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Augie Boyer uncovers a plot to kill three abortion doctors.<br />
PBO<br />
Silver, Mitch, IN SECRET SERVICE (Pocket<br />
Star, $7.99). Ian Fleming seals a manuscript intended for<br />
a future reader who turns out to be an American academic.<br />
It is 2005 and there are forces that really don’t want the<br />
academic to read what Fleming sealed away so long ago.<br />
Siverling, Michael, THE SORCERER’S CIRCLE<br />
(Leisure, $7.99). Jason Wilder of the Midnight Investigation<br />
Agency is told by Elijah Messenger that he has a<br />
premonition that he (Elijah) will be killed. The next morning<br />
Elijah is found murdered and the Agency is hired to<br />
represent the prime suspect in the case – the mayor’s<br />
daughter.<br />
Staub, Wendy Corsi, DYING BREATH (Zebra,<br />
$6.99). Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with<br />
her teenage daughter to save her failing marriage. A serial<br />
killer gets in the way. PBO<br />
Thomson, Colleen, TRIPLE EXPOSURE (Leisure,<br />
$7.99). Altered, lurid photos of photographer<br />
Rachel Copeland appeared on the Internet, starting a<br />
downward spiral that ended in a shooting of a 19-year-old<br />
stalker in self-defense.<br />
Thompson, Larry D., SO HELP ME GOD (Tor,<br />
$7.99). When a teenage member of televangelist Thomas<br />
Jeremiah Luther’s congregation almost dies from an<br />
abortion, he convinces her family to file a multi-milliondollar<br />
lawsuit. The right verdict will shut down abortion<br />
clinics all over the country and catapult Luther to the top<br />
of conservative Christian political power.<br />
Trinchieri, Camilla, THE PRICE OF SILENCE<br />
(Soho, $13.00). Emma Perotti took a young artist under<br />
her wing. Now she is on trial for the girl’s murder.<br />
Wood, Simon, WE ALL FALL DOWN (Leisure,<br />
$7.99). Engineer Hayden Duke is baffled by the suicide of<br />
his former college roommate and current fellow employee.<br />
Others within the company are killed and he and<br />
his friend’s sister delve deep to find out what is going on.<br />
PBO<br />
Zeltserman, Dave, SMALL CRIMES (Serpent’s<br />
Tail, $14.95). Corrupt cop Joe Denton gets out of prison<br />
early, but none of his former friends and associates want<br />
him around. But he has some unfinished business. PBO<br />
Zigal, Thomas, PARIAH (Toby, $9.95). Aspen<br />
Sheriff Kurt Muller is the chief suspect in an old flame’s<br />
murder.<br />
History Mystery<br />
Akunin, Boris, SISTER PELAGIA AND THE<br />
BLACK MONK (Mortalis, $14.00). 19 th century Russian<br />
nun Sister Pelagia visits the island monastery of New<br />
Ararat to find out what is wrong at the Hermitage. PBO<br />
Cleverly, Barbara, TUG OF WAR (Delta,<br />
$13.00). 1926. The war-ravaged vineyards of France,<br />
where Inspector Joe Sandilands is called on to find the<br />
identity of a shell-shocked patient. Several families are<br />
claiming the unknown soldier as their own.<br />
<strong>Deadly</strong> <strong>Pleasures</strong><br />
83<br />
Culhane, Patrick (Max Allan Collins), BLACK<br />
HATS (Harper, $7.99). An aging Wyatt Earp teams up<br />
with old friend Bat Masterson, travels to Chicago and takes<br />
on a brutal, hot-headed young gangster, Al Capone.<br />
Downing, David, ZOO STATION (Soho, $14.00).<br />
As World War II approaches, Anglo-American journalist<br />
John Russell faces the prospect of having to leave his<br />
German son and longtime girlfriend in Berlin. He must bob<br />
and weave when Soviet, German and British intellingence<br />
try to recruit him.<br />
Haines, Kathryn Miller, THE WINTER OF HER<br />
DISCONTENT (Harper, $13.95). Working in a chorus<br />
line of a flopping Broadway musical, Rosie Winter comes<br />
to the aid of her mob-muscle pal, Al, who is accused of<br />
murder. 1940s New York City. PBO<br />
Hamilton, Denise, THE LAST EMBRACE<br />
(Scribner, $15.00). Reporter/author Denise Hamilton<br />
takes a look at post-WWII Hollywood and the famous case<br />
of the disappearance of Hollywood actress Jean Spangler.<br />
PBO<br />
Leonard, Elmore, UP IN HONEY’S ROOM<br />
(Harper, $9.99). U.S. Marshall Carl Webster is on the trail<br />
of two escaped German POWs who escaped from an<br />
Oklahoma internment camp. He seeks help from Honey<br />
Deal, the estranged wife of a German-born butcher.<br />
Murray, Yxta Maya, THE KING’S GOLD<br />
(Harper, $14.95). Bibliophile, bookstore owner and<br />
adventuress Lola Sanchez goes in search of a stolen<br />
fortune in Montezuma’s gold. PBO<br />
Perez-Reverte, Arturo, THE SUN OVER<br />
BREDA (Plume, $15.00). The third episode of swordsman-for-hire<br />
Captain Alatriste. In the tradition of Alexandre<br />
Dumas.<br />
Perry, Anne, AT SOME DISPUTED BARRI-<br />
CADE (Ballantine, $15.00). July 1917. Chaplain Joseph<br />
Reavley and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver, have<br />
conflicting feelings about 12 men charged with killing their<br />
incompetent superior officer. Judith helps the men<br />
escape.<br />
Perry, Anne, WE SHALL NOT SLEEP<br />
(Ballantine, $15.00). Chaplain Joseph Reavley and his<br />
sister Judith, an ambulance driver are hard-pressed with<br />
problems: soldiers are abusing German prisoners, a nurse<br />
has been raped and murdered, and the sinister idealogue<br />
known as the Peacemaker now threatens to undermine<br />
the peace just as he did the war.<br />
Soos, Troy, STREETS OF FIRE (Kensington,<br />
$6.99). 1895 New York City. The trolley workers go on<br />
strike and labor strife boils over until a policeman drops<br />
dead in a crowd of protesters with two bullet holes in his<br />
back. Reporter Marshall Webb investigates. PBO<br />
Sussman, Paul, THE LOST ARMY OF<br />
CAMBYSES (Grove Press, $14.00). Seemingly random<br />
murders cause an Egyptian police detective and an<br />
archaeologist’s daughter to join forces in solving them.<br />
Along the way are mythical lost tombs and historical<br />
mysteries.
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