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Key Mass Market Titles
Nora Roberts – The Circle Trilogy
• A new trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. The Circle Trilogy has all the magic and romance that fans have come to expect from Roberts, plus an exciting
new paranormal element.
Morrigan’s CrossMass Market/Jove
0-515-14165-8/$7.99August
Valley Of SilenceMass Market/Jove
0-515-14167-4/$7.99November
Dance Of The GodsMass Market/Berkley0-515-14166-6/$7.99
October
Sue Grafton – S Is For Silence – IE
• Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the
annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In
the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she’d run off with a lover. Some said
she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old
daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet’s absence has never been
explained nor forgotten. Now, she wants the solace of closure.
• Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone mystery series has produced many New York
Times bestsellers.
S Is For SilenceSue Grafton
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21087-1Available September 2006
Clive Cussler – Dark Watch – IE
• Juan Cabrillo is the CEO of the good ship Oregon. On the outside
it looks like a rusty old cargo ship. However, looks can be
deceiving. The Oregon is actually a high tech spy vessel, which
does work for several western governments.
• The first book in this series, Golden Buddha, has received strong reviews and excellent
numbers in trade, and the second book, Sacred Stone, was a New York Times bestseller for
seven weeks.
Dark WatchClive Cussler
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21092-8Available September 2006
Kim Edwards – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter IE
The Memory Keeper’s DaughterKim Edwards
Penguin Mass Market IE$7.99
0-14-303813-3Available November 2006
• On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his
own twins. His son is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees
immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to
protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never
to reveal the secret. The Memory Keeper's Daughter is Kim Edwards’ brilliantly crafted family drama debut
book.
• "Kim Edwards writes with great wisdom and compassion ... This is a wonderful,
heartbreaking, heart-healing novel." The Washington Post
The New York Times #1 Bestseller!!
Harlan Coben – Promise Me – IE
• Promise Me is the new novel from Coben’s bestselling series, featuring
Myron Bolitar. This series includes Darkest Fear, The Final Detail and
many others.
• The short story “Super D” – featuring Myron Bolitar – was featured
exclusively in the hardcover of The Innocent, and introduced Myron
Bolitar to Harlan’s new fans, preparing the way for Promise Me.
• The latest novel from Coben, The Innocent, debuted at #7 on the New
York Times bestseller list. Other recent books include Just One Look,
No Second Chance and Gone For Good.
Promise MeHarlan Coben
NAL Mass Market IE$7.99
0-451-21928-7Available November 2006
Tom Clancy – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell #3
• Sam Fisher is a special operative of the National
Security Agency. He uses high-tech gadgets to protect
America from terrorist threats.
• This is the third entry in the New York Times bestselling
series.
• The Splinter Cell series is based on the #1 bestselling computer game of the same
name. The computer game has an incredibly high profile
thanks to a national ad campaign.
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell #3Tom Clancy
Berkley Mass Market $9.99
0-425-21278-5Available November 2006
Christine Feehan – Conspiracy Game
• In the jungles of the Congo, GhostWalker sniper Jack Norton is in a
tough situation, but the last thing he expects is to find Briony Jenkins, a
woman who has his abilities, but who has no idea what she is. Their enemies
will chase them to the wilderness of Montana -- where they will discover her
secrets or die trying.
• The fourth Game book in the New York Times bestselling paranormal
romantic suspense series from Christine Feehan.
• Feehan’s books include Mind Game, Dark Demon, and many other New
York Times bestsellers.
Conspiracy GameChristine FeehanJove Mass Market
$7.99 0-515-14216-6
Available November 2006
Richard Clarke – The Scorpion’s Gate
• A coup has finally toppled the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, and put a determined
but shaky Islamic government in its place. Everywhere, the scent of oil has
begun to attract the scorpions, and among them are men in Washington and
another capital ready to strike a devil's bargain to fundamentally realign the
map of the Middle East. The plans are not the same, however – though some of
the planners think they are. Hidden agendas, fierce ambition, faulty
intelligence – soon the dominos will start to fall!
