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<strong>Deadly</strong> <strong>Pleasures</strong><br />
THE THE DP DP LIST<br />
LIST<br />
Best Best Mystery-Crime<br />
Mystery-Crime<br />
Novels Novels of of 2008<br />
2008<br />
BEST NOVEL<br />
**WILD INFERNO, Ault, Sandi (Berkley, $23.95). Wild<br />
Indigo introduced rough-and-ready Bureau of Land Management<br />
agent Jamaica Wild. Now she returns, deployed<br />
to a wildfire on the Southern Ute reservation, where a<br />
puzzling plea whispered by a burning man points to a<br />
mystery more menacing than murder. PW & LJ<br />
**A FLAW IN THE BLOOD, Barron, Stephanie (Bantam,<br />
$24.00). An enquiry into the death of Queen<br />
Victoria’s beloved Prince Consort. DP<br />
**THE SILVER SWAN, Black, Benjamin (Holt, $25.00).<br />
The inimitable Quirke--the irascible, formerly hard-drinking<br />
Dublin pathologist--returns in another spellbinding<br />
crime novel, in which a young woman’s dubious suicide sets<br />
off a new string of hazards and deceptions. PW, BL & LJ<br />
**BLUE HEAVEN, Box, C.J. (St. Martin’s Minotaur,<br />
$24.95). With true-to-life, unforgettable characters, Box<br />
has created a thriller that delves into issues close to the<br />
heart--the pervasiveness of greed, the banality of evil, and<br />
the truth about what constitutes a family. BL, Kirkus &<br />
DP<br />
**BLOOD TRAIL, Box, C.J. (Putnam, $24.95). When<br />
an elk hunter is shot and gruesomely gutted, Wyoming<br />
governor Spencer Rulon assigns Joe to the investigative<br />
team headed by Joe’s nemesis, game and fish director<br />
Randy Pope. BL & LJ<br />
**CROSS, Bruen, Ken (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95).<br />
Jack Taylor investigates a gruesome crucifixion in Galway,<br />
in the fifth entry in this critically acclaimed, award-winning<br />
series. BL, PW & DP<br />
**PALACE COUNCIL, Carter, Stephen H. (Random<br />
House, $26.95). Philmont Castle is a man who has it all:<br />
wealth, respect, and connections. He’s the last person<br />
you’d expect to fall prey to a murderer, but when his body<br />
is found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, the young<br />
writer Eddie Wesley, along with the woman he loves,<br />
Aurelia Treene, are pulled into a twenty-year search for<br />
the truth. PW, BL & Kirkus<br />
**A PERSON OF INTEREST, Choi, Susan (Viking,<br />
$24.95). Intricately plotted and emotionally riveting, A<br />
Person of Interest asks how far one man can run from<br />
his past, and explores the impact of scrutiny and suspicion<br />
in an age of terror. BL & PW<br />
**HOLD TIGHT, Coben, Harlan (Dutton, $26.95). Coben<br />
asks the provocative and terrifying question: How much do<br />
parents really want to know about their kids and how far<br />
will they go to find out? PW, LJ & BL<br />
**THE BRASS VERDICT, Connelly, Michael<br />
(Little, Brown, $26.99). When Hollywood lawyer<br />
Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his<br />
biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a<br />
prominent studio executive accused of murdering<br />
his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares<br />
for the case that could launch him into the<br />
big time, he learns that Vincent’s killer may be<br />
coming for him next.Enter Harry Bosch. Determined<br />
to find Vincent’s killer, he is not opposed<br />
to using Haller as bait. DP<br />
**MASTER OF THE DELTA, Cook, Thomas H.<br />
(Harcourt, $24.00). June, 2008. 1954 Mississippi. Jack<br />
Branch teaches a class in historical evil and encourages a<br />
student (who happens to be the son of a notorious killer) to<br />
investigate his father’s crimes. But the investigation starts<br />
getting uncomfortably close to Jack’s own family. BL, PW<br />
& DP<br />
**BLACKMAN’S COFFIN, De Castrique, Mark (Poisoned<br />
Pen, $24.95). Sam Blackman is an angry man. A<br />
Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment<br />
of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq. His<br />
outspoken criticism of his medical treatment resulted in his<br />
transfer to the Veteran’s Hospital in Asheville, NC. Then<br />
an ex-marine and fellow amputee named Tikima Robertson<br />
walks into his hospital room. Tikima hints that she has an<br />
opportunity for Sam to use his investigative skills--if he can<br />
stop feeling sorry for himself. But before she can return,<br />
Tikima is murdered, her body found floating in the river.<br />
LJ & PW<br />
**THE POISONER OF PTAH, Doherty, Paul (St. Martin’s<br />
Minotaur, $24.95). A new novel of murder in the reign of<br />
Pharaoh Hatusu featuring Judge Amerotkeas the crime<br />
solver. PW & LJ<br />
**TERRA INCOGNITA, Downie, Ruth (Bloomsbury,<br />
$23.95). Army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso strikes out for<br />
the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain in this highly<br />
anticipated sequel to Downie’s debut, Medicus. Kirkus<br />
& PW<br />
**GAS CITY, Estleman, Loren D. (Forge, $25.95). Setting<br />
this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an<br />
oil company, Estleman crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry<br />
of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption--in all, a<br />
stunning portrait of the human condition. PW, Booklist,<br />
PW & Kirkus<br />
**PLUM LUCKY, Evanovich, Janet (St. Martin’s, $17.95).<br />
Diesel’s back and hot on the trail of a little man in green<br />
pants who’s lost a giant bag of money. Problem is, the<br />
money isn’t exactly lost. Stephanie Plum’s Grandma<br />
Mazur has found it, and like any good Jersey senior citizen,<br />
she’s hightailed it in a Winnebago to Atlantic City and hit<br />
the slots. DP<br />
**THE SERPENT’S TALE, Franklin, Ariana (Putnam,<br />
$25.95). Franklin combines the best of modern forensic<br />
thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling<br />
second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series,<br />
featuring medieval heroine Adelia Aguilar. Kirkus & DP<br />
**THE LIKENESS, French, Tana (Penguin, $24.95). Six<br />
months after the events of In the Woods, Detective
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