Abbott, Jeff. Blame. Grand Central. Mar. 2017. 400p. ISBN 9781455558438. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781455558452. lib. ebk. ISBN 9781455595662. Downloadable: Hachette Audio. THRILLER Another Sam Capra thriller from this three-time Edgar nominee? Actually not. Abbott has decided to take a break and write a stand-alone psychological suspense novel, for which there are no plot details but at least a setting: Austin. With a 25,000-copy first printing and a five-city tour. Bell, Darcey. A Simple Favor. Harper. Mar. 2017. 304p. ISBN 9780062497772. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062497796. THRILLER Widowed, stay-at-home mommy blogger Stephanie is glad to help out Emily by picking up her five-year-old son, Nicky, at school. After all, she and Emily are best friends, as are their two sons. But when Emily doesn’t show up to get Nicky at day’s end, she knows that something is very, very wrong. With a 100,000-copy first printing, rights sold to 24 countries and territories, and film rights quickly preempted by Fox 2000, this is one big debut. Box, C.J. Vicious Circle. Putnam. Mar. 2017. 384p. ISBN 9780399176616. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780698410077. THRILLER Back for his 17th outing, game warden Joe Pickett must face down the Cates family, local nasties who once threatened his daughter. Box’s latest, Off the Grid, was a No. 1 New York Times best seller, and he’s won Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, so what are you waiting for? With a national tour and year-round promotional efforts for Box’s entire oeuvre. Coulter, Catherine & J.T. Ellison. The Devil’s Triangle. Gallery: S. & S. Mar. 2017. 448p. ISBN 9781501150326. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781501150357. THRILLER New York Times best-selling authors Coulter and Ellison return with the next in their newish “Brit in the FBI” series featuring special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine. They’re now heading up the Covert Eyes team, which targets especially dangerous international criminals, and they've just heard from a world-infamous thief named the Fox that a Gobi Desert sandstorm responsible for the deaths of thousands might have been human-made. Cussler, Clive. The Cutthroat. Putnam. Mar. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9780399575600. $29; ebk. ISBN 9780399575617. CD: downloadable: Penguin Audio. ACTION & ADVENTURE Back for a tenth outing following The Gangster, a No. 1 New York Times best seller on the print, ebook, and combined lists, early 20th-century detective Isaac Bell is tasked with finding a young woman named Anna Pape who’s run off to become an actress. (If only.) Alas, she turns up dead, and with young women resembling Anna being killed in similar fashion nationwide, Bell knows he’s confronting real evil. Daly, Paula. The Trophy Child. Grove. Mar. 2017. 386p. ISBN 9780802125941. $25. THRILLER Tiger mother Karen Bloom might have the sharpest claws ever, but the family situation is less than perfect. Doctor husband Noel likes women and wine, brilliant daughter Bronte wants to leave home, stepdaughter Verity is turning nasty, and Karen’s son from a previous relationship is sunk into drugs. Then real tragedy strikes. Fourth in Daly’s “English Lake District” series, following Just What Kind of Mother Are You? (a finalist for the Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best First Novel), Keep Your Friends Close (short-listed for the Crime Writers’ Association's Gold Dagger Award), and The Mistake I Made (“highly recommended,” LJ). Dolan-Leach, Caite. Dead Letters. Random. Mar. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9780399588853. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780399588860. CD/downloadable. Random Audio. THRILLER In this exemplar of literary suspense, Ava Antipova is suspicious when she learns that Zelda, the volatile twin sister from whom she’s estranged, reputedly died in a barn fire. And no wonder: soon she’s following emails from Zelda to figure out what has happened to her. A debut novel with great writing and lots of in-house love. Downing, David. Lenin’s Roller Coaster. Soho Crime. Mar. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9781616956042. