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not desire--in her most suspenseful, passionate novel yet.
LJ & BL
**A PALE HORSE, Todd, Charles (Morrow, $23.95). A
body found in the ruins of an ancient abbey sends Scotland
Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge after a brutal killer in another
superb atmospheric mystery by the author of A False
Mirror. PW & BL
**THE FAULT TREE, Ure, Louise (St. Martin’s Minotaur,
$24.95). Arizona auto mechanic Cadence Moran was
blinded in a horrific car accident eight years ago. When she
is almost run down by a speeding car on the way home from
work, Cadence at first thinks that she is the victim of road
rage or a bad driver. But that’s not the case. In fact, she
is the only witness to the murder of her elderly neighbor,
and now the killer believes that she’s seen the getaway car.
Kirkus, Booklist & LJ
**THE CHAMELEON’S SHADOW, Walters, Minette
(Knofp, $24.95). British lieutenant Charles Acland returns
home from Iraq, but his serious head injuries are only
the outward manifestation of a profound inner change.
Booklist & LJ
**AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE, Winspear, Jacqueline
(Holt, $24.00). Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist
and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes
in a small rural community. LJ & DP
**THE CALLING, Wolfe, Inger (Harcourt, $24.00). When
terminally ill patients are found gruesomely murdered in
Port Dundas, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef finds
herself tracking a truly terrifying serial killer across the
country, while everything she had been barely holding
together begins to spin out of control. LJ & PW
BEST FIRST NOVEL
**SINGULARITY, Casey, Kathryn (St. Martin’s Minotaur,
$24.95). When wealthy businessman Edward Lucas III is
found murdered along with his mistress, their bodies posed
in grotesque ways, Texas Ranger/profiler Sarah Armstrong
quickly senses that this will be the deadliest case of her
career. While others focus the investigation on Lucas’s
estranged wife, Sarah disagrees and hunts a suspect only
she believes in. Yet nothing in her career could have
prepared her for the horror of a young man who believes
he has been sent from heaven to massacre innocent
people. PW & BL
**THE KILLER’S WIFE, Floyd, Bill (St. Martin’s Minotaur,
$23.95). A story driven by psychological insight and
harrowing revelations, asking how well you can ever
“really” know the person sleeping beside you. LJ & DP
**THE ANATOMY OF DECEPTION, Goldstone,
Lawrence (Delacorte, $24.00). A forensic thriller that
thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing
rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, this novel
follows a young doctor as he grapples with the principles
of scientific process to track a daring killer. PW
**MOONLIGHT DOWNS, Hyland, Adrian (Soho Press,
$24.00). Emily Tempest, a feisty part-aboriginal woman,
left home to get an education and has since traveled
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abroad. She returns to visit the Moonlight Downs “mob,”
still uncertain if she belongs in the aboriginal world or that
of the whitefellers. Within hours of her arrival, an old friend
is murdered and mutilated. The police suspect a rogue
aborigine, but Emily starts asking questions.
**CHILD 44, Smith, Tom Rob (Grand Central, $24.99).
In Stalin’s Russia no law officer is more courageous,
conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov. A war hero
with a beautiful wife, Leo’s only ambition has been to serve
his country. A different kind of criminal – a murderer – is
on the loose. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted
and denounced by his enemies, his world turned upside
down, and every belief he’s ever held shattered. The only
way to save his life and the lives of his family is to uncover
this criminal. BL, PW, Kirkus & DP
**A CARRION DEATH, Stanley, Michael (HarperCollins,
$23.95). Detective Kubu makes his debut in a gritty and
evocative new series set amid the beauty and darkness of
contemporary Africa. PW & DP
BEST BRITISH NOVEL
**LAST POST, Barnard, Robert. (Allison & Busby,
£19.99).After the funeral of her widowed mother, only
child May McNabb is going through her mother’s things
and runs across a recent letter with some puzzling and
disturbing information that indicates that her mother may
have had secrets of which May was unaware. So she goes
snooping into her mother’s life and what she uncovers may
not only prove dangerous to
her but to others.
**INNOCENT BLOOD,
Corley. Elizabeth (Allison &
Busby, £18.99, trade
£10.99). Major Jeremy
Maidment only wants to help
when his neighbour Mrs
Pennysmith is robbed by local
con man Luke Chalfont.
Appealing to DI Bob Cooper,
Maidment is on a mission
to help police trap the
subject. But the arrest goes
rapidly awry when Chalfont
threatens Bob with a knife
and Maidment’s ‘shoot first,
ask questions later’ policy
lands him in deep water.
With a suspect near death and Maidment’s possession of
an unlicensed gun raising questions it’s time for the Sussex
force to draft in their Secret Weapon, Sergeant Nightingale;
young, dynamic and determined to find answers...DCI
Andrew Fenwick is also up against a tough case. The Choir
Boy investigation, a project outside of ordinary police
jurisdiction, aims to expose an infamous and increasingly
powerful paedophile ring.
**COLD IN HAND, Harvey, John (William Heinemann,
£12.99). The romance of Valentine’s Day is shattered