Mystery Author Luncheon Events

Murder By The Book welcomes today's finest crime novelists for the store's ongoing Mystery Author Luncheon Series. Past speakers include: Michael Connelly, Carolyn Hart, Janet Evanovich, James Patterson, Anne Perry, Laurie R. King, Harlan Coben, Diane Mott Davidson, Nevada Barr, and many more. Each takes place at The Briar Club (2603 Timmons Lane @ Westheimer). Tickets are available only at Murder By The Book (not at The Briar Club), until 3 days before each event or until sold out. The authors' latest novel will be for sale at each event. We only accept cash, check, or money order for luncheon tickets.

Martin Cruz Smith
Tuesday, August 24, 11:30 a.m.
$65 (includes a copy of Three Stations)
Tickets on sale now.

New York Times best-seller Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky Park) will sign & discuss his new Arkady Renko thriller, Three Stations (Simon & Schuster; $25.99), at two Murder By The Book events!

Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern-day Moscow.

Martin Cruz Smith's novels include Stalin's Ghost, Gorky Park, Rose, December 6, Polar Star and Stallion Gate. A two-time winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and a recipient of Britain's Golden Dagger Award, he lives in California.

Jeff Lindsay
Wednesday, September 8, 11:30 a.m.
$65 (includes a copy of Dexter Is Delicious)
Tickets on sale now.

The best-selling author of the Dexter books will sign & discuss the latest featuring our favorite serial killer, Dexter Is Delicious (Doubleday; $25.95).

America’s most-read, most-watched, and most beloved serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet.

Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one stead fast rule . . . he only kills very bad people. But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changes—don’t we all?—and they’re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter.

Jeff Lindsay’s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culture.

Jeff Lindsay is the New York Times bestselling author of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, Dexter in the Dark, and Dexter by Design. He lives in South Florida with his wife and three daughters. His novels are the subject of the hit Showtime show Dexter.

Kate Morton
Thursday, December 9, 11:30 a.m.
$65 (includes a copy of The Distant Hours)
Tickets on sale soon.

New York Times best-seller Kate Morton (The House of Riverton; The Forgotten Garden) will sign & discuss her new novel, The Distant Hours (Atria; $26)!

Kate Morton, a native Australian, holds degrees in dramatic art and English literature and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland. She lives with her family in Brisbane, Australia. She is the best-selling author of The House of Riverton and The Forgotten Garden.

Can't make it to our luncheon? Kate Morton will also sign The Distant Hours at Blue Willow Bookshop in the evening, 7 p.m.

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