The Mystery Bookstore

Lauren Belfer, A FATAL RADIANCE
HarperCollins, $25.99 (unsigned first edition)
In New York during World War II, beyond the glamorous photos that Claire Shipley takes for LIFE magazine, a child can still die of blood poisoning from a simple scrape. Sent to chronicle the breakthrough discovery of a new antibiotic called penicillin, Claire becomes involved with one of the doctors, and in the struggle between pioneering researchers and pharmaceutical companies out to financially exploit the discovery. When a beautiful female researcher falls to her death and penicillin becomes a matter of national security, Claire risks everything to find the truth. This is an unexpectedly fun, pulpy read about a real but forgotten aspect of 20th century history.
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Anne Perry, THE SHEEN ON THE SILK
Ballantine, $27.00 (signed first edition)
In a departure from her regular stories, Anne Perry takes us to Constantinople in 1273, in the middle of the Crusades. Anna Zarides, a trained physician, disguises herself as a eunuch in order to investigate the case of her twin brother Justinian, accused of murdering a nobleman and suspected of plotting against the Emperor. Anna maneuevers through the hidden layers of Byzantine society, her disguise giving her access but causing chaos for a handsome ship captain who crosses her path. With time running out and the Imperial court closing in around her, the truth may cost Anna more than the lie she is living.
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Seth Grahame–Smith, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER
Grand Central Publishing, $21.99 (signed first edition)
Abe Lincoln is a bookish boy with no taste for killing, until the day his mother dies from vampire sickness. Ax in hand, he embarks on a single–minded mission to destroy all undead. Henry Sturges, a worldly, benevolent vampire, saves him from an early demise and becomes his mentor. Abe becomes one of America's greatest Vampire Hunters, until the day when Sturges sets him a greater task: become President, and win the coming war with the South, where the worst vampires take refuge and plot the enslavement of all mankind. Seth Grahame–Smith, the author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, molds a fascinating, grotesque, oddly poignant and sometimes hilarious secret life for the 16th President out of real Lincoln quotations and his own imagination.