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MaryJanice Davidson Tuesday,
July 20, 6:30 p.m.
DeMarco and the CIA aren’t the only ones looking for the source of the leak. Someone else wants to avenge the spy’s death and is tailing DeMarco, hoping DeMarco will lead him to his prey. House Justice is a classic DeMarco thriller — fascinating characters, inside-the-beltway intrigue, and a gripping plot packed with surprises. Mike Lawson received his degree in engineering from Seattle University. After college, he went to work for the U.S. Navy as a nuclear engineer and spent about thirty years working for the Navy’s nuclear power program. He spent some time in Washington D.C., but most of his career was at a large naval shipyard in Bremerton Washington. At the shipyard, Mike managed a number of different organizations related to overhauling nuclear powered submarines, cruisers, and aircraft carriers. He ended his career as a member of the government’s Senior Executive Service and as the top civilian at the shipyard responsible for navy reactor plant work on the West Coast. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
July 21, 6:30 p.m.
Highly recommended by David! "Witty, sophisticated, suspenseful and endless fun... the best first novel I've read this year." -- Washington Post Harry Dolan graduated from Colgate University where he studied fiction writing with the novelist Frederick Busch. Currently working as a freelance editor, he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is at work on the sequel to Bad Things Happen. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
July 24, 5:00 p.m. Emma Caldridge is on mile thirty-six of the fifty-five-mile Comrades ultramarathon in South Africa when a roadside car bomb explodes. Dazed and disoriented, she regains consciousness after the blast to find a man standing over her with a white plastic injector. She feels the prick of a needle and the rush of medication under her skin, but before she can make a sound, the man is gone.
However, according to intelligence sources, the ship is carrying cargo far more valuable than wealthy passengers—something that could be a new weapon of unknown origin. Suspecting the weapon may be chemical in nature, Banner asks Emma to infiltrate the ship and use her professional expertise to identify it. Emma knows it's a risky job, one that she might not survive. But when she learns that special agent Cameron Sumner—a man who has saved her life in the past—is among the hostages, nothing will stop her from getting onboard, no matter what the cost. Jamie Freveletti is a trial lawyer and a runner. The author of the international bestseller Running from the Devil, she lives with her family in Chicago, Illinois. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Sunday,
July 25, 2:00 p.m. Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for... Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric London art dealer, Julian Isherwood. As usual, Isherwood has a problem -- one only Gabriel can solve.
Before he is done, Gabriel will once again be drawn into a world he thought he had left behind forever, and will come face to face with a remarkable cast of characters: a glamorous London journalist who is determined to undo the worst mistake of her career, an elusive master art thief who is burdened by a conscience, and a powerful Swiss billionaire who is known for his good deeds but may just be behind one of the greatest threats facing the world. Filled with remarkable twists and turns of plot, and told with seductive prose, The Rembrandt Affair is more than just summer entertainment of the highest order. It is a timely reminder that there are men in the world who will do anything for money. Highly recommended by McKenna, Brenda, John, and Michelle! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
August 4, 6:30 p.m.
Highly recommended by David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Sunday,
August 8, 2:00 p.m. Gregg Hurwitz
will sign & discuss They're Watching
(St. Martin's; $24.99). Patrick Davis is a man with troubles.
First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage
hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his house—DVDs
which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two
of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their
house. Gregg Hurwitz is the author of several novels, including Trust No One, and has been a finalist for the ITW Best Novel and the Ian Fleming Gold Dagger. He lives in Los Angeles.
Lisa Unger is a New York Times best-selling and award winning author. Her novels have been published in over 26 countries around the world. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
August 10, 6:30 p.m. Harper Blaine was your average small-time
P. I. until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker, walking
the Highly recommended by Anne, Sarah & David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Highly recommended by David! "Harry fits comfortably into that delightfully comic line of slacker sleuths—a tradition that runs from the Fletch novels through Newton Thornburg’s 1976 cult classic Cutter and Bone and, of course, The Big Lebowski. The Dude abides with Harry Stein."—Booklist "Pot smokers, past and present, will best appreciate the fiction debut of UCLA theater professor Ackerman..."—Publishers Weekly Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for the past twenty-four years and is currently co-chair of the screenwriting program. His book, Write Screenplays That Sell…The Ackerman Way, is in its third printing, and is the text of choice in a growing number of screenwriting programs around the country. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
August 12, 6:30 p.m.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
August 14, 5:00 p.m. First novel!
Now, forced off the road by a blizzard and trapped in a run-down motel on the side of a deserted highway, Nate and Sara begin to uncover the man's secrets. Who he was, how he died, and most importantly, why he was carrying two million dollars in his suitcase. Before they know it, Nate and Sara are fighting for their lives, and in the end, each has to decide just how far they are willing to go to survive. The Cold Kiss is an everyman psychological thriller that pits a young couple against moral corruption, greed, betrayal, and love. More simply, for two characters who may have used up all their chances, it's the classic final trip down the dark tunnel that might lead to heaven, but drags them through hell. This is A Simple Plan meets The Getaway, with a pulse-pounding plot and a twist ending. John Rector is name that all thriller fans will come to know and love for years to come. John Rector is a prize winning short story writer and author of the novels The Cold Kiss (optioned for a feature film now in development), and the forthcoming The Grove. He currently lives in Omaha Nebraska. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
August 16, 6:30 p.m. Three of the greatest detectives in the world -- a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to the dead, and an eccentric profiler known as "the living Sherlock Holmes" -- were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The three men invited the greatest collection of forensic investigators ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to the Downtown Club in Philadelphia to begin an audacious quest: to bring the coldest killers in the world to an accounting. Named for the first modern detective, the Parisian Fracois Vidocq -- the flamboyant Napoleonic real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock Holmes -- the Vidocq Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch.
Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo's brilliant storytelling brings true crime to life more realistically and vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a world of dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as old as the Bible and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a group of flawed, passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone mad. Born in Boston and educated at Northwestern University, Michael Capuzzo is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Close to Shore, a historical thriller of the true story that inspired Jaws. Winner of many writing prizes as a syndicated columnist and a staff reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, and for stories in magazines including Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Life, he lives in Pennsylvania, where he and his wife publish a prize-winning storytelling magazine, Mountain Home. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
August 21, 5:00 p.m. They found her hanging in the shoe tree at the edge of town... So begins Bryan Gruley’s sequel to Starvation Lake. When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shockwaves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with the help of his old flame and now girlfriend, Pine County Sheriff’s Deputy Darlene Esper. As Gus and Darlene investigate, they can’t help but question if Gracie’s troubled life really ended in suicide or if the suspicious crime scene evidence adds up to murder.
