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Alex Berenson Saturday,
February 27, 4:30 p.m.
Kate Carlisle will sign & discuss her second bibliophile mystery, If Books Could Kill (Berkley Prime Crime; paperback original; $6.99). Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the world-renowned Book Fair when her ex Kyle shows up with a bombshell. He has an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history -- and humiliate the beloved British monarchy. When Kyle turns up dead, the police are convinced Brooklyn's the culprit. But with an entire convention of suspects, Brooklyn's conducting her own investigation to find out if the motive for murder was a 200-year-old secret -- or something much more personal. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
March 3, 6:30 p.m.
Dozens of pastries and one hideous purple dress later, Hannah has to admit that stepping out of her comfort zone has been fun as well as profitable. The only snag is the show's host, community college professor Bradford Ramsey. Hannah and her younger sister Michelle each had unfortunate romantic relationships with Ramsey, and when the cad comes sniffing around between acts, Hannah tells him off. But when the curtain doesn't go up, she discovers Ramsey backstage—dead as a doornail with a turnover in his hand... Now, to protect her reputation and Michelle's, Hannah must get to the bottom of the professor's bitter end. There are plenty of scorned suspects, including an ex-wife who feels cheated in more ways than one, and a prominent local who may have been using Ramsey to avenge her own randy spouse. But who was unstable enough to snuff out Professor Love? A killer who's flakier than puff pastry—and far more dangerous... Includes Over Ten Cookie and Dessert Recipes! Like Hannah Swensen, New York Times bestselling author Joanne Fluke grew up in a small town in rural Minnesota where her neighbors were friendly, the winters were fierce, and the biggest scandal was the spotting of unidentified male undergarments on a young widow's clothesline. She insists that there really are 10,000 lakes and the mosquito is NOT the state bird. While pursuing her writing career, Joanne has worked as: a public school teacher, a psychologist, a musician, a private detective's assistant, a corporate, legal, and pharmaceutical secretary, a short order cook, a florist's assistant, a caterer and party planner, a computer consultant on a now-defunct operating system, a production assistant on a TV quiz show, half of a screenwriting team with her husband, and a mother, wife, and homemaker. She now lives in Southern California with her husband, her kids, his kids, their three dogs, one elderly tabby, and several noisy rats in the attic. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
March 6, 4:30 p.m. Highly recommended by Dean! A sixth-generation native Texan, Deanna Raybourn graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and history and an emphasis on Shakespearean studies. She taught high school English for three years in San Antonio before leaving education to pursue a career as a novelist. Deanna makes her home in Virginia, where she lives with her husband and daughter and is hard at work on the next installment in the award-winning Lady Julia Grey series. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Saturday, March
13, 4:30 p.m.
A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland. And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches. As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark. Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear. Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.
But Anders refuses to accept that she’s gone for good. Determined to find answers, he sets out on a dangerous path that exposes Olivia’s traumatic past and places him squarely in the way of her father’s plans. When he discovers her very life is threatened, his search for answers becomes a race against time, and he is forced to finally confront his own past if he is to have any chance of rescuing Olivia from hers. Pitched at the intersection of suspense and family drama, Rescuing Olivia is another gripping read from Julie Compton, a talented new author who never fails to mine the most compelling emotional terrain. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
March 16, 6:30 p.m.
Highly recommended by David, McKenna & Anne!
When Charlie Clark takes a break from his colossal losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn apartment, they find it blown sky high—and then the bullets start flying in every direction. At first Charlie thinks his Russian "creditors" are employing aggressive collection tactics. But once Drummond effortlessly hot-wires a car as their escape vehicle, Charlie begins to suspect there's much more to his father than meets the eye. He soon discovers that Drummond's unremarkable career as an appliance salesman was actually a clever cover-up for an elaborate plan to sell would-be terrorists faulty nuclear detonators. Drummond's intricate knowledge of the “device” is extremely dangerous information to have rattling around in an Alzheimer's-addled brain. The CIA wants to “contain” him—and so do some other shady characters who send Charlie and Drummond on a wild chase that gives "father and son quality time" a whole new meaning. With Once a Spy, Keith Thomson makes his debut on the thriller stage with energy, wit, and style to spare. Once you read it, you'll eagerly await his follow-up, Twice a Spy. Poker expert & crime writer John Vorhaus (Under the Gun) will sign & discuss his 2nd novel, The California Roll (Shaye Areheart; $23).
Vorhaus has created a character with a point of view like no one else’s. Radar’s been on the snuke since childhood, but he’s still looking for his California Roll, the one big scam that will set him up for life. With the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave, Radar is one-of-a-kind—until, that is, he meets his match in the stunning, sassy package of Allie Quinn, a seemingly innocent stunner who knows far too much about him for someone he’s just met at a party. Allie is either the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker.
