A Safe Place for Dying by Jack Fredrickson

St. Martin’s Minotaur

ISBN 0-312-35168-2

Hardcover

Vlodek Elstrom, otherwise known simply as Dek, lived for a while in the exclusive gated community of Crystal Waters, one of the nicest, upscale little neighborhoods in Chicago’s suburbs.

Critique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio

St. Martin’s Minotaur

ISBN 0-312-34994-7

Hardcover

As a police magistrate in the service of King Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia in the early 19^th century, Hanno Stiffeniis has been posted to duties in the tranquil and uneventful town of Lotingen for the past several years, but now his life is about to change dramatically.

Summoned to the big city of Königsberg, Stiffeniis must investigate and solve a mysterious series of murders that have occurred at intervals during the past year.

London Boulevard by Ken Bruen

Minotaur / Hardcover / $24.99

ISBN 978-0-312-56168-0

1 December 2009

After three years in a British prison on an aggravated battery charge, Mitchell is back on the streets when Ken Bruen’s London Boulevard begins, and the forty-five year old ex-con is determined to salvage what he can out of life.

The Ragged End of Nowhere by Roy Chaney

Minotaur / Hardcover / $24.99

ISBN 978-0-312-58253-6

10 November 2009

When The Ragged End of Nowhere opens, former CIA agent Bodo Hagen has returned from Germany to Las Vegas just in time to attend his murdered brother ’s graveside interment.

The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch

Minotaur / Hardcover / $24.99

ISBN 978-0-312-56551-0

10 November 2009

This highly recommended Victorian mystery opens on a winter evening in 1866 when two London journalists are murdered, but as far as the police are concerned, the incidents seem unrelated since the apparently coincidental murders are separated by time (5 minutes), geography (different parts of the city), and modus operandi (different weapons and different circumstances).

Part time sleuth and full time gentleman with political ambitions, Charles Lenox finds himself drawn into the two cases by a friend in the police department, and Lenox begins to suspect that two killers with a single motivation were responsible for the murders.