• For three decades, Richard A. Clarke worked in the White House, State
Department, Pentagon, and as adviser to four presidents. He is also the author of
the #1 bestseller Against All Enemies.The Scorpion’s Gate
Richard ClarkeBerkley Mass Market
$9.990-425-21298-X
Available December 2006
Jesse Kellerman – Sunstroke
• When businessman Carl Perreira disappears during his vacation in
Mexico, his loyal assistant, Gloria – who’s secretly been in love with him for years – decides to journey across
the border herself to retrieve his body. But the deeper into the desert
she travels, the more shocking discoveries she makes. About Carl.
About herself. And about how elusive and dangerous the truth can
be.
• The blazingly original novel from the most exciting new voice in crime
fiction today - a brilliantly crafted modern noir filled with secrets,
heartbreak, and mordant humor.Sunstroke
Jesse KellermanJove Mass Market
$7.990-5151-4223-9
Available December 2006
W.E.B. Griffin – The Hostage
• Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security,
but he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And
no situation demands discretion more than the one before them
now. An American diplomat’s wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband is murdered before her
eyes. Her children will be next, she is warned, if she doesn’t tell them
where her brother is — who may know quite a bit about the
burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal.
• The second book in the Presidential Agent series. The first
book, By Order Of The President was a New York Times bestseller.The Hostage
W.E.B. GriffenJove Mass Market
$9.990-515-14240-9
Available January 2007
Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Dropped A
Bombshell• James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back
for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who . . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko
has developed a strange new hobby: He drops himself from balconies,
occasionally landing in the oddest of places. Meanwhile, a hurricane is brewing, and the visitor's family
members soon fall deathly ill. Qwill has his work cut out for him as Pickax-as foreshadowed by Koko-is about to be
hit by a bombshell.
• The Cat Who… series has produced many New York Times bestsellers.
The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell
Lilian Jackson BraunJove Mass Market
$7.990-515-14241-7
Available January 2007
John Lescroart – The Hunt Club • Wyatt Hunt is a self-employed private
investigator. Following the death of his fiancee, Hunt isn’t looking for work. When
a federal judge and his mistress are murdered, Hunt figures it’s someone
else’s case – until the lead suspect becomes his friend and business
associate, attorney Andrea Parisi.
• Praise for John Lescroart’s The Motive: "Excellent . . . The Motive [is] a smashing
legal thriller that surpasses anything Grisham ever wrote and bears comparison
with Turow. . . . Lescroart does many things well, but two factors above all distinguish his writing. The first is its
realism. . . . Second, his books are notable for their characterizations. This is not a
novel you’ll put down willingly.” –The Washington Post
• John Lescroart is the author the New York
Times bestselling novel The Second Chair.
The Hunt ClubJohn Lescroart
NAL Mass Market$9.99
0-451-22010-2Available January 2007
Catherine Coulter – Point Blank• FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most dangerous case of
their careers in Catherine Coulter's explosive, fast-paced thriller.
• Point Blank's propulsive story takes off when FBI agents Dillon Savich and
Dane Carver are nearly killed while trying to rescue popular entertainer
Pinky Womack from kidnappers. Lured to a motel in Pumis City, Virginia, by a
known snitch, the only thing the agents discover is a glowing red timer. The
place is demolished in a catastrophic explosion, but everyone survives… but
that’s just the beginning!
• Coulter a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her books include
the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove and many others.
Point BlankCatherine CoulterJove Mass Market
$7.990-515-14168-2
Available January 2007
Jayne Ann Krentz – All Night Long
All Night LongJayne Ann KrentzJove Mass Market
$7.990-515-14250-6
Available February 2007
• Irene Stenson and Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship
ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home-and Irene walked in to discover
her parents' bodies on the kitchen floor. It was ruled a murder-suicide, and Irene
fled the northern California town of Dunsley. But seventeen years later, when
Pamela sends a cryptic e-mail asking for help, Irene returns to find a lot of ugly,
unanswered questions.
• The hardcover edition debuted at #6 on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
• Jayne Ann Krentz is the author of over 40 New York Times Bestsellers, and has
more than 25 million copies of her books in print.
Virginia Baker – Jack Knife
Jack KnifeVirginia Baker
Jove Mass Market$7.99
0-515-14252-2Available February 2007
Jonathon Avery is a brilliant scientist working on a top-secret governmental project--a time machine. But when he
realizes that he’s not going to be chosen for the first mission, he decides to
highjack the technology by going back in time with a will to do some harm to the
future.
