Peter Abrahams, DELUSION. William Morrow, $24.95 (signed first edition). Twenty years ago, Nell Jarreau's testimony put Alvin DuPree in jail for the murder of her then-boyfriend. When new evidence appears to exonerate DuPree, he becomes a free man – but is he truly innocent? How could Nell have been mistaken?






Peter Abrahams, INTO THE DARK. Laura Gehringer, $16.99 (signed first edition). Ages 9-12. In the latest Echo Falls mystery, 13-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill finds a dead body in the snow on Grampy's land. With Grampy in jail, Ingrid sets out to find the truth of the dead man's identity – and the killer’s.






Deborah Turrell Atkinson, FIRE PRAYER. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (signed first edition). Hawaiian lawyer Storm Kayama and her lover, Ian Hamlin, meet up with Storm's foster parents on the island of Molokai. Storm agrees to check on a former classmate's son, but the boy's mother is murdered, and the boy disappears.






Sandi Ault, WILD INFERNO. Berkley, $23.95 (signed first edition). In the follow-up to the winner of this year's Mary Higgins Clark Award, BLM agent Jamaica Wild responds to a wildfire on the Southern Ute reservation.








Catherine Coulter, DOUBLE TAKE. Putnam, $25.95 (signed first edition). FBI Special Agent Cheney Stone rescues a beautiful young widow after she's thrown from San Francisco's Pier 39. The attack seems linked to the murder of the woman’s husband, and Stone must find the truth in order to save her.






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.






Ronald Cutler, THE SECRET SCROLL. Beaufort Books, $24.95 (signed first edition). In this debut novel, archaeology professor Josh Cohan follows a dream – literally – to the Judean desert, where he discovers an ancient scroll that seems to have been written by Jesus Christ.







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.








Libby Fischer Hellmann, EASY INNOCENCE. Bleak House hardcover, $24.95; trade paperback, $11.95 (simultaneous first editions, signed). Bobby's May favorite features former Chicago cop Georgia Davis, who previously appeared as a supporting character Hellmann's Ellie Foreman series. Davis, now a PI, investigates the murder of a popular high school student who had been living a secret double life. Bobby calls this Hellmann's "deepest, darkest work yet."






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?






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.






Hank Phillippi Ryan, PRIME TIME. Harlequin, $5.50 (signed paperback original first edition). Agatha winner for Best First Novel! TV reporter Charlotte McNally interviews the widow of a man killed in a car accident. As it turns out, the dead man had worked for a large pharmaceutical company – and had sent Charlie an email just before he died.






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.