So clever, so witty, and so laugh-out-loud funny, The California Roll will grab you from the first line and not let you go until the very last word (a word spoken, it should be noted, in the Hot Tub of Truth). Highly recommended by McKenna, Anne, Brenda & Michelle! “The California Roll is grand entertainment . . . Double- and triple-crosses abound in the careening plot. . . . The writing is tight and wonderfully glib, and Vorhaus slyly, shrewdly hints that he’s snuking the reader. No caper-novel fan should miss this one.”—Booklist “John Vorhaus sure knows his stuff—a little too well, if you ask me. The California Roll is a hilarious and highly suspicious ride into the world of grift. It’s an immensely enjoyable read and an excellent primer if you’re looking for a career change.” —Lisa Lutz, New York Times bestselling author of Revenge of the Spellmans “Whether you’re a mook or a snuke, The California Roll is more than entertainment, it’s an education. Buyer beware: John Vorhaus will steal your money and hours of your life, giving you nothing in return but a great read—fast, funny, and very, very smart.” —Harley Jane Kozak, award-winning author of A Date You Can’t Refuse John Vorhaus is the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You’re Not. An avid poker player, he has written several books on that subject, including the bestselling Killer Poker series and the poker-world novel Under the Gun. A veteran creative consultant, he has taught writing in twenty-four countries on four continents, most recently running the writing staff of the Russian version of Married . . . with Children. When not out making the world safe for situation comedy, he lives in Southern California, where he very much appreciates the weather. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
March 17, 6:30 p.m.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Friday,
March 19, 6:30 p.m. Many dangers lurk in the deep -- the worst of them are human.
Two men are waiting for him on the shore, and they are not the kind of men you want to meet at any time. Murderers and ex-cons, they're intent on diving to the bottom of the very deep lake and uncovering the remains of a legendary plane wreck there, supposedly loaded with Cuban treasury gold. Ford's expertise is just what they need. And if he doesn't want to help? He can die. His friends? They can die, too. In fact, they can die right now. . . . As the hours tick away, two mortal struggles unfold simultaneously, one above and one below. Neither outcome is certain, no man is safe . . . and in the deep shadow, only death awaits. "A nail-biter that's virtually impossible to put down." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Highly recommended by David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Their affair was a close-kept secret, their bodies coming together with explosive heat even as she tried to maintain emotional distance. But now Justine can't stay away from Ross. Somehow, he's mixed up in this case and his hold on her is only getting tighter. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
On top of his P.I. work, he’s got some unfinished business with one of the young neo-Nazi miscreants. He may have to fly halfway across the world to see justice done, if he isn’t cut down by Russian mafia bullets in the gayborhood or run over on a Boca street by a pint-size maniac in a huge Cadillac. Retirement has never been so un-retiring. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
John writes when he isn’t on the air for NewsRadio 740 KTRH, hosting his "Delicious Mischief" food and wine radio show on Saturdays or his Houston ArtsWeek on Sundays. Both shows, plus John’s new weekly "Delicious Mischief" in Austin, are sponsored by Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods. The big difference, he says: a lot more people get themselves killed in his novels! "John DeMers' unlikely hero, chef Brett Baldwin, takes us on a spicy, culinary crime cruise through the mean streets of small-town West Texas, and beyond. Hot stuff!" -- Peter May Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Sunday,
March 28, 2:00 p.m.
Known to Evil delivers on all the promise of the characters and story lines introduced in The Long Fall, and then some. It careens fast and deep into gritty, glittery contemporary Manhattan, making the city pulse in a whole new way, and it firmlyestablishes Leonid McGill as one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men. Walter Mosley has just been nominated for the 2010 Hammett Prize! More information here. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
March 29, 6:30 p.m.
Alafair Burke is the author of what the Sun-Sentinal has hailed as "two power house series" featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid. Alafair's novels grow out of her love for writing, her experience as a prosecutor in America's police precincts and criminal courtrooms, and her ability to create strong, believable, and eminently likable female characters. According to Entertainment Weekly, Alafair "is a terrific web spinner" who "knows when and how to drop clues to keep readers at her mercy." Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
March 30, evening, at Alliance Francaise. The event will include a special PowerPoint presentation of photos taken by Cara of the various Paris locations where her books are set!
Highly recommended by McKenna! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
March 31, 6:30 p.m. Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel’s shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win—with herself. Lisa Scottoline is the Edgar Award-winning, bestselling author of Look Again, Lady Killer, Daddy’s Girl, Dirty Blonde, and many more. She currently has twenty-five million copies of her books in print in the United States, and she is published in twenty-five countries. She lives in Pennsylvania. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Two events on Saturday, April 3rd! Saturday,
April 3, 4:00 p.m.
