SISTERS IN CRIME BOOKS-IN-PRINT Compiled by Linda Grant November 1991 Dear Booksellers, Librarians, and Mystery Fans: The sinister sisters have been busy since our last edition of BOOKS-IN-PRINT. We bring you MORE--more books, more authors, and we hope more enjoyment. The 1991 BOOKS-IN-PRINT was just off the press when we learned of books we'd failed to include and new books that were scheduled for early 1992. This addendum includes all the entries in the original 1991 BOOKS-IN-PRINT plus books by authors we missed the first time round, books by new members, and books scheduled for early 1992 (January through May). For most new books, short descriptions by the authors are included. Winter is a great time to curl up with a good book. We hope to provide you with many tantalizing choices. Yours in Crime, Linda Grant This is a list of books-in-print by current members of Sisters in Crime, an international organization of over 1,400 members. The publicity committee hopes you will share this booklet with others interested in mystery fiction by contemporary women writers. If you did not receive the 1991 BOOKS-IN-PRINT, please let us know so that we can send you one. Additional copies of that booklet or this addendum can be ordered for $1.00 each (discounts for larger orders). Requests should be sent to: Rowan Mountain Literary Associates PO Box 10111 Blacksburg, VA 24062-0111 (703) 961-3315 DEBORAH ADAMS (Waverly, TN) ALL THE GREAT PRETENDERS Ballantine, $3.99 ISBN: 0-345-37075-9 A psychic is summoned to Jesus Creek, Tennessee, to help locate a missing girl. But who do you call when the psychic disappears? FRANKIE BAILEY (Albany, NY) OUT OF THE WOODPILE: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction Greenwood Press, $42.95 ISBN: 0-313-26671-9 NONFICTION--A sociohistorical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in crime and detective fiction. Includes a directory and symposium in which fourteen crime writers offer their views on creating black characters. MIGNON BALLARD (Fort Mill, SC) DEADLY PROMISE Carroll & Graf, $16.95 ISBN: 0-88184-515-9 Worldwide Library, $3.50 Visiting her husband's aunts on Muscadine Hill, Molly Stonehouse suspects his recent death was not an accident. It's Christmas time in Harmony, Georgia, and among the mistletoe and merry making, a frightening drama is unfolding. THE WIDOW'S WOODS Carroll & Graf, $18.95 ISBN: 0-88184-680-5 Are the murders in the small S.C. town part of a bizarre ritual of devil worship in the Widow's Woods, or did victim Chloe Applegate hint at a menacing secret in her weekly column for THE SWEETSPRINGS SUN? JOAN BANKS (Joplin, MO) GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM Berkley, $4.50 ISBN: 0-425-12347-2 Susan Morrow and her friend embark on a relaxing canoe trip down a river in the Ozarks. When they cross paths with a white supremacist cop-killer on the run, their trip turns into a rendezvous with terror. LINDA BARNES (Brookline, MA) STEEL GUITAR Delacorte, $18.50 ISBN: 0-385-30013-1 Dee Willis, a brilliant and successful blues singer and an old college friend, asks for help in a missing person's case. Sensing something is wrong, Carlotta nevertheless takes the case, seduced by old friends, old music, and the blues. COYOTE Delacorte, $18.95 ISBN: 0-385-30012-3 Dell, $4.50 ISBN: 0-440-21089-5 When a Hispanic woman comes to Carlotta Carlyle claiming that the green card found on a dead woman is really hers, Carlotta's investigation thrusts her into the world of illegal aliens and the deadly "coyotes" who prey on them. WILLIAM BERNHARDT (Tulsa, OK) A Brother-in-Crime PRIMARY JUSTICE Ballantine, $5.99 ISBN: 0-345-37479-7 Ben Kincaid wants to be a lawyer because he wants to do the right thing. But once he leaves the D.A.'s office for a hot-spot in Tulsa's most prestigious law firm, Ben discovers being moral and being a lawyer can be mutually exclusive. CAROLE BERRY (New York, NY) THE LETTER OF THE LAW Dell, $3.95 ISBN: 0-440-20524-7 Introduces Bonnie Indermill, 30-something, ex-dancer. Bonnie becomes involved in murder when one of her employers, a stuffy lawyer, is killed in a seedy Times Square hotel. THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY Dell, $3.50 ISBN: 0-440-20672-3 Bonnie tries to climb the corporate ladder at a tax-shelter firm. After the Christmas party, she and the firm's president share a cab. When he turns up dead the next morning, both Bonnie's career and her life are threatened. GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE St. Martin's Press, $15.95 ISBN: 0-312-03840-2 Dell, $3.95 ISBN: 0-440-20784-3 Bonnie is an office temp at a ballet company when "the Prince" of Soviet dancers defects into her arms. Before long, he offends company VIPs. His debut becomes his swan-song, and Bonnie is deep into murder again. MALACAI BLACK (pseudonym) (Chicago, IL) ON MY HONOR Pinnacle, $3.95 ISBN: 1-55917-240-8 A series of mysterious fatal accidents unnerves the people in a wealthy Chicago suburb. At each accident a Boy Scout was present. ELEANOR TAYLOR BLAND (Waukegan, IL) DEAD TIME Forthcoming: March, 1992, St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-07053-5 Marti MacAlister, a black female cop in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, and her partner Vik Jessenovik, search for the children who witnessed a brutal homicide. Will the killer get to them first? ELEANOR BOYLAN (Holmes Beach, FL) MURDER MACHREE Henry Holt & Co., ISBN: 0-8050-1969-3 In the third Clara Gamadge mystery, Clara travels to Ireland to help extricate an old friend from a sinister family plot. MURDER OBSERVED Henry Holt & Co., $16.95 ISBN: 0-8050-1276-1 WORKING MURDER Henry Holt & Co., $16.95 ISBN: 0-8050-1030-0 D.C. BROD (St. Charles, IL) ERROR IN JUDGMENT Berkley/Diamond, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55773-584-0 MASQUERADE IN BLUE Walker & Co., $18.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5792-8 When a reporter friend is jailed for refusing to disclose the identity of an environmental vigilante accused of murdering a land developer, detective Quint McCauley clashes with both sides of the issue as he tracks down the real killer. ELAINE ROUNDS BUDD (East Haddam, CT) 13 MISTRESSES OF MURDER Crossroads-Continuum Press, $14.95 NONFICTION--This book of biographies and critical analyses of books of thirteen women mystery writers (including Mary Higgins Clark, Amanda Cross, Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, Antonia Fraser) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. P.M. CARLSON (Brooklyn, NY) BAD BLOOD Doubleday Perfect Crime, $17.00 ISBN: 0-385-42122-2 When a runaway teenager turns up on Maggie and Nick's Brooklyn doorstep, they are catapulted into a family crisis and murder in Washington's Maryland suburbs. Eighth in series. MURDER MISREAD Bantam, $4.50 ISBN: 0-553-29374-5 Maggie revisits her alma mater as a consultant for a reading research project. But nostalgia gives way to tragedy when a nosy professor is shot. Drood Review Editor's Choice for 1990. Seventh in series. MURDER IN THE DOG DAYS Bantam Crime Line, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-27778-2 Maggie and Nick's family vacation to Civil War sites is interrupted by murder--and tough, icy Detective Holly Schreiner thinks Maggie ought to be locked up. Sixth in series. ELAINE RACO CHASE (Fairfax, VA) DANGEROUS PLACES Bantam, $3.50 ISBN: 0-553-26544-X Roman Cantrell is a sharp Miami P.I. who runs into Nikki Holden, an investigative journalist, who doesn't mind breaking the law to get a story. Especially one that deals with an oversexed jai alai star, revenge, and a gambling coup. DARK CORNERS Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-26661-6 Roman Cantrell and Nikki Holden combine forces when more than 200 solid Florida citizens report UFOs and Roman's army buddy claims a tank hijacked $2 million in gold. SAMANTHA CHASE (Ruth Glick & Eileen Buckholtz) (Columbia, MD) NEEDLEPOINT Tudor Books, $4.50 ISBN: 0-944-27658-X The action begins with the murder of Sarah Chandler's unfaithful husband. As she tries to get on with her life, she becomes the target of a deranged killer out for revenge. A compelling love story weaves through the intricately plotted novel. ANNA ASHWOOD COLLINS (Jekyll Island, GA) DEADLY RESOLUTIONS Walker and Co., $19.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5739-1 A new private eye, Abigail Doyle, finds a dead general and becomes a prime suspect. As the body count mounts, tension between Abby and NYPD Margaret Standish increases as they chase clues from Greenwich Village to Long Island. MICHAEL COLLINS (Santa Barbara, CA) A Brother-In-Crime CASSANDRA IN RED Forthcoming: March 1992, Donald I. Fine, $18.95 ISBN: 1-55611-316-1 Homeless Cassandra Reilly is savagely stabbed to death under a bandstand in Santa Barbara. Dan Fortune must search through Cassie's life, her city and society, to find the killer. CASTRATO Donald I. Fine, $17.95 ISBN: 1-55611-113-4 Leisure Books CHASING EIGHTS Donald I. Fine, $18.95 ISBN: 1-55611-145-2 Leisure Books FREAK Worldwide, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26050-4 THE IRISHMAN'S HORSE Donald I. Fine, $18.95 ISBN: 1-55611-185-1 MINNESOTA STRIP Donald I. Fine, $17.95 ISBN: 1-55611-032-4 Worldwide, $3.95 ISBN: 0-373-97093-5 RED ROSA Donald I. Fine, $17.95 ISBN: 1-55611-052-4 Worldwide, $3.95 ISBN 0-373-97099-4 SUSAN CONANT (Newton, MA) A BITE OF DEATH Berkley/Diamond, $3.50 ISBN: 1-55773-490-9 When death dogs the owners of misbehaving malamute Kimi, she joins Holly and Rowdy on the trail of murder. Was Kimi the intended victim all along? Or is Holly next? PAWS BEFORE DYING Berkley/Diamond, $3.50 Holly and niece Leah team up with malamutes Rowdy and Kimi to collar the murderer of a top obedience handler. Fourth in the series by "the Dick Francis of dogs" (Ian Dunbar, Ph.D. M.R.C.V.S.). A NEW LEASH ON DEATH Berkley/Diamond, $3.50 ISBN: 1-55773-385-6 When DOG'S LIFE columnist Holly Winter attends an obedience class that begins with heel and sit, but ends with a permanent long down, she adopts the dead man's malamute as her partner in digging up clues to a crime of betrayal. DEAD AND DOGGONE Berkley/Diamond, $3.50 ISBN: 1-55773-425-9 In the second in a series of dog lovers' mysteries, Holly Winter enters her canine partner in a dog show where murder wins Best in Show--until Holly and woman's best friend follow the track to a bone-chilling conclusion. SUSAN ROGERS COOPER (Austin, TX) THE MAN IN THE GREEN CHEVY Worldwide, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26071-7 Old ladies are being raped and killed in Prophesy County, Oklahoma, and deputy sheriff Milt Kovak is trying to find out who did it while wooing his married lady love. HOUSTON IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR St. Martin's, $14.95 ISBN: 0-312-03843-7 OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES St. Martin's, $14.95 ISBN: 0-312-05139-5 E.W. COUNT (New York, NY) THE HUNDRED PERCENT SQUAD Warner, $19.95 ISBN: 0-446-51471-3 Warner, $5.50 ISBN: 0-446-36121-6 TRELLA CRESPI (New York, NY) THE TROUBLE WITH MOONLIGHTING Zebra, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8217-3452-0 Simona, on the set of an Italian movie being filmed in New York, sticks her nose where it's not wanted to save a friend charged with the murder of a Hollywood star. THE TROUBLE WITH A SMALL RAISE Zebra, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8217-3274-9 