The beautiful Sara Grant, another scientist, and David Elliot, a stunningly handsome special-ops, are sent after
Avery. They arrive in London in the midst of a riot because more and more of
their number are falling victim to a gruesome murderer; Jack the Ripper.
With the help of Jonas Robb, a gentleman inspector who’s hot on the Ripper’s heels,
she and David try desperately to track the Avery down before he can change the
course of history.
Jack Kerley – A Garden Of Vipers• When a young reporter is found
murdered, Mobile detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus wonder if there
may be more to this slaying than a standard homicide. Simultaneously, the
detectives are drawn into the dealings of the Kincannon family. When Ryder is
abducted by bizarre and unknown forces, he ユ s given up for dead by all but those
closest to him. Digging fast as Ryder’s time disappears, they discover a web of
connections between the murdered reporter, the dealings of an elusive
bearded man, and the charitable enterprises of the Kincannons.
• The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors impressed critics everywhere.
Now, Jack Kerley is poised to break out to the next level as his crime-thriller series,
featuring Alabama detective Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus, continues in A
Garden of Vipers.
A Garden Of VipersJack Kerley
NAL Mass Market$7.99
0-451-41233-8Available February 2007
Clive Cussler – Polar Shift IE
Polar ShiftClive Cussler
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21133-9Available March 2007
Polar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred
many times in the past. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter, and if that happens —
exit Earth.Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian
genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-
globalization group plans to use it to give the world's industrialized nations a jolt. Austin, Zavala, and the rest of the
NUMA Special Assignments Team certainly have faced dire situations
before, but never have they encountered anything like this. This
time…even they may be too late.
Robert B. Parker – Sea Change
Sea ChangeRobert B. Parker
Berkley Mass Market$7.99
0-425-21442-7Available March 2007
When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police
chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it
initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what
proves to be an emotionally charged investigation. Florence
Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida.
Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but
no one is talking. But someone-Jesse-has to speak for the dead,
even if it puts him in harm's way.
Randy Wayne White – Dark Light
Dark LightRandy Wayne WhiteBerkley Mass Market
$7.990-425-21444-3
Available March 2007
The old woman who visits Doc Ford's lab late one night has a haunting
story, of a loved one lost while rendezvousing with a German
submarine off the coast of Florida sixty years earlier, of her belief that he was being blackmailed and that
the storm has given her a second chance to prove his innocence by uncovering the wreck of his boat-
and the truth-if only Ford would look for it.
Stephen White – Kill Me
Kill MeStephen White
NAL Mass Market$9.99
0-451-22071-4Available March 2007
• What if you could choose when to die? But once you decide, you can’t change
your mind.
Ever.
No matter what.
• New York Times bestselling author Stephen White has written a new breed of
thriller. Throw out everything you think you know about twists, turns, and
surprises.Get ready for the next big thing.
Get ready to meet the Death Angels.
Martha Grimes – The Old Wine Shade
The Old Wine ShadeMartha Grimes
NAL Mass Market$9.99
0-451-22072-2Available March 2007
“The dog came back”
“This is a joke, right?”
Harry Johnson, a stranger, sits down next to Richard Jury as he’s drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine
Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story
about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one
day as they were viewing property in Surrey. They’ve been missing for nine months—no trace, no clue, no lead as
to what happened.
Christine Feehan – Deadly Game
• The GhostWalkers are an elite force, a secret military experiment.
With enhanced physical and mental abilities, they find
themselves in the middle of a vast conspiracy, and realize there have been others secretly – and illegally
– enhanced; specifically women who have been experimented on
as children. Now, it’s a race against time to track these women
before it’s too late…
• Christine Feehan is a New York Times Bestselling author, reaching as high as #2 with Dark Demon.
Deadly GameChristine FeehanJove Mass Market
$7.990-515-14261-1
Available March 2007
Patricia Cornwell – At Risk – IE
• A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville,
Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, is planning to run for
governor, and she’s planning to use as a showcase a new crime initiative
called At Risk. In particular, she’s been looking for a way to use some cutting-
edge new forensics technology, and she thinks she’s found it in a twenty-
year-old murder of an elderly woman. If her office solves it for them, it ought
to make her look pretty good.