"This is not just a thriller, but an elegant novel, full of heart, soul, music, food, cruelty, betrayal, poverty and love. The line runs through Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, straight on to David Corbett. I’m not kidding. He’s that good." -- John Lescroart, bestselling author of A Plague of Secrets "Rarely does a novel knock you totally out of the park; this one does.” -- Ken Bruen, author of The Guards David Corbett is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: The Devil’s Redhead, Done for a Dime (a New York Times Notable Book), and Blood of Paradise— nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar, and named both one of the Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers of 2007 by the Washington Post and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and his story “Pretty Little Parasite,” from Las Vegas Noir, was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2009. For more, go to www.davidcorbett.com. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
April 3, 6:00 p.m. The sequel is highly recommended by McKenna, Brenda, Kinley, Anne & Michelle!
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English
hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson
has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer
has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing
and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make
Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in wayover her head? Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Two events on Monday, April 5th! Monday,
April 5, 3:00 p.m. At the ripe old age of 32, former wild child Isabel "Izzy" Spellman has finally agreed to take over the family business. And the tradition won't be a smooth one. Meanwhile, Izzy is being blackmailed by her mother (photographic evidence of Prom Night 1994) to commit to regular blind dates with promising professionals — an arrangement that doesn't thrill Connor, an Irish bartender on the brink of becoming Ex-boyfriend #12. At Spellman headquarters, it's business as unusual. Doorknobs and light fixtures are disappearing every day, Mom's been spotted crying in the pantry, and a series of increasingly demanding Spellman Rules (Rule #27: No Speaking Today) can't quite hold the family together. Izzy also has to decipher weekly "phone calls from the edge" from her octogenarian lawyer, Morty, as well as Detective Henry Stone's mysterious interest in rekindling their relationsh...well, whatever it was. Just when it looks like things can't go more haywire, little sister Rae's internship researching pro bono legal cases leads the youngest Spellman to launch a grassroots campaign that could spring an innocent man from jail — or land Rae in it. The Spellmans Strike Again is hands down the most hilarious, thrilling, and moving book in this bestselling, award-nominatedseries. And it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Isabel Spellman, no matter how much she matures, will never be able to follow Rule #1: Act Normal. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
April 5, 6:30 p.m.
August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe. Michael—the youngest son of an expatriate Englishman—puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among those missing in action. April 1932. London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is retained by Michael's parents, who have recently learned that their son's remains have been unearthed in France. They want Maisie to find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among Michael's belongings—a quest that takes Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love. Her inquiries, and the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his trench, unleash a web of intrigue and violence that threatens to engulf the soldier's family and even Maisie herself. Over the course of her investigation, Maisie must cope with the approaching loss of her mentor, Maurice Blanche, and her growing awareness that she is once again falling in love. Highly recommended by McKenna! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
April 6, 6:30 p.m. Highly recommended by Anne & Sarah!
At the event, we will be doing a trivia contest, with two questions from each of the Dresden File books (not including Changes since it will just be released that day). The highest scorers will win one of two LARP-ing swords, as if Harry was making them the guardian of one of the Swords of the Cross. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
April 7, 6:30 p.m.
Highly recommended by Michelle! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
April 8, 6:30 p.m.
Her web site is www.naomihirahara.com. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn't take enough of Mercy's attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side -- leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam's life forfeit. All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn't careful, she might not have many more to live... Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
April 10, 4:30 p.m.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
April 12, 6:30 p.m.
Written with Martha Grimes's trademark insight and grace, The Black Cat signals the thrilling return of her greatest character. The superintendent is a man possessed of prodigious analytical gifts and charm, yet vulnerable in the most perplexing ways. Highly recommended by Dean & Anne! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
April 13, 6:30 p.m.
And so Joseph meets Alma Spielman: a woman who, with her old-world ways and razor-sharp mind, is his intellectual soul mate. How is he to know that what seems to be the best decision of his life is the one that seals his fate? Highly recommended by David! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Tom Lowe is an award-winning documentary writer/director whose films air nationwide on PBS. As he writes his novels, Tom draws from his travels around the world and his background as a print and broadcast journalist. He worked fifteen years in television news and did freelance stories for CNN. His first novel was A False Dawn, published last year. Tom is a sailor and SCUBA diver. He lives in Florida. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
April 17, 5:00 p.m.
