Fiction, July 2005

General Fiction |Mysteries |Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

General Fiction

Adair, Cherry: Hot Ice (August 2005)

Jewel thief Taylor Kincaid accidently steals secret military codes along with the famous Blue Star diamonds from a terrorist's safe and finds herself in the middle of a battle between a group of religious assassins and the counterterrorist team out to stop them.
Baden, Michael M.: Remains Silent (September 2005)

When a body is discovered at a New York City construction site, a crusading attorney and a medical examiner embark on a treacherous fact-finding journey.
Brown, Sandra: Chill Factor (August 2005)

Set in a sleepy North Carolina mountain town, this thriller is a sexy, fast-paced tale about a tough, beautiful woman trapped in her cabin with a man who may be a serial killer.
Carroll, Susan: Courtesan (July 2005)

Alive with period detail and memorable characters, this second novel in Susan Carroll's historical trilogy presents a tale of intrigue and treachery.
Doctorow, E. L.: The March (September 2005)

General William Tecumseh Sherman's great march comes back from the past in this commanding Civil War novel by the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate.
Emmons, Josh: The Loss of Leon Meed (July 2005)

Emmons' debut novel depicts a town full of varied characters whose lives converge and change when they encounter a mysterious, disappearing man.
Erdrich, Louise: The Painted Drum (September 2005)

Faye Travers discovers a rare Native American drum while appraising an estate in New Hampshire. The drum's passage is traced forward and backward in time, revealing how it changed the lives of those whose paths it crossed.
Fforde, Jasper: The Big Over Easy (July 2005)

When D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III is found shattered to death, all the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself — but Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced.
Gerritsen, Tess: Vanish (August 2005)

Working against a madman's murderous timetable, FBI agent Gabriel Dean battles to protect his pregnant wife, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, who has been taken hostage.
Goldberg, Myla: Wickett's Remedy (September 2005)

The follow-up to the bestselling Bee Season is a novel about the dream of progress — personal, scientific, commercial and cultural — featuring a charming heroine whose desire for a better life comes up against the sweep of history.
Hooper, Kay: Chill of Fear (August 2005)

For 20 years, FBI agent Quentin Hayes has been haunted by an unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he's returned to the resort one final time to put the mystery to rest.
McMillan, Terry: Interruption of Everything (July 2005)

Marilyn Grimes has had it with her boring husband and his irritating, live-in mother. Her children have grown up and flown the nest, so why can't she? But her quest for freedom turns out differently than she expected.
Mina, Denise: Field of Blood (July 2005)

Paddy Meehan, a copygirl at the Glasgow Daily News, poses as colleague Heather Allen to investigate the murder of a toddler by two other boys. When that reporter turns up dead, Paddy faces not only danger but also a moral dilemma.
Prince, Peter: Adam Runaway (August 2005)

It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father's sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. The story is set against a background that combines the twin spectacles of one of the richest, most cosmopolitan cities in the world and the grim, archaic shadow of the Portuguese Inquisition.
Reich, Christopher: The Patriots Club (August 2005)

Wall Street tycoon Thomas Bolden becomes the victim of a bizarre kidnapping and uses the survival skills of his boyhood on the Chicago streets to outwit his abductors.
Reuben, Shelly: Tabula Rasa (August 2005)

Officer Sebastian Bly and his wife raise baby Meredith without revealing that she survived a deadly arson fire. Meredith grows up to be a promising young ballerina, but the truth threatens the family circle as Merry's biological mother returns to finish what she started.
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman: The Woodsman's Daughter (August 2005)

From the author of Icy Sparks comes a tale of the gothic South that has another unforgettable heroine at its heart.
Siddons, Anne Rivers: Sweetwater Creek (September 2005)

Lilly builds a life around her remote father, hunting-obsessed brothers and the spaniels they raise and train. When Lulu arrives to spend the summer in the low country, she brings a secret that will blow Lilly's world apart.
Wiesel, Elie: The Time of the Uprooted (August 2005)

Elie Wiesel tells the story of a man — a refugee from both Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and the communist takeover of Hungary in 1956 — who comes to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he reconciles with his past.
Xinran: Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet (July 2005)

The author of Good Women of China returns with an epic tale — based on a true story — of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

Mysteries

Billingham, Mark: The Burning Girl (July 2005)

X marks the spot — and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a vicious contract killer. This is turf warfare between North London gangs.
Burke, James Lee: Crusader's Cross (July 2005)

On a visit to a dying cop whom he once hated, former New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux is led towards the solution of the disappearance of a young woman he and his brother once knew — and family secrets he must confront and resolve.
Chan, Cassandra: The Young Widow (August 2005)

Scotland Yard detective Jack Gibbons is aided by his best friend, wealthy man-about-town Phillip Bethancourt, in an investigation where the prime suspect is wealthy, dangerous and irresistible.
Cotterill, Colin: Thirty-Three Teeth (August 2005)

From the author of The Coroner's Lunch comes a tale of justice done, Laotian shamanic style. With the assistance of his helpers, Dr. Siri Paiboun, the national coroner of Laos, elucidates the causes of mysterious deaths.
Daheim, Mary: Dead Man Docking: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery (August 2005)

Judith and Renie's dreams of some rest and relaxation on a deluxe cruise are dry-docked when the stabbing death of the cruise line owner mars the prelaunch party. However, that murder is only the first in a trio of homicides as the cousins prowl the steep streets of San Francisco.
Jance, Judith A.: Long Time Gone (August 2005)

When a middle-aged nun unexpectedly recalls the grisly details of an unsolved murder she witnessed as a child, Special Homicide Investigation Team member J. P. Beaumont gets the case.
Kellerman, Faye: Straight into Darkness (August 2005)

Kellerman's latest in the Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker series takes readers to 1920s Munich, a city stalked by a killer so ruthless no one is safe — not even the innocent.
Lankford, Terrill Lee: Blonde Lightning (August 2005)

Hollywood insider Terrill Lee Lankford delves into the heart of the motion picture industry in this mystery featuring studio executive–turned–amateur sleuth Mark Hayes and his partner, Clyde McCoy.
McCall Smith, Alexander: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (September 2005)

In this second novel in The Sunday Philosophy Club series, Isabel Dalhousie's niece is invited to a wedding in Italy and Isabel is left in charge of Cat's delicatessen — a task which leads to her newest investigation. McCall Smith is the author of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

McIntosh, Fiona: Blood and Memory: The Quickening Book Two (July 2005)

Wyl Thirsk, loyal soldier of Morgravia, has seen his best friend slain, his sister tortured and his mentor sent to certain death, all at the hands of his sovereign, the cruel and manipulative King Celimus. Despite his friends and loved ones becoming tangled in the machinations of Celimus, Wyl must leave behind all he knows and cares about and travel into the land from which none return, seeking out the bestower of Myrren's sinister gift.
Park, Paul: Princess of Roumania (July 2005)

This magical tale is the story of a teenager who is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world.