Aileen Baron, GOLD OF THRACE. Poisoned Pen Press, $24.95 (signed first edition). Archaeologist Tamar Saticoy discovers a Roman mosaic on the floor of an excavation in Turkey. When she brings an official from the Department of Antiquities to see it, the mosaic is gone and a student assistant's dead body is on the site. Tamar manages to track the missing mosaic to Switzerland, where its disappearance seems linked to the theft of a hoard of Thracian gold.






David Ellis, EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. Putnam, $24.95 (signed first edition). Attorney Paul Riley's illustrious career started with his prosecution of Terry Burgos, who killed six girls in horrifying ways. Fifteen years later, another series of murders echoes the Burgos killings in ways that make Paul wonder whether he prosecuted the wrong man. Nothing is what it seems, and Riley's decisions come back to haunt him.






Joseph Finder, POWER PLAY. St. Martin's, $24.95 (signed first edition). Mid-level manager Jake Landry is a last-minute substitute at the executive planning retreat of his aerospace corporation. He's a fish out of water, but may be the only person who can save his bosses when armed men take the group hostage.






Timothy Hallinan, A NAIL THROUGH THE HEART. William Morrow, $24.95 (signed first edition). Travel writer Poke Rafferty writes a series called Looking for Trouble, offering advice for tourists who want to leave the beaten path. Settling in Thailand with his new wife, Rose, and an eight-year-old street orphan, Poke finds more trouble than he could have imagined. He agrees to look for a woman's missing uncle, and promises another woman to intervene with a blackmailer – two apparently unrelated tasks that take him deep into a culture he had thought he understood.






William Kent Krueger, THUNDER BAY. Atria, $24.00 (signed first edition). Former sheriff Cork O'Connor agrees to help his old friend Henry Meloux find Henry’s long-lost son. Henry fathered the boy 73 years ago, with a white woman he never saw again. Armed only with a gold watch and a photograph of Maria Lima, the boy's mother, Cork manages to track Henry's son to the Canadian city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. When someone tries to kill Henry Meloux, evidence points toward the long-missing son – but why?






Hailey Lind, BRUSH WITH DEATH. Signet paperback original, $6.99 (signed first edition). In her third adventure, former art forger Annie Kincaid is still trying to redeem herself. If she can help return a stolen masterpiece to Italy, she hopes to regain some credibility in the art world – but when people start to die, she may be in even more trouble than before.






Cody McFadyen, THE FACE OF DEATH. Bantam, $24.00 (signed first edition). Bobby's July favorite is the second novel to feature FBI Agent Smoky Barrett, introduced in last year's SHADOW MAN (a Discovery Club selection). Smoky hunts a serial killer known as The Stranger after 16 -year-old Sarah Langstrom asks for Smoky's help personally. The Stranger killed her family on her sixth birthday, and recently killed her foster family in an attempt to get to Sarah.






Marcia Muller, THE EVER-RUNNING MAN. Warner Books, $24.99 (signed first edition). Sharon McCone's husband, Hy, hires her to find' "the ever-running man" who’s been leaving explosive devices at his company's officies. As Sharon gets closer to her target, she learns more than she wanted to know about her husband's work, and his involvement in the company's deepest secrets.






Bill Pronzini, SAVAGES: A Nameless Detective Novel. Forge, $24.95 (signed first edition). The Nameless Detective investigates a death that the police call accidental, and the victim's sister calls murder.






Michael Robotham, THE NIGHT FERRY. Doubleday, $24.95 (signed first edition). London police detective Alisha Barba is recovering from a broken back when she gets an urgent message from a school friend, asking her to come to their reunion. Cate, the friend, is pregnant and convinced that someone is after her unborn child. When Cate and her husband are killed in a car accident, Ali wonders whether Cate's paranoia might have been justified – and follows a trail of stolen embryos to Amsterdam and back.






George D. Shuman, LAST BREATH. Simon & Schuster, $24.00 (signed first edition). Philadelphia psychic Sherry Moore returns (after her debut in the Thriller-nominated 18 SECONDS). The Maryland attorney general asks the blind consultant for help in the case of three unsolved murders. Sherry can see the dead women's final moments – but not the face of their killer.






John Twelve Hawks, THE DARK RIVER. Doubleday, $32.50 (signed and numbered first editions). Yes, that's right; our copies of this sequel to THE TRAVELER by the mysterious John Twelve Hawks are signed and numbered. We have only a few left; all have a small, very faint scuff mark to edge of back board, and very slightly pushed in spines to jacket and book.






Lee Vance, RESTITUTION. Knopf, $23.95 (signed first edition). The August Discovery Club selection is a first novel that delivers on its advance buzz. Wall Street tycoon Peter Tyler, restless and unhappy, has a one-night stand. Within days, his wife is murdered, and Peter's the prime suspect. He won't tell the police the identity of his lover; the only thing missing from his house is a package given to Peter by his best friend, Andrei. When Andrei himself goes missing, Peter goes on the run in a desperate attempt to clear his name and save his own life. Only a few copies left; due to the rigors of shipping back and forth to the author for signing, all have slight edge wear to their jackets.






NOT SIGNED, BUT NOTABLE


Ken Bruen, AMMUNITION. St. Martin's Minotaur, $13.95 (unsigned trade paperback original). A crazed hit man guns Inspector Brant down in a southeast London pub; as Brant clings to life, his colleagues track down the killer and wrestle with issues of their own.






Diane Mott Davidson, SWEET REVENGE. William Morrow, $25.95 (unsigned first edition). Goldy Bear Schulz is catering a breakfast for the local library when she discovers the dead body of disgraced former D.A. Drew Wellington. Meanwhile, someone reports a sighting of the woman who allegedly killed Goldy's ex-husband – even though this woman herself supposedly died in a forest fire.






Raymond Khoury, THE SANCTUARY. Dutton, $25.95 (unsigned first edition). An Army unit in Baghdad discovers a horrifying medical lab where dozens of men, women and children died as a result of gruesome experiments. Their pursuit of the mysterious doctor, and the bioweapon he's developing, turns out to be linked to a 350-year-old mystery.






J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Bloomsbury, $53.00 (unsigned U.K. first edition, children's cover).






J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Scholastic, $34.99 (unsigned U.S. first edition). Book #7 (and last) in the beloved series.






Olen Steinhauer, VICTORY SQUARE. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (unsigned first edition). As the Soviet Union falls apart, and the rest of Eastern Europe with it, homicide detective Emil Brod is focused on his upcoming retirement. As his last case progresses, though, he and his coworkers are forced to navigate the politics of the new revolution. Brod in particular finds out that a new government won't stop the past from haunting the entire country.