Crime Fiction First Novels 2008

A list featuring selected first novels (mostly hardcover) in the mystery, suspense, thriller and crime fiction genres. This list may not be comprehensive. First novel information is collected from a variety of sources. More additions to the list are coming soon! Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine - unless otherwise noted.

• The Killer's Wife
  Author: Floyd, Bill
  Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780312373399 Date: 2008
  LJ
  From a major new voice in suspense, The Killer's Wife is a story driven by psychological insight and harrowing revelations, asking how well you can ever "really" know the person sleeping beside you. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• The Anatomy of Deception
  Author: Goldstone, Lawrence
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 24 ISBN: 9780385341349 Date: 2008
  PW
  A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, this novel follows a young doctor as he grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer.
  Updated 10.31.07
  
• City of the Sun
  Author: Levien, David
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385523660 Date: 2008
  PW
  Somewhere along his paper route, Jamie Gabriel vanishes without a trace. Fourteen months later, his parents are on the verge of abandoning hope, when they discover private investigator Frank Behr, who begins an unrelenting quest for answers.
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• The Eye of Jade: Mei Wang
  Author: Liang, Diane Wei
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 9781416549550 Date: 2008
  LJ
  This gripping debut novel in a new mystery series features an unforgettable female detective in todays Beijing, whose search for a missing artifact leads her to discover the dishonorable secrets of her nations culture--and her family's past.
  Updated 1.30.08
  
• Ice Trap: A Novel of Suspense
  Author: Sewell, Kitty
  Publisher: Touchstone $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781416539971 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  A richly atmospheric and internationally bestselling debut novel of suspense transports readers to the arctic Canadian wilderness, where a man makes one mistake but pays dearly for another.
  Updated 11.19.07
  
• The Lost City
  Author: Shukman, Henry
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307266941 Date: 2008
  PW
  In his first novel, the author of the fiction collection Mortimer of the Maghreb tells the story of a British expat searching for treasure--and more importantly for connection--amid the seductions and dangers of a rootless life.
  Updated 1.3.08
  
• Child 44
  Author: Smith, Tom Rob
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446402385 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Russia
  Updated 3.3.08
  
• A Carrion Death: Detective Kubu
  Author: Stanley, Michael
  Publisher: Collins $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780061252402 Date: 2008
  PW
  In A Carrion Death, a memorable new detective makes his debut in a gritty and evocative new series set amid the beauty and darkness of contemporary Africa.
  Updated 2.26.08
  

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