When Gus tries to retrace Gracie’s steps to discover what happened to her in the years she was away from Starvation Lake, he’s forced to return to Detroit, the scene of his humiliating past. And though he’s determined to find out what drove Gracie back home to Starvation Lake, Gus is unprepared for the terrible secrets he uncovers. The second book in Bryan Gruley’s irresistible Starvation Lake series, The Hanging Tree is a compelling story about family and friendship, sex and violence, and the failure of love to make everything right. Highly recommended by David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
August 24, two events Luncheon
(at The Briar Club):
A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace. So begins Martin Cruz Smith's masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well. In Three Stations, Renko's skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor's office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone—except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia's secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear. 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. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken
over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even
deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother
to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin sister.
The only thing Julie receives is a key—one carried by her
mother on the day she herself died—to a safety-deposit box
in Siena, Italy. Read the story behind the making of Juliet here. Very highly recommended by McKenna! Anne Fortier grew up in Denmark and emigrated to the United States in 2002 to work in film. She co-produced the Emmy-winning documentary Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia and holds a Ph.D. in the history of ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark. The story of Juliet was inspired by Anne Fortier’s mother, who always considered Verona her true home... until she discovered Siena. "Anne Fortier delivers a rollicking quest through the dark alleyways and shimmering hill towns that once inspired Shakespeare's great love story. This book has everything: Juliet and Romeo; the Italian nobility and the mafia underworld; swashbuckling heroes and spunky heroines; secret documents and hidden treasures; passionate loves and violent vendettas that span the centuries. Juliet is a thrilling debut novel, completely saturated in fascinating history."—Katherine Neville, author of The Fire "This book is a stunner. Elegantly written in exquisite, vibrant and witty prose that rides well with the clever use of quotes from Shakespeare, it interweaves an astonishing historic take on the tale of the star-crossed lovers with a fast-paced, modern thriller. Every sentence is a joy, every character lives, and medieval and modern Siena are brilliantly evoked. The theme is delightfully original - and the kind of thing you wish you had thought up yourself. The author is to be congratulated on a truly fabulous book that will surely be a resounding success! We will never see Romeo and Juliet in quite the same way again..."—Alison Weir "Spinning backward and forward from Shakespeare's immortal play, Anne Fortier puts to delicious use all the familiar Romantic motifs alternating with complex contemporary intrigue to weave a multi-layered cloth of stories within stories, where fortunes turn in an instant and every character is a shape shifter. Boldly imagined, brilliantly plotted, beautifully described, Juliet will carry you spellbound until the gripping end. An astonishing achievement."—Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue "In her debut novel, Anne Fortier takes a great idea—a young woman discovers she is the descendant of the Juliet who inspired Shakespeare's play—and executes it thrillingly. Juliet has it all—history, mystery, and romance. Ms. Fortier handles the dual plot lines with mastery, beautifully rendering Siena of the past and present."—Karen Essex, author of Leonardo’s Swans and Stealing Athena "A feast of myth, history, and tantalizing indulgences—I was swept away, blown away, and taken for ransom. Anne Fortier breathes new life into the Shakespearean tragedy we thought we knew. I fell in love with Juliet all over again"—Jaime Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet "Ingenious, intriguing, a thrilling story that keeps you turning the pages. This is a wonderfully textured novel of history and imagination that brings Italy, past and present, beautifully to life." —Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre "One of those rare novels that have it all. . . I was swept away.”—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Michelle & David both highly recommend the first of the series! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
A percentage of the sales from this event will benefit Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue here in Houston! More details on this event to come. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
September 1, 6:30 p.m. The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man-an Iraqi war vet-leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. She dies in V.I.'s arms, and the police move quickly to arrest the angry vet.
Sara Paretsky is the author of sixteen books, including her renowned V. I. Warshawski novels. Her many awards include the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association. She lives in Chicago. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
September 2, 6:30 p.m. Date changed!
Houston was the fastest growing city in the country during Vance’s tenure as DA -- a true boomtown. And along with the population explosion came a boom in crime. Vance and his team of prosecutors were right in the middle of it, fighting for justice day in and day out. Filled with a cast of larger-than-life characters and written from the heart, this is a story you won’t soon forget. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Filled with fun, mayhem, and memorable characters, Murder in the Air is a wonderful addition to this very excellent series. Award-winning author Bill Crider shows again that he is one of the most talented and entertaining mystery writers around. Bill Crider is the winner of two Anthony Awards and an Edgar Award finalist. He lives with his wife in Alvin, Texas. "Crider’s use of subtle humor and Sheriff Dan Rhodes’s unassuming competence make this 17th series entry a laid-back delight." -- Library Journal on Murder in the Air Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
September 8, two events
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 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. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
September 9, 6:30 p.m.
Chicago, the present. Solomon Gold has tapped into valuable and dangerous secrets while composing his magnum opus: the Gold Completion of Mozart’s infamous unfinished requiem. After he is murdered, his brilliant daughter—a girl whose uncanny mental gifts have left her both powerful and troubled—finds herself racing to understand his composition, his murder, and, as violence erupts all around her, a fractured, ancient cult descended from the original disciples of Pythagoras. Kevin Guilfoile has written for McSweeney’s, Salon, and The New Republic. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Highly recommended by McKenna! Rhys Bowen has been nominated for every major mystery award, and has won seven. Born in England, she lives in northern California. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Highly recommended by David & McKenna!
We'll also have plenty of Pulp Press's other titles on hand, too. Danny was born and raised in London and spent most of his younger days playing bass for punk/Oi! band, Gundog, and running a stall on Camden Market. He has also lived in France, running English pubs in Paris of all things. He resides in Brighton with a blonde, and two fat rats. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Black Rain (Dell; paperback original; $7.99) Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forest—unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere artifact but a breakthrough discovery that could transform the world.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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More details to come. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
McKenna's & Brenda's highest recommendations! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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Saturday, October 9, 5:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Lynn Casey is the best selling author of the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery series. Sew Deadly, the first book in the series, debuted in August, 2009. Death Threads followed in May, 2010. Pinned for Murder is her latest addition to the series. Although she's not a seamstress, Elizabeth plays one in books! She lives in New York with her daughters. For more information, visit her website: www.elizabethlynncasey.com. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Monday, October
18, 6:30 p.m.
Southern novelist Tom Franklin (Hell at the Breech; Smonk) will sign & discuss his new crime novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Morrow; $24.99). Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Stories and Hell at the Breech. Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA program and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children, Claire and Thomas.
