Betrayal by John Lescroart - Hardy and Glitsky reunite in a story filled with the big themes that are worthy of them—the intersection of love, betrayal, and a desperate search for the truth in a critical matter of national security. (February 2008)

L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker - Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody ever gets hurt—until a job ends with ten gangsters lying dead and a half- million dollars worth of glittering diamonds missing. (February 2008)

The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters - When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, “the prolonged destruction of a personality.” In its imeliness, its psychological complexity, and its unstoppable suspense this is a thriller of the first order. (January 2008)

The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte - A reitred war photographer exoricises his demons by painting a large mural of every classical image of conflict humankind has produced. His solitude is intererupted when a visitor arrives, asking: "Are you the photographer? Do you remember photographing me? I'm going to kill you." (January 2008)

Saturday's Child by Ray Banks -Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord "Uncle" Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn’t owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan’s psychotic son, Mo. (January 2008)

Matala by Craig Holden - Darcy Arlen, a beautiful young American, is dangerously bored. Though she's on a very pricey tour of Europe, she's already sick of museums and ruins, and eager for distraction. After slipping away from the group one afternoon, she meets Will, an attractive young drifter who carries about him the scent of true adventure. Will invites Darcy back to the hostel where he's been staying and introduces her to Justine, his darkly seductive lover and mentor. Justine, a master of the con, senses a grand opportunity in this amenable blonde. (December 2007)

Curse of Al Capone's Gold by Mike Thompson - In 1923, a lot of illicit stuff from Canada is pouring into North Dakota for dissemination. As a result, racketeers like Guido Salvatore and Alphonse Capone are getting rich. Regular fellows like Andy Larson and his pals are not. (December 2007)

Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett - A masterpiece of literary suspense unfolds in a city on the verge of revolution. On a blustery April day, a respected St. Petersburg newspaper editor is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later, Dr. Otto Spethmann, the celebrated psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city—and somehow he is implicated. The doctor is mystified and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself. (October 2007)

Night Work by Steve Hamilton - Hamilton's first novel A Cold Day in Paradise, won the PWA/SMP Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. It went on to win the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel. (September 2007)

Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher - Sixteen-year-old Amy lies in a coma. Her elder sister, Moira, sits beside her in the evenings and tells this story seeking forgiveness and retribution. She tells of her own life—her secrets, her shameful actions, and her link to the accident that has brought her sister to this bed. (August 2007)

The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty - a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced characters and a page-turning plot that makes readers ask themselves, "What would I do?" (August 2007)

Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas - John Blake, a young but already deeply scarred detective, has given up PI work—but when a classmate and confidant, Dorothy Burke, dies in her bathtub, the police take one look at the plastic bag over her head and the copy of Final Exit nearby, and declare it a suicide. Dorothy's mother has other ideas and ropes Blake back into his old trade. The Second Blake novel. (July 2007)

The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz - Drew Danner, a crime novelist with a house off L.A.’s storied Mulholland Drive, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head and no memory of being found convulsing over his ex- fiancée’s body the previous night. He was discovered holding a knife, her blood beneath his nails. He himself doesn’t know whether he’s guilty or innocent. To reconstruct the story, the writer must now become the protagonist, searching the corridors of his life and the city he loves. (July 2007)

Innocence by David Hosp -With life as a pawn in a prestigious Boston law firm behind him, Scott Finn has set course through the more colorful back alleys and bedrooms of the legal world as a solo practitioner who dabbles in civil litigation, divorce law, and criminal defense. But his new environment and his nose for justice and fair play land him a case that could end up taking his life. (July 2007)

The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham - A young policewoman breaks all the rules to get to the bottom of the mysterious death of the best friend she betrayed in this stunning follow-up thriller from the author of Suspect and Lost.
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The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney -The year is 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. (July 2007)

A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallihan - A thief, found dead in an alley. A man, disappeared from a city that never knew he existed. A boy, grievously hurt, who everyone called Superman. Bangkok, the glittering center of a country full of ghosts. (June 2007)

Wall Street Noir edited by Peter Spiegleman - Brand-new stories by: John Burdett, Peter Blauner, Charles Ardai, Henry Blodget, Twist Phelan, Megan Abbott, James Hime, Jason Starr, Lauren Sanders, Tim Broderick, Reed Farrel Coleman, Jim Fusilli, Mark Haskell Smith, Peter Spiegelman and more. (June 2007)

Price of Silence by Camilla Trinchieri - Having taken a young Chinese woman under her wing, teacher Emma Perotti finds herself on trial for the girl's murder. (June 2007)

White Corridor by Christopher Fowler - From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story," brings back crime detection’s oddest—and oldest—couple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery. (June 2007)

Raven Black by Anne Cleeves - It begins New Year's Eve with a lonely outcase Named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors that never arrive. The next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered in the snow, and Inspector Perez begins an investigation that leads deep into the past. (June 2007)

The Cruel Stars of the Night by Kjell Eriksson - One snowy day, thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man’s disappearance. And when the corpses of two elderly men do turn up, neither of the dead men is the missing academic. (May 2007)