Fiction in July 2000....

BERG, Elizabeth.
Open House.
Random. Jul. 2000. 256p.
ISBN 0-375-50100-2. $22.95.
After indulging in a spending spree at Tiffany's, Samantha faces up to her divorce and tries to learn how to make her own happiness.

BUCKLEY, William F., Jr.
Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton.
Harcourt. Jul. 2000. 320p.
ISBN 0-15-100513-3. $25.
Angleton is, of course, a real person -- the founder of U.S. counterintelligence after World War II -- but Buckley puts him in a novel and follows his rise and fall as he obsessively hunts out moles during the Cold War.

BUNN, T. Davis.
The Great Divide.
Doubleday. Jul. 2000. 352p.
ISBN 0-385-49615-X. $22.95.
A lawyer heals after personal tragedy by taking on a difficult case: finding a young woman who has disappeared in China while investigating labor practices there. Interestingly, Bunn is an expert in international finance and the author of 14 other novels, mostly inspirational.

CHILD, Lee.
Running Blind.
Putnam. Jul. 2000. 352p.
ISBN 0-399-14623-7. $18.95.
Former military policeman Jack Reacher is back, and his new case is a real stretch. Women are being killed who have nothing in common -- except that they knew Reacher when they worked for the military.

COOK, Robin.
Shock.
Putnam. Jul. 2000. 368p.
ISBN 0-399-14600-8. $24.95.
abridged. Putnam Audio.
ISBN 0-399-14634-2. $24.95.
Cook once again takes a hot medical topic and turns it into a spine tingler. Two graduate science students go undercover to investigate shady doings at a fertility clinic where they were egg donors. Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Doubleday Book Club main selections.

COULTER, Catherine.
Riptide.
Putnam. Jul. 2000. 384p.
ISBN 0-399-14616-4. $23.95.
abridged. Putnam Audio.
ISBN 0-399-14638-5. $24.95.
Speechwriter Jessie Matlock might be working hard on the reelection campaign of New York's beloved governor, but she certainly isn't having an affair with him. So why is she getting threatening phone calls saying, "Stop sleeping with the governor or I'll kill him"?

DICKEY, Eric Jerome.
Liar's Game.
Dutton. Jun. 2000. 384p.
ISBN 0-525-94483-4. $23.95.
From Cheaters to liars: After fleeing a bad relationship in New York, Dana ends up in Los Angeles -- and in love with Vincent. But Vincent is holding something back.

DUNNETT, Dorothy.
Gemini.
Knopf. Jul. 2000. 688p.
ISBN 0-679-45478-0. $27.50.
Dunnett finishes off her "House of Niccolo"series with Niccolo-- a famed banker, the friend of dukes and kings -- finally investigating his own past.

FABER, Michel.
Under the Skin.
Harcourt. Jul. 2000. 320p.
ISBN 0-15-100626-1. $23.
The publisher reports that there is lots of excitement about this quirky little import from Scotland, whose heroine -- tiny, birdlike Isserley, who wears incredibly thick glasses and has a knock-out figure -- picks up for mysterious reasons of her own hitchhikers with big muscles and interesting family stories.

FLYNN, Joseph.
The Next President.
Bantam. Jun. 2000. 384p.
ISBN 0-553-10533-7. $23.95.
In this latest from Flynn, whose debut, Digger, was named "Page-Turner of the Week" by People, a former Vietnam vet is blackmailed into agreeing to assassinate the African American who will likely become President.

HARRIS, E. Lynn.
Not a Day Goes By.
Doubleday. Jul. 2000. 208p.
ISBN 0-385-49824-1. $18.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-50253-0. $25.95.
Has enticing football star John "Basil" Harrington met his match in ambitious Broadway star Yancey Harrington Baxton? Will their power wedding come off? Pick up Harris's latest to find out.

HOWATCH, Susan.
The High Flyer.
Knopf. Jul. 2000. 512p.
ISBN 0-375-41057-0. $26.
A successful lawyer in her early thirties seeks the help of the charismatic minister at St. Benet's Healing Center when she discovers that her new husband has a secret past involving the occult and Nazism.

JOHANSEN, Iris.
The Search.
Bantam. Jun. 2000. 384p.
ISBN 0-553-80091-4. $24.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-52723-1. $25.95.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-71202-0. $29.95.
Working with golden retriever Monty as part of the ATF K-9 unit, Sarah Patrick excels at search-and-rescue. But her quest to find a kidnapped scientist for billionaire John Logan may be her last.

McNAB, Andy.
Crisis Four.
Ballantine. Jul. 2000. 400p.
ISBN 0-345-42807-2. $24.95.
McNab, a former member of the elite Special Air Service who became the most decorated soldier then serving in the British Army, here follows up Remote Control -- a British best seller. British agent Nick Stone must find -- and kill -- a reputed double agent with whom he once had an affair or lose guardianship of a little girl he loves.

MEDEIROS, Teresa.
The Bride and the Beast.
Bantam. Jul. 2000. 384p.
ISBN 0-553-80125-2. $15.95.
Best-selling romance author Medeiros jumps to hardcover with a story set in 18th-century Scotland. A village that betrayed its chieftain must pay homage to a dragon, but when Gwendolyn Wilder is left as the latest sacrifice, she instead encounters a handsome man.

MILES, Rosalind.
The Knight of the Sacred Lake.
Crown. Jul. 2000. 432p.
ISBN 0-609-60623-9. $24.
In this second book in Miles's "Guenevere" trilogy, following Guenevere: Queen of the Summer Country, Arthur's half-sister, Morgan, acts up. Expect heavy promotion.

PRESTON, Douglas & Lincoln Child.
The Ice Limit.
Warner. Jul. 2000. 480p.
ISBN 0-446-52587-1. $25.95.
abridged. Warner Audio.
ISBN 1-57042-867-0. $24.98.
Inexplicable things start to happen as scientists try to move a massive meteorite discovered in Chile, and soon their ship is being pushed by a storm toward the "ice limit" of Antarctica. Another Relic?

ROBERTS, Nora.
Sacred Sins.
Bantam. Jul. 2000. 304p.
ISBN 0-553-80116-3. $18.95.
lrg. prnt. Random.
ISBN NA $NA.
abridged. BDD Audio.
ISBN 0-553-52730-4. $25.
Psychologist Tess Court is asked to work up a profile of a serial killer called the Priest, who claims to be saving the souls of the pretty, young blondes he is dispatching. Too bad Tess is a pretty, young blonde.

SALVATORE, R.A.
Mortalis.
Del Rey: Ballantine.
Jul. 2000. 464p.
ISBN 0-345-43039-5. $25.95.
Salvatore launches a new DemonWars saga, again set in Corona, where a deadly plague proves too much for the woman known as Pony, who wields considerable magic.

SMITH, April.
Be the One.
Knopf. Jul. 2000. 336p.
ISBN 0-679-45096-3. $24.
abridged. Random Audio.
ISBN 0-375-41588-2. $25.
In Smith's latest, hard-drinking Cassidy Sanderson -- the only female scout in the major leagues -- encounters two men in the Dominican Republic who change her life: a phenomenal young player and a seductive older agent. Soon all three are enmeshed in blackmail.

STRAUB, Peter.
Magic Terror.
Random. Jul. 2000. 352p.
ISBN 0-375-50393-5. $24.95.
A scary story collection from Straub, including the award-winning novella Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff.

TRUMAN, Margaret.
Murder at Foggy Bottom.
Random. Jul. 2000. 336p.
ISBN 0-375-50069-3. $24.95.
Max Pauling investigates a string of suspicious plane crashes for the State Department, which leads him to the black markets of Russia.