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SHORT SHELF April 2008

This version of The Bloodstained Bookshelf, which includes recent releases as well as those expected shortly, is provided for your convenience to print out and take to the library or bookstore, so we have omitted advertising, graphics, and the fine print. Boldface indicates change from last month's list. (r) indicates reprint.

March 2008

Anderson, Gerald - Murder Under the Loon $13.95 Midnight Ink (Otter Tail County)
Atherton, Nancy - Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter $22.95 Viking (Aunt Dimity)
Atwell, Sarah - Through a Glass, Deadly $6.99 Prime Crime (1st - Glassblowing)
Barron, Stephanie - A Flaw in the Blood $24.00 Bantam (stand-alone)
Black, Benjamin - The Silver Swan $25.00 Holt (Quirke)
Black, Cara - Murder on the Ile Saint-Louie $12.00 Soho (Aimee Leduc) (r)
Black, Cara - Murder in the Rue de Paradis $24.00 Soho (Aimee Leduc)
Bodoin, Dorothy - A Shadow on the Snow $5.99 Worldwide (Michigan Woods) (r)
Bowen, Rhys - In Dublin's Fair City $6.99 Minotaur (Molly Murphy) (r)
Bowen, Rhys - Tell Me, Pretty Maiden $23.95 Minotaur (Molly Murphy)
Brightwell, Gerri - The Dark Lantern $24.95 Crown
Bruen, Ken - Cross $23.95 Minotaur (Jack Taylor)
Bruns, Don - St. Barts Breakdown $24.95 Oceanview (Mick Sever)
Chercover, Sean - Big City, Bad Blood $7.99 Harper (1st - Ray Dudgeon) (r)
Childs, Laura - Dragonwell Dead $7.99 Prime Crime (Theodosia Browning) (r)
Childs, Laura - The Silver Needle Murder $23.95 Prime Crime (Theodosia Browning)
Clark, Carol Higgins - Zapped $24.00 Scribner (Regan Reilly)
Clark, Mary Higgins - Where are You Now? $25.95 Simon & Schuster
Conant, Susan & Conant-Park, Jessica - Simmer Down $7.99 Prime Crime (Gourmet Girl) (r)
Conant, Susan & Conant-Park, Jessica - Turn Up the Heat $23.95 Prime Crime (Gourmet Girl)
Conwell, Kent - Death in the French Quarter $23.95 Avalon (Tony Boudreaux)
Cortez, Donn - Cut and Run $7.99 Pocket (CSI: Miami)
Crum, Laura - Chasing Cans $14.95 Perseverance (Gail McCarthy)
Daheim, Mary - The Alpine Traitor $24.00 Ballantine (Emma Lord)
Dahl, K. O. - The Fourth Man $22.95 Minotaur (1st - Frank Frolich)
Dennison, Hannah - A Vicky Hill Exclusive! $6.99 Prime Crime (1st - Vicky Hill)
Douglas, Carole Nelson - Cat in a Red Hot Rage $6.99 Forge (Midnight Louie) (r)
Downie, Ruth - Medicus $14.95 Bloomsbury (1st - Gaius Petreius Ruso) (r)
Downie, Ruth - Terra Incognita $23.95 Bloomsbury (Gaius Petreius Ruso)
Estill, Katie - Dahlia's Gone $5.99 Worldwide (r)
Fairstein, Linda - Killer Heat $26.00 Doubleday (Alex Cooper)
Floyd, Bill - The Killer's Wife $23.95 Minotaur
Fluke, Joanne - Carrot Cake Murder $22.00 Kensington (Hannah Swenson)
Gaffney, Ed - Ebemy Combatant $6.99 Dell
Goodwill, Susan - Little Shop of Murders $13.95 Midnight Ink (Kate London)
Gregorio, Michael - Critique of Criminal Reason $14.95 Minotaur (1st - Hanno Stiffeniis) (r)
Gross, Andrew - The Dark Tide $25.95 Morrow
Gunn, Elizabeth - McCafferty's Nine $14.95 Severn (Jake Hines) (r)