The Bard's darkest play is famously cursed, its reputation for malevolence so strong that many actors refuse to quote or even name the play aloud. And as rehearsals begin at the foot of Scotland's Dunsinnan Hill, it doesn't take long for the curse to stir. Strange references to the boy actor who first played Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's day -- and died in the role -- pop up. A trench atop Dunsinnan Hill is found filled with blood, and a severed human thumb turns up among the props. And Kate begins sleepwalking, waking early one morning alone atop the hill, her hands smeared in blood. Kate has no memory of how she got there, but later that day a local woman is found dead on the hill in circumstances that suggest not just ritual murder but ancient pagan sacrifice. With the police more focused on Kate as a suspect than as a possible future victim, she and Ben find themselves in a desperate race to discover a lost version of Macbeth, said to contain rituals of witchcraft aimed at conjuring demonic forces to gain forbidden knowledge. However much Kate would like to dismiss such rituals as superstition, someone else appears willing to kill for them -- and for the manuscript said to spell them out. Highly recommended by McKenna! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Booklist on Infamous: "It's Atkins' prodigious research that makes this novel a compelling road trip through Depression-era America. He vividly portrays the Dust Bowl, foreclosures, the grinding poverty, gnawing hunger, desperation and the rage at bankers (most of which resonate in today's America); and he captures the imminent end of the gangsters' heyday. Like many fine historical crime novels, Infamous offers a window on society, then and now." Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
April 20, 6:30 p.m. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
April 22, 6:30 p.m.
In this hard-hitting and timely novel about a drug company that puts its shareholders’ profits over safety, Carlos Cisneros takes the reader on a whirlwind ride as his protagonist struggles with his responsibilities to his client, his family, and his own personal ethics. Carlos Cisneros is the author of the crime novel, The Case Runner (Arte Público Press, 2008). A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law in Houston, he practices law in Brownsville, Texas, where he lives with his family. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it. Highly recommended by McKenna, Kinley, Anne, Dean & Michelle!
Now, Jane must enter a world filled with supernatural creatures alternatively terrifying, beautiful, and deadly -- all of which perfectly describe her new "friend," Ryu, a gorgeous and powerful vampire. It is a world where nothing can be taken for granted: a dog can heal with a lick; spirits bag your groceries; and whatever you do, never ever rub the genie's lamp. If you love Sookie Stackhouse, then you'll want to dive into Nicole Peeler's enchanting debut novel. Nicole D. Peeler does not have any cats, kids, or husbands. Instead, she vexes literature in her new role as an assistant professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Although she's excited to call Louisiana "home," she has previously set up shop in her native Illinois, Boston, Spain and Scotland. Nicole is ashamed of her dreadful potty mouth and fervently wishes that she were taller. Tempest Rising is her first novel.
But the mages aren’t Sabina’s only problem. In New York’s Black Light District, she has run-ins with fighting demons, hostile werewolves and an opportunistic old flame. Sabina thought she’d take a bite out of the Big Apple -- but it looks like it wants to bite back. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
April 26, 6:30 p.m. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
April 27, noon Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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May 1, 5:00 p.m. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
May 4, two events Luncheon
at The Briar Club, 11:30 a.m. Tickets
required. For more information, please go here.
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May 8, 5:00 p.m. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses. Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next
61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his
enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is
the woman whose life he’ll risk his own to save. Highly recommended by David & McKenna! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Leann Sweeney is the author of the Yellow Rose Mystery Series set in Texas featuring adoption PI Abby Rose and the Cats in Trouble Mystery Series set in fictional small town Mercy, South Carolina. The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse was the #1 bestseller in May 2009 on IMBA list and was on several bookstore bestseller lists for 2009 across the country. Her latest book in the series. The Cat, the Professor and the Poison, will tell readers much more about her heroine, Houston transplant Jillian Hart. Leann lives in Friendswood, Texas with her husband Mike, her ADHD labradoodle Rosie and her cats, Indigo, Agatha Christie and Archie Goodwin. Her ani-pals are helping her write the third cat book, due out in April 2011. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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While Puri is mired in his detective work, his meddling Mummy is determined to track down the thieves who robbed the aunties at a recent gathering. Mummy, Puri, and the rest of our favorite characters continue to entertain in this whirlwind sequel to Tarquin Hall's lauded debut. Highly recommended by Brenda! Tarquin Hall is a British author and journalist who has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is the author of The Case of the Missing Servant, dozens of articles, and three works of non-fiction, including the highly acclaimed Salaam Brick Lane, an account of a year spent above a Bangladeshi sweat shop in London’s notorious East End. He is married to Indian-born journalist, Anu Anand. They divide their time between London and Delhi. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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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.
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Highly recommended by McKenna & Michelle! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. We're also working on Jonathan Maberry, David Handler, Reed Farrel Coleman, Ridley Pearson, Barry Eisler, and more. Please stay tuned for more details. |
When
attending one of MURDER BY THE BOOK's signing events, please keep
the following in mind: 
Hannah
Dennison will sign & discuss
the third Vicky Hill mystery, Exposé!