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616956059. THRILLER In winter 1917, British spy Jack McColl is on a sabotage mission to counter German influence in central Asia, while his beloved Caitlin Hanley, an Irish American journalist, is thrilled to be covering the revolution in Russia. Their differing politics means that not just their relationship but their lives are in danger. Following the World War I–set series begun with Jack of Spies and One Man’s Flag, one of Soho’s top-selling series. Engel, Amy The Roanoke Girls. Crown. Mar. 2017. 288p. ISBN 9781101906668. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781101906675. CD/downloadable: Random Audio. THRILLER Fifteen years old when her mother commits suicide, Lane Roanoke must go live with her indifferent grandparents in rural Kansas. She bonds with spiky cousin Allegra but discovers a devastating family secret that sends her far away until years later, when she learns that cousin Allegra has gone missing. Engel’s first adult novel after the YA titles The Book of Ivy and The Revolution of Ivy; reputedly not for those easily spooked. With a 100,000-copy first printing. Goodman, Carol. The Widow’s House. Morrow Paperbacks. Mar. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9780062562623. pap. $15.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062562630. THRILLER Goodman, who launched her career with the hugely best-selling The Lake of Dead Languages and got a starred LJ review for 2016’s River Road, is slated for a makeover; her books will now appear in a bold-looking trade paperback original format. Also slated for a makeover, protagonists Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley so that Jess can write that long-anticipated follow-up to his smashing debut novel. But at creepy Riven House, where they serve as caretakers, Clare starts hearing crying babies even as mysterious figures unwind themselves from the fog. With a 50,000-copy first printing. Graham, Heather. A Perfect Obsession. Mira: Harlequin. Mar. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9780778319870. $26.99. ISBN 9781460396520. THRILLER Winner of RWA's Lifetime Achievement Award and the International Thriller Writers' Silver Bullet, Graham returns to her “New York Confidential” series, featuring Special Agent Craig Frasier. Chasing after a New York–based serial killer who displays his beautiful victims in mausoleums and underground tombs, Craig is unhappy to have girlfriend Kieran Finnegan, a forensic psychologist, on the case; the latest victim has been found close to the family pub she co-owns. With a 100,000-copy first printing. Iles, Greg. Mississippi Blood. Morrow. Mar. 2017. 608p. ISBN 9780062311153. $28.99. lrg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio. THRILLER In the first two volumes of Iles’s New York Times best-selling trilogy, “Natchez Burning,” small-town Southern lawyer Penn Cage learned that his physician father stands accused of murdering his former African American nurse and is somehow linked to a particularly vicious branch of the KKK called the Double Eagles. With his father still refusing his assistance, Penn teams up with Serenity Butler, a high-profile young black woman in town to write a book about his father’s case. Soon they're going head to head with the Double Eagles, Cage family secrets, and the South’s history of violence. With a 400,000-copy first printing. Jance, J.A. Man Overboard. Touchstone: S. & S. Mar. 2017. 352p. ISBN 9781501110801. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781501110818. CD: S. & S. Audio. THRILLER Genius software engineer Roger McGeary is celebrating his 40th birthday with a fancy cruise when he plummets to his death from his stateroom’s balcony. Suicide? That’s what everyone thinks, except for his strong-willed maiden aunt, who runs a race horse refuge. To get some answers, she turns to series stalwart Ali Reynolds. With a national author tour. Laukkanen, Owen. The Forgotten Girls. Putnam. Mar. 2017. 368p. ISBN 9780399174551. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780698194106. THRILLER The multi-award-nominated Laukkanen returns after The Watcher in the Wall with another thriller starring Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force. Here they’re following up scant clues to a killer targeting young female drifters on the High Line train traversing the northern Rocky Mountains. Chilly doings that draw on real-life cases. Love, Melissa. Lola. Crown. Mar. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9780451496102. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780451496126. Downloadable: Random Audio. THRILLER Longtime TV writer Love launches her fiction career with the portrait of one tough young woman named Lola. Ostensibly the dutiful girlfriend of Garcia, leader of a gang called the Crenshaw Six that’s rising fast in South Central Los Angeles, she’s actually the knife-sharp, tough-as-bullets brains behind the entire operation. The gang members really need her when they’re drawn into all-out war between rival drug cartels. With a 50,000-copy first printing. Masterman, Becky. A Twist of the Knife. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. Mar. 2017. 336p. ISBN 9781250074515. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781466886223. CD: Macmillan Audio. THRILLER Masterman, who kick-started her writing career with the Edgar and CWA Gold Dagger nominee Rage Against the Dying, now assigns former FBI agent Brigid Quinn a third case. Brigid has settled in Tucson but returns to Florida to help former partner Laura Coleman, who’s on leave from the bureau and volunteering for a legal group working to prove the innocence of a man on death row. Since Brigid has her doubts, this case should prove fraught. Monroe, J.S. Find Me. Mira: Harlequin. Mar. 2017. 400p. ISBN 9780778330011. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781460396742.THRILLER The author of five spy thrillers, beginning with the John Creasey Memorial Dagger short-listed The Riot Act, Jon Stock takes on a different name to write a different kind of book. His protagonist, Jarlath "Jar" Costello, is told that he’s suffering from post-bereavement hallucinations when he declares that he keeps seeing girlfriend Rosa, who supposedly committed suicide five years ago while at Cambridge. He’s even more convinced that she’s alive when he gets hold of Rosa’s diary, courtesy of her aunt, and is dragged down into a smoke-and-mirrors underworld he never knew Rosa inhabited. With a 100,000-copy first printing. Parks, Brad. Say Nothing. Dutton. Mar. 2017. 448p. ISBN 9781101985595. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781101985618. Downloadable: Penguin Audio. THRILLER A former reporter and the only author to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty awards, Parks opens his new thriller with Judge Scott Sampson receiving a text from wife Alison that she’ll pick up their six-year-old twins at swimming. But Alison never sent that text; instead, Sam and Emma have been kidnapped by a man who tells the judge exactly how he’ll rule in an upcoming drug case—or else. With a five-city tour. Quirk, Matthew. Dead Man Switch. Mulholland. Mar. 2017. 320p. ISBN 9780316259231. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780316259224. lib. ebk. ISBN 9780316269896. Downloadable: Hachette Audio. THRILLER From California to Brittany, members of America's most select kill/capture team are being systematically knocked off. But team members are so deeply undercover that no one makes the connection until special operations genius John Hayes returns to the field and is stunned by the disappearance of brilliant assassin Claire Sutherland. Is a big attack on U.S. soil in the offing? With a 35,000-copy first printing; Quirk’s best-selling debut, The 500, is in development for the big screen. Stevens, Chevy. Never Let You Go. St. Martin’s. Mar. 2017. 384p. ISBN 9781250034564. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250034571. THRILLER With her former husband jailed for his abusive behavior, Lindsey Nash has left town and started over, convinced that he will never be able to find her and their teenage daughter. But now that he’s been released from prison, Lindsey’s home has been invaded, her boyfriend threatened, and her daughter stalked. Is her same old tormentor responsible—or someone new? The author of Still Missing, which won the International Thrillers Writers Award for Best First Novel, and most recently Those Girls, Stevens always elicits oohs from thriller fanatics. White, Randy Wayne. Mangrove Lightning: A Doc Ford Novel. Putnam. Mar. 2017. 384p. ISBN 9780399576683. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780399576706. CD/downloadable: Penguin Audio. THRILLER Doc Ford scratches his head when a revered local, the charter captain and guide Tootsie Barlow, proclaims that attacks on his extended family are the result of a curse dating from a multiple murder in 1925 in which the family played an unfortunate part. But when he and his friend Tomlinson start tracking the attacks from Key Largo to Tallahassee, they’re nearly killed. Doc Ford’s 24th outing, to which White contributes his skills as veteran fishing guide who once had his own local PBS show.