Simona Griffo--a recently transplanted Roman who works in a New York advertising agency--decides to ask her boss for a raise and finds him dead. Simona becomes a suspect and an amateur sleuth, both with typical Italian gusto. AMANDA CROSS Carolyn G. Heilbrun (New York City, NY) DEATH IN A TENURED POSITION Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-34041-8 IN THE LAST ANALYSIS Avon, $3.50 ISBN: 0-380-54510-1 JAMES JOYCE MURDERS Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-34686-6 NO WORD FROM WINIFRED Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-33381-0 THE PLAYERS COME AGAIN Random, $17.95 ISBN: 0-394-58785-5 Ballantine, $5.99 ISBN: 0-345-36998-X POETIC JUSTICE Avon, $3.95 ISBN: 0-380-44222-1 THE QUESTION OF MAX Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-35489-3 SWEET DEATH, KIND DEATH Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-35254-8 THE THEBAN MYSTERIES Avon, $3.95 ISBN: 0-380-45021-6 A TRAP FOR FOOLS NAL/Dutton, $16.95 ISBN: 0-525-24754-8 Ballantine, $5.95 ISBN: 0-345-35947-X ALZINA STONE DALE (Chicago, IL) (With Barbara Sloan Hendershott) MYSTERY READER'S WALKING GUIDE: ENGLAND Passport Books, $16.95 ISBN: 0-8442-9551-5 Passport Books (paper), $12.95 Nonfiction MYSTERY READER'S WALKING GUIDE: LONDON Passport Books, $16.95 ISBN: 0-8442-9550-7 Passport Books (paper), $12.95 Nonfiction BARBARA D'AMATO (Chicago, IL) HARD TACK Scribner's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-684-19299-3 Forthcoming: March 1993, Worldwide HARDBALL Worldwide, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26066-0 Free-lance journalist Cat Marsala sits down next to a sweet, old lady, Louise Sugarman, to interview her about her drug-legalization campaign, and Louise is blown away--literally. In this witty and intelligent debut, Cat uses her journalistic training to find the murderer. DIANE M. DAVIDSON (Evergreen, CO) CATERING TO NOBODY St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-04277-9 When rat poison shows up at the wake for her eleven-year-old's favorite teacher, Goldy Bear's catering business is closed down. Goldy, a single mother, sleuths around her mountain town of Aspen Meadow, Colorado. But Homicide Investigator Tom Schulz just wants to put Goldy's heart on Reheat. Recipes included. DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS (Palisades, NY) A GENTLEMAN CALLED Ballantine, $3.50 ISBN: 0-345-36663-7 Sequel to DEATH OF AN OLD SINNER. BLACK SHEEP, WHITE LAMB Ballantine, ISBN: 0-345-34664-5 A riveting, psychological study of a teenage murderer. JANET DAWSON (Alameda, CA) KINDRED CRIMES St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-04464-X Oakland, CA, Private Eye Jeri Howard encounters violence and murder as she searches for a businessman's missing wife. Winner of the fourth annual St. Martin's Best First Private Eye Contest. KATHLEEN DOUGHERTY (Sandy, UT) MOTH TO THE FLAME Berkley/Diamond, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55773-486-0 CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS (St. Paul, MN and Ft. Worth, TX) CATNAP: A MIDNIGHT LOUIE MYSTERY Forthcoming: March 1992, Tor, $19.95 ISBN: 0-312-85217-7 Murder most feline at the Las Vegas ABA (one dead publisher marked "STET"), Baker & Taylor's corporate pussums snatched, and two new detectives (one a soft-hearted, sassy P.R. woman, one a hardboiled, hairy-chested feline). PROBE Tor Books, $3.50 ISBN: 0-812-53587-1 Crack psychiatrist Kevin Blake risks his career to identify a puzzling amnesiac with mysterious abilities, Jane Doe. Then he must risk his life to defend her from exploitation by others--and from himself. COUNTERPROBE Tor Books, $4.95 ISBN: 0-812-53596-0 Eluding police, a cryptic government agency and more sinister forces, Kevin lands in county jail. Jane, in the hands of a demonic shrink, faces losing the identity wrested from amnesia. "A nice balance of romance and realism, action and characterization...Highly recommended." --BOOKLIST. GOOD NIGHT, MR. HOLMES Tor, $4.99 ISBN: 0-812-51430-0 The further adventures of American Irene Adler, the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, as narrated by Penelope Huxleigh, parson's daughter, including a revisionist look at A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA. Supporting players: Holmes and Watson, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Anton Dvorak and Charles Tiffany. GOOD MORNING, IRENE St. Martin's/Tor, ISBN: 0-312-93211-1 The further adventures of Irene Adler and her dashing barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, in Paris and Monaco, from the diaries of Penelope Huxleigh. Featuring Sarah Bernhardt, snakes, tattoos and the FIRST beautiful blonde princess of Monaco, Alice Heine; cameo appearances by Holmes and Watson. LAUREN WRIGHT DOUGLAS (Bakersfield, CA) THE ALWAYS ANONYMOUS BEAST Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-04-5 NINTH LIFE Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-50-9 EILEEN DREYER (pseudonym) (St. Louis, MO) A MAN TO DIE FOR SUSAN DUNLAP (Albany, CA) DEATH AND TAXES Forthcoming: April 1992, Delacorte, $18.00 ISBN: 0-385-30443-9 Have you ever wanted to kill an IRS agent? Someone in Berkeley, California has done just that. For homicide detective Jill Smith it's a very taxing case, indeed. TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20356-2 Someone is stealing running shoes all over Berkeley. Much to the horror of local realtors, the homeless are living on prime land. And a wheelchair-bound activist is drowned. Smith must find the connection and the murderer, and face the most terrifying struggle of her career. Fourth in the series. NOT EXACTLY A BRAHMIN Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20998-6 Junk-food loving Detective Jill Smith is on her way to buy dinner: a pint of Chocolate-Chocolate Shower Ice Cream--when a nearly blind Berkeley Brahmin's Cadillac's brakes fail on the steepest hill in town. Third in the series. KARMA Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20982-X The guru's followers were looking for answers about life. But when he was stabbed right before their eyes, then Patrol Officer Jill Smith started asking questions about death. First in series. PIOUS DECEPTION Villard, $16.95 ISBN: 0-394-57168-1 Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20746-0 Former forensic pathologist (she was fired) Kiernan O'Shaughnessy has a duplex on the beach in La Jolla, an ex-jock as a servant, and a call from the arch-diocese of Phoenix, Arizona, to investigate a very confidential matter: the death of a young priest found hanging from the altar of his church. DIAMOND IN THE BUFF St. Martin's, $14.95 ISBN: 0-312-03814-3 Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20788-6 Berkeley, CA Homicide-Felony Assault Detective Jill Smith is called on her day off to investigate an assault by eucalyptus limb! But that assault is not the final thrust in a bizarre and wacky feud that leads to murder. Sixth in the Jill Smith series. A DINNER TO DIE FOR Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20495-X When the owner of the hottest new restaurant in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto is poisoned in his own establishment, kitchen-phobic Berkeley Homicide Detective Jill Smith finds that expensive dinners can leave bitter aftertastes. The 5th of the series. ROGUE WAVE Villard, $18.00 ISBN: 0-394-58524-0 AS A FAVOR Dell, $4.50 ISBN: 0-440-20999-4 NANCY ELLIOTT (Sacramento, CA) BLIND OPENING Harlequin Superromance, $2.95 PAT ELMORE (Berkeley, CA) SUSANNAH AND THE CASE OF THE PURPLE MONGOOSE Forthcoming: Summer, Dutton Juvenile SUSANNAH AND THE BLUE HOUSE MYSTERY Dutton, $10.25 ISBN: 0-525-40525-9 Scholastic Apple, $2.75 ISBN: 0-590-43470-5 Juvenile SUSANNAH AND THE CASE OF THE POISON GREEN HALLOWEEN Dutton, $9.95 ISBN: 0-525-44019-4 Scholastic Apple, $2.75 ISBN: 0-590-43471-3 Juvenile KATHY LYNN EMERSON (Wilton, ME) JULIA'S MENDING Avon Camelot, $2.95 ISBN: 0-380-70734-9 Juvenile THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BAGPIPES Avon Camelot, $2.95 ISBN: 0-380-76138-6 Juvenile WINTER TAPESTRY Harper Paperbacks, $4.50 ISBN: 0-06-100220-8 ANN C. FALLON (Forest Hills, NY) WHERE DEATH LIES Pocket, ISBN: 0-671-70624-1 James Fleming, debonair solicitor and amateur sleuth, investigates a double murder that destroys a successful young professional couple and their sophisticated Dublin life-style. BLOOD IS THICKER Pocket, ISBN: 0-671-70623-3 Death and deceit on an Irish county estate. First in the series. JEAN FEMLING (Costa Mesa, CA) GETTING MINE St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-05437-8 JEAN FIEDLER (Bayside, NY) WHEN A SPARROW FALLS Forthcoming: March 1992, Berkley/Diamond, $3.99 ISBN: 1-55773-673-1 MORGAN FIELDS (La Canada, CA) (Jill M. Morgan) BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP Forthcoming: June 1992, Pocket A rescue dive into an underground cave and aquifer beneath Death Valley leads to an unexpected discovery for Kelsy Chase. What connection is there between an Ice Age river beneath Devil's Hole, Nevada, and the ancient seaway below Loch Ness? DEADLY HARVEST Zebra, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8217-2762-1 The peace of a small Texas town is destroyed by the discovery and removal of three carved stone heads from a riverbank. PLAY TIME Zebra, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8217-2406-1 A new police chief of a small, Northern California town finds that his house was the site of a modern-day Druid sacrifice and murder. SHAMAN WOODS Zebra, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8217-3122-X The Shoshone called it Shaman Woods. Now, it's only a logger's forest. Then the accidents begin. For Worth Martin, the cabin is only a summer retreat. All too soon he is trapped in the siege of terror that stalks Shaman Woods. MARGOT JOAN FROMER (Silver Spring, MD) SCALPEL'S EDGE Berkley/Diamond, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55773-580-8 SARA HOSKINSON FROMMER (Bloomington, IN) STOP THAT WOMAN! New Readers Press, $1.25 ISBN: 0-88336-170-1 Tom cuts hair. Tom's feet hurt. Tom sees who is robbing the bank. (From KALEIDOSCOPE, very easy reading for adults.) I DIDN'T DO IT! New Readers Press, $1.75 ISBN: 0-88336-173-6 It's hot. Dan buys a can of cold pop. But the guard says he stole it. (From KALEIDOSCOPE, very easy reading for adults.) NO HUNTING New Readers Press, $1.75 ISBN: 0-88336-178-7 Roy and Andy catch a deer poacher. (From KALEIDOSCOPE, very easy reading for adults.) DEAR MARY ELLEN New Readers Press, $2.00 ISBN: 0-88336-179-5 Ruby's sixty. Sixty and a new bride. She's happy with Joe. Then she goes to a quilting group. Now she thinks Joe killed his first wife. (From KALEIDOSCOPE, very easy reading for adults.) HELP ME! New Readers Press, $2.00 ISBN: 0-88336-281-3 "Help me!" says the con man. Mandy wants to help. But Mark sees a trick. (From KALEIDOSCOPE, very easy reading for adults.) SHIRLEY FRONDORF (Novato, CA) DEATH OF A JEWISH AMERICAN PRINCESS Villard, $18.95 ISBN: 0-394-56854-0 Berkley, $4.95 ISBN: 0-425-12124-0 True Crime---A lawyer's critique of a controversial Arizona murder trial. Steven Steinberg stabbed his wife 26 times with a carving knife but walked free, based on a clever defense--his contention that his wife's supposed shopping and materialism made him "snap". RUTH FURIE and DAVID STOUT (Long