MARCUS SAKEY
At the City's Edge
(St. Martin's, $24.95)

"...fast paced from the get-go and just as good as Sakey's stellar debut, The Blade Itself. If you don't already, start recommending him to all your George Pelecanos fans. Highly recommended," said Library Journal. And Kirkus said: "Sakey's second Chicago thriller features a hard-nosed Iraq vet who's limped home to lick his wounds after a less-than-honorable discharge. But when his straight-arrow brother is murdered, he gets caught in the crossfire of what looks like a full-scale street war. ...nimble plotting, pungent atmosphere (Sakey's gritty Chicago is wonderfully evoked) and the nicely handled analogy between combat in Iraq and the gangbangers' vicious codes... A familiar but brutally effective action-heavy thriller..."

LAURA CALDWELL
The Good Liar
(Mira, $6.99, paperback)

When Liza sets up the newly divorced Kate with Michael Waller, an elegant man sixteen years her senior, neither woman expects Kate to fall for him so soon. The relationship is a whirlwind that enthralls Kate ... and frightens Liza. Because Liza knows she may have introduced Kate to more than her dream man; she may have unwittingly introduced her to a dangerous world of secrets. And yet Kate marries Michael and follows him to a French Canadian town called St. Marabel, where she begins to suspect that Michael isn't exactly who he seems. James Rollins called it "A taut international thriller certain to keep readers breathless and awake until the wee hours of the morning."