• Patricia Cornwell is the Gold Dagger and Edgar-winning author of fourteen
Scarpetta novels, three non-Scarpettas, and Portrait
Of A Killer.At Risk
Patricia CornwellBerkley Mass Market IE
$7.990-425-21476-1
Available April 2007
Laurell Hamilton – Danse Macabre
As the days pass, Anita’s less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she
shares with women down the ages: She may be pregnant. And, if she is,
whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, she knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising
the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a
baby…
Danse MacabreLaurell Hamilton
Jove Mass Market$7.99
0-515-14281-6Available April 2007
Jack Higgins – A Fine Night For Dying
• Weighted down by chains, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston was
dragged out of the English Channel in the nets of a local fishing boat. British
intelligence suspects a connection with a modern cross-channel smuggling ring.
But as undercover agent Paul Chavasse embarks on what will be one of the most
dangerous cases in his extraordinary career, he soon discovers that this is no small-time operation – and the ruthless men behind it will go to any lengths to
protect their precious cargo.
• Jack Higgins is the New York Times Bestselling author of Dark Justice and
Without Mercy.
A Fine Night For DyingJack Higgins
Berkley Mass Market$9.99
0-425-21477-XAvailable April 2007
Michael Prescott – Final Sins
Security consultant Abby Sinclair is back, and this time she’s working for a
killer. Ten years ago, German serial killer Peter Jacobson was found not
guilty by reason of insanity; now he’s out of the asylum and living in Los Angeles. He hires Abby to stop a
stalker he feels is threatening him and his girlfriend. When Abby’s
investigation uncovers a rogue law enforcement operation and almost
gets her killed, she is forced to turn to FBI agent Tess McCallum, her hated
rival, for help.
Final SinsMichael Prescott
Mass Market$7.99
0-451-41230-3Available April 2007
Amanda Quick – Second Sight
• Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to engineer her own ravishment. But her romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. Venetia’s
special “double vision” has caught the attention of someone her
employer, Mr. Gabriel Jones, is tracking – someone who will go to
any lengths, even murder, to possess an ancient, extraordinary
secret that has been lost for centuries.
Second SightAmanda Quick
Jove Mass Market$7.99
0-515-142-808Available April 2007
Stuart Woods – Short Straw
Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared Woods's
thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the
seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment.
Ed Eagle awakens to find that Barbara has vanished, and Ed's money has been wired
to the Cayman Islands. Ed hires two slightly shady investigators to search for
his wife who track Barbara down in Puerto Vallarta, and discover that someone else
may also be involved. Ed soon finds himself caught in a scheme that is much
more far reaching-and deadly-than anyone would have expected.
Short StrawStuart Woods
Signet Mass Market$9.99
0-451-22084-6Available April 2007
John Sandford – Dead Watch IE
Early morning, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband,
a former U.S. Senator, has been missing for days. Kidnapped?
Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks she knows who's
involved, and why.
And that she's next.
Dead WatchJohn Sandford
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21620-9Available May 2007
T.C. Boyle – Talk Talk IE• The first time Bridger saw Dana she
was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-
rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerized. That night they were
both deaf... and the next morning Bridger was in love. Now, she is in a courtroom, her legs shackled, as a list of charges is
read out. A man, William “Peck” Wilson, has been living a blameless life of
criminal excess at Dana’s expense. Together, Bridger and Dana set out and
drive across America looking for Peck and a life of their own.
• Penguin will release Tooth And Claw and the 25th anniversary edition of Water
Music, Boyle’s first novel, in paperback simultaneously. Boyle is a New York
Times bestseller –– his novels include The Inner Circle, Drop City and World’s End.Talk Talk
T.C. BoyleBerkley Mass Market IE
$7.990-143-11219-8
Available May 2007
Dick Francis – Under Orders IE • Death at the races is not uncommon.
But three in one day was more than enough to raise suspicions. And with jockey Huw Walker dead from three
bullets in the chest, and not a racecourse spill, Sid Halley finds there are more than a few reasons why someone had set their
sights on Walker – with Sid next in line.