Island, NY) HELLGATE Mysterious, $18.95 ISBN: 0-89296-414-6 Yvonne and Kevin McNulty are splitting up. They sell their sailboat and intend to deliver it, an all-day trip from Long Island, through Hell Gate, around Manhattan, and up the Hudson River. As they argue their way along the route, they realize they are being followed. The pursuit turns violent. Someone wants something that's on the boat. NICKOLAE GERSTNER (Manhattan Beach, CA) DARK VEIL Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-36163-6 "...a truly chilling book, with a sense of something lurking just out of sight right from the first sentence." Gary Brandner, author of THE HOWLING. DOROTHY GILMAN (Portland, ME) AMAZING MRS. POLLIFAX Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20912-1 CLAIRVOYANT COUNTESS Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21318-8 ELUSIVE MRS. POLLIFAX Fawcett, $2.95 ISBN: 0-449-20855-9 INCIDENT AT BADAMYA Doubleday, $16.95 ISBN: 0-385-24760-5 Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21721-3 MRS. POLLIFAX AND THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21515-6 MRS. POLLIFAX AND THE HONG KONG BUDDHA Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20983-0 MRS. POLLIFAX AND THE WHIRLING DERVISH Doubleday, $17.95 ISBN: 0-385-41458-7 Fawcett, $5.99 ISBN: 0-449-14760-6 MRS. POLLIFAX AND THE CHINA STATION Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20840-0 NEW KIND OF COUNTRY Fawcett, $3.95 ISBN: 0-449-21627-6 A NUN IN THE CLOSET Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21167-3 A PALM FOR MRS. POLLIFAX Fawcett, $3.95 ISBN: 0-449-20864-8 TIGHTROPE WALKER Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21177-0 UNCERTAIN VOYAGE Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21628-4 UNEXPECTED MRS. POLLIFAX Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20828-1 JAQUELINE GIRDNER (Mill Valley, CA) ADJUSTED TO DEATH Berkley/Diamond, $3.50 ISBN: 1-55773-453-4 A serio-comic whodunit featuring amateur sleuth Kate Jasper, who visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment and instead finds herself seeking a neck-breaking murderer among the not-so-simple New Age residents of "mellow" Marin County, California. THE LAST RESORT Berkley/Diamond, $3.95 ISBN: 1-22773-525-5 LINDA GRANT (Berkeley, CA) LOVE NOR MONEY Scribner's, $19.95 ISBN: 0-684-19379-5 BLIND TRUST Scribner's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-684-19165-2 Ivy, ISBN: 0-8041-0791-2 San Francisco P.I. Catherine Sayler has two weeks to find a missing banker and prevent a five-million dollar theft. But she's not the only one looking for him and his disappearance may be connected to a twenty-year-old murder. SALLY GUNNING (Brewster, MA) HOT WATER Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-72804-0 UNDER WATER Forthcoming: February, Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-72805-9 Ex-husband and wife Pete and Connie Bartholomew try to figure out who killed the dead twin on the beach and just how it was that they got "exed" in the first place. BEVERLY T. HAAF (Beverly, NJ) THE CHANTING Popular Library, $4.95 ISBN: 0-445-21058-3 JEAN HAGER (Tulsa, OK) GHOSTLAND Forthcoming: February 1992, St. Martin's, $18.95 THE GRANDFATHER MEDICINE St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-02923-3 Worldwide Mystery, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26059-8 Chief of Police Mitch Bushyhead has a corpse on his hands--a corpse with two missing fingers. A half-burned cigarette leads him to the Cherokee medicine man Crying Wolf and the secretive Nighthawk Ketoowah. Soon Mitch knows too much and the murderer is ready to kill again. NIGHT WALKER St. Martin's, $15.95 ISBN: 0-312-05138-7 Worldwide Mystery, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26085-7 Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead investigates a murder which the Indians in Cherokee County are convinced was the work of a dreaded night walker, a Cherokee witch. MARY BOWEN HALL (Santa Rosa, CA) EMMA CHIZZIT AND THE SACRAMENTO STALKER Walker, $18.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5777-4 CAROLYN G. HART (Oklahoma City, OK) THE CHRISTIE CAPER Bantam, $18.00 ISBN: 0-553-07404-0 Forthcoming: May 1992, $4.99 ISBN: 0-553-29569-1 Annie Laurance Darling hosts a centenary celebration on Broward's Rock of Agatha Christie's birth, but she doesn't expect murder--with a Christie twist. DEATH ON DEMAND Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-26351-X Murder isn't confined to the shelves in Annie Laurance's mystery bookstore and Annie can't convince the police her experience in crime is limited to fiction. Macavity nominee. Anthony nominee for Best Paperback Original of 1987. DESIGN FOR MURDER Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-26562-8 Annie Laurance didn't plan on a real corpse at the Scene of the Crime she designed for the annual house and garden tours in Chastain, South Carolina. SOMETHING WICKED Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-27222-5 Annie and her boyfriend Max Darling have leading roles in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE but murder takes a bow, too. Winner of the Agatha for Best Mystery Novel of 1988 and of the Anthony for Best Paperback Original of 1988. HONEYMOON WITH MURDER Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-27608-5 Annie and Max finally tie the knot but the honeymoon has to go on hold when the matron of honor disappears, leaving a corpse behind in her cottage. Mystery Guild selection. A LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-28208-5 Annie finds an explosive situation at the local college when she is hired to teach a course on The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers. Mystery Guild selection. Macavity Winner and Agatha Nominee for Best Mystery Novel of 1989. DEADLY VALENTINE Bantam, $4.50 ISBN: 0-553-28847-4 Annie and Max move into their new home and find that love--or its lack--can cause all kinds of complications, including a furious cat and a dead neighbor. Literary Guild, Mystery Guild Featured Alternate, and Doubleday Book Club Alternate Selection. ELLEN HART (Minneapolis, MN) VITAL LIES The Seal Press, $9.95 ISBN: 1-878067-02-8 HALLOWED MURDER The Seal Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-931188-83-0 This new mystery provides an intriguing inside view of the dark undercurrents of sorority and religious life. A novel of suspense and surprise. JEANNE HART (Santa Cruz, CA) FETISH St. Martin's, $3.50 ISBN: 0-312-91495-4 In a giddy moment, three women admitting to their late forties and living in a California seaside town advertise for a man to share, not necessarily carnally. Soon after, one receives a lethal blow from a bronze fetish-statuette. BETH HENDERSON (Las Vegas, NV) NIKROVA'S PASSION M. Evan's and Co., $15.95 ISBN: 0-87131-607-2 ARDEN'S TOUCH M. Evan's and Co., $15.95 ISBN: 0-87131-640-4 QUEEN'S CACHE M. Evan's and Co., $15.95 ISBN: 0-87131-650-1 JOAN HESS (Fayetteville, AR) ROLLOVER AND PLAY DEAD St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-05956-6 Sixth in the Claire Malloy series. MORTAL REMAINS IN MAGGODY Dutton MALICE IN MAGGODY St. Martin's, $13.95 ISBN: 0-312-00051-0 New American Library, $3.95 ISBN: 0-451-40236-7 Chief of Police Arly Hanks swears nothing ever happens in the dreary little town of Maggody, but she finds herself surrounded by zanies as she tracks down a kidnapped EPA agent and a murderer with a cross bow. First in the Arly Hanks-Ozarks series. MISCHIEF IN MAGGODY St. Martin's, $14.95 ISBN: 0-312-01792-8 New American Library A psychic is keeping the citizens in an uproar and a mountain woman's had a fatal encounter with a booby-trapped marijuana field, forcing her feral children to descend on Maggody. Second in the Arly Hanks-Ozarks series. An Agatha Nominee for Best Mystery Novel of 1988. MUCH ADO IN MAGGODY St. Martin's, $15.95 ISBN: 0-312-02952-7 New American Library A feminist agitator convinces the wives to go on strike, but things really heat up when a bank is burned to cover up murder. Third in the Arly Hanks-Ozarks series. MADNESS IN MAGGODY St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-05465-3 New American Library Fourth in the series. DEAR MISS DEMEANOR Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-34911-3 Anonymous letters in the high school newspaper, embezzlement in the journalism department, and death in the teachers' lounge. Third in the Claire Malloy series. A REALLY CUTE CORPSE St. Martin's, $14.95 ISBN: 0-312-02271-9 Ballantine, $3.99 ISBN: 0-345-36158-X To her dismay, Claire Malloy's directing a local beauty pageant and hoping to discover why someone wants to murder Miss Thurberfest. Fourth in the Claire Malloy series. A DIET TO DIE FOR St. Martin's, $14.95 ISBN: 0-312-03326-5 Forthcoming: Ballantine While Caron and Inez attempt every fad diet in the book, Claire Malloy begins to worry that her friend's diet might prove deadly. Fifth in the Claire Malloy series. Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Traditional Novel of 1989. THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS (Joan Hess as Joan Hadley) Ballantine, $3.50 ISBN: 0-345-34912-1 Theo Bloomer goes to a kibbutz on the Dead Sea to fetch his niece and finds her embroiled in terrorism and murder. First in the Theo Bloomer series. THE DEADLY ACKEE Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-35900-3 Theo Bloomer's chaperoning a group of preppies, but the vacation takes a nasty twist when someone spikes the rum with the pulp of the deadly ackee. LYNN S. HIGHTOWER (Lexington, KY) ALIEN BLUES Forthcoming: January 1992, Berkley/Ace, $4.50 ISBN: 0-441-64460-0 The last thing Detective David Silver wants is an alien assist--until a grisly murder leads to a conspiracy that threatens human and Elaki alike. "...A high-spirited and spooky new SILENCE OF THE LAMBS..." --Terry Bisson. DOROTHY ANN HILLMAN (Stowe, VT) THE FALLEN NUN Ashley Books PHYLLIS HORN (Richmond, VA) THE CHESAPEAKE PROJECT Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-58-4 Working as a crabber on her beloved Chesapeake Bay, Jessie attempts to uncover the truth about her father's murder and the symbolic message his killers have left for her. LODESTAR Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-83-5 When a mind-altering chemical compound falls into the hands of unscrupulous Dexter Spencer, therapist Stephanie Scott is enlisted by the FBI to help stop him. WENDY HORNSBY (Long Beach, CA) NO HARM Worldwide Library, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26030-X Kate Teague's mother is mugged and dies. Kate inherits--then she almost dies. Kate and Police Lt. Roger Tejeda search through generations of family secrets to find a killer before Kate becomes the next victim. HALF A MIND New American Library, $16.95 ISBN: 0-453-00710-4 Onyx, $3.99 ISBN: 0-451-40245-6 The severed head of a U.S. Marine washes up on the beach below the house shared by Lt. Roger Tejeda and Kate Teague. Two more deaths follow. Tejeda hunts for a serial killer. Can the killer be stopped before he finds his next victim? CLAIRE RAINWATER JACOBS (New York, NY) THERE WAS A LITTLE BOY Contemporary Books, $18.95 ISBN: 0-8092-4311-3 Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-22024-9 A psychological novel of suspense set against the backdrop of Manhattan's great wealth and incredible poverty. A teacher's infant is kidnapped