Baron Birtcher, ANGELS FALL. Iota Publishing, $23.95 (signed first edition). Former L.A. detective Mike Travis searches for a teenaged girl who has disappeared into an underworld of designer drugs and violent sex.






Carol Higgins Clark, ZAPPED. Scribner, $24.00 (signed first edition). A burglar invades Regan and Jack Reilly's Tribeca loft, in search of a safe that even the Reillys don't know about. Meanwhile, Jack investigates the theft of art from a SoHo gallery, and Regan looks for a missing insurance agent who may be preying on blond men.






Mary Higgins Clark, WHERE ARE YOU NOW? Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (signed first edition). Charles "Mack" MacKenzie Jr. disappeared ten years ago, at the age of 21; once a year, he makes a single phone call to his mother, to say that he's all right. Mack's sister Carolyn, now a 26-year-old lawyer, vows to track him down.






Harlan Coben, HOLD TIGHT. Dutton, $26.95 (signed first edition). Sarah's April favorite asks, how far is too far when it comes to protecting your child? As a quiet suburban neighborhood reels after a high school boy's suicide, one couple resorts to technological gadgetry to keep an eye on their withdrawn son. Meanwhile, a deranged serial killer is on the prowl.






Tom Epperson, THE KIND ONE. Five Star, $25.95 (signed first edition). In 1933 Los Angeles, "Two Gun" Danny Layton wakes up without his memory, and believes his friends when they tell him he works for a mob boss.






Robert Levinson, IN THE KEY OF DEATH. Five Star, $25.95 (signed first edition). Former cop Josh Wainwright is determined to get justice for his wife, music star Katie Sunshine, after a sniper kills her. Wainwright is sure the man responsible is legendary producer Clyde "Mr. Magic" Davenport – but what does it mean when Davenport hires Wainwright to investigate threats against his own life?






Thomas Perry, FIDELITY. Harcourt, $25.00 (signed first edition). Emily Kramer is shocked when her husband, Phil, is shot to death in the middle of the night – but then she learns that their bank accounts have been wiped out, and that Phil might not have been the man she thought he was. Jerry Hobart, the hit man who shot Phil, is supposed to kill Emily as well – but he wants to find out what secret the Kramers are hiding that someone would be willing to kill for.






Nina Revoyr, THE AGE OF DREAMING. Akashic Press, $15.95 (signed first edition trade paperback). In 1964, an aspiring screenwriter visits silent-screen legend Jun Nakayama, who retired from films forever in 1922. The screenwriter, Nick Bellinger, wants Nakayama to come out of retirement, but Nakayama has his reasons for wanting to stay out of the limelight.






Peter Robinson, FRIEND OF THE DEVIL. William Morrow, $24.95 (signed first edition). Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his lover, DI Annie Cabbot, investigate two apparently unrelated murders: a wheelchair-bound woman found with her throat cut on a seaside cliff, and a young student raped and strangled in a Yorkshire alley.






Stuart Woods, SANTA FE DEAD. Putnam, $25.95 (signed first edition).
New Mexico attorney Ed Eagle's wife Barbara not only left him, but took out a contract on his life. Now Barbara's out of prison, back on Ed's trail, and looking for another wealthy husband. Meanwhile, Ed's trying to clear a client, Don Wells, of charges that he killed his own wife and son.