight in Tyson's Necronomicon, based purely within Lovecraft's own fictional universe, the Cthulhu Mythos.
Vance, Jack: Lurulu (December 2004)

Rejoin the adventures of Myron Tany, rebellious scion of a wealthy family, as he tours the galaxy on a very questionable interstellar freighter with a crew of actors, musicians, thieves and other ne'er-do-wells.
Zielinski, Stephan: Bad Magic (December 2004)

There are some things people weren't meant to know. Some people know those things anyway. Sucks to be them.