SJ Rozan, a native New Yorker, is the author of eleven novels. Her work has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story. Bronx Noir, a short story collection SJ edited, was given the NAIBA "Notable Book of the Year" award. She's served on the National Boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and is ex-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. In January 2003 she was an invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 2005 Left Coast Crime convention in El Paso, Texas made her its Guest of Honor. A former architect in a practice that focussed on police stations, firehouses, and zoos, SJ Rozan lives in lower Manhattan. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
"Set in contemporary South Africa, Mackenzi's triumphant debut introduces PI Jade de Jong... The plot has more than its fair share of nice twists, and Mackenzie does a superb job of making the reader care for her gutsy lead while offering a glimpse at life in South Africa after apartheid. Readers will wish Jade a long fictional career. "—Publishers Weekly, starred review Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
October 21, 6:30 p.m. "Like the perfect heist, Donna Moore's screwball caper is slick, audacious and hugely rewarding."—Chris Ewan, author of The Good Thief's Guide to Paris
La Contessa Letitzia di Ponzo and her sister Signora Teodora Grisiola are not who they might seem. Now in their seventies, they’re actually Letty and Dora, a pair of ex-hookers turned con-artists who’ve decided to steal a pair of gold, jewel-encrusted Tibetan shih tzu dog statuettes from a Glasgow museum. Unfortunately, it seems everyone wants to get their hands on the expensive pooches. There’s the dodgy chauffeur, a pair of delinquents who work in a crematorium, an out-of-work insomniac bent on revenge, and an innocent young islander who’s obsessed with returning the dogs to Tibet. And yet the elderly con-artists might just manage to execute their plan and live the rest of their lives in the lap of luxury. That’s if they can avoid the Australian hitman with his sights on a very different future for them... "Two septugenarian sisters take the classic heist to new levels in this addictive caper... Will keep readers smiling if not laughing out loud. The author's clever wordplay, irreverant humor, and vivid characters will please Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, and Carl Hiaasen fans, not to mention the Ocean's Eleven crowd. A leisurely paced setup leads to a quick climax, making this a compulsive, enjoyable read." -- Library Journal, starred review
ALSO
AVAILABLE: Donna Moore is the author of Go to Helena Handbasket, winner of the 2007 Lefty Award for most humorous crime novel. She has short stories in various anthologies, including Damn Near Dead and A Hell of a Woman (both Busted Flush Press). Donna runs the blog Big Beat From Badsville, which focuses on Scottish crime fiction. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Here's the line-up for Lone Star Noir: Milton T. Burton, Bobby Byrd, David Corbett, Sarah Cortez, the late James Crumley, Murder By The Book's Dean James, Joe R. Lansdale, Jessica Powers, Ito Romo, Lisa Sandlin, Claudia Smith, Jesse Sublett, Tim Tingle, Luis Alberto Urrea, George Wier CONFIRMED FOR THE SIGNING (so far): Bobby Byrd (editor), Johnny Byrd (editor), Milton T. Burton, Sarah Cortez, Dean James, Ito Romo, Claudia Smith (tentative), George Wier Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
In Ghost in Trouble, the late Bailey Ruth Raeburn, an
impetuous, redheaded ghost, returns to her hometown of Adelaide,
OK, as a special emissary from Heaven charged with protecting Kay
Clark, a beautiful, willful woman who is determined to play hunt-the-killer.
Bailey Ruth finds herself at odds with Kay. Despite her near-miss
from death, Kay would like nothing better than for Bailey Ruth to
scoot right back where she came from. Bailey Ruth’s efforts
are complicated by young lovers suspicious of each other, a woman
with a secret that can destroy her family, and a charlatan psychic,
but Bailey Ruth perseveres to unmask a cunning killer. ALSO
NEW IN PAPERBACK: Merry, Merry Ghost
(Avon; $7.99) The late Bailey Ruth Reburn arrives in Adelaide
in time for Christmas and for murder. She helps a desperate grandmother
provide for her grandson and thwarts a perfect murder. Just in time,
she saves a young woman and a little boy and brings Christmas peace
to a troubled family.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Michael Ayoob is a winner of the Minotaur Books/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel competition. He earned a B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Michael lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
October 30, 5:00 p.m. First novel! The situation shifts from tragic to baffling when the body at the morgue turns out to be a stranger’s. The dead woman had been using Claudia’s identity for months. The real Claudia had vanished, reappearing briefly on the day her impostor died. As Claudia transforms from victim to suspect in the eyes of the police, Lily becomes determined to find her before they do.
As Lily searches for answers, a shadowy figure stalks her and the danger to her grows. Determined to learn the truth at any cost, she is unprepared for the terrible toll it will take on her and those she loves. "Sinking us into the noir New York of Sara Gran and Charlie Huston, Hilary Davidson’s lush novel The Damage Done delivers on all counts, offering both slow-burn suspense and creeping pathos. Taking the classic story of hero’s quest to solve the riddle of a wayward sister, it’s ultimately a tale of lost women, victims and victimizers, damaging and perilously damaged. A rich, haunting debut.” — Megan Abbott Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Highly recommended by David, McKenna & Anne! Mystic River was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel as well as the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction given by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Before becoming a full-time writer, Mr. Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar. He lives in the Boston area. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Friday,
November 12, 6:30 p.m. Tasha Alexander will sign & discuss her new Lady Emily mystery, Dangerous to Know (St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). Deanna Raybourn will sign & discuss the new Lady Julia Grey mystery, Dark Road to Darjeeling (Mira; paperback original; $14.95).
Author of the best-selling Pink Carnation series, Lauren Willig has a graduate degree from the Harvard history department, a JD from Harvard Law, and a large pile of unfinished dissertation chapters. After years of sneezing on manuscripts in the archives, Lauren Willig left academia to attend law school and write Napoleonic-set historical romances, beginning with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, which came out in 2005. Since then, the Pink Carnation books have been chosen as Romantic Times Top Picks, nominated for a Quill Award, and hit the New York Times bestseller list. Lauren is currently hard at work on the ninth book in the Pink Carnation series. Highly recommended by McKenna & Michelle!
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
November 13, 4:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, on a cattle ranch outside Houston, Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong assesses a symbol left on the hide of a slaughtered longhorn, a figure that dates back to a forgotten era of sugarcane plantations and slavery. Soon other prizewinning bulls are butchered on the outskirts of the city, each bearing a different but similar drawing. Before long, the investigations converge at the same time a catastrophic hurricane threatens. Someone very close to Sarah is brutally murdered, and the clock ticks, as the storm moves in. If Sarah doesn’t act quickly, the child will die.
Kathryn Casey is an award-winning, Texas journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, Seventeen, MORE, and Ladies’ Home Journal magazines. In addition, she’s the author of six highly acclaimed true crime books: The Rapist’s Wife; A Warrant to Kill; She Wanted It All; Die, My Love; Descent into Hell; and Shattered. Ann Rule calls Casey “one of the best in the true crime genre.” After two decades of crime reporting, Casey has turned her attention to fiction, beginning with Singularity, a mystery and the first in a new series featuring Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong. The American Library Association’s Booklist magazine chose Singularity as one of the top ten crime novel debuts of 2009. The second in the series, Blood Lines, was published in 2009 to rave reviews, and the third book in the series, The Killing Storm, debuts in November 2010. Over the years, Casey has appeared on Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Nancy Grace, A&E, Court TV, Investigation Discovery, E!, and other television and radio venues. She lives in Houston with her husband and their puppy, Nelson. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Sunday,
November 14, evening Better than any other chef at work today, Tyler knows what people want to eat and how to help them achieve spectacular results without stress or strife. With this all-new collection of bold and exciting recipes, any cook can rid herself of her culinary fears and discover why, when it comes to fine dining, there is no place like home. Tyler Florence is the author of five best-selling cookbooks and the host of the Food Network show Tyler’s Ultimate. His first restaurant is scheduled to open in San Francisco this year. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself.
Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does? All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane. Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of eleven previous novels, including the best-selling Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and three best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His most recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald.
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In Click to Pay, adying TV star reaches out to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with an explosive revelation: the truth behind an infamous Hollywood murder spree, which will destroy a U.S. senator's bid for the presidency. For former star reporter Hunt Liebling, it's a chance to get his career back on track -- until he walks in on an all-new Hollywood massacre, and becomes the prime suspect himself. The Shimmering Blond Sister is the brand-new Mitch Berger / Desiree Mitry mystery. Murder By The Book has also bought up all remaining copies of the first book in this series, The Cold Blue Blood (St. Martin's Minotaur; $6.50)... drop by the store to get started on these wonderful, witty, whodunits!
David will also sign his short story in the new Busted Flush Press noir anthology, Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying! (edited by Bill Crider; paperback original; $18). Highly recommended by David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
November 22, 6:30 p.m. Date changed! And adding to the confusion his disturbed brother Jeremy has settled in the area. Meanwhile back home in Alabama, the ill-advised hypnotic regression of ex-professional fighter Bobby Lee Crayline has led to his escape. With several malevolent killers on the loose, it is Ryder's death-defying challenge to unearth horrors others wished buried years ago. Though they're not published in the U.S., Murder By The Book stocks all of Jack Kerley's Carson Ryder thrillers in paperback, imported from England!
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
December 4, 4:30 p.m.
A mysterious note leads her into a daring undercover ruse at a high brow ladies health club. Impervious to fashion trends, disinterested in beauty treatments, Emily fakes conformity with Houston’s elite debutantes and trophy wives in a surreal fitness subculture where things, and people, are seldom what they seem. At this gym, “killer workout” has a whole new meaning. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
December 11, 3:00 p.m. Highly recommended by David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Choice of Weapons (Pegasus; paperback; $19.95) Three classic 007 novels by acclaimed author Benson, featuring literature's most celebrated secret agent, are collected in this single volume. Includes The Facts of Death, Zero Minus Ten, and The Man with the Red Tattoo, as well as two James Bond short stories, "Live at Five" and "Midsummer Night's Doom."
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More details to come. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. And we're already scheduling into 2011...
Highly recommended by Anne & John! And both she & David love the "Sleeper Code" books! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. |
When
attending one of MURDER BY THE BOOK's signing events, please keep
the following in mind: 
Thriller
writer Mike Lawson will sign & discuss his
new DeMarco novel, House Justice
(Atlantic Monthly; $22). An American
defense contractor attempts to sell U.S. missile technology to the
Iranians — and the CIA knows all about it thanks to a spy
in Tehran. But then the story is leaked to an ambitious journalist
and the spy is exposed, brutally tortured, and executed.
The
director of the CIA isn’t about to let the death of his spy
go unpunished. A valuable asset has been callously sacrificed, and
he’s going to find out who did it no matter how many rules
he has to break. DeMarco’s boss, Speaker of the House John
Fitzpatrick Mahoney has his own reasons to get to the bottom of
the leak: he once had a fling with the journalist, and now that
she’s in jail for refusing to reveal her source, she’s
threatening to tell about their affair unless he helps get her out.
Debut
crime writer Harry Dolan will sign & discuss
the paperback edition of his first novel, Bad Things
Happen (Berkley; $15). The man who
calls himself David Loogan is hoping to escape a violent past by
living a quiet, anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But when
he's hired as an editor at a mystery magazine, he is drawn into
an affair with the sleek blond wife of the publisher, Tom Kristoll
-- a man who soon turns up dead. 
Elizabeth
Waishkey is the most talented detective in the Ann Arbor Police
Department, but even she doesn't know if Loogan is a killer or an
ally who might help her find the truth. As more deaths start mounting
up -- some of them echoing stories published in the magazine --
it's up to Elizabeth to solve both the murders and the mystery of
Loogan himself.
Crime
writer Jamie Freveletti will sign & discuss
her second novel, Running Dark
(Morrow; $24.99). From internationally bestselling author
Jamie Freveletti comes a riveting new thriller featuring brilliant
biochemist Emma Caldridge, except this time there's nowhere to run.
. . .
Shaken
by the event and unsure of what substance was pumped into her, Emma
calls the one person who can help her figure things out: Edward
Banner of the security company Darkview. But Banner has his hands
full with another emergency: Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden
have attacked a cruise ship, and Darkview has been hired to assist
with the rescue.
#1
New York Times best-seller Daniel Silva
will sign & discuss The Rembrandt Affair
(Putnam; $26.95), a spellbinding new novel
featuring Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin. Signing
line numbers available beginning the book's on-sale date, Tuesday,
July 20, with purchase of The Rembrandt Affair from Murder By The
Book. 
In
the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been
brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously
stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his
unique skills to search for the painting and those responsible for
the crime. But as he painstakingly follows a trail of clues leading
from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and, finally, to a villa on the graceful
shores of Lake Geneva, Gabriel discovers there are deadly secrets
connected to the painting. And evil men behind them. 
#1
New York Times best-seller Ridley Pearson
will sign & discuss his new Walt Fleming thriller, In
Harm's Way (Putnam; $25.95). Signing
line numbers available beginning the book's on-sale date, Tuesday,
August 3, with purchase of In Harm's Way from Murder By The Book.
In
Harm's Way also brings back Seattle homicide cop Lou Boldt
(Undercurrents)! Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding
relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch
after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue and she attempts
to duck the press. Despite her job and her laudable actions, she
begs Walt to keep her photo out of the paper, avoiding him when
he can't. Then Walt gets a phone call that changes everything: Lou
Boldt, a police sergeant out of Seattle, calls to report that a
recent murder may have a Sun Valley connection. After a badly beaten
body is discovered just off a local highway, Walt knows there is
a link -- but can he pull the pieces together in time?
coon
cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former
classmate-turned-famous bestselling novelist, Godfrey Priest. But
someone in Athena took Godfrey off the bestseller lists -- permanently,
and with extreme prejudice. Now, Charlie and Diesel must browse
through the history section of the town's past to find a killer.
ALSO
AVAILABLE:
New
York Times best-selling thriller writers Gregg Hurwitz
& Lisa Unger will sign & discuss their
new books.
Then
the e-mails start, and someone offers to fix everything, to take
the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures
it’s the offer of a lifetime. But Patrick couldn’t be
more wrong. With every step he falls deeper into a web of intrigue
that threatens everything he values in this world. Before he knows
it, he’s in and in deep—and his only escape is to outwit
and outplay his unseen opponents at their own game.
