Prepub alert.(new books)

FICTION

Adair, Cherry. White Heat. Ballantine. Jul. 2007. 352p. ISBN 0-345-47644-1 [ISBN 978-0-345-47644-9]. $21.95.

Emily Greene is upset enough when her mentor dies. Then she discovers that he may have been murdered. Another in the author's successful series about the private antiterrorist organization T-FLAC.

Agee, Jonis. The River Wife. Random. Jul. 2007. 400p. ISBN 1-4000-6596-8 [ISBN 978-1-4000-6596-7]. $24.95.

In the early 1900s, when Hedie Rails arrives at Jacques' Landing, MS, to marry Clement Dumarche, she discovers diaries harkening back to the early 1800s that reveal the complex life and loves of Clement's grandfather, a frontier river pirate. With an eight-city tour.

Burke, Alafair. Dead Connection. Holt. Jul. 2007. 336p. ISBN 0-8050-7785-5 [ISBN 978-0-8050-7785-8]. $19.95.

Investigating a serial killer who seems to be targeting young women connected with the online dating service First Date, Det. Ellie Hatcher isn't happy when the killer starts acting just like the murderous nut her policeman dad lost his life pursuing. With a ten-city tour.

Carter, Stephen L. New England White. Knopf. Jul. 2007. 560p. ISBN 0-375-41362-6 [ISBN 978-0-375-41362-9]. $26.95. CD: Random Audio.

Murder splits apart a staid New England university town, where university president Lemaster Carlyle and his wife, dean of the divinity school, are African Americans in a sea of white folk. With a 14-city tour and a reading group guide.

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