Incoming Books, Week of 8/11

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I visited some publishing friends this week, and this stack of books is the immediate result:

• Nicotine Kiss and American Detective, by Loren D. Estleman -- inspiration for Hornswoggler's Estleman Loren Project, which starts today (I'm a few pages into Downriver)
  
• The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
  
• The Game by Diana Wynne Jones
  
• Epic by Conor Kostick
  
• The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
  
• Wild Girls by Pat Murphy
  
• The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
  
• Patriot Acts by Greg Rucka -- from the nice publicity folks at Bantam; I hope to review it at ComicMix when I get a chance
  
• Ha'penny by Jo Walton

And most of those books have to wait until I get through a dozen "Amos Walker" mysteries, so I'd better get going...