INCOMING

• Scott Adams, Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!  Short essays -- more than 150 of them -- from the creator of Dilbert.
• Ian Alan, Virginia Ghosts.  Another collection of supposed hauntings.  I never nsaw, heard, or felt a ghostly presence all the time I lived in Virginia.  **sigh**
• Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions.  Novel.  A grieving professor fixates on an old silent comedian.
• David  Baldacci, The Collectors. A Camel Club thriller.
• L. A. Banks, Tananarive Due, & Brandon Massey, The Ancestors.  Horror collection of three novellas.
• Clive Barker, Sacrament. Horror.
• "M. C. Beaton" (Marion Chesney), Death of a Hussy.  A Hamish MacBeth mystery.
• David Black, The Extinction Event.  Thriller.
• Lawrence Block, All the Flowers Are Dying, Matthew Scudder mystery and The Burglar in the Rye, a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery.
• Michael Cadnum, Flash.  Crime.
• Harlan Coben, No Second Chance.  Thriller.
• Patricia Cornwell, The Front.  A Win Garano/Monique Lamont mystery.
• Robert Crais, The Forgotteen Man.  A Elvis Cole novel.
• Shirley Damsgaard, The Seventh Witch and The Witch's Grave.  Ophelia and Abby mysteries.
• Jack Dann & Gardner Dozier, editors, Armageddons.  SF anthology with a dozen stories.
• Hilary Davidson, The Damage Done.  Debut mystery.  Winner of an Anthony award and a Crimespree award; nominated for the Arthur Ellis and Macavity awards.
• Eileen Dreyer, A Man to Die For.  Mystery.
• Loren D. Estleman, The Book of Murdock.  A Page Murdock western.
• Elizabeth George, What Came Before He Shot Her.  Psychological mystery linked to George's Inspector Linley series; the prequel to With No One As Witness.
• David Lynn Golemon, Event.  An Event Group thriller.  What really happened at Rosewell?  And will it mean the end of the world?
• Sue Grafton, W Is for Wasted.  Kinsey Millhone nears the end of the alphabet.
• Martha Grimes, The Blue Last.  A Richard Jury mystery.
• Steven Harper, Battlestar Galactica:  Unity.  Television tie-in novel.  An origin story for the newer series, not the older series.
• Carolyn G. Hart, Death By Surprise.  Mystery.
• David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's Best SF 5.  SF Anthology covering 1999.
• Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes, editors, The Rattle Bag.  Poetry anthology.
• "Jack Higgins" (Harry Patterson), Cold Harbour, Drink with the Devil, Eye of the Storm, Midnight Runner, On Dangerous Ground, The President's Daughter, A Season in Hell, Thunder Point, The White House Connection, and Without Mercy.  Thrillers.
• Hans Holzer, Houses of Horror.  Another collection of supposed hauntings.  File under Humbug.
• P. D. James, The Private Patient.  An Adam Dalgleish mystery.
• William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone, Blood Bond:  Deadly Road to Yuma and Bloodshed of Eagles.  Westerns from a prolific dead man and a "carefully selected" writer  "inspired by Mr. Johnstone's superb storytelling."
• "Chris Jordan" (Rodman Philbrick), Torn.  A Randall Shane thriller.
• Stuart Kaminsky, Now You See It.  Mystery.  Toby Peters meets the magician Blackstone.
• C. Brian Kelly (with an assist from Ingrid Smyer), Best Little Stories from Virginia.  Non-fiction.  Little tidbits from Virginia history, 1607-2003.  Smyer (actually Smyer-Kelly) wrote one chapter of the book, as she has done for most of Kelly's books.  Signed by both Kelly and Smyer.
• Ryan Lockwood, Below.  Horror.  Something lurks in the deeps of the sea.
• Margaret Maron, Christmas Mourning.  Mystery.  Number 16 in the Judge Deborah Knott series.
• John McCain & Mark Salter, Worth the Fighting For:  A Memoir.  Signed and inscribed to previous owner by McCain.
• Ron Miller, The History of Science Fiction.  Non-fiction aimed at a YA audience.
• Doug Murray, The World of Darkness:  Vampire:  Blood Relations.  Gaming tie-in novel.
• Larry Niven, Destiny's Road.  SF.
• Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner, Betrayer of Worlds, Fate of Worlds, and Fleet of Worlds.  SF prequels to Niven's Ringworld.
• Neil Ravin, Informed Consent.  Medical thriller.
• Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World.  Sf.
• "J. R. Roberts" (Robert J. Randisi), The Gunsmith:  #246 Dead Man's Eyes, #307 Red River Showdown, #313 Wildfire, #334 Message on the Wind, #338 Pleasant Valley Shoot-Out, and #341 The Bandit Princess.  Adult westerns in Randisi's long-running series,  Berkley Books has decided to discontinue this series with #399.  #400 (and many more, I hope) will be continued by Piccadilly Publishing in hardback and by Western Trailblazers in paperback.   I hope these books get the support they deserve.
• Mary Beth Sammons & Robert Edwards, City Ghosts.  Even more supposed hauntings.
• Zoe Sharp, Fourth Day.  A Charlie Fox mystery.  A Barry award finalist for best Brritish crime novel.
• Clea Simon, Grey Matters.  A Dulcie Schwartz mystery.  Dulcie solves mysteries with the ghost of her cat, Mr. Grey.  Sounds twee.
• Brian Stableford, Inherit the Earth.  SF.
• G. Harry Stine, Handbook of Model Rocketry, Fourth Edition.  Non-fiction.  Stine also wrote science fiction as "Lee Correy."
• Denise Swanson, Murder of a Needled Knitter.  A Scumble River mystery.
• Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerene.  The first Scot Harvath thriller.
• Roger Welsch, Touching the Fire.:  Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales.  A collection of seven stories rewritten from American Indian folklore and mythology.