Lisa
Unger will sign & discuss Fragile
(Shaye Areheart/Crown; $24). Despite their mostly happy
marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and
Jones find themselves at odds—Maggie is positive Ricky had
nothing to do with Charlene's disappearance, while Jones isn't as
sure. With Charlene gone, the memory of another young girl who went
missing some twenty years ago is haunting the town. That story didn't
have a happy ending, and almost everyone has an unrevealed reason
to keep the horror of it firmly in the past.
As
Jones and the police turn their focus on Ricky, Maggie must find
out the truth about what happened all those years ago. In order
to save her son and the young woman whose life hangs in the balance,
she'll test the bonds of her community—and find out just how
fragile they can be.
One
of Murder By The Book's best-selling paranormal thriller writers,
Kat Richardson, will sign & discuss her new
Harper Blaine "Greywalker" novel, Labyrinth
(Roc; $24.95). Signing line numbers available beginning
the book's on-sale date, Tuesday, August 3, with purchase of Labyrinth
from Murder By The Book. 
line
between the living world and the paranormal realm. There are others
who know about her new powers-others with powerful tools and evil
intentions, and now that the man who "killed" her has
been murdered, the police are also paying close attention. That
means Harper has to watch her step while searching for the ghost
of her "killer"-who could be a valuable clue in the puzzle
of Harper's past and her father's death, as well as a key to figuring
out who's trying to manipulate her new powers and why. But with
her growing powers pulling her into the Grey, Harper might not be
able to come back out.
Wednesday,
August 11, 6:30 p.m.
Debut
crime writer Hal Ackerman signs & discusses
his first novel, Stein, Stoned
(Tyrus; hardback, $24.95; paperback, $14.95). In the sixties,
Harry Stein was the foremost authority on cannabis; writing the
book on indoor cultivation, inventing thirteen different hybrids,
and planting "Victory Gardens" across America behind police
precincts, legislature courtyards, and legendarily in the rose garden
of the Nixon White House.
"Just
when you thought you'd seen everything in detective fiction, along
comes P.I. Harry Stein, a shambling, abstaining dope connoisseur,
trying to make a living and be a good father against the oddest
of odds. This book is so funny, surprising, and compelling that,
dare I say it, it practically gets you high. It's Hal Ackerman's
first in what is sure to be a sensational series of Stein mysteries."—John
Lithgow
Real-life
forensic-writing expert & mystery writer Sheila Lowe
will sign & discuss her new Claudia Rose novel, Last
Writes (Berkley Prime Crime; paperback original;
$6.99). The frantic search for a three-year-old,
an estranged half-sister, a fanatical religious cult—Claudia's
friend Kelly learns that she's an aunt when her estranged sister
Erin shows up at her home in desperate need of help. Erin and her
husband have been living quiet lives as members of The Temple of
Brighter Light in an isolated compound. But now her husband and
young child have disappeared, leaving behind a cryptic note with
a terrifying message. Seizing an opportunity to use her special
skills as a forensic handwriting expert, Claudia becomes one of
the few outsiders ever to be invited inside the compound. She must
uncover the truth about Kelly's missing niece before the prophecy
of a secret ancient parchment can be fulfilled and a child's life
is written off for good.
Like
Claudia Rose, Sheila Lowe is a court-qualified handwriting expert
who testifies in forensic cases. She has more than thirty years
experience in the field of handwriting analysis and holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in Psychology. The author of Handwriting of
the Famous & Infamous, and The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Handwriting Analysis, her analyses of celebrity handwritings
have appeared in Time, Teen People, and Mademoiselle.
Her articles on Personality Profiling and Handwriting Analysis for
the Attorney have been published in several bar association magazines.
Sheila's clientele includes a wide spectrum of corporate clients,
mental health professionals, attorneys, private investigators and
staffing agencies, among others. Her award-winning Handwriting Analyzer
software is used around the world and her profiles help uncover
important information in background checks and pre-employment screening.
She enjoys analyzing handwriting for individuals, too, helping them
understand themselves and others better.
Debut
crime writer John Rector will sign & discuss
his first novel, The Cold Kiss
(Forge; $24.99). All Nate and Sara want is a new life in
a new town, away from the crime and poverty of their past. So, after
being approached at a roadside diner by a man offering $500 for
a ride to Omaha, they wonder if their luck might be changing.
At
first it seems like easy money, but within a few hours the man is
dead.
Four-time
Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Michael Capuzzo
will sign & discuss The Murder Room: The Heirs of
Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold
Cases (Gotham; $26). Thrilling, true
tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic
investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold
murders 
The
Murder Room draws the reader into a chilling, darkly humorous,
awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their
Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless killers of a millionaire's
son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying
fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy. 
The
Edgar Award-nominated author of Starvation Lake will sign
& discuss the sequel, The Hanging Tree
(Touchstone; paperback original; $15). 
But
in such a small town it’s impossible to be an impartial investigator.
Gracie was Gus’s second cousin, Darlene’s best friend,
and the lover of Gus’s oldest pal, Soupy Campbell. Yet with
all the bad blood between Gus and Gracie over the years, Gus would
rather deal with other problems. His employer is trying to push
him out, the locals are annoyed that his stories have halted construction
on a new hockey rink, and Darlene’s estranged husband has
returned to reclaim his wife.
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.
Debut
literary novelist Anne Fortier will sign &
discuss her first U.S. novel, Juliet
(Ballantine; $25). We're one of the only stores in
the country to have Fortier for an event, so you won't to miss this!
Signing line numbers available beginning the book's on-sale date,
Tuesday, August 24, with purchase of Juliet from Murder By The Book.
But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and
Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city,
the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves
into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets
to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger
surrounding her—superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal
vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families
involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that
the notorious curse—“A plague on both your houses!”—is
still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only
someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate,
but his story ended long ago. Or did it?
Young
adult thriller writer Victoria Laurie will sign
& discuss the sequel to Oracles of Delphi Keep, The
Curse of Deadman's Forest (Random House; $16.99).
Since finding an ancient prophecy, Ian Wigby and his sister Theo's
lives have changed forever. A powerful evil is building, and to
defeat it, six uniquely gifted children must be gathered. According
to the newest prophecy, a trip through the magical portal near their
home will bring them to the third Oracle -- a child with extraordinary
powers to heal. But this same prophecy also foretells of Ian's death
should he venture through the portal again. If Ian and Theo stay
in Dover, all will surely be lost, but to to heed the prophecy they
risk their very lives and everything they have ever held dear.
Best-selling
mystery writer David Rosenfelt will sign &
discuss his new Andy Carpenter novel, Dog Tags
(Grand Central; $24.99). German Shepherd police dog witnesses
a murder and if his owner -- an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief
-- is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. Few rival
Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to represent
the poor canine. As Andy struggles to convince a judge that this
dog should be set free, he discovers that the dog and his owner
have become involved unwittingly in a case of much greater proportions
than the one they've been charged with. Andy will have to call upon
the unique abilities of this ex-police dog to help solve the crime
and prevent a catastrophic event from taking place. 
