The Hidden Staircase Mystery Books has updated its list of new hardcover mysteries with books scheduled for publication in August 2009.
Below we're listing those authors with returning series characters, new series characters, and non-series or stand-alone mysteries in separate sections. All titles are available on our August mystery books page. We're also using the "carousel" widget by Amazon.com to display a random selection of titles; refreshing this page will change the selection displayed.
• Authors with mysteries having returning series characters (in parentheses) this month:
Jane A. Adams (Rina Martin), Mary Jane Clark (KEY News), Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar), Colin Cotterill (Dr. Siri Paiboun), Sarah Cox (Matt Arnold), Ellen Crosby (Lucie Montgomery, Wine Country), Mark de Castrique (Sam Blackman), Eric Jerome Dickey (Gideon), Keith Donnelly (Donald Youngblood), Carole Nelson Douglas (Midnight Louie), Susan Dunlap (Darcy Lott), Olive Etchells (DCI Channon), Robert Ferrigno (Rakkim Epps, Assassin Trilogy), Karin Fossum and Charlotte Barslund (Inspector Konrad Sejer), Brent Ghelfi (Alexei "Volk" Volkovoy), David L. Golemon (Event Group), J. G. Goodhind (Honey Driver), Dolores Gordon-Smith (Jack Haldean), Timothy Hallinan (Poke Rafferty), Suzette A. Hill (Francis Oughterard), W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV (Badge of Honor), Steven James (Patrick Bowers), J. A. Jance (J. P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady), H. R. F. Keating (Inspector Ghote), Faye Kellerman (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus), Michael Koryta (Lincoln Perry), Margaret Maron (Deborah Knott), Nick Oldham (Henry Christie), James Patterson and Richard DiLallo (Alex Cross), Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera (Graphic Novel), Christopher Reich (Jonathan Ransom), Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan), David Rosenfelt (Andy Carpenter), Priscilla Royal (Prioress Eleanor), George D. Shuman (Sherry Moore), Edward Sklepowich (Urbino McIntyre), Patricia Stoltey (Sylvia Thorn and Willie Grisseljon), Andy Straka (Frank Pavlicek), Marcia Talley (Hannah Ives), Dan Waddell (Nigel Barnes), Stephen White (Alan Gregory)
• Authors with mysteries introducing new series characters (in parentheses) this month:
Michael Atkinson (Ernest Hemingway), Chris Cavender (Eleanor Swift), Gerald Elias (Daniel Jacobus), Joseph Finder (Nick Heller), Nancy Holzner (Bo Forrester), Sophie Littlefield (Stella Hardesty)
• Authors with non-series or stand-alone mysteries this month:
Kenneth Abel, Douglas Carlton Abrams, Annamaria Alfieri, Roberto Bolaño and Chris Andrews, Raymond L. Atkins, Linwood Barclay, Sandra Brown, Alys Clare, Robin Cook, Glen Ebisch, Duncan Falconer, Dan Fesperman, Dick Francis and Felix Francis, Stephen Frey, Peter Gadol, Victor Gischler, Terry Goodkind, Nancy Grace, Brian Haig, Daniel Levin, Andrew Nugent, Thomas Pynchon, Christopher Ransom, Luís Miguel Rocha, Karen Rose, Marcus Sakey, Fay Sampson, Jason Starr, Teri Woods
For more information on any of these titles, please visit the New Mysteries page on our website. If you're interested in new paperbacks, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where you can discover a library of new mysteries, also updated with August 2009 releases.
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