The Vertigo Crime Line is launching this August with FILTHY RICH by Brian Azzarello and artist Victor Santos and DARK ENTRIES by Ian Rankin and artist Werther Dell'Edera.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY raves about DARK ENTRIES, saying “Dell'Edera's work is expressive and crisp, done almost entirely in sharp pure black inks with barely a hint of shading in sight, with an elegance to horror sequences that's far more Dante than slasher film. Possibly the best Hellblazer work in years and a strong ghost story in its own right.”

The GRAPHIC NOVEL REPORTER chose DARK ENTRIES and THE NOBODY as two of the Hottest Graphic Novels of Summer 2009. Click here for the complete list.

This line of compact, black and white hardcover graphic novels with covers by superstar Lee Bermejo is sure to consist of everything crime and mystery fans crave: the police procedural, the murder mystery, the sci-fi thriller, and straight up hardboiled noir—and next Spring’s releases are no exception.

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover to the next book in the Crime Line. THE CHILL by Jason Starr and artist Mick Bertilorenzi:

Check back starting at noon as I reveal another.