New
York Times best-selling crime writer Sara Paretsky
will sign & discuss her new V. I. Warshawski novel, Body
Work (Putnam; $26.95). Signing
line numbers available beginning the book's on-sale date, Tuesday,
August 31, with purchase of Body Work from Murder By The Book.
A
shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is
hired by the vet's family to clear his name. As V.I. seeks answers,
her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to
the far reaches of the Gulf War.
Carol
Vance was the district attorney of Harris County (Houston) Texas,
from 1966 to 1979. Boomtown DA takes you on a rollicking
ride of his twenty-one years in the District Attorney’s office
in Houston, our nation’s fourth largest city. Prosecuting
everything from sometimes-humorous misdemeanors to one of the most
gruesome serial murder cases in American history, the story of Vance’s
eight years as an assistant DA and thirteen years as district attorney
are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. 
Edgar
Award finalist Bill Crider will sign & discuss
his new Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery, Murder in the Air
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). There’s a big stink
in Blacklin County, and everyone seems to think Sheriff Dan Rhodes
should do something about it. The smell is coming from the giant
chicken farm owned by Lester Hamilton. Rhodes sees this as a matter
for the state’s air-quality enforcement agency, not the county
sheriff. That all changes, however, when Hamilton is found dead,
floating in an old rock pit not far from the town of Clearview.
Hamilton had probably been engaged in the act of noodling for catfish,
which is not only highly dangerous but illegal in Texas.
Rhodes
suspects that Hamilton didn’t die by accident, though. There
are plenty of suspects, including an eccentric community college
professor and one of his colleagues, who lives near the chicken
farm and has to wear a respirator mask to ward off the smell. Also,
someone known in the county as Robin Hood is going around shooting
arrows into utility poles as a protest. When semi-nude protestors
arrive at the chicken farm, things really begin to get out of hand.
Luncheon
(at The Briar Club):
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. 
In
500 B.C. a mysterious ship appeared off the coast of what is now
Italy. A man disembarked to address the frightened crowd along the
shore. He called himself Pythagoras and when he was done speaking
a thousand men and women abandoned their lives to follow him; his
disciples would influence western philosophy, science, and mathematics
for all time.
Penniless
and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch
finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her
hateful brother, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to
represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre-looking
castle, Georgie finds the bride with blood running down her chin,
and a wedding guest is poisoned. Now it's up to Georgie to save
the nuptial festivities before the couple's vows become: to love
and to cherish, till undeath do them part.
Killer
Tease (paperback
original; $13.95) Eloise Murphy
is a burlesque dancer who's pushing thirty and on the brink of losing
gigs because of her violent temper...Set in present-day Brighton,
Killer Tease sees our heroine fight against the odds to
the bitter end. An unscrupulous ex banker who blackmails her into
a degrading position; a foul and devious hit man who loves beating
women; an old friend who betrays her all connive and team up to
give her Hell. But maybe they have all bitten off more than they
can chew when they cross the psychopath in pasties. 
The
Windowlicker Maker
(paperback original; $13.95) They
reckon they can give themselves a pat on the back and go for a drink
after and brag about it the live long night -- and then carry on
with their lives. No, not this time. Since the dawn of time man
has been writing revenge stories. Whether scrawled on the wall of
a cave, etched with quill and ink upon parchment or thumped out
on a typewriter or laptop, we have, as a species, made many attempts
to record our dissatisfaction with filthy greedheads and wrong'uns
in the form of tales, odes and verse. None, however, none
have come close to encapsulating the unyielding savagery of righteous
wrath as Danny Hogan's The Windowlicker Maker. But we're
not going to leave it just there folks. We are also throwing in
Danny Hogan's short story "A Gun Called Comeuppance."
Thriller
writer Graham Brown will sign & discuss his two novels.
Shadowed
by a ruthless billionaire, threatened by a violent indigenous tribe,
and stalked by an unseen enemy that leaves battered corpses in its
wake, the group desperately seeks the connection between the deadly
reality of the Mayan legend, the nomadic tribe that haunts them,
and the chilling secret buried beneath the ancient ruins.
What
power will be unleashed if all four stones come together? Who created
them—and who has them now? Using a cryptic Mayan map and a
prophecy that points to the end of the world, Danielle and her team
race toward answers. But one staggering question remains: Were these
artifacts meant to save us—or to destroy us once and for all?
The best-selling author of the Chet & Bernie mysteries will
sign & discuss the latest, To Fetch a Thief
(Atria; $25). 
Multiple
award-winning, best-selling crime writer Louise Penny
(Still Life) will sign & discuss her new "Three
Pines" mystery, Bury Your Dead (St.
Martin's Minotaur; $24.99).
It
is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and unsurpassingly
beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté
de Quebec has come not to celebrate but to recover from a harrowing
investigation gone wrong that left one of his team members dead.
But murder seems to follow Gamache everywhere, even to the seemingly
peaceful Literary and Historical Society, one of the last bastions
of English culture in Quebec, where a man in found dead in the basement.
And not any man--but the famous Augustin Roy, who had carried his
obsessive search for the long-lost body of the founder of Quebec,
Samuel de Champlain, all the way to the Society library. Badly injured
himself and desperately in need of a rest, Gamache cannot resist
the appeals of the police and the Society board alike to negotiate
the treacherous ground between the English and the French in the
old walled city.
Cozy
mystery writer Elizabeth Lynn Casey will sign &
discuss her "Sewing Circle" books, including the latest,
Pinned for Murder (Berkley Prime
Crime; paperback original; $6.99).
ALSO
AVAILABLE:
Death
Threads (Berkley
Prime Crime; paperback original; $6.99)
Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new
circle of friends from South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society
sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals
an unflattering secret about the town's historic 
past
-- and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when
Tori begins to see a pattern of the townsfolk's age-old Southern
pride standing in the way of justice, she knows it's time to unravel
the mystery.
Edgar
Award-nominated crime writer Ace Atkins (Crossroad
Blues) will sign & discuss the new Busted Flush Press reprint
of the 3rd Nick Travers novel, Dark End of the Street
($15). The plan is simple. All Nick Travers, a former professional
football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway
61 from New Orleans to Memphis from New Orleans to Memphis and track
down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers
knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly.
"When
all is said and done, Dark End of the Street sheds light
on the underbelly of politics, racism and the junking of American
culture. Atkins is an astute observer of life as well as a singular
voice in fiction." -– USA Today
Three-time
Shamus Award winner Reed Farrel Coleman will sign
& discuss his sixth Moe Prager crime novel, Innocent
Monster (Tyrus; $24.95). Seven years
have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager’s
family apart and six years since Moe brushed the dust off his PI
license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with
a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges
back into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies. Sashi Bluntstone,
an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah’s dearest
childhood friend, has been abducted. Three weeks into the investigation,
the cops have gotten nowhere and the parents have gotten desperate.
