By: Reporters routinely write leads for their stories. But the journalists portrayed in some new whodunits are concerned about leads of another kind - the kind that will help them solve crimes.
Five books featuring sleuthing scribes are among the latest hardcover novels of mystery and suspense, which also include works by James Patterson, Dean Koontz and John Sandford.
In "Firetrap" (Ballantine) by Earl Emerson, Seattle's mayor hires a reporter to conduct an independent investigation when a fatal fire at an illegal black social club sparks racially motivated accusations against the fire department.
Nick Mullins, crime reporter for a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, newspaper, digs deeper when he realizes that a series of murders are related to stories he has written in "Eye of Vengeance" (Dutton) by former journalist Jonathon King.
A feature writer is featured in Cornelia Read's "A Field of Darkness" (Mysterious Press), in which Madeline Dare, who toils for a weekly in Syracuse, New York, tries to prove that her cousin is innocent of a double murder despite incriminating evidence.
Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond looks for a murderer after she finds the body of the teenage son of a Russian immigrant scientist in "Prisoner of Memory" (Scribner) by Denise Hamilton.
And in London, the shooting death of a rock superstar by an intruder and the subsequent "self-defence" shooting death of the intruder by the musician's widow provide two corpses and arouse the suspicion of reporter John Kelly in "A Moment of Madness" (St. Martin's Minotaur) by Hilary Bonner.
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