Harris, Charlaine - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse $7.99 Prime Crime (Aurora Teagarden) (r)
Haskins, Michael - Chasin' the Wind $25.95 Five Star (1st - Mad Mick Murphy)
Heley, Veronica - Murder of Identity $14.95 Severn (Ellie Quicke) (r)
Heley, Veronica - Murder in the Park $27.95 Severn (Ellie Quicke)
Henry, Sue - The Refuge $6.99 Obsidian (Maxie and Stretch) (r)
Hess, Joan - Damsels in Distress $6.99 Minotaur (Claire Malloy) (r)
Hoag, Tami - The Alibi Man $7.99 Bantam (r)
Hughes, Declan - The Color of Blood $7.99 Harper (Ed Loy) (r)
Hughes, Declan - The Price of Blood $24.95 Morrow (Ed Loy)
Hunt, James Patrick - Goodbye Sister Disco $23.95 Minotaur (George Hastings)
Jackson, Lisa - Absolute Fear $7.99 Zebra (r)
Kahn, Wilma - Big Black Hole $5.99 Worldwide (Gayle Fisher) (r)
Kellerman, Jonathan - Obsession $7.99 Ballantine (Alex Delaware) (r)
Kellogg, Marne Davis - Friends in High Places $13.95 St. Martin's (Kick Keswick) (r)
Kling, Christine - Wreckers' Key $6.99 Ballantine (Seychelle Sullivan) (r)
Lamanda, Al - Dunston Falls $25.95 Five Star
Lange, John - Zero Cool $6.99 Hard Case (r)
Latour, Jose - Hidden in Havana $23.95 Minotaur
Laurie, Victoria - Demons Are a Ghoul's Best Friend $6.99 Signet (Ghost Hunter)
Lecard, Marc - Vinnie's Head $13.95 Minotaur (r)
Lerner, Eric - Pinkerton's Secret $25.00 Holt
Lescroart, John - Betrayal $26.95 Dutton (Dismas Hardy)
Levien, David - City of the Sun $24.95 Doubleday
Levinson, Robert S. - In the Key of Death $25.95 Five Star (stand-alone)
Lippman, Laura - What the Dead Know $7.99 Harper (stand-alone) (r)
Lippman, Laura - Another Thing to Fall $24.95 Morrow (Tess Monaghan)
Lutz, Lisa - Curse of the Spellmans $25.00 Simon & Schuster (Izzy Spellman)
Lyons, CJ - Lifelines $7.99 Berkley
Martin, Nancy - A Crazy Little Thing Called Death $6.99 Signet (Blackbird Sisters) (r)
Martin, Nancy - Murder Melts in Your Mouth $22.95 NAL (Blackbird Sisters)
Martinez, Michele - Notorious $23.95 Morrow (Melanie Vargas)
McEvoy, John - Riders Down $14.95 Poisoned Pen (Jack Doyle) (r)
McEvoy, John - Close Call $24.95 Poisoned Pen (Jack Doyle)
McGrory, Brian - Strangled $7.99 Pocket (Jack Flynn) (r)
Meyer, Deon - Devil's Peak $24.99 Little, Brown
Mooney, Chris - The Missing $7.99 Pocket (r)
Myers, Beverle Graves - Cruel Music $14.94 Poisoned Pen (Baroque) (r)
Myers, Beverle Graves - The Iron Tongue of Midnight $24.95 Poisoned Pen (Baroque)
Nesser, Hakan - The Return $13.95 Vintage (Insp. Van Veeteren) (r)
Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine - The 5th Horseman $9.99 Vision (Women's Murder Club) (r)
Penny, Louise - The Cruelest Month $23.95 Minotaur (Armand Gamache)
Pinter, Jason - The Guilty $7.99 Mira (Henry Parker)
Pollero, Rhonda - Knock 'em Dead $19.95 Kensington (Finley Anderson Tanner)
Price, Richard - Lush Life $26.00 Farrar Straus Giroux
Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor - Revenge of Innocents $7.99 Pinnacle (Carolyn Sullivan) (r)
Rosett, Sara - Staying Home is a Killer $6.99 Kensington (Mom Zone) (r)