and when she thinks she has put the horror behind her, a series of murders in the public schools sets off a new nightmare no mother should ever face. NANCY BAKER JACOBS (Pacific Palisades, CA) SEE MOMMY RUN Forthcoming: May 1992, Signet/NAL, $4.99 ISBN: 0-451-17229-9 Allison Warren has evidence that her ex-husband is abusing their four-year-old daughter. When a judge refuses to believe her, she must choose between breaking the law and protecting her child...See Mommy Run. THE TURQUOISE TATTOO Putnam, $19.95 ISBN: 0-399-13551-0 Forthcoming: April 1992, Pocket, $4.99 ISBN: 0-671-75535-8 NORMA TADLOCK JOHNSON (Camano Island, WA) THE WITCH HOUSE Avon (Camelot), $2.95 ISBN: 0-380-75789-3 Juvenile A house inherited by Guinevere Jones's family doesn't turn out to be very homey because it's huge, museum-like--and haunted. Besides, someone clearly wants them out of the house. Is it the ghost of Great-aunt Maybelle or are humans behind the sinister happenings? SEE MOMMY RUN Forthcoming: May 1992, Signet/NAL, $4.99 ISBN: 0-451-17229-9 SUSAN KELLY (Cambridge, MA) AND SOON I'LL COME TO KILL YOU Villard TRAIL OF THE DRAGON Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-35749-3 The third Liz Connors mystery. An acquaintance asks Liz to investigate the disappearance of a young woman who later turns up dead of an overdose. UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT Villard, $16.95 ISBN: 0-394-58414-7 CATHERINE KENNEY (Park Ridge, IL) THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DOROTHY L. SAYERS Kent State University Press, $26.00 ISBN: 0-87338-410-5 Kent State University Press (paper), $14.00 A major study of Sayers's contributions to the mystery genre and her place in English fiction, this book includes analysis of her novels, essays, and plays and uses many newly available sources. Nominated for both Edgar and Macavity awards. KAREN KIJEWSKI (Sacramento, CA) KAT'S CRADLE Doubleday, $18.50 ISBN: 0-385-42095-1 When a young girl hires Kat to look into the mystery of her birth and parentage, the investigation sends the Sacramento P.I. into a tangled web of lies, greed, deceit, and murder--an investigation that soon threatens to end Kat's own life. KATWALK Avon, $3.50 ISBN: 0-380-71187-7 Kat Colorado, a Sacramento Private Investigator, goes to Las Vegas to help out a friend and finds more than she bargained for including political corruption, money laundering, and a good-looking Las Vegas police detective. Won a Best First Private Eye novel of the Year contest as well as a Shamus for best first novel. KATAPULT St. Martin's Press, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-04679-0 A body, a missing girl and an investigation turn up skeletons in Kat's family closet. This second novel in the Kat Colorado series is set in the Sacramento Delta. LEE KILLOUGH (Manhattan, KS) DRAGON'S TEETH Questar/Popular Library, $4.95 ISBN: 0-445-20906-2 In the 21st century security is a vital concern at political events. So how did six armed men rob two successive fund-raisers and kill a prominent businessman, then escape without a trace? Det. Sgts. Janna Brill and her maniac partner Mahlon "Mama" Maxwell have the task of finding out. KATHARINE ELISKA KIMBRIEL (Austin, TX) HIDDEN FIRES Questar/Warner, $4.50 ISBN: 0-446-36129-1 "He had spent a hundred years seeking the woman called Silver; he still didn't know if he was going to kill her." FIRES OF NUALA's Darame must solve a tale of murder, treason and abduction while being stalked by the son of an old partner. FIRES OF NUALA Questar/Warner, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-20759-0 In a spacefaring future on a planet of great metal wealth and deadly environmental hazard, a young thief must identify conspirators at the highest levels of provincial government. GERA-LIND KOLARIK (Chicago, IL) FREED TO KILL: The True Story of Larry Eyler The Chicago Review Press, $18.95 ISBN: 1-55652-0921-1 Forthcoming: February 1992, Avon, $5.50 True Crime KATHLEEN KORBEL (pseudonym) PERCHANCE TO DREAM Severn House Publ., ISBN: 0-7278-4177-7 Special Agent Jason Mitchell is balancing on the brink of sanity, and only psychologist Lindsay McDonough can help him. While they both search his faulty memory for clues to his partner's death, a crime lord stalks them. GABRIELLE KRAFT (Portland, OR) BLOODY MARY Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-66941-9 The king of fake diamonds was murdered at dinner. Don't you hate it when that happens? BULLSHOT Pocket, $2.95 ISBN: 0-671-63724-X Jerry Zalman is a smartmouth LA lawyer with a six-figure life. Everything's cool until he meets sexy Marie Thrasher and they find a dead body in the fridge. Edgar Award nominee. LET'S ROB ROY Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-66940-0 Zalman's gambling dad shows up on his doorstep and Zalman's surrounded by magicians, monkeys and murder. What's a lawyer to do? SCREWDRIVER Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-63725-8 Zalman and Marie spend a fun weekend with Zalman's ditsy ex-wife Tracee in Santa Barbara. It's a New Age murder with all the trimmings--love, sex, money, tofu... ROCHELLE KRICH (Los Angeles, CA) TILL DEATH DO US PART Forthcoming: July 1992, Avon WHERE'S MOMMY NOW? Pinnacle, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55817-366-8 When Kate Bauers' perfect world suddenly falls apart, her best friend and partner, Laney Tolbert, sees murder in what everyone else, including the police, sees as accidental death. Laney teams up with LAPD Detective Sam Ryker in an attempt to expose a killer and protect a friend. HARRIET LA BARRE (New York, NY) STRANGER IN VIENNA Warner, Popular Library, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-20075-8 THE FLORENTINE WIN Walker, $17.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5705-7 Ivy, $3.50 ISBN: 0-8041-0408-5 Setting is in Florence, Italy, and at a hunting villa between Siena and Rome. BLACKWOOD'S DAUGHTER St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-04299-X Fawcett A Thomas Dunne Book--Faron Blackwood travels to London to promote the writings of her late father, who drowned sixteen years before. Or did he? What accounts for Australian Simon Maxwell's extreme interest in the late writer? People begin to turn up dead as Faron investigates, and she must decide whom to trust--if, indeed, anyone can be trusted. M.D. LAKE (Minneapolis, MN) (Allen Simpson -- A Brother-In-Crime) POISONED IVY Forthcoming: 1992, Avon, $3.99 ISBN: 0-380-76573-X Haunted by a murder victim's smile, campus cop Peggy O'Neill sets out to find the killer, her search made more urgent when a beloved former teacher is arrested for the crime. AMENDS FOR MURDER Avon, $3.95 ISBN: 0-380-75865-2 Campus cop Peggy O'Neill finds the body of a distinguished professor and pukes. To redeem herself, she goes looking for the killer. COLD COMFORT Avon, $3.50 ISBN: 0-380-76032-0 Peggy O'Neill isn't satisfied that a friend's brother's death is suicide. Her search for the killer leads her from the cozy university campus to a chilly climax on a frozen lake. JANET LAPIERRE (Berkeley, CA) GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE Scribner's, $19.95 ISBN: 0-684-19382-5 CHILDREN'S GAMES Worldwide, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26052-0 Schoolteacher Meg Halloran says she did not kill David Tucker the banker's son, and police chief Gutierrez believes her. As rumors and harrassment continue, Meg's spirited defense of herself uncovers nasty small-town secrets, a second person dies, and the life of Meg's own daughter is at risk. THE CRUEL MOTHER Scribner's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-684-19170-9 Worldwide, $3.95 ISBN: 0-373-26078-4 A vacation in Idaho is meant to provide rest for schoolteacher Meg Halloran and recuperation from a bullet wound for policeman Vince Gutierrez. Instead, an apparently motiveless kidnapping separates them, leaving Meg to battle for her own survival and that of an unpleasant young woman while Gutierrez tries frantically to find them. MARGARET LOGAN (Boston, MA) DEATHHAMPTON SUMMER Walker, $16.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5699-2 Fawcett Crest, $3.50 ISBN: 0-449-21761-2 Center Hampton, on Long Island's Gold Coast, lives for the social whirl. When the rich begin to be poisoned at parties, the fun machine grinds to a halt. Economic disaster faces the year-rounders until a father and son team unmasks the killer. A KILLING IN VENTURE CAPITAL Walker, $19.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5734-0 Set among the passions generated by the huge profits of venture capital, Drew Lispenard picks successful investments and disastrous women. He is convinced his gay cousin's lover was murdered in connection with a rival firm's investment in a miracle cure. While solving the murder, he falls in love again--with the right woman. C.A.T. CAPER Walker, $17.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5762-6 The annual scoring of the C.A.T. (College Aptitude Test) Essay is famous among English teachers for after-hours fun. Dodge Hackett and Stacia Steiner turn detective when a student who took the test is charged with the murder of a colleague, a well-known feminist scholar. M.K. LORENS (Fremont, NE) DREAMLAND Doubleday/Bantam SWEET NARCISSUS Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-28005-8 ROPEDANCER'S FALL Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-28312-X DECEPTION ISLAND Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-28793-1 CAROL DAVIS LUCE (Sparks, NV) NIGHT PREY Forthcoming: February 1992, Zebra, $4.99 ISBN: 0-8217-3661-2 In a densely wooded region of Lake Tahoe a mountain man searches for the ideal companion. Roberta Paxton's little sister becomes the perfect prey. NIGHT STALKER Zebra, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8217-2921-7 Someone is in the house with Alexandra Carlson...and she is at his mercy. "A dandy read--tense, original and neatly plotted." --Tony Hillerman. SKIN DEEP Pinnacle, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55817-398-6 In 1970 a psychopath attacks the winner of a beauty contest, shattering her life. Twenty years later the horror begins again. Now it's beautiful, successful Regina Van Raven's turn. MARGARET LUCKE (San Francisco, CA) A RELATIVE STRANGER St. Martin's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-312-06307-5 When the father who abandoned her as a baby becomes the prime suspect in a homicide, San Francisco private investigator Jess Randolph must cope with conflicts that threaten her career and her life. GERRY MADDREN (Burbank, CA) THE CASE OF THE JOHANNISBERG RIESLING Cliffhanger Press, $13.95 ISBN: 0-912761-15-6 Cliffhanger Press (paper), $7.95 ISBN: 0-912761-11-3 After attending a Grape Stomp in the Northern California Wine Country, P.I. Jerry Cool wakes up with a hangover, purple feet, and the dim memory of helping move a dead body. When his credit card is discovered near the corpse he finds himself with a stronger than usual motive to solve the crime. JAYE MAIMAN (Brooklyn, NY) I LEFT MY HEART Naiad Press, $9.95 ISBN: 0-941483-72-X MARGARET MARON (Raleigh, NC) CORPUS CHRISTMAS Doubleday Crime Club, $12.95 ISBN: 0-385-26613-8 Bantam, $3.99 ISBN: 0-553-27410-4 Lt. Sigrid Harald's professional and private lives clash when an art expert is murdered in a New York historical house. Nominated for an Agatha for Best Domestic Mystery