(Berkley Prime Crime; paperback original; $6.99). When
the local celebrity, Scarlett Flemming, dies, Vicky learns of Scarlett's
shaky finances—and marriage. While canvassing an entire town
of suspects and juggling three eligible suitors, she must stay one
step ahead of a killer once she realizes she's no longer writing
an obituary, but an exposé! 
Best-selling
culinary mystery writer Joanne Fluke will sign
& discuss her Hannah Swensen novel, Apple Turnover
Murder (Kensington; $24). It's June
in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and for Hannah Swensen, that means bridal
showers galore, plus a massive fundraising event in need of confections—not
to mention a killer who never learned that charity begins at home...
Early
summer brings plenty of work for Hannah, even before Mayor Bascomb's
wife drops by The Cookie Jar to place an order... for eleven-hundred
cookies! Stephanie Bascomb is organizing an elaborate three-day
event to support local charities, and though it's a worthy cause,
Hannah almost flips when her business partner, Lisa, suggests setting
up an apple turnover stand. Hannah's never made a turnover—but,
pushover that she is, she places her faith in Lisa's mother-in-law's
recipe and agrees to be a magician's assistant in the fundraiser's
talent show...
Acclaimed
historical mystery writer Deanna Raybourn (Silent
in the Grave) will sign & discuss her new stand-alone novel
of historical suspense, The Dead Travel Fast
(Mira; paperback original; $13.95). With
a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire
wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh – and a disappointed suitor
– far behind. She is bound for Roumania, where tales of vampires
are still whispered, to visit an old friend and write the book that
will bring her true independence. She arrives at a magnificent,
decaying 
castle
in the Carpathians replete with eccentric inhabitants: the ailing
dowager; the troubled steward; her own fearful friend, Cosmina.
But all are outstripped in dark glamour by the castle's master,
Count Andrei Dragulescu. Bewildering and bewitching in equal measure,
the brooding nobleman ignites Theodora's imagination and awakens
passions in her that she can neither deny nor conceal. His allure
is superlative, his dominion over the superstitious town, absolute
– Theodora may simply be one more person under his sway. Before
her sojourn is ended – or her novel completed – Theodora
will have encountered things as strange and terrible as they are
seductive. For obsession can prove fatal...and she is in danger
of falling prey to more than desire. 
Carla
Buckley will sign & discuss The Things
that Keep Us Here (Delacorte; $25).
How far would you go to protect your family?
Ann
Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then
she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now,
as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices
to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see.
In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with
the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life
changes overnight.
Julie
Compton will sign & discuss Rescuing Olivia
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $25.99). Anders Erickson has fallen
for Olivia, who likes to live in the moment and doesn’t want
to talk about her past. That’s fine with Anders—who
has his own memories he’d like to forget—until a car
runs their motorcycle off the road and causes an accident that puts
Olivia in a coma.
Olivia’s
estranged father blames Anders and denies his pleas to see her.
When she mysteriously disappears from the hospital and Anders tries
to learn what happened, her father stops at nothing to prevent him
from discovering the truth.
Debut
thriller writer Keith Thomson will sign & discuss
his first novel, Once a Spy (Doubleday;
$25.95 ). What happens when a CIA agent can't trust his
own mind? The answer is in this fast-paced, witty, and highly imaginative
debut thriller—Midnight Run meets Robert Ludlum.
Drummond
Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease
has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who's wandered
away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. 
You’ve
heard of a Ponzi scheme, but do you know the ins and outs of a Merlin
Game, the Pigeon Drop, the Doolally Snadoodle, the Penny Skim, or
the Dead Man’s Switch? World-class con artist and polymath
extraordinaire Radar Hoverlander makes his living “on the
snuke,” with his gift for bafflegab and an endless supply
of assumed identities, the tools of a centuries-old trade. He’s
very smart. And he’s very smooth. But how will he react when
the snuke’s on him? As timeless as a perpetual-motion machine,
and as timely as a Madoff arraignment, The California Roll
brings you deep inside the world of con artistry, where every fact
is fiction and the second liar never has a chance. 
Radar’s
sidekick, Vic Mirplo, a lovable but hapless grifter who couldn’t
con a kid out of a candy cane, thinks Radar’s being played.
But if love is blind, it's also deaf, dumb, and stupid, and before
Radar knows it, Allie’s straightforward request—that
Radar teach her grandfather the art of the con—is the opening
move in a twisted game of double-, triple-, and quadruple-crosses
that threatens not only Radar's manhood and livelihood, but perhaps
most important: his life.