Desperation, the door through which Moe Prager always enters, swings
wide open. Just as in Sashi’s paintings, there’s much
more to the case than one can see at a glance.
With
the help of an ex-football star, Moe stumbles around the fringes
of the New York art scene, trying to get a handle on where the art
stops and the commerce begins. Much to Moe’s surprise and
disgust, he discovers that Sashi is, on the one hand, revered as
a cash cow and, on the other, reviled as a fraud and a joke. Suspects
abound beyond the usual predators and pedophiles, for it is those
closest to Sashi in life that have the most to gain from her death.
Cruel ironies lurk around every corner, beneath every painting,
and behind every door. Almost nothing is what it seems.
Innocent
Monster is a book of children and parents, of lives lost and
found. It is a variation on the theme of good and evil, each often
wearing the other’s disguise. Beware the innocent monster
for it need not hide itself and it lives closely among us: sometimes
as close as the mirror.
Edgar Award-winning crime writer S. J. Rozan (Winter
& Night) will sign & discuss her new Bill Smith/Lydia
Chin novel, On the Line (St. Martin's
Minotaur; $24.99).
2010
Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Stuart Neville
(The Ghosts of Belfast) will sign & discuss his 2nd
novel, Collusion (Soho; $25).
When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down
his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter, his superiors
tell him to back off. But now an assassin stalks Belfast, tying
up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels
a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the
line between friend and enemy blurs.
Debut
South African crime writer Jassy MacKenzie will
sign & discuss her first novel, Random Violence
(Soho; $25). In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in
gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates,
car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less
shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of the wealthy
woman, is the primary suspect in his wife's murder. P.I. Jade de
Jong fled South Africa ten years ago after her father
was killed. Now, back in town, she offers to help her father's former
assistant, Superintendent David Patel, with his investigation of
this case. Under apartheid, Patel, of Indian descent, could never
have attained his present position. But he is feeling 
pressure
from his “old line” boss with respect to this investigation
and fears lingering prejudice is at work. As Jade probes into this
and other recent car-jacking cases, a pattern begins to emerge,
a pattern that goes back to her father's murder and that involves
a vast and intricate series of crimes for profit.
Lefty
Award-wimystery writer Donna Moore (Go to Helena
Handbasket...) will sign & discuss her new comic caper
novel, Old Dogs (Busted Flush
Press; paperback original; $15).
"Roll
out the awards shelf, Donna is going to grab them all."—Ken
Bruen, award-winning author of London Boulevard
Highly recommended by David!
Best-seller
JoAnna Carl will sign & discuss her new Chocoholic
mystery, The Chocolate Pirate Plot
(NAL; $21.95). 
Best-seller
Carolyn Hart will sign & discuss her latest
books, including the new "Death on Demand" novel, Laughed
'Til He Died (Morrow; $24.99), and
the new Bailey Ruth mystery -- starring an impetuous, redheaded
ghost -- Ghost in Trouble (Morrow;
$19.99).
Debut
novelist Joelle Charbonneau will sign & discuss
her first skating mystery, Skating Around the Law
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). Rebecca Robbins is a woman
on a mission -- to sell the roller rink she inherited in her rural
hometown and get back to her life in Chicago. Fast. What she didn't
count on was discovering a dead body head-first in a rink toilet.
Now Rebecca is stuck in a small town where her former neighbors
think she's a city slicker who doesn't belong, relying on a police
department that's better at gardening than solving crimes. With
the help of a handsome veterinarian, a former circus camel, and
her scarily frisky grandfather, Rebecca must discover the identity
of the murderer before she becomes the next victim. 
Debut
crime writer Michael Ayoob will sign & discuss
his first novel, In Search of Mercy
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). Dexter Bolzjak is an ex–hockey
goalie who was abducted and tortured by perverted sports fans eight
years ago. Now he’s muddling along in a Pittsburgh warehouse
when he meets an old, terminally ill drunk named Lou Kashon. Lou
wants to see his lost love, the actress Mercy Carnahan, and offers
Dexter a fortune to find her. Dexter embarks on the search, retracing
Mercy’s past online and on foot. Soon, Mercy 
begins
to haunt Dexter, appearing in his dreams while flashbacks to his
own traumatic experience plague his waking hours. Dexter persists
and follows Mercy’s trail to New York, where he finds a voyeuristic
film of the actress recorded shortly before her disappearance. Once
Dexter connects that film to its source, he finds himself trapped
in the ultimate nightmare.
Debut
crime writer Hilary Davidson will sign & discuss
her first novel, The Damage Done
(Forge; $24.99). Lily Moore, a successful travel writer,
fled to Spain to get away from her troubled, drug-addicted younger
sister, Claudia. But when Claudia is found dead in a bathtub on
the anniversary of their mother’s suicide, Lily must return
to New York to deal with the aftermath.
Is
Claudia actually missing, or is she playing an elaborate con game?
And who’s responsible for the body that was found in the bathtub?
An obsessive ex-lover? An emotionally disturbed young man with a
rich and powerful father? Or Lily’s own former fiancé,
who turns out to be more deeply involved with Claudia than he admits?
Best-selling
crime writer Dennis Lehane will sign & discuss
his first Patrick & Angie thriller in 11 years, Moonlight
Mile (Morrow; $26.99), a sequel to
one of his most famous works, Gone, Baby, Gone. 
Dennis
Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He has
written nine novels, including A Drink Before the War,
Gone Baby Gone, Prayers for Rain, Mystic River,
Shutter Island, and A Given Day.
Best-selling
historical mystery writers Tasha Alexander, Deanna Raybourn
and Lauren Willig will sign & discuss their
new books! 
Lauren
Willig will sign
& discuss The Mischief of the Mistletoe
(Dutton; $24.95), which is a "Pink Carnation"
Christmas mystery. Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane
Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select
Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to
claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters
nearby. Just before Christmas, she accepts a position at the quiet
girls’ school in Bath, expecting to face nothing more exciting
than conducting the annual Christmas recital. She hardly imagines
coming face to face with French aristocrats and international spies…
Reginald
“Turnip” Fitzhugh—often mistaken for the elusive
spy known as the Pink Carnation—has blundered into danger
before. But when he blunders into Miss Arabella Dempsey, it never
occurs to him that she might be trouble. When Turnip and Arabella
stumble upon a beautifully wrapped Christmas pudding with a cryptic
message written in French, “Meet me at Farley Castle”,
the unlikely vehicle for intrigue launches the pair on a Yuletide
adventure that ranges from the Austens’ modest drawing room
to the awe-inspiring estate of the Dukes of Dovedale, where the
Dowager Duchess is hosting the most anticipated event of the year:
an elaborate 12-day Christmas celebration. Will they find poinsettias
or peril, dancing or danger? And is it possible that the fate of
the British Empire rests in Arabella and Turnip’s hands, in
the form of a festive Christmas pudding?
