Murder by the Month A listing of mysteries published in March 2014
Following is a list of mysteries announced for publication this month. Although Murder by the Book no longer sells books I want you to have the most current information on upcoming titles. I have noted the section where MBTB would have shelved each title. Abbreviations are as follows:
CHER = Cherchez La Femme ( by & about modern women) CRIM = Criminal Pursuits (suspense & crime fiction) EOS= Enemies of the State (political & international thrillers) FC = A Fair Cop (American-style police procedurals) GOLD = The Butler Did It (classic writers from mystery’s Golden Age) HIGH = High Crimes (literary mysteries) HB = Hard-boiled heroes (from Spade to Spenser) HOME = On the Home Front (Northwest authors/ locations) HOR = Horrors! (supernatural thrillers) IA = Illegal Aliens (science fiction or fantasy mysteries) MED = The Cutting Edge (medical mysteries) NOIR = Through A Glass Darkly (classic and modern noir ) ONCE = Once Upon a Crime (historical mysteries) OTW = Off The Wall (offbeat humor) PTC = Prime Time Crime (related to movies or TV) RD = A Reasonable Doubt...at a reasonable price! (legal thrillers) REF = Reference works SB = Soft-boiled sleuths (cozies with amateur detectives) SHER = Sherlockiana (by Doyle or about Holmes) SHOT = Shot on Location (featuring other cultures) WW = Wild Women (sassy & a little trashy!) TALL = Tall, Dark & Deadly (romantic suspense) YB = Yardbirds (British police detectives) FAV = MBTB Picks (our selections of the years’ best paperbacks)
Author | Title | Price | Section | Series | Theme |
Ardai, Charles | Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear | r | 7.99 | NOIR | Atkins, Ace | Broken Places |16.00 | HB |Quinn Colson|
Bain, Donald | Prescription for Murder | 7.99 | SB | Jessica Fletcher | Murder She Wrote| Beaton, M.C. | Death of a Policeman | 25.00 | SB | Hamish Macbeth | Betto, Frei | Hotel Brasil | 14.95 | SHOT | Brazil | Black, Benjamin | Black- Eyed Blonde | 27.00 | HB | Phillip Marlowe| Black, Cara | Murder in Pigalle | 27.95 | SHOT | Aimee Leduc | Paris| Bolton, S.J. | Lost | 16.99 | YB | DC Lacey Flint | Bonner, Brynn | Death in Reel Time | 15.00 | SB | Genealogy| Bowen, Rhys | City of Darkness and Light | | 25.99 | ONCE | Molly Murphy | Box, C.J. | Breaking Point | 9.99 | FC | Joe Pickett | Box, C.J. | Stone Cold | 26.95 | FC | Joe Pickett | Bradford, Laura | Shunned and Dangerous | 7.99 | SB | Amish| Briggs, Patricia | Night Broken | 26.95 | IA | Mercy Thompson | Brown, Duffy | Pearls and Poison | 7.99 | SB | Consignment Shop | Calkins, Susanna | Murder at Rosamund's Gate | 15.99 | ONCE | 17th century London|
Carlson, Alyse | Keeping Mum | 7.99 | SB | Garden Society | Childs, Laura | Steeped in Evil | 25.95 | SB | Tea Shop | Childs, Laura | Sweet Tea Revenge | 7.99 | SB | Tea Shop | Christie, Pamela | Death Among the Ruins | 15.00 | ONCE | Arabella Beaumont | Regency England| Cochran, Peg | Iced to Death | 7.99 | SB | Gourmet De-Lite | Crichton, Michael | Terminal Man | r | 15.95 | MED | Crichton, Michael | Great Train Robbery | r | 15.95 | Once | Victorian England| Cussler, Clive | Striker | 9.99 | EOS | Issac Bell | Cussler, Clive/Scott, Justin | Bootlegger | 27.95 | EOS | Isaac Bell | Daheim, Mary | Alpine Xanadu | 7.99 | HOME | Emma Lord |
Davidson, Hilary | Evil in all its Disquises | 15.99 | CHER | Lily Moore | Deaver, Jeffrey | Trouble in Mind | 26.00 | HB | Short stories| DeSilva, Bruce | Providence Rag | 25.99 | HB | Liam Mulligan | Dunn, Matthew | Sling Shot | 5.99 | EOS | Spycatcher | Edwardson, Ake | Room No. 10 | 15.99 | SHOT | Erik Winter | Sweden|
Estleman, Loren | Don't Look For Me | 26.99 | HB | Amos Walker | Evanovich, Janet | Back to the Bedroom | 7.99 | WW | Romance| Evanovich, Janet/Golberg, Lee | Heist | 8.99 | WW | Fields, Tricia | Wrecked | 25.99 | CHER | Josie Gray |