Rowland, Laura Joh - The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte $24.95 Overlook (stand-alone)
Parker, Robert B. - High Profile $9.99 Berkley (Jesse Stone) (r)
Rice, Christopher - Blind Fall $26.00 Scribner
Rizer, Fran - Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle $6.99 Prime Crime (Callie Parrish)
Saums, Mary - Mighty Old Bones $23.95 Minotaur (Thistle and Twigg)
Sheehan, James - The Law of Second Chances $24.95 St. Martin's
Sherer, Michael W. - Island Life $25.95 Five Star (stand-alone)
Silverwood, Roger - The Umbrella Man $35.95 Robert Hale (Michael Angel)
Silverwood, Roger - The Man Who Couldn't Lose $35.95 Robert Hale (Michael Angel)
Smith, Alexander McCall - The Good Husband of Zebra Drive $12.95 Anchor (Precious Ramotswe) (r)
Thomas, Steven M. - Criminal Paradise $25.00 Ballantine
von Ditfurth, Christian - A Paragon of Virtue $24.95 Toby (1st - Josef Stachelmann)
Westlake, Donald E. - What's So Funny? $7.99 Grand Central (Dortmunder) (r)
White, Randy Wayne - Hunter's Moon $9.99 Berkley (Doc Ford) (r)
White, Randy Wayne - Black Widow $24.95 Putnam (Doc Ford)
White, Stephen - Dry Ice $9.99 Signet (Alan Gregory) (r)
White, Stephen - Dead Time $25.95 Dutton (Alan Gregory)
Wilson, Andrew - The Lying Tongue $14.00 Washington Square (r)

April 2008

Albert, Susan Wittig - Spanish Dagger $7.99 Prime Crime (China Bayles) (r)
Albert, Susan Wittig - Nightshade $23.95 Prime Crime (China Bayles)
Atkins, Ace - Wicked City $24.95 Putnam (stand-alone)
Bailey, Sean Michael - 1787 $25.95 Five Star
Baldacci, David - Simple Genius $9.99 Vision (Michelle Maxwell/Sean King) (r)
Bannister, Jo - Fathers and Sins $27.95 Severn (stand-alone)
Barr, Nevada - Winter Study $24.95 Putnam (Anna Pigeon)
Barrett, Lorna - Murder is Binding $6.99 Prime Crime (1st - Booktown)
Bloch, Robert - Shooting Star / Spiderweb $7.99 Hard Case (r)
Booth, Stephen - The Dead Place $7.50 Bantam (Diane Fry/Ben Cooper) (r)
Braun, Lilian Jackson - The Cat Who Smelled Smoke $23.95 Putnam (Jim Qwilleran)
Burney, Claudia Mair - Death, Deceit & Some Smooth Jazz $12.99 Howard (Amanda Bell Brown)
Camilleri, Andrea - The Paper Moon $13.00 Penguin (Salvo Montalbano)
Cannell, Dorothy - Withering Heights $6.99 Minotaur (Ellie Haskell) (r)
Cannell, Dorothy - Goodbye, Ms. Chips $23.95 Minotaur (Ellie Haskell)
Chan, Cassandra - Trick of the Mind $24.95 Minotaur (Bethancourt/Gibbons)
Child, Lee - Bad Luck and Trouble $7.99 Dell (Jack Reacher) (r)
Clark, Mary Higgins - I Heard That Song Before $7.99 Pocket (r)
Cleland, Jane K. - Deadly Appraisal $6.99 Minotaur (Josie Prescott) (r)
Cleland, Jane K. - Antiques to Die For $23.95 Minotaur (Josie Prescott)
Coben, Harlan - The Woods $9.99 Signet (stand-alone) (r)
Coben, Harlan - Hold Tight $26.95 Dutton (stand-alone)
Coleman, Reed Farrel - Walking the Perfect Square $13.00 Busted Flush (1st - Moe Prager) (r)
Coleman, Reed Farrel - Empty Ater Ever $14.95/$24.95 Bleak House (Moe Prager)
Connelly, Michael, editor - The Blue Religion $15.99/$24.99 Little, Brown (Anthology)