of 1989. Sixth in the Sigrid Harald, NYPD series. PAST IMPERFECT Doubleday Crime Club, $14.95 ISBN: 0-385-41364-5 The murder of a cop on the eve of his retirement throws suspicion on his colleagues. Was he linked to the death of Sigrid Harald's father 25 years earlier? Seventh in the Sigrid Harald, NYPD series. DEATH OF A BUTTERFLY Bantam, $3.99 ISBN: 0-553-29121-1 LIA MATERA (Santa Cruz, CA) PRIOR CONVICTIONS Simon & Schuster, $17.95 ISBN: 0-671-68560-0 THE GOOD FIGHT Simon & Schuster, $17.95 ISBN: 0-671-68561-9 Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-37107-0 Laura Di Palma, a former political activist who is now a rich lawyer, is supposed to be defending a former comrade, but ends up looking for her cousin and lover who is missing from the hospital where he was being treated. She is forced from the law firm and also linked with other suspicious deaths. Her frenetic actions take the novel to a smash close. WHERE LAWYERS FEAR TO TREAD Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-37125-9 Law student Willa Jansson tries to figure out why the editors of a San Francisco law review are being murdered one by one--and wonders, at times, if that's such a bad thing. Nominated for an Anthony and a Macavity Award. THE SMART MONEY Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-37127-5 A criminal lawyer abandons a lucrative practice to return to her hometown and wreak vengeance on her ex-husband for an eleven-year-old murder. Things begin to go wrong when the ex-husband's new wife is murdered. A RADICAL DEPARTURE Ballantine, $4.99 ISBN: 0-345-37126-7 Will Jansson joins a left-wing law firm whose practice has gradually shifted from defense of draft resistors and Black Panthers to copyright protection of their fitness books. When Willa's boss eats a poisoned mousse, the firm's radical clients--including Willa's parents--become suspects. Edgar and Anthony nominee for Best Paperback Original of 1988. STEFANIE MATTESON (Montclair, NJ) MURDER AT TEATIME Berkley/Diamond, $3.95 ISBN: 1-55773-477-1 Botany professor J. Franklin Thornhill has assembled one of the world's finest collections of early herbals at his summer cottage on a Maine island. When he dies after drinking tea poisoned with a deadly herb, Charlotte Graham tries to find out who "done" it. Among the suspects: Thornhill's niece, an authority on herbal remedies; his cook, an expert on herbal cookery, and the book dealer who wants to auction off his collection. MURDER ON THE CLIFF Berkley/Diamond, $3.99 ISBN: 1-55773-596-4 MURDER AT THE SPA Berkley/Diamond, $3.95 ISBN: 1-55773-411-9 The elegant, European-style Spa at High Rock Springs is the showpiece of beauty queen Paulina Langenberg's worldwide empire--until two of the guests are found dead in the mineral baths. Is someone trying to sabotage Paulina's business? Paulina asks old friend Charlotte Graham, a world-famous movie star and amateur detective, to find out. J.G. MAXON (June Godwin & Ben Schiff) (Oberlin, OH) LETHAL DELIVERY Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-67909-0 PROGENY Pocket, $4.50 ISBN: 0-671-67908-2 An almost unspeakable crime hits the small town of Sand Ridge, Ohio when young teenage girls who are virgins mysteriously become pregnant. At the heart of the story is a sweet and agonizing father-daughter relationship. Set in northern Ohio, amid Victorian houses and sandstone quarries. TAYLOR McCAFFERTY (Lebanon Junction, KY) RUFFLED FEATHERS Forthcoming: May 1992, Pocket PET PEEVES Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-72802-4 ASHLEY McCONNELL (Albuquerque, NM) UNEARTHED Berkley/Diamond, $3.95 ISBN: 1-55773-476-3 VICKI P. McCONNELL (North Hollywood, CA) DOUBLE DAUGHTER Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-26-6 Gaybashers put one of Nyla Wade's admired professors in a coma and threaten the life of another close friend. Nyla calls in surprise allies: the Denver police, a guild of women protectors, a sculptor and psychic, and a genius bag lady. MRS. PORTER'S LETTER Naiad Press, $7.95 ISBN: 0-930044-29-0 Journalist Nyla Wade buys an antique desk and finds hidden love letters. In her attempt to return them, she discovers a lethal skeleton in the closet of a wealthy New York family. THE BURNTON WIDOWS Naiad Press, $7.95 ISBN: 0-930044-52-5 A castle on the ocean bluffs in Oregon is intrinsically tied to a town's future. It is also the site of brutal unsolved murders. Enter investigative reporter Nyla Wade snooping out coverups for THE BURNTON BECKONER. SHARYN McCRUMB (Shawsville, VA) THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER Scribner's, $19.95 ISBN: 0-684-19407-4 Sequel to IF EVER I RETURN, PRETTY PEGGO O, Sheriff Spencer Arrowood investigates the mass murder of a family while minister's wife Laura Bruce must deal with wider tragedies in the harsh Appalachian winter, and mountain wise woman Nora Bonesteel talks to the dead. IF EVER I RETURN, PRETTY PEGGY O Scribner's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-684-19104-0 Ballantine, $4.95 ISBN: 0-345-36908-8 The Class of '66 plans its 20th high school reunion, and finds that resurrecting the Sixties can be deadly. An Appalachian novel rich in character and suspense. Only crime novel by an American woman on NEW YORK TIMES Recommended Vacation Reading List, Summer 1990. Nominated by Scribner's for the Pulitzer Prize. ZOMBIES OF THE GENE POOL Simon & Schuster, $18.00 ISBN: 0-671-70526-1 A group of famous science fiction writers returns to Tennessee to unearth a time capsule of short stories and fan memorabilia that they buried in 1954 when they were fannish nerds. Sequel to Edgar-winning BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN. BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN TSR, $3.95 ISBN: 0-88038-455-7 Penguin, L2.99 ISBN: 0-14-011848-9 Mysterious, Tokyo, Y440 ISBN: 4-15-100010-0 A cult author is assassinated at an S.F. convention in the ultimate satire on fandom. Winner of 1988 Edgar for Best Paperback Original. MISSING SUSAN Ballantine, $18.95 ISBN: 0-345-365-75-5 Elizabeth MacPherson takes a mystery tour of England to visit historic crime scenes, but the guide is more interested in murdering one of the tourists. THE WINDSOR KNOT Ballantine, $16.95 ISBN: 0-345-35683-6 Ballantine, $4.99 ISBN: 0-345-36427-9 Elizabeth finds that she may only attend the Queen's Garden Party as Mrs. Cameron Dawson. She is hurriedly making plans for a wedding and at the same time trying to figure out why a friend has received an urn of her husband's ashes...the second urn in five years...from the same husband! Fifth in the series. PAYING THE PIPER Ballantine, $3.50 ISBN: 0-345-34518-5 Severn House Publ., $18.95/L11.99 ISBN: 0-7278-4247-1 An archaeological dig in the Scottish Highlands unearths a killer. Agatha Award nominee. Anthony nominee for Best Paperback Original of 1988. Fourth in Elizabeth MacPherson series. HIGHLAND LADDIE GONE Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-36036-5 LOVELY IN HER BONES Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-36035-4 Elizabeth MacPherson finds that an ancient Indian burial ground has become a site for very modern murder. Second in the series. Winner Best Appalachian Novel. SICK OF SHADOWS Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-35653-5 A delightful, spooky romp among the mad and wise of a Southern family. First in Elizabeth MacPherson series. KARIN McQUILLAN (Cambridge, MA) DEADLY SAFARI St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-03808-9 Ballantine, $3.99 ISBN: 0-345-37057-0 Amidst Africa's teeming wildlife, American expatriate Jazz Jasper finds murder an unwelcome guest on her safari company's first tour. Jazz teams up with a Nairobi police inspector and his Masai sergeant to track down the human killer. LESLIE MEIER (N. Harwich, MA) MAIL ORDER MURDER Viking D.R. MEREDITH (Amarillo, TX) MURDER BY REFERENCE Ballantine, $3.95 Something besides a murderer walks the museum halls after dark as lawyer John Lloyd Branson and his legal clerk, Lydia Fairchild, investigate the murder of a young curator and uncover a twenty-year-old evil. THE SHERIFF AND THE PANHANDLE MURDERS Ballantine, $3.50 Chicken fried steak isn't the only thing cooking as a murderer grills one corpse at a cookout and pilots a plane to dust off another, leaving Sheriff Charles Matthews with the first premeditated murders in Crawford County, Texas in 80 years. THE SHERIFF AND THE BRANDING IRON MURDERS, revised edition Ballantine, $3.95 A hundred-year-old massacre, a long-lost golden crucifix, and modern-day cattle rustling, create a montage of problems for Sheriff Charles Matthews as he hunts for a murderer on the Branding Iron Ranch in the Texas Panhandle. MURDER BY MASQUERADE Ballantine, $3.95 ISBN: 0-345-35986-0 First, lawyer John Lloyd Branson loses a client to the serial killer known as the Boulevard Butcher, then his assistant, Lydia Fairchild, is charged with capital murder. Branson realizes that Lydia is only a pawn in a deadly game between himself and the Butcher, a game John Lloyd must win. MURDER BY IMPULSE Ballantine, $2.95 ISBN: 0-345-34671-8 Texas attorney John Lloyd Branson and his assistant, Lydia Fairchild, try to unravel the tangled web of relationships among members of the Steele family to uncover a murderer. Anthony Nominee for Best Paperback Original of 1988. MURDER BY DECEPTION Ballantine, $3.50 ISBN: 0-345-35243-2 As lawyer John Lloyd Branson battles to save his client from a murder charge, he uncovers the deception behind a Department of Energy plan to locate a nuclear waste dump in Texas. BARBARA MERTZ (Frederick, MD) TEMPLES, TOMBS AND HIEROGLYPHS Peter Bedrick (pbk.) RED LAND, BLACK LAND Peter Bedrick (pbk.) ANNETTE MEYERS (New York, NY) THE DEADLIEST OPTION Bantam, $18.00 ISBN: 0-553-07187-4 THE BIG KILLING Bantam, $4.50 ISBN: 0-553-28418-5 Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon are headhunters who place Wall Street stockbrokers with brokerage firms. When a stockbroker Wetzon was meeting is found murdered in a phone booth at the Four Seasons, suspicion falls on her. Trying to exonerate herself leads to a career crisis and a trail of murders. TENDER DEATH Bantam, $17.95 ISBN: 0-553-05789-8 Bantam, $4.50 ISBN: 0-553-28719-2 A rich, elderly widow takes a walk out of her twentieth story window, and Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon, Wall Street headhunters, are off on a wild chase that takes them from the glass towers of the financial markets in lower Manhattan to Brooklyn's Russian community, Little Odessa. BARBARA MICHAELS (Frederick, MD) SMOKE AND MIRRORS Simon & Schuster (hb.); Berkley (pbk.) INTO THE DARKNESS Mysterious Press, Warner Books (pbk.) HERE I STAY Tor (pbk.) THE GREY BEGINNING Tor (pbk.) BE BURIED IN THE RAIN Berkley (pbk.) AMMIE COME HOME Berkley (pbk.) SHATTERED SILK Berkley (pbk.) PRINCE OF DARKNESS Berkley (pbk.) DARK ON THE OTHER SIDE Berkley (pbk.) WINGS OF THE FALCON Berkley (pbk.) SEARCH THE SHADOWS Berkley (pbk.) THE SEA KING'S DAUGHTER Berkley (pbk.) SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE Berkley (pbk.) THE CRYING CHILD Berkley (pbk.) SON OF THE WOLF Berkley (pbk.) WITCH Berkley (pbk.) WAIT FOR WHAT WILL COME Berkley (pbk.) BLACK RAINBOW Berkley (pbk.) D.F. MILLS (Snyder, TX) SPELLBOUND Berkley/Diamond, $4.95 ISBN: 1-55773-472-0 DEADLINE Berkley/Diamond, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55773-593-X DARKROOM