Tonight's
moderator, thriller writer (& Tasha's husband!) Andrew
Grant, is the author of Die Twice (St.
Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). Obliged to leave New York City
in the aftermath of his previous mission, David Trevellyan is summoned
to the British Consulate in Chicago. To the same office where just
a week before his new handler was attacked and shot by a Royal Navy
Intelligence operative gone bad. Assigned the job of finding the
rogue agent and putting an end to his treacherous scheme, Trevellyan
soon finds that once again, his only hopes of saving countless innocent
lives lie not within the system, but in his instinctive belief—you're
bound to do what's right, whatever the personal cost may be. 
Houston
crime writer Kathryn Casey will sign & discuss
her 3rd Sarah Armstrong mystery, The Killing Storm
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $25.99). "The Killing
Storm is more scorching than Texas in July. This is of the
most unique and enjoyable mystery series to come along in quite
some time." -- best-selling mystery author and Shamus award
nominee Jason Pinter
A
quiet afternoon in the park, and four-year-old Joey Warner plays
in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his runaway
dog. While Joey’s mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone, the
stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time Crystal
turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her behavior is odd,
not what one would expect from a distraught mother. Is Crystal Warner
somehow involved in her son’s abduction?
ALSO AVAILABLE: The first two in the series -- Singularity
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.95) and Blood Lines
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99).
TV
chef/writer Tyler Florence will sign & discuss
his new cookbook, Tyler Florence Family Meals: Finding
the Feast in Your Backyard (Rodale; $35).
The star of the popular Food Network series Tyler’s Ultimate,
Tyler Florence is famous for championing simplicity, freshness,
and culinary honesty in cooking. Now, after more than a decade spent
tracking down some of the world’s most flavorful recipes (and
debunking a generation of novice chefs’ culinary fears), Tyler
brings it all back home to celebrate the pleasures of cooking with
wholesome, local ingredients. His easy yet toothsome recipes exemplify
the message that restaurant chefs from coast to coast have embraced:
Local foods, cooked in season and prepared simply but with care
and thought, are the best meals you can eat anywhere.
In
Tyler Florence Family Meals Tyler recounts the journey that brought
him from the home cooking he grew up loving to the “haute-homey”
restaurant cuisine that first won him culinary acclaim, to the pleasures
of the world’s great cuisine as showcased on his Food Network
shows, and ultimately back to his roots as he prepares to open a
restaurant while raising a family of young children. He speaks with
his signature casual charm about how they can improve their cooking
and eating habits to bring about real changes in their health and
in their attitude toward food.
New
York Times best-seller Carl Hiaasen will sign
& discuss his new crime novel, Star Island
(Knopf; $26.95). Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née
Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about
to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
The
situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching
encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida
living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading
for Miami to find her . . .
Texas
Monthly editor Jake Silverstein will sign
& discuss his book, Nothing Happened and Then It
Did (Norton; $23.95). In 1999, Jake
Silverstein relocated to remote West Texas in the hopes of becoming
a journalist. He wanted to be “where there was nothing happening,”
he writes, so that “when something did happen there would
be no one but me to write about it.” Unfortunately, the leads
he turned up never quite worked out, so he kept moving, crossing
back and forth across the border between fact and fiction in search
of a magazine article. Part memoir, part novel, part history, Nothing
Happened and Then It Did chronicles these often hilarious misadventures
around Texas, Louisiana, and Mexico, as Silverstein’s search
becomes an attempt to understand the purpose of journalism and the
nature of storytelling.
Jake
Silverstein was born in 1975 and raised in Oakland, California.
He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and
also received degrees from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia,
and the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas
at Austin. In 1999 he moved to Marfa, Texas, to write for the Big
Bend Sentinel. In 2005 he became a Contributing Editor to Harper’s
Magazine. His work has also appeared in the anthologies Best
American Travel Writing 2003, The Thinking Fan’s Guide to
the World Cup (2006); and Submersion Journalism (2008).
He joined the staff of Texas Monthly as a senior editor
in 2006 and later became the magazine’s fourth editor. He
lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Mary, their two sons, Leo
and Joe, and a couple of cats.
Actress/writer
Marlo Thomas (That Girl) will sign &
discuss her new book, Growing Up Laughing: My Story
and the Story of Funny (Hyperion; $26.99).
Edgar
Award-winning mystery writer David Handler will
sign & discuss his most recent books: The Shimmering
Blond Sister (St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99)
and Click to Pay (Severn House;
hardback, $28.95; paperback, $15.95).
And don't miss the first four mysteries featuring celebrity ghostwriter
Stewart Hoag: The Man Who Died Laughing / The Man Who
Lived by Night (Busted Flush Press; hardback,
$26; 
paperback,
$18) and The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
/ The Woman Who Fell from Grace (Busted Flush
Press; hardback, $26; paperback, $18). The 3rd one won
the Edgar Award!
Best-selling
thriller writer Jack Kerley (The Hundredth
Man) will sign & discuss his new Carson Ryder novel, Buried
Alive (U.K. import; paperback original; $15.95).
When police detective Carson Ryder wins a free vacation to the isolated
Appalchian mountains, he welcomes the chance to take a well-deserved
rest. But all too soon an anonymous phone-call summons him to the
scene of grisly torture. This is just the first of a series of increasingly
savage murders and Ryder finds himself helping overstretched local
detective Donna Cherry and forest ranger Lee McCoy sift through
the bizarre clues.
Mystery
writer Rachel Brady will sign & discuss her
second novel, Dead Lift (Poisoned
Pen; hardback, $24.95; paperback, $14.95). Single mom Emily
Locke is building a new life with her daughter. Hoping to spend
more time at home, she’s put her career on hold to work part-time
for her private investigator friend, Richard Cole. It’s a
nice balance between work and family until Emily finds out she’s
been working for the attorney that defended her husband’s
killer.
The
discovery nearly destroys her friendship with Richard, but Emily
resists abandoning his client, the socialite Claire Gaston, who
awaits trial for the murder of a local plastic surgeon. The threat
of losing her children to a self-serving ex-husband terrifies Claire
more than the specter of a life behind bars. Sympathetic to a mother’s
fears and unconvinced of Claire’s guilt, Emily resolves to
stick with the case despite her growing concerns about Richard and
the dubious attorney who hired him.
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.
As a bonus, at the signing Milton will also read the first chapter
from the next Bo Handel book, Mortal Remains.
Best-seller
Raymond Benson will sign & discuss his latest
works.
Hunt
Through Napoleon's Web
(writing as Gabriel Hunt; Hard Case Crime; paperback original; $7.99)
Of all the priceless treasures Gabriel Hunt has sought, none means
more to him than the one drawing him to the rugged terrain of Corsica
and the exotic streets of Marrakesh: his own sister’s life.
To save her, Hunt will have to challenge the mind of a tyrant two
centuries dead—the calculating, ingenious Napoleon Bonaparte.