Connolly, John - The Unquiet $7.99 Pocket (Charlie Parker) (r)
Corwin, C. R. - Dig $14.95 Poisoned Pen (Morgue Mama) (r)
Corwin, C. R. - The Unraveling of Violeta Bell $24.95 Poisoned Pen (Morgue Mama)
Coyle, Cleo - French Pressed $6.99 Prime Crime (Clare Cosi)
D'Almeida, Sarah - A Death in Gascony $7.99 Prime Crime (Musketeers)
Dane, Jordan - No One Heard Her Scream $6.99 Avon
Dickinson, David - Death on the Holy Mountain $24.95 Soho (Francis Powerscourt)
Edwards, Martin - Waterloo Sunset $24.95 Poisoned Pen (Harry Devlin)
Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Lethal Legend $17.95 Pemberley (Diana Spaulding)
Fletcher, Jessica & Bain, Donald - Murder, She Wrote: Murder on Parade $19.95 NAL (Jessica Fletcher)
French, Dorothy - Pier Pressure $5.99 Worldwide (1st - Keely Moreno) (r)
French, Nicci - Losing You $23.95 Minotaur
Frommer, Sara Hoskinson - Death Climbs a Tree $5.99 Worldwide (Joan Spencer) (r)
Goldman, Joel - Shakedown $6.99 Pinnacle (stand-alone)
Gorman, Ed - Sleeping Dogs $23.95 Minotaur (stand-alone)
Gregorio, Michael - Days of Atonement $24.95 Minotaur (Hanno Stiffeniis)
Gregson, J. M. - Pastures New $27.95 Severn (Percy Peach)
Gruber, Michael - The Book of Air and Shadows $7.99 Harper (stand-alone) (r)
Gruber, Michael - The Forgery of Venus $24.95 Morrow (stand-alone)
Haddam, Jane - Glass Houses $6.99 Minotaur (Gregor Demarkian) (r)
Haddam, Jane - Cheating at Solitaire $24.95 Minotaur (Gregor Demarkian)
Hall, Parnell - The Sudoku Puzzle Murders $23.95 Minotaur (Cora Felton)
Harris, Charlaine - All Together Dead $7.99 Ace (Sookie Stackhouse) (r)
Harrison, Colin - The Finder $25.00 FSG
Hart, Carolyn - Set Sail for Murder $6.99 Avon (Henrie O) (r)
Hart, Carolyn - Death Walked In - $23.95 Morrow (Death on Demand)
Hathaway, Robin - Sleight of Hand $23.95 Minotaur (Jo Banks)
Hellmann, Libby Fischer - Easy Innocence $14.95/$24.95 Bleak House (1st - Georgia Davis)
Henry, Sue - Degrees of Separation $23.95 NAL (Jessie Arnold)
Herron, Mick - Reconstruction $24.95 Soho (stand-alone)
Hess, Joan - Mummy Dearest $24.95 Minotaur (Claire Malloy)
Hill, Susan - The Various Haunts of Men $13.95 Overlook (1st - Simon Serrailler)
Jackson, Lisa - Lost Souls $22.00 Kensington
Johansen, Iris - Quicksand $26.95 St. Martin's (Eve Duncan)
Johnson, Claire M. - Beat Until Stiff $14.95 Poisoned Pen (1st - Mary Ryan) (r)
Johnson, Claire M. - Roux Morgue $24.95 Poisoned Pen (Mary Ryan)
Keating, H. R. F. - Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs $23.95 Minotaur (Harriet Martens)
Kellerman, Jonathan - Compulsion $26.95 Ballantine (Alex Delaware)
Kennealy, Jerry - Still Shot $23.95 Minotaur (Carroll Quint)
Killian, Diana - Corpse Pose $6.99 Prime Crime (1st - Mantra for Murder)
King, Peter - Hangman's Corner $25.95 Five Star (1st - Ned Parker)
Lovesey, Peter - The Secret Hangman $13.00 Soho (Peter Diamond) (r)
Lovesey, Peter - The Headhunters $24.00 Soho (Hen Mallin)
Lowe, Sheila - Poison Pen $6.99 Obsidian (1st - Forensic Handwriting) (r)