Berkley/Diamond, $3.95 ISBN: 1-55773-370-8 YVONNE MONTGOMERY (Denver, CO) SCAVENGERS Avon, $3.50 ISBN: 0-380-71002-1 Stockbroker Finny Aletter is ready to leave the back-stabbing world of high finance, but amateur sleuthing isn't her idea of a perfect career move until her boss and ex-lover is killed and the Denver police change her job description to that of prime suspect. As she embarks on a bizarre hunt for a priceless lost manuscript, Finny realizes someone else has an interest in her future and is trying to give her a permanent pink slip--to the morgue. OBSTACLE COURSE Avon, $3.50 ISBN: 0-380-75992-6 Second in the Finny Aletter series. D MILLER MORGAN (Plano, TX) MONEY LEADS TO MURDER Dodd Mead, $15.95 ISBN: 0-396-08941-0 Available from author through Baker & Taylor. Daisy Marlow, private investigator, is hired to find a missing woman. Meanwhile, Daisy's old friend, police officer Sam Milo, is trying to solve two murders. Daisy eventually solves both cases. A LOVELY NIGHT TO KILL Dodd Mead, $15.95 ISBN: 0-396-09234-9 Private investigator Daisy Marlow searches for a "Dognapper". Sheriff Sam Milo investigates triple fire deaths and a comatose survivor guarded by a small dog. Daisy and Sam team up again. J.M. MORGAN (La Canada, CA) (Jill M. Morgan) DESERT EDEN Pinnacle, $4.95 ISBN: 1-55817-542-3 This is the first book of an ecological thriller trilogy. It concerns the fate of a desert biosphere and its eight human inhabitants after a deadly virus sweeps across the earth. BARBARA NICKOLAE (West Covina, CA) (Barbara Pronin and Nickolae Gerstner) FINDERS KEEPERS McGraw Hill, $17.95 ISBN: 0-07-46503-7 Berkley, $4.50 JOAN LOWERY NIXON (Houston, TX) A CANDIDATE FOR MURDER Delacorte, $14.95 ISBN: 0-385-30257-6 Young Adult Cary Amberson's life is drastically changed when her father files as a candidate for Governor of Texas. Furious and unhappy that her father is being attacked by the news media and being made the butt of jokes, Cary decides--perhaps mistakenly--to shield him, even from a series of telephoned death threats. WHISPERS FROM THE DEAD Delacorte, $14.95 ISBN: 0-385-29809-9 Dell Young Adult Sarah senses immediately that the house her father has bought contains some terrifying secrets. It's not long before a restless ghost, heedless of the danger to Sarah, uses her to unravel those secrets and solve a murder. THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK Delacorte, $14.95 ISBN: 0-385-29481-6 Dell, $2.75 ISBN: 0-440-96638-8 Young Adult Seventeen-year-old Stacy wakes from a four-year coma to discover that she is the only eye witness to a murder. Edgar Winner, Best Juvenile 1987. Children's Choice Winner in Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, and Oklahoma. THE STALKER Delacorte, $14.95 ISBN: 0-385-29376-3 Dell, $2.95 ISBN: 0-440-97753-3 Young Adult Combining the novel of detection with the novel of suspense, in alternate chapters we are in Jennifer's mind as she tries to find the true killer of her best friend's mother, and in the murderer's thoughts as Jennifer becomes a threat. Winner of the 1989 California Young Reader's Medal. THE ISLAND OF DANGEROUS DREAMS Dell, $2.95 ISBN: 0-440-20258-2 Young Adult On a private island in the Bahamas, Andrea and her aunt find themselves trapped with a group of art collectors--each eager to obtain a valuable antiquity from Peru. One of them will even kill to possess it. SECRET, SILENT SCREAMS Delacorte, $14.95 ISBN: 0-440-50059-1 Dell, $3.25 ISBN: 0-440-20539-5 Young Adult As Marti teams with Karen, a young police woman, to prove that the death of her best friend, Barry, was not a suicide, but murder, she finds that the murderer has a hit list, and her name comes next. CARLA NORTON (Benica, CA) PERFECT VICTIM Dell, $4.95 ISBN: 0-440-20442-9 True Crime MEG O'BRIEN (Marina Del Rey, CA) HARE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW Bantam, $4.50 ISBN: 0-553-28978-0 SALMON IN THE SOUP Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-28617-X THE DAPHNE DECISIONS Bantam, $3.95 ISBN: 0-553-28488-6 MAXINE O'CALLAGHAN (Mission Viejo, CA) DEATH SEASON Forthcoming: 1992, Berkley Books Ancient forces of good and evil clash in a small Oregon town, and the fate of mankind hangs in the balance. SET-UP St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-06462-4 HIT AND RUN St. Martin's, $3.95 ISBN: 0-312-92440-2 SOMETHING'S CALLING ME HOME Pocket, $4.50 ISBN: 0-671-67933-3 DARK VISIONS Tor, $3.95 ISBN: 0-812-52352-0 A psychic woman experiences death around her, including the brutal slaying of another young woman. The police think this killing is part of a string of serial murders in Orange County. One policeman knows better--the one who has done the copycat killing. SISTER CAROL ANNE O'MARIE (Lafayette, CA) MURDER IN ORDINARY TIME Delacorte, $18.00 ISBN: 0-385-30226-6 ADVENT OF DYING Dell, $3.50 ISBN: 0-440-10052-6 A NOVENA FOR MURDER Dell, $3.50 ISBN: 0-440-16469-9 MISSING MADONNA Dell, $3.50 ISBN: 0-440-20473-9 KATHERINE HALL PAGE (Lexington, MA) THE BODY IN THE BELFRY St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-03798-8 Avon, $3.95 ISBN: 0-380-71328-4 Former Manhattan caterer, Faith Fairchild, finds her changed role as a minister's wife and new mother in a small NE village considerably livened up by discovery of a body in the town's historic belfry. Agatha Award Winner, Best First Domestic Mystery. THE BODY IN THE KELP St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-05392-4 Forthcoming: March 1992, Avon ISBN: 0-380-71329-2 Amateur sleuth, Faith Fairchild, arrives at Sanpere island off the coast of Maine for a relaxing summer vacation only to become involved in murder and a treasure hunt with the clues cryptically concealed in the squares of a patchwork quilt. SARA PARETSKY (Chicago, IL) BURN MARKS Delacorte, $17.95 ISBN: 0-385-29892-7 Dell, $4.95 ISBN: 0-440-20845-9 INDEMNITY ONLY Delacorte (Reissue), $18.95 ISBN: 0-385-30260-6 Dell, $4.95 ISBN: 0-440-21069-0 BLOOD SHOT Delacorte, $17.95 ISBN: 0-385-50035-4 Dell, $4.50 ISBN: 0-440-20420-8 BITTER MEDICINE Ballantine, ISBN: 0-345-34722-6 KILLING ORDERS Ballantine, ISBN: 0-345-32777-2 BARBARA PAUL (Pittsburgh, PA) LIARS AND TYRANTS AND PEOPLE WHO TURN BLUE International Polygonics IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS Scribner's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-684-19263-2 A.C. PENISTON (Fair Oaks, CA) SEARCH FOR SYBIL Ashley Books, $19.95 ISBN: 0-87949-291-0 ANNE PERRY (Rossshire, Scotland) BETHLEHEM ROAD St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-04266-3 Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21914-3 BLUEGATE FIELDS Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20766-8 CALLANDER SQUARE Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20999-7 CARDINGRON CRESCENT Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21442-7 CATER STREET HANGMAN Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-20867-2 DEATH IN THE DEVIL'S ACRE Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21095-2 THE FACE OF A STRANGER Fawcett, $17.95 ISBN: 0-449-90530-6 HIGHGATE RISE Fawcett, $17.50 ISBN: 0-449-90567-5 PARAGON WALKS Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21168-1 RESURRECTION ROW Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21067-1 RUTLAND PLACE Fawcett, $4.95 ISBN: 0-449-21285-8 SILENCE IN HANOVER CLOSE St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-01824-X Fawcett, $3.95 ISBN: 0-449-21686-1 ELIZABETH PETERS (Frederick, MD) THE LAST CAMEL DIED AT NOON Mysterious (hb.) CROCODILE ON THE SANDBANK Mysterious (hb.); Mysterious, Warner (pbk.); Recorded Books (cass.) CURSE OF THE PHAROAHS Mysterious (hb.); Mysterious, Warner (pbk.); Recorded Books (cass.) NAKED ONCE MORE Mysterious (hb.); Mysterious, Warner (pbk.) Agatha Award winner. BORROWER OF THE NIGHT Tor (pbk.) THE CAMELOT CAPER Tor (pbk.) THE COPENHAGEN CONNECTION Tor (pbk.) THE DEAD SEA CIPHER Tor (pbk.) DEVIL-MAY-CARE Tor (pbk.) DIE FOR LOVE Tor (pbk.) JACKALS HEAD Tor (pbk.) LEGEND IN GREEN VELVET Tor (pbk.) LION IN THE VALLEY Tor (pbk.) LOVE TALKER Tor (pbk.) THE MUMMY CASE Tor (pbk.) THE NIGHT OF THE FOUR HUNDRED RABBITS Tor (pbk.) THE STREET OF THE FIVE MOONS Tor (pbk.) SUMMER OF THE DRAGON Tor (pbk.) TROJAN GOLD Tor (pbk.) DEEDS OF THE DISTURBER Mysterious, Warner (pbk.) THE SEVENTH SINNER Mysterious, Warner (pbk.) MURDERS OF RICHARD III Mysterious, Warner (pbk.) AUDREY PETERSON (Bellingham, WA) LAMENT FOR CHRISTABEL Pocket, $4.50 ELEGY IN A COUNTRY GRAVEYARD Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-69356-5 Fifth in the Andrew Quentin/Jane Winfield series. Jane inherits money from a great aunt who dies mysteriously, only to find her baby's life threatened by a killer who wants her inheritance. DEADLY REHEARSAL Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-69169-4 Fourth in the Andrew Quentin/Jane Winfield series. Jane leaves London for Sussex to do publicity for an opera festival and finds murder instead. Andrew turns up in time to point the way to the murderer. THE NOCTURNE MURDER Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-66102-7 When graduate student Jane Winfield finds her lover dead on the floor of her London flat she is arrested for his murder. With the help of amateur sleuth Andrew Quentin she composes a list of far more likely suspects in order to track down the killer before her own trial. DEATH IN WESSEX Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-65738-0 When two suspicious deaths occur in one day at the village fete in Brockton amateur sleuths Jane Winfield and Andrew Quentin are drawn into a web of strange, dark secrets festering beneath the calm surface of the English countryside. MURDER IN BURGUNDY Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-65737-2 The French canal tour was a grand success--until someone killed the host. With the help of the French police Jane Winfield and Andrew Quentin set an elaborate trap to catch the killer on board their boat. MEREDITH PHILLIPS (Menlo Park, CA) DEATH SPIRAL: MURDER AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS Perseverance Press (td. pb.), $8.95 ISBN: 0-960-2676-1 It's a cold war on ice as love and defection breed murder. Who killed the Soviet world champion skater? "Surprises, suspense, and a truly unusual murder." Just in Crime. NANCY PICKARD (Kansas City) I.O.U. Pocket, $17.95 ISBN: 0-671-68041-2 BUM STEER Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-68042-0 When the Port Frederick Civic Foundation inherits--of all things--a $4-million cattle ranch, it's up to Jenny Cain to check out this most unusual bequest. DEAD CRAZY Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-73430-X Jenny Cain wants to establish a refuge for mental patients, but a murderer makes it look like a crazy idea. Agatha and Anthony nominee for Best Novel of 1988. MARRIAGE IS MURDER Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-73428-8 Jenny Cain and her detective lover probe the dark side of marriage in this mystery that won the Macavity Award for Best Novel of 1987. NO BODY Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-73429-6 Inquiring minds want to know: why are all the graves in the cemetery empty? KIRKUS calls this third Jenny Cain mystery "first class entertainment". SAY NO TO MURDER Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-73431-8 There's murder down at the harbor restoration project in Jenny Cain's second outing, which won an Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery of 1985. GENEROUS DEATH Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-73265-X Introducing Jennifer Cain, the New England amateur sleuth whom the Kansas City Star calls "an endearing and wholly human character". MARISSA PIESMAN (New York, NY) PERSONAL EFFECTS Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-74275-2 UNORTHODOX PRACTICES Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-67315-7 When two reasonably healthy old ladies die in very valuable New York City apartments undergoing multi-million dollar co-op conversions, lawyer Nina Fischman gets suspicious. With the help of her mother, a seventy-year-old retired schoolteacher, the murders are solved. ELIZABETH PINCUS (San Francisco, CA) THE TWO-BIT TANGO Forthcoming: May 1992, Spinsters The search for a client's missing twin sister leads San Francisco P.I. Nell Fury into a tangle of big-city corruption and double-crossing lovers. First in a series featuring Fury, a lesbian lone-wolf detective. PELE PLANTE (Mendocino, CA) GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER Clothespin Fever Press, $9.95 ISBN: 1-878533-00-2 When rifle shots shatter the serenity of a small town, CC Scott, a therapist, and her partner, teacher Barbara Bettencourt, uncover a scam on the elderly and apprehend a murderer. DIRTY MONEY Forthcoming: Winter 1991, Clothespin Fever Press CC and Barbara find a dead body on the beach and get drawn into local resident's scandals, including blackmail and a money laundering operation, when they take a cottage for the summer on the rugged north coast of California. ELLEN PORATH (Elkhorn, WI) (Mark Anthony and Ellen Porath) KINDRED SPIRITS TSR, $4.95 ISBN: 1-56076-069-9 BARBARA PRONIN (West Covina, CA) SING SWEETLY TO ME Dell, $4.99 ISBN: 0-440-20988-9 MARY MONICA PULVER (St. Louis Park, MN) ORIGINAL SIN Walker, $18.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5770-7 Fourth in the Peter Brichter mystery series. Kori, researching the history of her family, invites a long-lost relative to Tretower for Christmas. An hour after Evelyn's arrival, she is found murdered. A modern version of the classic cozy. KNIGHT FALL (Reprint of MURDER AT THE WAR) Forthcoming: January 1992, Berkley/Diamond, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55773-648-0 SHOW STOPPER Forthcoming: March 1992, Walker, $18.95 ISBN: 0-8027-3210-0 THE UNFORGIVING MINUTES Forthcoming: April 1992, Berkley/Diamond, $4.50 ISBN: 1-55773-686-3 KAREN RAY (Manhattan Beach, CA) COME HOME TO DARKNESS Zebra, $4.50 ISBN: 0-8217-3542-X Kate Reardon returns to Montana, Missouri, to make a home for her son. Instead, she witnesses a murder and faces both mortal dangers and moral dilemmas when her oldest friends turn against her. GILLIAN ROBERTS (Tiburon, CA) CAUGHT DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA Ballantine, $3.50 ISBN: 0-345-35340-4 Introducing Amanda Pepper, a Philadelphia high school teacher, who copes, more or less, with a corpse by the fireplace, the threat of imprisonment, a detective with a drawl, and a nagging mother. Winner of the Anthony for the Best First Mystery of 1988. PHILLY STAKES Ballantine, $3.50 ISBN: 0-345-36266-7 A school Christmas attempt to feed the homeless winds up with murder and an overabundance of confessions that Amanda untangles with the reluctant help of homicide detective C.K. Mackenzie. Agatha Nominee for Best Domestic Mystery of 1989. NORA ROBERTS (Keedysville, MD) GENUINE LIES Bantam, $4.99 ISBN: 0-553-29078-9 MARY ROBINSON (Berkeley, CA) THE AMAZING VALVANO AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HOODED RAT Houghton Mifflin, $12.95 ISBN: 0-3-395-44314-8 Avon Camelot, $2.75 ISBN: 0-380-70713-6 Juvenile For ages 8 to 12. Maria Valvano has big plans to win her school's talent show until Lester, pet rat and designated rabbit of her magic act, is kidnapped. NINA ROMBERG (Richardson, TX) THE SPIRIT STALKER Pinnacle, $3.95 ISBN: 1-55817-271-8 REBECCA ROTHENBERG (Los Angeles, CA) THE BULRUSH MURDERS Forthcoming: January 1992, Carroll & Graf, $18.95 ISBN: 0-88184-749-6 Microbiologist Claire Sharples flees MIT for a research station in California's bleak San Joaquin Valley. She becomes entangled in an unlikely love affair, and in a tragic murder whose solution lies in obscure botanical lore. BETTY ROWLANDS (Gloucester, England) A LITTLE GENTLE SLEUTHING Walker, ISBN: 0-8027-5781-2 Middle-aged crime writer Melissa Craig teams up with an eager-beaver young newshound from the local press to track down the villains who are disturbing the peace of a tranquil Gloucestershire village. A traditional English cozy. ALLEN RUSSELL (San Diego, CA) NO SIGN OF MURDER Walker, $17.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5767-7 Avon, February 1992 THE FOREST PRIME EVIL Walker, February 1992 ELLEN RYP (New York, NY) DEADLY BONDS Warner, $4.95 ISBN: 0-446-35133-4 Students at an exclusive Swiss boarding school for young women are turning up dead on the ski slopes, at wild parties, and in the resort village's boutiques. Carla Temple, ex-Olympic ski champ and a new teacher there, tries to protect her students and finds herself in danger of being the next victim. MEDORA SALE (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT Scribner's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-684-19305-1 MURDER IN A GOOD CAUSE Scribner's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-684-19216-0 MURDER IN FOCUS Scribner's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-684-19082-6 EVE K. SANDSTROM (Lawton, OK) THE DEVIL DOWN HOME Scribner's, $19.95 ISBN: 0-684-19268-3 When a dead drifter is found laid out in Dracula's coffin at a Halloween haunted house, Sheriff Sam Titus and his army-brat bride, Nicky, explore the link between the death and rumors of Satanism. DEATH DOWN HOME Scribner's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-684-19244-6 When Nicky, artist-photographer and daughter of a U.S. Army general, marries MP officer Sam Titus, she thinks she's signed on for a lifetime hitch as an army wife. But an attack on Big Sam, her father-in-law, draws Sam and Nicky back to Sam's tiny hometown on the Oklahoma plains. Can Nicky survive culture shock--and avoid becoming a victim herself? ROSEMARIE SANTINI (New York, NY) BLOOD SISTERS Pocket, $4.50 ISBN: 0-671-67399-8 The story of a murder investigation which reveals that two women, arch enemies, are related by blood. PRIVATE LIVES Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-67398-X The story of three generations of women, locked in a battle of corporate intrigue. ASK ME WHAT I WANT Fawcett Juniper, $2.95 ISBN: 0-449-70069-0 Young Adult The first in a mystery series for teenagers. BEANSPROUTS Fawcett Juniper, $2.95 ISBN: 0-449-70322-3 Young Adult Second in the teenage mystery series. SANDRA SCOPPETTONE (New York, NY) EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS MINE Little, Brown, $19.95 ISBN: 0-316-77646-7 SARAH SHANKMAN (San Francisco, CA) SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY Pocket, $18.95 ISBN: 0-671-73657-4 FIRST KILL ALL THE LAWYERS (Alice Storey, Reissued as Sarah Shankman) Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-64529-3 Samantha Adams has come back to Atlanta and a plum of a job as an investigative reporter. When a prominent attorney dies, the rural sheriff who found him calls it an accident. Sam tracks through society salons and good old boy saloons to prove him wrong. THEN HANG ALL THE LIARS (Alice Storey, Reissued as Sarah Shankman) Pocket, $3.50 ISBN: 0-671-64530-7 Randolph Percy, a white-haired charmer, comes a-courtin' on a family friend of Samantha's. But Randolph has a reputation as a ladykiller-- literally. When he's found dead, all kinds of skeletons pop out of some very fancy Atlanta closets. SHELLEY SINGER (Oakland, CA) SUICIDE KING Worldwide Mystery, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26040-7 Fifth Jake Samson. Jake and his partner, Rosie Vincente, track the solution to the hanging death of an ecology party's candidate for governor of California. SPIT IN THE OCEAN Worldwide Mystery, $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26026-1 Jake and Rosie travel north of the San Francisco Bay Area to find out who dumped the North Coast Sperm Bank's assets into the ocean--and who shoved one of its employees over a cliff in the middle of a winter gale. FULL HOUSE Worldwide Mystery (Gold Eagle), $3.50 ISBN: 0-373-26007-5 Third in Jake Samson series. Noah, the leader of an ark-building, end-of-the-world cult disappears with the group's construction money and a young female member. The group, convinced there's been foul play, calls on Jake and Rosie to solve the mystery. EDITH SKOM (Winetka, IL) THE MARK TWAIN MURDERS Council Oak, $12.95 ISBN: 0-933931-17-3 Dell, $3.50 ISBN: 0-440-20608-1 An academic bibliomystery introducing Beth Austin, an English professor at Midwestern University, and a literary sleuth trying to track a student's plagiarism to its source--even when the student is murdered. Agatha and Macavity Nominee for Best First Novel of 1989. THE NEW YORK TIMES: "This one fairly jumps into your bookbag." MAGGIE SKYE (New York, NY) (Joyce Gleit and Herma Werner) COLLECTIONS Pocket, $4.95 ISBN: 0-671-68086-2 JANET SMITH (Seattle, WA) SEA OF TROUBLES Perseverance Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-9602676-9-7 Fawcett JULIE SMITH (Berkeley, CA) DEAD IN THE WATER Ivy, $4.99 ISBN: 0-8041-0855-2 Lawyer Rebecca Schwartz finds a body floating in the kelp tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium--and also finds herself in the unlikely role of baby sitter. It's hard to say which event is the more challenging. Fourth in the series. DEATH TURNS A TRICK Forthcoming: April 1992, Ivy, ISBN: 0-8041-0856-0 Rebecca Schwartz learns her lesson: A nice Jewish girl should probably decline invitations to play piano in a whorehouse--even if she happens to be the lawyer representing HYENA, the "hooker's union". First in the series. THE AXMAN'S JAZZ St. Martin's, $19.95 ISBN: 0-312-06295-8 NEW ORLEANS MOURNING St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-03892-2 Fawcett, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8041-0738-6 Police Officer Skip Langdon is six feet tall, overweight and an alien in her own hometown. When the King of the Carnival is gunned down on Mardi Gras, she gets a close look at some of the city's nastiest secrets. A Southern gothic tale of multigenerational deception and hatred in two families that have merged with murderous results. TOURIST TRAP Mysterious, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-40640-2 A serial killer tries to destroy San Francisco's economy by killing tourists. Not only does attorney Rebecca Schwartz find the first body, she ends up representing the prime suspect--and only a courtroom miracle can save her client. Third in the series. TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE Mysterious, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-40505-8 Paul McDonald is a struggling mystery writer trying to eke out a living freelancing in expensive San Francisco. He's got a great gig writing client reports for a private detective; unfortunately, it's terminated along with the shamus himself, who expires rather suddenly on Paul's living room floor. HUCKLEBERRY FIEND Mysterious, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-40696-8 A literary find to kill for falls into the hands of an awed Paul McDonald--part of the original handwritten manuscript of HUCKLEBERRY FINN. The lore of Twain and the odd world of collecting figure prominently in the ensuing carnage. PATRICIA HOUCK SPRINKLE (Mobile, AL) MURDER ON PEACHTREE STREET St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-05476-9 MURDER IN THE CHARLESTON MANNER St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-04355-4 SERITA DEBORAH STEVENS (Mission Hills, CA) RED SEA, DEAD SEA St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-06451-9 A Jewish grandmother goes to Israel looking for bargains and gets into more than she bargained for. DEADLY DOSES: A Writer's Guide to Poisons (with Anne Klarner) Writer's Digest, $16.96 ISBN: 0-89879-371-8 DOROTHY TELL (Dallas, TX) THE HALLELUJAH MURDERS Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-88-6 MURDER AT THE RED ROOK RANCH Naiad Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-941483-80-0 L.L. THRASHER (pseudonym) (Fort Sheridan, IL) CAT'S PAW, INCORPORATED Council Oak Books, $14.95 ISBN: 0-933031-41-6 Oregon P.I. Zachariah Smith's routine search for a runaway teenager becomes anything but routine as his hot leads turn cold, his informants turn up dead, and the mysterious young woman in his motel room turns out to be big trouble. JUDITH VAN GIESON (Warren, VT and Santa Fe, NM) THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH HarperCollins, $18.95 ISBN: 0-06-016581-2 Forthcoming: April 1992, Pocket Books THE WOLF PATH Forthcoming: HarperCollins, March 1992 RAPTOR Pocket, $3.95 ISBN: 0-671-73243-9 NORTH OF THE BORDER Walker, $16.