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Deadly Pleasures
Gagliano, Anthony, STRAITS OF FORTUNE
(Harper, $7.99). Ex-NYPD cop Jack Vaughn is now a
fitness trainer in Miami. He is offered 100k to burn a yacht
along with the dead body in it.
Gagnon, Michelle, BONE YARD (Mira, $6.99).
A mass grave site unearthed on the Appalachian Trail puts
FBI special agent Kelly Jones at the head of the investigation.
PBO
Goldman, Joel, SHAKE DOWN (Pinnacle,
$6.99). Three individuals are drawn together after mass
murder at a Kansas City residence that Special Agent Jack
Davis has carefully staked out for weeks. PBO
Greanias, Thomas, THE ATLANTIS PROPH-
ECY (Pocket, $7.99). For the National Treasure movie
fan. It has astronomically aligned Washington, D.C.
monuments, a mysterious burial at Arlington Cemetery,
Masonic rituals, and the key to a centuries-old warning that
archaeologist Conrad Yeats discovers on his father’s tombstone.
PBO
Hamilton, Denise, THE LAST EMBRACE
(Scribner, $15.00). Reporter/author Denise Hamilton
takes a look at the famous case of the disappearance of
Hollywood actress Jean Spangler. PBO
Hewson, David, THE SEVENTH SACRA-
MENT (Dell, $6.99). Fourteen years have passed since
Giorgio Bramante killed the prime suspect in his son’s
disappearance. The father is out of jail and one by one any
people connected to the boy’s disappearance are dying.
Hitchcock, Jane Stanton, THE WITCHES’
HAMMER (Harper, $7.99). A respected surgeon and
rare book collector is brutally murdered in his elegant
Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer
a 15 th -century manual of black magic.
Holden, Craig, THE NARCISSIST’S DAUGH-
TER (Simon & Schuster, $14.00). An ambitious young
man from a troubled home. His boss, a successful doctor
with a beautiful wife and daughter. Secrets long buried in
a quiet Rust Belt city.
Jacobs, Jonnie, THE NEXT VICTIM (Pinnacle,
$6.99). When wealthy heiress Sloane Winslow is found
murdered in her house along with the body of pretty
college co-ed Olivia Perez, the evidence points to John
O’Brien, San Francisco defense attorney Kali O’Brien’s
brother.
Jance, J.A., JUSTICE DENIED (Harper, $9.99).
J.P. Beaumont is asked to keep quiet about the murder of
an ex-drug dealer ex-con. Why?
Kelly, Jim, THE FIRE BABY (Leisure, $7.99).
An American plane crashes into the Cambridgeshire Fens
and out of the flames walks a young woman, Maggie Beck,
with a babe in arms. Twenty-seven years later Maggie
gives a startling deathbed confession that can blow open a
recent murder investigation.
Koontz, Dean, THE GOOD GUY (Bantam,
$7.99). A stranger in a bar hands Timothy Carrier a bag
full of cash, a photograph and a note that says “Ten
thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone.”
Lane, Vicki, IN A DARK SEASON (Dell, $6.99).
Nola Barrett’s North Carolina land is at the center of
multiple mysteries (suspicious death, rape and a hanging),
which Elizabeth Goodweather investigates when Nola
jumps to her death. PBO
Lowell, Elizabeth, INNOCENT AS SIN (Harper,
$7.99). Private banker Kayla Shaw barely escapes a
brutal kidnapping and soon finds herself accused of the
illegal laundering of millions of dollars.
Margolin, Phillip, TIES THAT BIND (Harper,
$9.99). Traumatized Portland attorney Amanda Jaffe
takes on a sensational client, one who runs an upscale callgirl
service and is accused of murdering a U.S. senator.
Margolin, Phillip, GONE, BUT NOT FORGOT-
TEN (Harper, $9.99). Defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum
is risking everything to defend a cold, powerful, and
manipulating client who may be a victim – or a monster.
Millar, Sam, BLOODSTORM (Brandon,
$25.95). When he has a chance to kill the man responsible
for the brutal rape and murder of his mother (and his own
sexual molestation), P.I. Karl Kane is shattered when he
finds that the man has, just two days later, raped and
murdered two young girls. PBO
Olsen, Gregg, A COLD DARK PLACE (Pinnacle,
$6.99). In a secluded farm house in the Pacific
Northwest, a family has been slaughtered – and a teenage
son has disappeared. Single mother and cop, Emily
Kenyon, spearheads a dark hunt for a killer. PBO
Palmer, Rob, EYES OF THE WORLD (Leisure,
$7.99). The first female president of the U.S. has a secret
lover who is accused of the murder of a woman who is close
to the president. PBO
Perry, Thomas, SILENCE (Harcourt, $14.00).
Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear.
Now Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul
and Sylvie Turner do.
Piccirilli, Tom, THE COLD SPOT (Bantam,
$6.99). Chase was raised to be a criminal, but he breaks
with his past to be with a lovely deputy sheriff. Then
tragedy strikes and he must re-enter that dark underworld
he thought he had left forever. PBO
Rifkin, Shepard, THE MURDERER VINE (Hard
Case Crime, $6.99). Three college boys go to Mississippi
to work for civil rights and disappear. NY PI Joe Dunne
is hired to find the men responsible and kill them.
Rollins, James, THE JUDAS STRAIN (Harper,
$7.99). Operatives of the shadowy covert organization
Sigma Force search for answers to the bizarre affliction
aboard a cruise liner, which is later attacked by terrorist
hijackers.
Ruttan, Sandra, WHAT BURNS WITHIN (Leisure,
$7.99). A year after a case almost destroys them,
three cops are working on separate cases, which, over
time, seem to be related. PBO
Schneider, Bart, THE MAN IN THE BLIZ-
ZARD (Three Rivers, $14.95). On the eve of the Republican
Convention is St. Paul, Minnesota, eccentric P.I.