New novelist, Thomas Kaufman, joins veterans Spindler, Picoult, and Bowen on the new book shelves.

Erica Spindler.
Blood vines
When Alexandra Owens travels to Sonoma, California, to unearth her mysterious past, she finds herself racing to discover the connection between her terrifying visions and a string of ritualistic murders.

Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC Ret., with Donald A. Davis.
Clean kill
Just as Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is about to deal with foreign operatives bent on assassinating Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in order to sabotage a peace agreement, his old nemesis, Juba, resurfaces to exact revenge on the man that nearly took his life.

Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth.
The crucible of empire
A novel cowritten b a two-time Nebula Award finalist is the sequel to The Course of Empire, a book about a warlike people working with their alien invaders to face and even greater threat.

Thomas Kaufman.
Drink the tea
After he takes on the 25-year-old case of his best-friend's missing daughter, private investigator Willis Gidney is accused of murder and thrown in jail, a bad start to a case that will pit him against a ruthless corporation, a two-faced congressman and a young woman desperate to conceal her past.

David Carkeet.
From away
Making his way home from Vermont after a one-night-stand gone wrong, model-train specialist Denny Braintree is mistaken for a missing local and hesitantly assumes a new personality before he is wrongly accused of murdering his would-be lover.

Jodi Picoult.
House rules
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.

Rhys Bowen.
The last illusion
Harry Houdini's wife hires Irish immigrant private investigator Molly Murphy to uncover the truth behind the on-stage death of a magician's assistant in order to clear Houdini's name and find the person truly responsible for the death.

Susan Wilson.
One good dog
After Adam March has a nervous breakdown that causes him to lose his job, his wife and the life he has worked so hard to achieve, he must fulfill a community-service obligation at a soup kitchen, where he meets Chance, a pit bull bred for fighting who ends up being Adam's best shot at redemption.