Book Releases: March 2009

March has quite a few interesting books coming out. Get ready to start making your shopping list now! I’ve scoured the internet to find the most promising releases. From City of Gas to City of Glass here are the titles I think will most interest you.

• Second Skin (Nocturne City, Book 3)by Caitlin Kittredge is coming out March 3rd.  When werewolves from Nocturne City’s oldest packs start showing up shot through the head execution-style, police officer Luna Wilder must find out what’s killing them and why…before she becomes the next victim. Luna traces the killings to a band of shapeshifters made of smoke and shadow who drink the blood of their victims for strength. Believed to exist only in legend, their race is all too real—and now their leader, Lucas Kennuka, is out to wrest Luna’s heart from her beloved Dmitri. To make matters worse, Dmitri is suffering from a mysterious illness brought on by a demon bite, and his condition grows more grave with each passing day. Now Luna must rely on Lucas to defeat an invisible enemy—a serial were-killer bringing death and destruction to all who stand in its path…

• This Is Not a Game: A Novel by Walter Jon Williams comes out March 24th. Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games… Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. Her boss Charlie has his own problems — 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account. Austin is the businessman — the VC. He’s the one with the plan and the one to keep the geeks in line. BJ was there from the start, but while Charlie’s star rose, BJ sank into the depths of customer service. He pads his hours at the call-center slaying on-line orcs, stealing your loot, and selling it on the internet. But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot, the survivors become players in a very different kind of game. Caught between the dangerous worlds of the Russian Mafia and international finance, Dagmar must draw on all her resources — not least millions of online gamers– to track down the killer. In this near-future thriller, Walter Jon Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, murder, and games where you don’t get an extra life.

• Close Encounters: An Alien Affairs Novel, Book 1 by Katherine Allred is out March 31st. Kiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons . . . The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignments—and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger, faster, smarter, and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated. A reluctant “superhero,” Kiera wishes she were normal, but it is not to be. On Orpheus Two, the indigenous Buri race faces extinction, a prospect the powerful Dynatec corporation welcomes and, in fact, may be actively hastening. It is Kiera’s job to protect these beautiful, exotic aliens . . . and to discover what there is on Orpheus Two that Dynatec feels is worth killing for. But the magnetic allure of Thor, the breathtaking Buri leader, is proving a dangerous distraction. And now, to save Thor’s people, Kiera will need a power she’s never before possessed—something hidden in the unexplored recesses of her heart.

March 3rd 2009 Releases:

Escapement by Jay Lake

Coyote Horizon

As Shadows Fade: The Gardella Vampire Chronicles by Colleen Gleason

Deathwish (Cal Leandros, Book 4) by Rob Thurman

The Shadow Queen (Black Jewels, Book 7) by Anne Bishop.

Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh

Act of Will by A. J. Hartley

The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies by David Lubar

Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson

The Cardinal Sins by Andrew M. Greeley

City of Fire by Thomas Fitzsimmons

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne by David Gaider

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

Gas City by Loren D. Estleman

The Golden Rose by Kathleen Bryan

The Hidden World by Paul Park

The Last Paladin by Kathleen Bryan

Lord of Lies by David Zindell

Mage-Guard of Hamor by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

New Blood by Gail Dayton

North Star: A Barnaby Skye Novel by Richard S. Wheeler

Truancy Origins by Isamu Fukui

Waking Brigid by Francis Clark

March 17th 2009 Releases

The Expediter by David Hagberg

Imager: The First Book of the Imager Portfolio by L.E. Modesitt, Jr

The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint

One Second After by William R. Forstchen

March 23rd 2009 Release:

Hand of Isis by Jo Graham

March 24th 2009 Releases:

Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast by Aaron Allston

The Treasure Keeper by Shana Abe

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

March 31st 2009 Releases:

Buyout by Alexander Irvine

Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews.

Seven for a Secret by Elizabeth Bear

Night’s Rose by Annaliese Evans

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl

The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt

Dragon Mage by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe

Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten

Many a River by Elmer Kelton

Schemers by Bill Pronzini

Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott

Skin Deep by Gary Braver

The Killing Way by Tony Hays

The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin

The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove

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