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Impolite Society
(by Cynthia Smith; paperback; $13)
"You want a heroine who never takes guff from anyone? Who does things her own way and be damned to anyone who doesn't like it? Then sit down with this book, and enjoy the immensely entertaining, never boring Emma Rhodes."—Dean James, award-winning author of the Wanda Nell Culpepper mysteries (writing as Jimmie Ruth Evans)
"The writing is lean and restrained, and Fiddler, growing from book to book, gives Travis McGee a real run for his money."—Los Angeles Times To order or reserve this or any other books, please call (713-524-8597 / 888-424-2842) or e-mail Murder By The Book. Visit Busted Flush Press's new blog here. Have you read the mysteries written by MBTB employee Dean James?
ALSO AVAILABLE:
"A delight from start to finish. Everything you could wish for in a British cozy." -- Dorothy Cannell ALSO AVAILABLE: Signed/inscribed copies of Dean's books available on request. 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.
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Signing
soon at Murder By The Book: 
Jim
Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Ally Carter, Alex Berenson, Amber Benson,
Alafair Burke, Walter Mosley, Martha Grimes, Jacqueline Winspear,
Susan Wittig Albert, Deanna Raybourn, Connie Willis,
and many more! Go here for a complete 
We
have SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS of new books by: 
Charles
Todd, Robert Crais, T. Jefferson Parker, Lauren Willig, Clive Cussler,
Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Reed Farrel Coleman, Michael Connelly,
Stephen Coonts, Rhys Bowen, James Hime, Dan Chaon, Louise Penny,
and more! Go here for a complete 
Alan
Bradley,
the author of our store's all-time best-selling hardback, The
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Delacorte;
$23), will sign & discuss his new Flavia mystery, The
Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag (Delacorte;
$24). 
New
from Busted Flush Press!
Just
Another Day in Paradise
(by A. E. Maxwell; paperback; $13) Back
in print, the first Fiddler & Fiora novel! One of David's
all-time favorite series! Originally published by Doubleday in 1985,
this title is now available again from David's Busted Flush Press.
For fans of John D. MacDonald, Randy Wayne White, Don Winslow, Robert
Ferrigno, and Robert Parker!
An
Unkindest Cut (by Dean, writing as "Honor
Hartman"; Obsidian; paperback original; $6.99) Emma
Diamond, a recent widow with a passion for bridge, takes a retreat
with her friends to the Texas Hill Country, which happens to be
hosting two battling bridge instructors. These professional contenders
are infamous enemies -- and only one will survive the weekend. Includes
bridge tips. 
Flamingo
Fatale (by Dean,
writing as "Jimmie Ruth Evans"; Berkley Prime Crime; paperback
original; $6.99) Meet waitress-single
mom Wanda Nell Culpepper. After a full day slinging hash at Kountry
Kitchen and then surviving the graveyard shift at Budget Mart, the
last thing Wanda Nell needs is to to find her no-account ex-husband,
Bobby Ray, flashing cash and stirring up trouble. Things can't get
much worse -- until the next day when she finds her missing pink
flamingo stuck in his very dead body.
Posted
to Death (by Dean; Kensington; $5.99) Edgar
nominee and Agatha Award-winner Dean James offers his own delightful
take on a classic British cozy mystery...starring an attractive,
sophisticated man who just happens to be a vampire!
Murder
By The Book's McKenna Jordan &
David Thompson (along with Crimespree
Magazine's Jon Jordan) will host
the 2011 
