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The Mosaic Crimes Giulio Leoni Harcourt Hardcover, 336pp $25.00 Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence is on the case. It is his first official investigation. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of Florence, following a trail full of intrigue and mystery. Why have seven scholars, each a master of his art, assembled in the city? What was the secret that might have been revealed had the artist lived to complete his work? Was it an alchemist's formula to trans-form lead into gold? Did it have to do with Antilia, wild and beautiful, who dances nightly in a tavern owned by a one-armed crusader? Or perhaps with another elusive Beatrice, the heiress to the imperial Swabian throne, whose rumored arrival in the city could upset the political aspirations of Pope Boniface, Dante's nemesis? Leoni's voice is wry and irreverent as he pokes fun at the genius poet and renders Dante a human being—brilliant but temperamental, bumbling but undaunted. An enthralling historical thriller from Italy's new maestro of crime.	The Fifth Vial Michael Palmer St. Martin's Press Hardcover, 372pp $25.95 Bestseller Palmer (The Society) tackles the illegal transplant organ trade in his entertaining 12th medical suspense novel. What do three very different people-Harvard medical student Natalie Reyes, Chicago PI Ben Callahan and scientific genius Joe Anson-have in common? Natalie, in Brazil for a conference, is attacked, hospitalized and loses a lung; Ben gets hired to discover how a mutilated anonymous body died; Joe, the inventor of an untested medical breakthrough, is forced into an operation for his life-threatening pulmonary fibrosis. All three seek answers connected to the Whitestone Foundation, a conglomerate that's a front for the Guardians, a secret cabal of medical specialists. At a hidden hospital in the Brazilian rain forest, Natalie and Ben learn of the Guardians' insidious methods. Huge sums are at stake as the arrogant Guardians make medical decisions largely motivated by greed.
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The Shape Shifter Tony Hillerman Harper Collins Hardcover, 288pp $26.95 Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is back in this latest tale of murder and mystery from New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman. With Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito on their honeymoon, Joe's left on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he thought impossible to solve.	Death's Little Helpers Peter Spiegelman Vintage Softcover, 352pp $13.95 In this masterful follow-up to Peter Spiegelman's stunning debut "Black Maps," private investigator John March finds himself drawn into a web of corruption that extends from the halls of high finance to the dark underworld of organized crime.
The Ruins Scott Smith Knopf Hardcover, 336pp $24.95 The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group-the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig.	Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel James Lee Burke Simon & Schuster Hardcover, 368pp $26.00 In Pegasus Descending, James Lee Burke again explores psyches as much as evidence, and tries to make sense of human behavior as well as of his characters' crimes. Richly atmospheric, frightening in its sudden violence, and replete with the sort of puzzles only the best crime fiction creates, Burke's latest novel is an unforgettable roller coaster of passion, surprise, and regret.
The Foreign Correspondent Alan Furst Random House Hardcover, 288pp $24.95 "The greatest living writer of espionage fiction" ("Houston Chronicle") returns with his most suspenseful and stylish novel yet, in which an international news correspondent's secret life leads him to become a target for assassination.	In the Company of Cheerful Ladies: The New Novel in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series Alexander McCall Smith Knopf Softcover, 256pp $12.95 This time around, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is busier than usual at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, when a strange intruder in her house forces her to confront a painful secret from her past.
Fear Itself Walter Mosely Little Brown Hardcover, 320pp $24.95 Another tensely plotted, action-filled thriller from the bestselling writer hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times for “detective fiction at its best – bold, breathtaking, and brutal.”	Small Town Lawrence Block Harper Collins Hardcover, 464pp $24.95 Lawrence Block's glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen.
The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon Hardcover, 186pp $19.95 In this latest volume from Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Precious manages to cope with assorted dilemmas with her customary mix of insight and good-heartedness.	The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Doubleday Hardcover, 464pp $24.95 A murder at the Louvre and a baffling clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move.