New
York Times best-selling thriller
writer Linda Fairstein will sign & discuss
her new Alexandra Cooper novel, Hell Gate
(Dutton; $26.95). Linda Fairstein is America’s
foremost legal expert on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence,
She led the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney’s office
in Manhattan for twenty-five years. Her eleven previous Alexandra
Cooper novels have been critically acclaimed international bestsellers,
translated into more than a dozen languages. Fairstein lives in
Manhattan and on Martha’s Vineyard. 
In
Hell Gate, Fairstein takes
Alexandra Cooper inside a world she’d rather not see. New
York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind-the-scenes
deals. Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck
that has contraband cargo— human cargo—and the political
sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from
grace. When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman’s
lover have the same rose tattoo—the brand of a “snakehead,”
a master of a human trafficking operation—it dawns on her
that these cases aren’t as unrelated as they seem and that
the entire political landscape of New York City could hang in the
balance of her investigation. As Alex looks on at the nameless victims
in the morgue, she realizes she’s looking at the present-day
face of New York’s long, dark tradition of human trafficking—a
tradition that began hundreds of years ago with slave trade from
Africa, now a multimillion-dollar industry that will stop at no
cost, even if that cost is Alex’s life.
New
York Times best-selling thriller writer Randy Wayne
White will sign & discuss his new Doc Ford novel, Deep
Shadow (Putnam; $25.95). 
Thirty
minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive
in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping
two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford himself manages to escape and quickly
surfaces to find help-but that's when his troubles only begin. 
Saturday,
March 20, 4:30 p.m.
Suspense
writer Colleen Thompson will sign & discuss
her new novel, Touch of Evil (Leisure;
paperback original; $7.99). The noose cuts off all air,
leaving its victim struggling hopelessly against death. One by one,
the members of a small town zydeco band are being murdered by a
macabre killer.
Sheriff
Justine Wofford is boxed in on all sides, investigating a series
of gruesome hangings everyone else considers suicide. Hospitalized
by a severe blow to the head, unable to remember the details of
the attack, under fire from her own department, she reaches out
to the man she's sworn to avoid at any cost.
Florida
crime writer Steven M. Forman will sign & discuss
his second "Boca" novel, Boca Mournings
(Forge; $24.99). Eddie Perlmutter, a fifty-nine-year-old
highly decorated Boston cop, retired to Boca Raton, hoping for some
peace and quiet after more than thirty years on the force. But before
he could even get a tan he busted Russian mafia counterfeiters,
unraveled the details of a mysterious death in a gated community,
and saved damsels in distress from neo-Nazi punks. A local newspaper
reporter wrote about Eddie’s exploits and nicknamed him the
“Boca Knight,” a man willing to fight for everyone’s
right to live in peace. Eddie Perlmutter was a hero all over again.
A
widower for more than twenty years, Eddie becomes involved with
two totally different women, but once he hangs out his P.I. shingle
he has precious little time for romance. Eddie’s one-man Boca
Knights Detective Agency has more cases than he can handle: a haunted
elevator, a double kidnapping, an octogenarian bagel thief—and
that’s just for starters. Quack doctors have to be busted;
old hearts need fixing; scams must be exposed. While standing up
for the underdog, Eddie doesn’t even have enough time to bend
over for a prostate exam.
Houston
food journalist John DeMers will sign & discuss
his first crime novel, Marfa Shadows
(Bright Sky; $23.95). 
Local
writer and radio host John DeMers takes a whole new direction in
his 40-book career with the big-splash national release of Marfa
Shadows, his first mystery novel and the start of a series
starring his culinary crime-fighter Chef Brett Baldwin. The new
book, and presumably its years and years of siblings, are set in
the small-but-artsy Far West Texas town of Marfa -- Brett’s
hometown and the place his fictional restaurant called Mesquite
is located. But as John stresses, the action can take his hero just
about anywhere, starting in Shadows with the nearby drug
violence-riddled Tex-Mex border. 
New
York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning crime writer Walter
Mosley will sign & discuss his new Leonid McGill novel,
Known to Evil (Riverhead; $26.95).
Leonid McGill -- the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall,
the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide
-- is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world
around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with
his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his
wife -- but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid
kicked out of his prime, top-of-the-skyscraper office space. Meanwhile,
one of his sons seems to have found true love-but the girl has a
shady past that's all of sudden threatening the whole McGill family
-- and his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing
but enabling the crisis.
Most
ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind-the-throne
at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing
that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't
fix -- and he's come to Leonid for help. It seems a young woman
has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything
to Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his motives,
which doesn't quite square with the new company policy -- but turning
down Rinaldo is almost impossible to even contemplate.
Crime
writer Alafair Burke will sign & discuss her
new Ellie Hatcher thriller, 212
(Harper; $24.99). When New York University sophomore Megan
Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing
in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone
knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her —
but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police
tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's
someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious
attack, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced that the online
threats are more than just empty words.