Fluke, Joanne | Blackberry Pie Murder | 25.00 | CHER | Hannah Swensen | French, Nicci | Waiting for Wednesday | 27.95 | CHER | Frieda Klein | Garrison, Paul | Janus Option | 28.00 | EOS | Jason Bourne |
George, Elizabeth | Believing the Lie | 7.99 | YB | Insp. Lynley | Gerber, Daryl Wood | Inherit the Word | 7.99 | SB | Cookbook Nook | Greene, Thomason | Headmaster's Wife | 25.99 | HIGH | Hagberg, David | Blood Pact | 25.99 | EOS |
Hale, Rebecca M. | How to Paint a Cat | 7.99 | SB | Cats & Curios | Handler, David | Coal Black Asphalt Tomb | 25.99 | SB | Berger & Mitry | Harris, C.S. | What Darkness Brings | 7.99 | ONCE | Sebastian St. Cyr | Regency England| Harris, C.S. | Why Kings Confess | 24.95 | ONCE | Sebastian St. Cyr Regency England| Hart, Erin | Book of Kiloween | 16.00 | SHOT | Cormac Maguire | Ireland| Henshaw, Mark | Red Cell | 9.99 | EOS | CIA| Kelly, Erin | Burning Air | 16.00 | HIGH |
Kelly, Mary Louise | Anonymous Sources | | 16.00 | CHER | Kiernan, Denise | Girls of Atomic City | 16.00 | TRUE | WW II codebreaking | Korelitz, Jean | You Should Have Known | 26.00 | CHER |
Krueger, William Kent | Ordinary Grace | 16.00 | HB | Non series|
Kuhns, Eleanor | Death of a Dyer | 15.99 | ONCE | 1790s America| LaPlante, Alice | Circle of Wives| 24.00| HIGH|
Laukkanen, Owen | Kill Fee | 26.95 | EOS | Steven & Windermere |
Leon, Donna | Golden Egg | 14.00| SHOT| Comm. Brunetti | Italy|
Lescroart, John | Ophelia Cut | 15.00 | RD | Dismas Hardy | Lutz, Lisa | Spellman Six | 15.00 | CHER | Izzy Spellman | Mackenzie, Jassy | Pale Horses | 14.95 | SHOT | Jade de Jong | South Africa|
MacRae, Molly | Spinning in her Grave | 7.99 | IA | Haunted Yarn Shop | Mason, Jamie | Three Graves Full | 7.99 | HB | McBeth, Colette | Precious Thing | 24.99 | HIGH | McKevett, G.A. | Killer Honeymoon | 7.99 | WW | Savannah Reid | Meir, Leslie | Easter Bunny Murders | 7.99 | CHER | Lucy Stone | Morley, Isla | Above | 24.99 | HIGH | Mosse, Kate | Citadel | 26.99 | EOS | WW II Ohlsson, Kristina | Disappeared | 25.00 | SHOT | Frederika Bergman | Sweden|
O'Keefe, Patrick | Visitors | 26.95 | HIGH | Parks, Brad | Player | 25.99 | HB | Carter Ross |
Patterson, James | Mistress | 16.00 | FC | Pyper, Andrew | Demonologist | 15.00 | IA | Quartey, Kwei | Murder at Cape Three Points | 26.95 | SHOT | Insp. Dawson | Ghana|
Reasoner, James | Hunt at the Well of Eternity | r | 7.99 | NOIR |
Robb, J.D. | Thankless in Death | 7.99 | TALL | Eve Dallas | Robinson, Peter | Children of the Revolution | 25.99 | YB | DCI Banks| Robotham, Michael | Watching You | 26.00 | YB | Joe O'Loughlin | Rose, M.J. | Seduction | 15.00 | HIGH | Rosenfelt, David | Without Warning | 25.99 | HB | Non series | Ryan, Annelise | Board Stiff | 7.99 | CHER | Mattie Winston | Scofield, Ted | Eat What You Kill | 25.99 | CRIM | Wall Street|
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa | I Remember You | 15.99 | SHOT | Ghost story | Iceland| Silva, Daniel | English Girl | 9.99 | EOS | Gabriel Allon | Simenon, Georges | Carter of 'La Providence' | r | 10.00 | Shot | Insp. Maigret| France| Simenon, Georges | Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien | r | 10.00 | SHOT | Insp. Maigret | France| Steinhauer, Olen | Cairo Affair | 26.99 | EOS | Swanson, Denise | Dead Between the Lines | 7.99 | CHER | Dime Store | Tanenbaum, Robert | Tragic | 9.99 | RD | Butch Karp |
Thoft, Ingrid | Loyalty | 9.99 | CHER | Fina Ludlow | Thompson, James | Helsinki Blood | 15.00 | SHOT | Insp. Kari Vaara | Finland| Thompson, Vicki | Werewolf in Las Vegas | 7.99 | IA | Paranormal mystery| Vater, Tom | Man With Golden Mind | 7.99 | EOS |
Viehl, Lynn | Clockwork Wolf | 7.99 | IA | Steampunk| Westlake, Donald | Comedy is Finished | 7.99 | OTW |
White, Randy Wayne | Bone Deep | 26.95 | HB | Doc Ford | Williams, Timothy | Another Sun | 9.99 | SHOT | Guadeloupe| Zouroudi, Anne | Lady of Sorrows | 25.00 | SHOT | Hermes Diaktoros | Greece| |
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