Killer Year: A Criminal Anthology
 edited
by Lee Child
St. Martin's Minotaur
January 2008
Featuring stories by all of the Killer Year authors, as well as
contributions from Ken Bruen, Allison Brennan, Duane Swierczynski,
MJ Rose and Laura Lippman.
THE CLEANER
 by
Brett Battles
Delacorte
June 2007
When the case professional “cleaner” Jonathan
Quinn is working on takes a turn for the worse, Quinn must leapfrog
continents as he tries to find out why someone might want him dead.
But he soon realizes his own death might be the least of his worries.
THE MARK
 by
Jason Pinter
MIRA Books
June 2007
KISS HER GOODBYE
 by
Robert Gregory Browne
St. Martin's Press
February 2007
When his estranged daughter is kidnapped and buried
alive, an ATF agent's only chance of saving her is to follow a
killer into the darkness of death itself.
BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (very, very, very) BAD DAY
 by
Toni McGee Causey
St. Martin's Press
May 2007
BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (very, very, very) BAD DAY is
the story of the misadventures of one extremely pissed off Cajun
beauty queen battling ex-boyfriends, her "hostage" and
organized crime in order to rescue her no-good pain-in-the-ass
brother from kidnappers run amok in the Louisiana swamps.
THE LIAR'S DIARY
 by
Patry Francis
Dutton
February 2007
When a teenage boy is arrested for a particularly
brutal murder, his mother seeks to learn the truth, and finds herself
increasingly ensnared in a web of lies.
VINNIE'S HEAD
 by
Marc Lecard
St. Martin's Minotaur
March 2007
Small-time criminal Johnnie LoDuco carries his
best
friend's head around Long Island in a plastic garbage bag, trying
to stay alive. Mysterious figures want to hurt him--and the people
trying to help him are just as lethal.
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WHEN ONE MAN DIES
 by
Dave White
Three Rivers Press
September 2007
ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS
 by
J.T. Ellison
MIRA Books
November 2007
Nashville Homicide LT Taylor Jackson and FBI profiler
John Baldwin combat a vicious killer terrorizing the Southeast.
A WICKED SNOW
 by
Gregg Olsen
Kensington
March 2007
Southern California criminal investigator Hannah
Griffin teams up with FBI agent Jeff Bauer to catch her mother,
a notorious serial killer who pulled off the greatest vanishing
act in history.
LOST DOG
 by
Bill Cameron
Midnight Ink
April 2007
Early on a sodden Portland, Oregon morning, Peter
McKrall, unemployed smart-ass and kleptomaniac, goes to the park
to find his niece's lost toy dog. He doesn't realize his search
is being watched by the paranoid killer of the dead hooker he finds
instead.
BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD
 by
Sean Chercover
William Morrow
January 2007
When a simple bodyguard job threatens to expose
society’s most powerful and corrupt, Ray Dudgeon's odds of
survival make for a sucker's bet. The worlds of Hollywood moviemaking,
Chicago organized crime, and Washington politics collide in this
P.I. thriller.
PYRES
 by
Derek Nikitas
St. Martin's Minotaur
Fall 2007
When a folklore professor is shot dead in his car,
the crime smashes together the lives of three disparate women:
his anguished teenage daughter, a detective facing her own family’s
collapse, and the pregnant former-junkie girlfriend of the killer.
THE BLADE ITSELF
 by
Marcus Sakey
St. Martin's Minotaur
January 2007
Danny Carter thought he was safe in his new life—until
the old one came looking for him. An anticipated debut that’s
drawn comparisons to Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, and James Ellroy.
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