Cara Black, MURDER IN THE RUE DE PARADIS. Soho Crime, $24.00 (signed first edition). In the summer of the St-Michel Metro bombings, Aimee Leduc's ex-boyfriend, Yves Robert, reappears with a marriage proposal – but then police ask Aimee to identify Robert's body. She throws herself into the investigation, and uncovers a secret that links a militant Turkish group, an assassination plot, and the Kurdish Labor Party.






Tim Dorsey, ATOMIC LOBSTER. William Morrow, $24.95 (signed first edition). Beloved psychopath Serge A. Storms is back on the road with Coleman, his partner in crime. As usual, the plot hardly matters, as Serge and Coleman barrel across Florida and manage to foil the nefarious plans of a murderous ex-con along the way.






John Lescroart, BETRAYAL. Dutton, $26.95 (signed first edition). San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy agrees to take on the caseload for a colleague who's disappeared. What seems to be a straightforward murder case turns out to be much more complicated: the victim, an ex-Navy SEAL, may have been responsible for several suspicious deaths in Iraq. Hardy and his old friend, Detective Abe Glitsky, find a conspiracy that hides not only murder, but treason.






Laura Lippman, ANOTHER THING TO FALL. William Morrow, $24.95 (signed first edition). Baltimore private detective Tess Monaghan, in her tenth adventure, agrees to serve as a bodyguard for a starlet shooting a miniseries on location.






Louise Penny, THE CRUELEST MONTH. St. Martin's Minotaur, $25.50 (signed first edition) Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues return to the small Quebec town of Three Pines to investigate a mysterious death at a seance. Meanwhile, Gamache himself suspects a mole on his staff is sabotaging his work.







Christopher Rice, BLIND FALL. Scribner, $26.00 (signed first edition).
The March Crime Club selection is a thriller about the death of a former Marine who turns out to have been hiding his partner and his life as a gay man. Ex-Marine John Houck discovers the mutilated body of his former comrade, Captain Mike Bowers, and must deal with his own homophobia, as well as lingering guilt over an earlier loss, before he can bring the killer to justice.






Lisa Scottoline, LADY KILLER. Harper, $25.95 (signed first edition). Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio takes a case for her high school enemy, Trish Gambone; Trish is being abused by her boyfriend, another fellow classmate who's now a mobster. It doesn't take long for Mary to regret taking the case, but when Trish disappears, Mary has to figure out what happened.






Steven M. Thomas, CRIMINAL PARADISE. Ballantine, $25.00 (signed first edition). Rob Rivers and his partner, Switch, rob an Orange County steakhouse and find a photograph that suggests the steakhouse's owner might be peddling pornography, or worse. Rob and another friend break into the owner's home and find the girl in the photograph – a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl who's being held against her will. It's just the beginning of a desperate ride into a world that scares even a career criminal like Rob Rivers.






Randy Wayne White, BLACK WIDOW. Putnam, $24.95 (signed first edition). Marine biologist and covert operative Doc Ford goes to the small Caribbean island of St. Arc when his goddaughter, Shanay, is blackmailed with indiscreet video from a bachelorette weekend. But the blackmailer releases the video anyway, one of Shanay's bridesmaids takes an overdose, and the whole plot turns out to be connected to something deep in Ford's own past.






Jacqueline Winspear, AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE. Henry Holt, $24.00 (signed first edition). Maisie Dobbs agrees to investigate a few matters related to what seems to be a routine real estate purchase. She travels to a small farming village in Kent, and finds herself drawn into a web of secrets, prejudice, arson, and murder.