MacPherson, Rett - Died in the Wool $5.99 Worldwide (Torie O'Shea) (r)
Maffini, Mary Jane - The Cluttered Corpse $6.99 Prime Crime (Charlotte Adams)
McKevett, G. A. - Fat Free and Fatal $6.99 Kensington (Savannah Reid) (r)
McManus, Patrick F. - Avalanche $14.00 Simon & Schuster (Bo Tully) (r)
Meade, Amy Patricia - Shadow Waltz $13.95 Midnight Ink (Marjorie McClelland)
Merkel, E. L. - Virgins and Martyrs $25.95 Five Star (1st - Aria Quynn)
Miller, John Ramsey - Smoke & Mirrors $6.99 Dell (Winter Massey)
Nichols, Judy - Tree Huggers h/c Zumaya
Olsen, Gregg - A Cold Dark Place $6.99 Pinnacle
Page, Katherine Hall - The Body in the Gallery $23.95 Morrow (Faith Fairchild)
Pastor, Ben - The Fire Walker $23.95 Minotaur (Aelius Spartianus)
Perry, Anne - At Some Disputed Barricade $13.95 Ballantine (Joseph Reavley) (r)
Perry, Anne - We Shall Not Sleep $13.95 Ballantine (Joseph Reavley) (r) (last in series)
Perry, Anne - Buckingham Palace Gardens $26.00 Ballantine (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt)
Persons, Terri - Blind Spot $7.99 Prime Crime (1st - Bernadette Saint Clare) (r)
Raichev, R. T. - Assassins at Ospreys $22.95 Soho (Antonia Darcy)
Reed, Mary & Mayer, Eric - Six for Gold $14.95 Poisoned Pen (John the Eunuch) (r)
Reed, Mary & Mayer, Eric - Seven for a Secret $24.95 Poisoned Pen (John the Eunuch)
Robb, J. D. - Creation in Death $7.99 Berkley (Eve Dallas) (r)
Roberts, Gillian - All's Well That Ends $6.99 Ballantine (Amanda Pepper) (r)
Rosett, Sara - Getting Away is Deadly $22.00 Kensington (Mom Zone)
Rusch, Sheldon - Separated at Death $24.95 Prime Crime (Elizabeth Hewitt)
Saylor, Steven - Roman Blood $14.95 Minotaur (1st - Gordianus the Finder) (r)
Sidor, Steven - The Mirror's Edge $24.95 Minotaur
Smith, Alexander McCall - The Miracle at Speedy Motors $22.95 Pantheon (Precious Ramotswe)
Stansberry, Domenic - The Ancient Rain $24.95 Minotaur (Dante Mancuso)
Stuyck, Karen Hanson - A Novel Way to Die $25.95 Five Star
Swanson, Denise - Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry $6.99 Signet (Scumble River)
Thompson, Carlene - If You Ever Tell $6.99 St. Martin's
Turnbull, Peter - Chelsea Smile $14.95 Severn (Hennessey & Yellich) (r)
Turnbull, Peter - No Stone Unturned $27.95 Severn (Hennessey & Yellich)
Wambaugh, Joseph - Hollywood Crows $26.99 Little, Brown
White, Randy Wayne (writing as Striker, Randy) - Assassin's Shadow $6.99 Signet (Dusky MacMorgan) (r)
Zelvin, Elizabeth - Death Will Get You Sober $23.95 Minotaur (1st - Bruce Kohler)

May 2008

Akunin, Boris - Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk $14.00 Random House (Sister Pelagia)
Alexander, Tasha - A Fatal Waltz $23.95 Morrow (Emily Ashton)
Armin, Janine & Moore, Nathaniel G. - Toronto Noir $15.95 Akashic (Anthology)
Baker, Deb - Murder Talks Turkey $13.95 Midnight Ink (Yooper)
Barnard, Robert - Last Post $24.00 Scribner
Blundy, Anna - Vodka Neat $24.95 Minotaur (Faith Zanetti)
Booth, Stephen - Scared to Live $25.00 Bantam (Diane Fry/Ben Cooper)
