Fiction, Spring 2006

General Fiction |Mysteries |Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

General Fiction

Berenson, Alex: The Faithful Spy (April 2006)

Berenson, a New York Times reporter who covered the occupation of Iraq, pens a thriller about a CIA agent so deeply undercover as a member of al Qaeda that his homeland officials can't be sure of his loyalty.
Brown, Dale: Edge of Battle (May 2006)

The author of Act of war (2005) takes it to the terrorists with high-tech firepower in this new military thriller.
Child, Lee: The hard way (May 2006)

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher sees more than most people would, and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth — and save two innocent lives — is to do it the way Reacher does it best: the hard way.
Dickey, Eric Jerome: Chasing Destiny (April 2006)

Billie ("Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way — but that was before love threw an oil slick in the road and spun her life into chaos.
Finder, Joseph: Killer Instinct (May 2006)

Once on the fast track, high-tech salesman Jason Steadman enjoys an upswing in business after he puts his new friend Kurt, ex-Special Forces, on the corporate security payroll. When Jason discovers what lengths Kurt will go to for his friends, he must use his own killer instinct to shut him down.
Frank, Dorothea Benton: Full of Grace (May 2006)

The beloved New York Times bestselling author pens a moving story of the power of love and the miracles of life — chock-full of Southern wit, sass and charm.
Handler, Daniel: Adverbs (May 2006)

In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling of love, Handler — who also writes as Lemony Snicket — crafts a moving and shifting story exploring the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions.
Koontz, Dean R.: The Husband (May 2006)

Koontz offers the story of an ordinary man whose commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice and redemption to the mystery of love itself — and a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever.
Leimbach, Marti: Daniel Isn't Talking (May 2006)

When Melanie Marsh learns that her son is autistic, she becomes determined to teach him to speak, play and become as "normal" as possible in this deeply moving story about a sad and frightening situation that's infused with warmth, compassion and humor.
Patterson, James: Beach Road (May 2006)

Set in the luxurious Hamptons, bestselling author Patterson follows the travails of down-and-out Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy, whose ship finally comes in when he's hired to defend a local man accused of a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar.
Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow (May 2006)

The author of The Dante Club explores the still unsolved mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death in this work of literary suspense.
Pickard, Nancy: The Virgin of Small Plains: A Novel of Suspense (April 2006)

Some of the leading citizens of Small Plains, Kansas, are determined to keep the truth buried when a long-ago murder resurfaces with devastating and deadly consequences.
Preston, Caroline: Gatsby's Girl (May 2006)

Preston evokes the story of Ginevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald's muse for Daisy Buchanan, from their first romantic meeting to the second act of her sometimes charmed, sometimes troubled life.
Quick, Amanda: Second sight (May 2006)

Writing as Amanda Quick, Jayne Anne Krentz reveals the simmering passions and paranormal secrets of the Victorian age.
Rosner, Elizabeth: Blue Nude (April 2006)

From the author of The speed of light comes an engrossing story of an artist and a model who must both overcome the past in order to create a future.
Roth Philip: Everyman (May 2006)

The bestselling author of The plot against America turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. From his first glimpse of death during his childhood through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and those he has loved.
Sittenfeld, Curtis: The Man of My Dreams (May 2006)

Sittenfeld follows Prep with a coming-of-age novel about a young woman's fantasies of family and romance colliding with the realities of adult life.
Tyler, Anne: Digging to America (May 2006)

This luminous novel brims with tender observations about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdam, who after 35 years in this country must finally come to terms with her "outsiderness."

Mysteries

Emerson, Earl W.: Firetrap: A Novel of Suspense (May 2006)

From the Shamus Award-winning author of The Smoke Room comes a flaming thriller about an African-American social club destroyed in a deadlyfire.
Estleman, Loren D.: Nicotine Kiss: An Amos Walker Novel (April 2006)

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The 18th novel featuring private eye Amos Walker finds the protagonist trying to track down an old cigarette-smuggling friend who may be involved in counterfeiting.
Goodwin, Jason: The Janissary Tree (May 2006)

Eunuch Yashim Togula serves the sultan, who's troubled by a series of murders rocking the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s. Are the Janissaries, elite soldiers-turned-outcast troublemakers, about to return in force?
Meyer, Deon: Dead Before Dying (May 2006)

This atmospheric new suspense novel from a rising African thriller writer is about a detective racing to solve a terrifying series of murders.
O'Neil, Vincent H.: Murder in Exile (March 2006)

Insurance company fact-checker Frank Cole, living in Exile, Florida while his bankruptcy is cleared, investigates the hit and run death of a young man and decides it was murder.
Peters, Elizabeth: Tomb of the Golden Bird (April 2006)

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Amelia Peabody and her family of archaeologists are back in this new mystery in which Emerson and Ramses are close to unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for — the tomb of King Tutankhamon.
Read, Cornelia: A Field of Darkness (May 2006)

A tough-talking, shotgun-toting debutante gets in over her head investigating a pair of cold case murders in this thrilling first novel.
Skibbins, David: High Priestess (March 2006)

Street tarot card reader Warren Ritter is threatened with blackmail by a troublesome character from his past.

Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy

Drake, David: The Fortress of Glass: The First Volume of the Crown of the Isles (April 2006)

The first volume in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude Drake's epic Lord of the Isles series, The Fortress of Glass begins the story of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to all the books in the series.
Robson, Justina: Living next door to the God of love (March 2006)

Following her novel Natural History, Robson takes readers into the unimaginable worlds that were created from the spark of Natural History's first contact — worlds where the impossible is possible, and gods are made flesh.
Sterling, Bruce: Visionary in Residence: Stories (March 2006)

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Known for his cyberpunk creations, Stirling's fourth collection of stories ranges far beyond the limits of future technology.