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5706-5 ANCA VLASOPOLOS (Grosse Pointe, MI) MISSING MEMBERS Corridors Press, $4.95 ISBN: 0-9629611-0-8 Detroit, 1980: A series of castrations pits men against women, city against suburbs, blacks against whites. Detective Sharon Dair investigates and discovers she shares an uncomfortable affinity with the perpetrator. HANNAH WAKEFIELD (London, England) A WOMAN'S OWN MYSTERY St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-05339-0 THE PRICE YOU PAY St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN: 0-312-04989-7 MARY WILLIS WALKER (Austin, TX) ZERO AT THE BONE St. Martin's, $19.95 ISBN: 0-312-06495-0 When Katherine Driscoll's father is killed by a Siberian tiger, she investigates by taking a job at the Austin zoo. Unfortunately, it involves working with what she fears most in the world--reptiles. MARILYN WALLACE (San Anselmo, CA) A SINGLE STONE Doubleday, $17.00 ISBN: 0-385-42118-4 Linda Orett, acquitted of her daughter's murder three years earlier, suspects that someone may be setting her up to take the blame for a new murder. Oakland Homicide Detectives Jay Goldstein and Carlos Cruz (A CASE OF LOYALTIES, PRIMARY TARGET) investigate. PATRICIA WALLACE (La Jolla, CA) NIGHT WHISPERS Zebra, ISBN: 0-8217-2092-9 Dr. Paige Brown returns to Tranquility, California where twenty-six years before her parents had been murdered, a crime that had never been solved...until now. SMALL FAVORS Zebra, ISBN: 0-8217-2280-8 Female San Diego P.I. Sydney Bryant is hired to find Hilary Walker, a prominent doctor's wife who disappeared one day without a trace, but not, it becomes apparent, without reason. DEADLY GROUNDS Zebra, ISBN: 0-8217-2653-6 BLOOD LIES Zebra, ISBN: 0-8217-3394-X LEE WALLINGFORD (Milton-Freewater, OR) COLD TRACKS Walker, $18.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5783-9 CHARLENE WEIR (El Cerrito, CA) THE WINTER WIDOW Forthcoming: March 1992, St. Martin's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-312-07009-8 When Susan Wren's husband, Daniel, police chief in Hampstead, Kansas is murdered, she gets his job despite the hostility against her as a woman and an outsider, and finds his killer. Winner of second annual Malice Domestic First Novel Contest. GLORIA WHITE (San Francisco, CA) MURDER ON THE RUN Dell, $3.99 ISBN: 0-440-20983-8 STEPHEN WHITE (Denver, CO) A Brother-In-Crime PRIVILEGED INFORMATION Viking, $19.95 ISBN: 0-670-83765-2 A psychologist's life begins to unravel when three of his patients die and his efforts to expose a killer are frustrated by the boundaries of confidential communication. ANN M. WILLIAMS (Denver, CO) FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD Forthcoming: March 1992, St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-06355-5 Brian Kayne, a DA's investigator in a rural Southern California county, is coerced by his mother into a weekend visit. Her object is matchmaking, but Brian finds instead a series of leads to some unsolved crimes which had left his department stumped. B.L. WILSON (Danville, VA) THRILL KILL Pocket, ISBN: 0-671-68418-3 MARY WINGS (San Francisco, CA) SHE CAME TOO LATE Crossing Press, $7.95 ISBN: 0-89594-243-7 "The noir novel of the '40s gets an elegant, lavender update in Mary Wings' first crime thriller. The hard-boiled genre marries rad-fem writing to their mutual benefit--an amused, ironic look at the Women's Movement of the '80s." BBS LISTENERS GUIDE, London. SHE CAME IN A FLASH New American Library, $7.95 ISBN: 0-453-00648-5 "...Emma Victor who solves a murder mystery which leads her to a yellow-clad cult in a California commune. Written in a conversational style, it is fast moving and refreshing." THE GUARDIAN, London. S.K. WOLF (Livonia, MI) MACKINNON'S MACHINE Simon & Schuster, $18.95 ISBN: 0-671-70051-0 LONG CHAIN OF DEATH Walker, $16.95 ISBN: 0-8027-5671-9 Ivy, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8041-0713-0 THE HARBINGER EFFECT Simon & Schuster, $18.95 ISBN: 0-671-68324-1 Ivy, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8041-0710-6 A spy thriller, in which a young American woman is recruited to escort a Soviet defector to safety. When the bodies start dropping, it becomes evident that not only do the Soviets want the defector back, the Americans want the defector to fail as well. SUSAN WOLFE (Palo Alto, CA) THE LAST BILLABLE HOUR Ivy, $3.95 ISBN: 0-8041-0540-5 STEVEN J. WOMACK (Nashville, TN) A Brother-In-Crime MURPHY'S FAULT St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-03896-8 SMASH CUT St. Martin's, $18.95 ISBN: 0-312-06467-5 SHERRYL WOODS (Miami, FL) RECKLESS Popular Library, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-20819-8 When famed Chef Maurice drops dead in front of reporter Amanda Roberts during a cooking demonstration in rural Georgia, she and ex-Brooklyn detective Joe Donnell set off in hot pursuit of the killer--and each other. BODY AND SOUL Popular Library, $3.95 ISBN: 0-445-20900-3 The aerobics instructor was very pretty, very popular and very dead--on the steam room floor. It's another exercise in murder and romance for reporter Amanda Roberts and former cop Joe Donnell. STOLEN MOMENTS Popular Library, $4.95 ISBN: 0-445-21010-9 The third in the Amanda Roberts-Joe Donnell series. TIES THAT BIND Warner, $4.99 ISBN: 0-446-36117-8 REBECCA YORK (Columbia, MD) (aka Ruth Glick and Eileen Buckholtz) ONLY SKIN DEEP Forthcoming: February 1992, Harlequin Intrigue, $2.75 Dr. Katie Martin and Mac McQuade are hot on the trail of a deadly virus--a quest that leads them from a posh Georgetown beauty salon to a devious plot of international revenge. SHATTERED VOWS Harlequin Intrigue, $2.50 ISBN: 0-373-22155-X WHISPERS IN THE NIGHT Harlequin Intrigue, $2.75 ISBN: 0-373-22167-3 LIFE LINE Harlequin Intrigue, $2.50 ISBN: 0-373-22143-6 EVE ZAREMBA (Toronto, ON, Canada) UNEASY LIES Second Story Press, $11.95 ISBN: 0-929005-17-1 This book and the three below are distributed in the USA by InnBook, in Canada by University of Toronto Press. BEYOND HOPE Amanita/Second Story, $11.95 ISBN: 0-921299-02-8 "From a new small Toronto press comes this delightful thriller, featuring that street-smart woman of few words, lesbian detective Helen Keremos." KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD Magazine. Third in the series. A REASON TO KILL Amanita/Second Story, $11.95 ISBN: 0-921299-08-7 "Who could resist Helen Keremos with her insights into human culpability and her willingness to put herself on the line. Spine-tingling, nerve crunching tension." THE BODY POLITIC. First in a series. WORK FOR A MILLION Amanita/Second Story, $11.95 ISBN: 0-921299-00-1 "A fast-paced thriller featuring a female detective who's a cross between Philip Marlowe and Lily Tomlin. The one-liners alone are worth the trip." Margaret Atwood. Second in the series. SHARON ZUKOWSKI (Hackensack, NJ) THE HOUR OF THE KNIFE St. Martin's, $17.95 ISBN: 0-312-06372-5 A mandatory vacation on the sleepy Carolina coastline is just the ticket to cool the temper of fiery, never-pull-any-punches P.I. Blaine Stewart. The vacation turns deadly when an old college buddy turns up dead. DANCING IN THE DARK St. Martin's, Spring 1992 ANTHOLOGIES DEADLY ALLIES Edited by Marilyn Wallace and Robert J. Randisi Forthcoming: May 1992, Bantam A collaborative anthology of short stories by members of Sisters in Crime and Private Eye Writers of America. EYE OF A WOMAN Edited by Sara Paretsky (Chicago, IL) Delacorte I SHUDDER AT YOUR TOUCH: 22 TALES OF SEX AND HORROR Edited by Michele Slung (Washington, DC) Roc/New American Library, $19.95, ISBN: 0-451-45079-5 An anthology of surprising, elegant, grim, and kinky stories all dealing with a situation where the source of the frisson is sexual. Contributors include Ruth Rendell, Angela Carter, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Jonathan Carroll, and Tom Disch. SISTERS IN CRIME I Edited by Marilyn Wallace (San Anselmo, CA) Berkley, $3.95 ISBN: 0-425-11582-8 Each volume contains twenty-one entertaining, engrossing tales of detection, mystery, and psychological suspense by leading writers such as Dorothy Cannell, Mary Higgins Clark, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Susan Dunlap, Sue Grafton, Carolyn G. Hart, Lia Matera, Margaret Maron, Sharyn McCrumb, Barbara Michaels, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, and Gillian Roberts. SISTERS IN CRIME 2 Edited by Marilyn Wallace (San Anselmo, CA) Berkley, $3.95 ISBN: 0-425-11966-1 SISTERS IN CRIME 3 Edited by Marilyn Wallace (San Anselmo, CA) Berkley, $3.95 ISBN: 0-425-12214-X SISTERS IN CRIME 4 Edited by Marilyn Wallace (San Anselmo, CA) Berkley, $4.99 ISBN: 0-425-13074-6 THE WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women Edited by Irene Zahava (Ithaca, NY) Crossing Press, $6.95 ISBN: 0-89594-271-2 The women in these stories run the gamut from professionally-trained policewomen and private investigators to amateurs who stumble into crime-solving. THE SECOND WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women Edited by Irene Zahava (Ithaca, NY) Crossing Press, $7.95 ISBN: 0-89594-367-0 A cast of dedicated, curious, and tenacious women detectives--both amateur and professional--has been gathered. THE THIRD WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women Edited by Irene Zahava (Ithaca, NY) Crossing Press, $7.95 ISBN: 0-89594-435-9 Stories by well-known and up-and-coming women mystery writers, featuring women sleuths of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds. THE FOURTH WOMANSLEUTH ANTHOLOGY: Contemporary Mystery Stories by Women Edited by Irene Zahava (Ithaca, NY) Crossing Press, $8.95 ISBN: 0-89594-507-X WOMEN OF DARKNESS II Edited by Kathryn Ptacek Tor, $18.95 ISBN: 0-312-85027-1