Highly
recommended by McKenna! 
Best-selling
crime writer Cara Black will sign & discuss
her new Aimée Leduc novel, Murder in the Palais
Royal (Soho; $25), at a special event
at 
In
Murder in the Palais Royal, her partner, René, has
been shot, and eyewitnesses have identified Aimée as the
culprit. A mysterious deposit has been made to their firm's bank
account, interesting the taxman in their affairs. Someone seems
to be impersonating Aimée; someone wants revenge. Two murders
ensue. How do they relate to the youth whom Aimée's testimony
sent to jail in the very first Aimée Leduc investigation,
Murder in the Marais?
New
York Times best-seller Lisa
Scottline will sign & discuss her new thriller, Think
Twice (St. Martin's; $26.99). Bennie
Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but
the darkness in Alice’s soul makes them two very different
women. Or at least that’s what Bennie believes, until she
finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin.
Meanwhile,
Alice takes over Bennie’s life, impersonating her at work
and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess
she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and
the evil she has unleashed in her twin’s psyche, as well as
Bennie’s determination to stay alive long enough to exact
revenge.
Edgar
Award-nominated crime writer David Corbett will
sign & discuss his new novel, Do They Know I'm Running?
(Mortalis; paperback original; $15).
Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen
years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he’s stuck in
a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his
damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration
agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque,
badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old
man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous
smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico,
to the U.S. border.
But
his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have
to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions
are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican
crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more
than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to
choose between survival and betrayal—of his country, his family,
his heart.
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). Signing line numbers available beginning the
book's on-sale date, Tuesday, March 2, with purchase of The Weed
that Strings the Hangman's Bag from Murder By The Book.
From
Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author
Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of
fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously
brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius
for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling
two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest
of threads.
her
put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against
her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle,
Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion
in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets. 
Award-winning
mystery writer Lisa Lutz will sign & discuss
her 4th & final "Spellmans" novel, The
Spellmans Strike Again (Simon & Schuster;
$25), at a special afternoon Murder By The Book event.
(If you can't make our event & want to catch her later in the
evening, she'll be 
First
among her priorities as head of Spellman Investigations is to dig
up some dirt on the competition, slippery ex-cop Rick Harkey —
a task she may enjoy a little too much. Next, faced with a baffling
missing-persons case at the home of an aging millionaire, Izzy hires
an actor friend, Len, to infiltrate the mansion as an undercover
butler — a role he may enjoy a little much.
New
York Times best-selling novelist Jacqueline
Winspear will launch her national book tour for the new
Maisie Dobbs mystery, The Mapping of Love and Death
(HarperCollins; $25.99), at Murder By The Book!
In
the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series,
Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an
investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young
cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
#1
best-selling paranormal writer Jim Butcher launches his national
book tour with a special signing of the new Dresden novel, Changes
(Ace; $25.95), at Murder
By The Book! 
Long
ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover -- until she was
attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity
and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared
to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and
those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna
Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan
has long kept, and she plans to use it -- against Harry. To prevail
this time, he may have no choice but to embrace the raging fury
of his own untapped dark power. Because Harry's not fighting to
save the world... He's fighting to save his child. 
New
York Times best-seller C. J. Box will sign
& discuss his new Joe Pickett novel, Nowhere to
Run (Putnam; $25.95). 
Joe
Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town
of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in
the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking
them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered.
And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't
mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he
could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned.
Because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like
something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too
deadly. When he'd first saddled up, he'd thought of this as his
last patrol. What he hadn't known was just how accurate that thought
might turn out to be. 
Edgar
Award-winning mystery writer Naomi Hirahara will
sign & discuss her 4th Mas Arai mystery, Blood Hina
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). Mas' best friend Haruo
is getting married and Mas has grudgingly agreed to serve as best
man. But then an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancee
goes missing, and the wedding is called off with fingers pointed
at Haruo. To clear his friend's name, Mas must first uncover a world
of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
Other
books in the series, which features a Japanese American gardener
and atomic-bomb survivor who solves crimes, include Summer of
the Big Bachi, Gasa-Gasa Girl, and the Edgar Award-winning
Snakeskin Shamisen. Her crime short stories are featured
in Los Angeles Noir, Los Angeles Noir 2: The
Classics, A Hell of a Woman, and The
Darker Mask. Her book for younger readers, 1001 Cranes,
was chosen as an Honor Book for the Youth Literature of the Asian/Pacific
American Award for Literature in 2009. She also contributes a mystery
serial, “Heist in Crown City” to an English-language
weekly in Japan, Asahi Weekly.
A
graduate of Stanford University with a degree in international relations,
she is the president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery
Writers of America. 