Box, C. J. - Blood Trail $24.95 Putnam (Joe Pickett)
Buchanan, Edna - Love Kills $7.99 Pocket (Britt Montero/Cold Case Squad) (r)
Buckley, Fiona - Queen's Ransom $14.00 Pocket (Ursula Blanchard) (r)
Burke, Shannon - Black Flies $14.95 Soft Skull
Burton, Bruce W. & Burton, Jeffrey B. - Sleuth Slayer $17.95 Pocol
Carcaterra, Lorenzo - Chasers $7.99 Ballantine (r)
Cleverly, Barbara - Tug of War $13.00 Delta (Joe Sandilands) (r)
Collins, Max Allan - Killer Profile $6.99 Signet (Criminal Minds)
Collins, Max Allan - Strip for Murder $14.00 Prime Crime (Jack & Maggie Starr)
Compton, Julie - Tell No Lies $24.95 Minotaur
Eriksson, Kjell - The Cruel Stars of the Night $12.95 Minotaur (Ann Lindell) (r)
Eriksson, Kjell - The Demon of Dakar $24.95 Minotaur (Ann Lindell)
Estleman, Loren D. - The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion $5.99 Forge (r)
Estleman, Loren D. - Frames $23.95 Forge (1st - Valentino)
George, Elizabeth - Careless in Red $27.95 HarperCollins (Lynley/Havers)
Gittlin, Adam - The Deal $24.95 Oceanview
Goddard, Robert - Past Caring $12.00 Delta (r)
Gordon, Alan - The Lark's Lament $14.95 Minotaur (Fools' Guild) (r)
Gordon, Alan - The Moneylender of Toulouse $24.95 Minotaur (Fools' Guild)
Gorman, Ed & Greenberg, Martin H., editors - A Prisoner of Memory and 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories $15.95 Pegasus (Anthology)
Greer, Robert - The Fourth Perspective $14.95 Frog (CJ Floyd) (r)
Griffin, Laura - One Wrong Step $6.99 Pocket
Harris, Charlaine - From Dead to Worse $24.95 Ace (Sookie Stackhouse)
Hawke, Richard - Cold Day in Hell $7.99 Ballantine (Fitz Malone) (r)
Housewright, David - Madman on a Drum $24.95 Minotaur (Mac McKenzie)
Kaminsky, Stuart M. - Four Walls $7.99 Pocket (CSI:NY)
Leonard, Peter - Quiver $23.95 Minotaur
Lindquist, Mark - The King of Methlehem $13.00 Simon & Schuster (r)
McDermid, Val - The Grave Tattoo $7.99 Minotaur (stand-alone) (r)
McKevett, G. A. - Poisoned Tarts $22.00 Kensington (Savannah Reid)
McRae, Cricket - Heaven Preserve Us $13.95 Midnight Ink (Home Crafting)
Moore, Christopher G. - Spirit House $13.00 Grove (Vincent Calvino) (r)
Norman, Michael - Silent Witness $24.95 Poisoned Pen (Kincaid/McConnell)
Persons, Terri - Blind Rage $24.95 Doubleday (Bernadette Saint Clare)
Rehder, Ben - Gun Shy $6.99 Minotaur (Blanco County) (r)
Rehder, Ben - Holy Moly $24.95 Minotaur (Blanco County)
Rifkin, Shepard - The Murder Vine $6.99 Hard Case (r)
Sandford, John - Invisible Prey $9.99 Berkley (Lucas Davenport) (r)
Sandford, John - Phantom Prey $26.95 Putnam (Lucas Davenport)
Saylor, Steven - Arms of Nemesis $14.95 Minotaur (Gordianus the Finder) (r)
Saylor, Steven - The Triumph of Caesar $24.95 Minotaur (Gordianus the Finder)
Shannon, John - The Dark Streets $13.95 Pegasus (Jack Liffey) (r)
Shannon, John - The Devils of Bakersfield $25.00 Pegasus (Jack Liffey)
Stark, Richard - Dirty Money $23.99 Grand Central (Parker)
Wall, Kathryn R. - The Mercy Oak $24.95 Minotaur (Bay Tanner)

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