Can a killer's basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertainment)? Not if Vlad the IRS agent nails him first in Heather Graham's "Death and Taxes."

What does a pack of hungry she-wolves do to solve their man troubles? Ladies Night Out takes a wicked turn in "Dog Tired (of the Drama!)" by L. A. Banks.

How far will an elite call girl go to beat a murder rap? Stuck with a dead client in a luxury L.A. hotel room, she might strike a costly bargain with a woman of unearthly powers in Allison Brennan's "Her Lucky Day."

Who actually writes those tabloid stories about Bigfoot? Meet a journalist of the unexplained (she's 50 percent demon) and her boyfriend (he's 100 percent thief), as they heat up a museum exhibition that's also a soul-snatching battleground in "Lucifer's Daughter" by Kelley Armstrong.

Plus tales from

KEVIN J. ANDERSON & JANIS IAN - SAM W. ANDERSON - MIKE BARON

EDWARD BRYANT - AMY STERLING CASIL - DEREK CLENDENING - DON D'AMMASSA - BRIAN J. HATCHER - NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN - NANCY KILPATRICK - J. A. KONRATH - JOHN R. LITTLE - SHARYN MCCRUMB

SCOTT NICHOLSON - MARK ONSPAUGH - AARON POLSON - DANIEL PYLE

MIKE RESNICK & LEZLI ROBYN - JEFF RYAN - D. L. SNELL - LUCIEN SOULBAN

ERIC JAMES STONE - JEFF STRAND - JORDAN SUMMERS

JOEL A. SUTHERLAND - STEVE RASNIC TEM - CHRISTOPHER WELCH