• Under Orders is the new novel from one of the world’s most beloved writers in six years -- and it’s also a brilliant return for
the Grand Master’s most popular and enduring hero, Sid Halley, the former
jockey-turned-detective, not seen since 1995’s Edgar Award-winning Come To
Grief.
• Francis’s last novel, Shattered, was on the New York Times bestseller list for five
weeks, getting as high as #5.Under OrdersDick Francis
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21623-3Available May 2007
Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb – Born In Death
• Lt. Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when
two young lovers – both employees of the same
prestigious accounting firm – are brutally killed on the same night.
• Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
more than 150 novels.
• The In Death series has produced many bestsellers.
Born In DeathNora Roberts/J.D. Robb
Berkley Mass Market$7.99
0-425-21568-7Available May 2007
C.J. Box – In Plain Sight
• J. W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He blames one man for the
death of his brother: Joe Pickett. And now J. W. is going to make him suffer.
• C. J. Box is the author of five Joe Pickett novels, and has won the
Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards. He has also been an
Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native,
Box serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.
In Plain SightC.J.Box
Berkley Mass Market$7.99
0-425-21579-2Available May 2007
W.E.B. Griffin – The Saboteurs
• Griffin fans have waited years for the return of his rousing stories of the
OSS, and now, at last, aided and abetted by his son, William E.
Butterworth IV, Griffin has brought back his iconoclastic heroes in a
brand-new adventure.
• The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are
hunting down and sinking U.S. supply ships, and ships are being burned at
their moorings in U.S. ports-is it accident or is it sabotage? Meanwhile, Allied forces are secretly preparing to
invade first Sicily and then Italy. As the war heats up, Wild Bill Donovan's
agents, answerable only to the president, find themselves battling on
two fronts at once-and fate is just about to deal them a surprise. The Saboteurs
W.E.B. GriffinJove Mass Market
$9.990-515-14306-5
Available June 2007
Robert B. Parker – Blue Screen
Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films
of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect
his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, Sunny knows from the start that
the prickly, spoiled beauty won't make her job easy. And when Erin's
sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar
daddy Bollen, there doesn't seem to be a single lead worth pursuing.
Blue ScreenRobert B. Parker
Berkley Mass Market$9.99
0-425-21598-9Available June 2007
Daniel Silva – The Messenger IE
• Gabriel Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian
master terrorist, when a figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem. Monsignor
Luigi Donati is the private secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII, and a man as ruthless as he is intelligent. Now, he has
come to seek Allon's help in investigating that murder of a young
Swiss guard. Allon concludes that Donati has every right to be concerned as he follows the trail from the heart of
the Vatican to the valleys of Switzerland and beyond, and slowly unravels a conspiracy of lies and deception.
• The latest novel in Silva’s New York Times bestselling series featuring
Gabriel Allon. Books in this series include Prince Of Fire and
The First Assassin. The MessengerDaniel Silva
Mass Market IE$7.99
TKAvailable July 2007
Robin Cook – Crisis IE
• Dr. Craig Bowman is shocked and humiliated when he is served a
summons for medical malpractice. Suddenly, his lifestyle, his livelihood,
and his marriage have fallen apart, and Bowman is the centerpiece of a
nasty court battle. And when the body of his final patient is exhumed, Bowman’s life truly falls apart. Plus,
Crisis marks the return of Dr. Jack Stapleton, who is called in as a
forensic expert in the case.
• Robin Cook, the master of the medical thriller, is a consistent New
York Times bestseller. His books include Seizure, Marker and many
others!
CrisisRobin Cook
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21624-1Available July 2007
Clive Cussler – Treasure Of Khan
• When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia’s Lake
Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. But that all changes when the survey team is
abducted and Pitt’s research vessel nearly sunk. All trails lead to Mongolia and a mysterious
mogul who is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing secret
technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream of restoring the conquests of his ancestors, and
holds a dark secret about Genghis Kahn that just might give him the wealth and power to do!
• Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of thirty previous books, including eighteen Dirk Pitt Novels, six NUMA Files adventures, three Oregon Files books and three works of nonfiction. He is
also a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
COMING SOON: Treasure of KhanClive Cussler
Berkley Mass Market IE$7.99
0-425-21622-5Available November 2007