#1 New York Times best-seller
Rick Riordan will sign & discuss his new Percy Jackson young adult thriller, The Battle of the Labyrinth (Hyperion; $17.99), Saturday, May 17, 3:00 p.m. Signing line numbers required. You get a line number when you purchase the new book from Murder By The Book. Please contact the store with any questions or concerns. Go here for more signing event information.

Can't make it to our event? Rick Riordan will also sign at Blue Willow Bookshop (Memorial Dr. @ Dairy Ashford) at 11:00 a.m.

Read a FREE .pdf of Texas crime writer Bill Crider's Edgar Award-nominated short story, "Cranked" (from Busted Flush Press's Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir) here.

Find the book at Murder By The Book!

A Murder By The Book near-exclusive!

Brilliant (by Marne Davis Kellogg; St. Martin's; $6.99)
Our best-selling book of the last 2 years -- nearly 1,000 copies sold! -- has now gone out of print. However, we were able to purchase all remaining copies from the publisher, so we're just about the only place that will continue to stock this wonderful book. Brilliant is the first in a series featuring 50-something retired jewel thief Kick Keswick. Highly recommended by all Murder By The Book employees!

"Kellogg's sophisticated and lavishly fun tale of greed and daring in the high-stakes auction house world presents a full-figured, tough, and atypical heroine readers will cheer for." -- Booklist

Please e-mail or call (713-524-8597 / 888-424-2842) to order this or any other mystery.

If you like Marne Davis Kellogg, also try:
Jane Stanton Hitchcock / Kerry Greenwood / Cynthia Smith / Nancy Martin.

Murder By The Book has been selected for Frommer's upcoming shopping guide, Where to Buy the Best of Everything: The Outspoken Guide for World Travelers & Online Shoppers. On sale now, this is a guide to the best shopping in the world!

Meet the staff of Murder By The Book!

Read up on Busted Flush Press, the Edgar Award-nominated publishing venture of MBTB employee David Thompson.

Issue #64 (October / November / December) of our store magazine, The Dead Beat, is now available! Plus, award-winning crime novelist Colin Cotterill has done the cover artwork. Go here for more information.

Murder By the Book is the proud recipient of
Mystery Writers of America's Raven Award and Houston Press's Best Bookstore 2006

Watch our video:
Murder By The Book former manager (and award-winning mystery writer) Dean James talks about the store, how it's laid out and what makes us a special place to visit.
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Who are we?
MURDER BY THE BOOK is one of the nation's oldest & largest mystery specialty bookstores, established in 1980 by Martha Farrington. The store stocks over 25,000 books -- new & used, hardbacks & paperbacks, first editions, collectibles, gift items, mystery magazines, and more. We host dozens of the hottest mystery and crime authors for book signing events every year (we've had everyone from Dick Francis to P. D. James, Sue Grafton to Robert Crais, Michael Connelly to Patricia Cornwell, James Lee Burke to Daniel Silva).

Where are we?
MURDER BY THE BOOK is located in Houston, Texas, within five minutes of the Texas Medical Center & Rice University, and ten minutes from the Galleria. Off U.S.-59, take the Greenbriar exit; head south on Greenbriar; one light from 59 is Bissonnet St.; turn right on Bissonnet; we're ahead on the right (2342 Bissonnet), between Kirby & Greenbriar. View Map