New
York Times best-selling Texas mystery writer
Susan Wittig Albert will sign & discuss her
new China Bayles novel, Holly Blues (Berkley Prime Crime;
$24.95). China Bayles is fit to spit when her husband's
troubled ex-wife, Sally, shows up at her herb shop, claiming to
be broke with nowhere else to turn. China isn't sure if it's the
goodness of her heart or the scent of Christmas wreaths, but she
invites Sally to stay. 
Then
China starts receiving menacing calls from an "ex" of
Sally's, who seems to have a connection to the murder of her parents
nearly a decade ago. With her P.I. husband out of town, it's up
to China to weed out the truth behind whatever it is Sally's running
from before danger catches up to all of them.
New
York Times best-selling mystery writer Martha Grimes
will sign & discuss her new Richard Jury novel, The
Black Cat (Viking; $25.95). Three
months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt-
ridden after his lover's tragic auto accident, and he is now more
wary than ever. He is deeply suspicious when requested on a case
far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village where a young
woman has been murdered behind the local pub. The only witness is
the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue
as to the girl's identity or her killer's. 
Identifying
the girl becomes tricky when she's recognized as both the shy local
librarian and a posh city escort, and Jury must use all his wits
and intuition to determine the connection to subse quent escort
murders. Meanwhile, Jury's nemesis, Harry Johnson, continues to
goad Jury down a dangerous path. And Johnson, along with the imperturbable
dog Mungo, just may be the key to it all. 
New
York Times best-seller Jesse Kellerman will
sign & discuss his new thriller, The Executor
(Putnam; $25.95). Perpetual graduate student Joseph Geist
is at his wit's end. Recently kicked out of their shared apartment
by his girlfriend, he's left with little more than a half bust of
Nietzsche's head and the realization that he's homeless and unemployed.
He's hit a dead end on his dissertation; his funding has been cut
off. He doesn't even have a phone. Desperate for some source of
income, he searches the local newspaper and finds a curious ad:
CONVERSATIONALIST
SOUGHT. 
Crime
writer Tom Lowe will sign & discuss his second
Sean O'Brien novel, The 24th Letter
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $25.99). When Father John Callahan
hears the confession of a frightened prison inmate, he learns that
a man facing lethal injection is innocent. The lead investigator
on the case, his friend Sean O’Brien, is still haunted by
the case. The 24th letter in the Greek alphabet—Omega—may
provide the key to uncovering the killer’s identity.
Highly
recommended by Michelle!
The
best-selling author of Interred with Their Bones will sign
& discuss the sequel, Haunt Me Still
(Dutton; $25.95). A legendary theatrical curse... A
rune-engraved blade, a mysterious mirror, and an ancient cauldron...
And a ritually murdered body laid out in the manner of ancient pagan
burials. 
Kate
Stanley, Jennifer Lee Carrell's dauntless Shakespearean scholar-turned-director,
made a memorable -- and New York Times bestselling -- debut
in Interred with Their Bones. Having chased down her mother's
killer (and recovering one of Shakespeare's lost plays in the process),
Kate's fame as a director with an expertise in "occult Shakespeare"
catapults her-and Ben Pearl, her partner in crime- solving-into
a new production of Macbeth, showcasing a fabled collection of objects
relating both to the play and the historical Scottish king for whom
it is named. 
Crime
writer Carlos Cisneros will sign & discuss
his new novel, The Name Partner
(Arté Publico; $24.95). The son of migrant workers,
Guillermo “Billy” Bravo is one of South Texas’
most successful attorneys, and he’s determined to see his
name on his firm’s stationery. He can see it in his mind’s
eye: Bates, Domani, Rockford, Lord & Bravo. But suddenly, his
life starts spinning out of control. He learns that fifteen years
ago, a month after getting married, a one-night stand led to a son
he didn’t know he had. He’s sure his wife will hand
him his private parts on a platter, along with divorce papers, when
she finds out. And he’ll never make name partner if there’s
a contentious divorce.
Then
Billy gets a new case, to defend BostonMagnifica Pharmaceuticals
against a wrongful death suit. Tomas Ray’s widow contends
that a new, powerful psychotropic drug, caused her husband—a
successful attorney—to kill two innocent bystanders before
killing himself. Billy quickly finds himself being pressured by
both his boss and BM’s CEO to make the lawsuit go away. But
he soon finds evidence confirming BM has something to hide. 
Gail
Carriger, one of our FAVORITE discoveries of 2009, will
sign & discuss her 2nd Alexia Tarabotti novel, Changeless
(Orbit; paperback original; $7.99). Alexia Tarabotti, now
Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find
her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf,
yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears -- leaving her
to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her
doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.
But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions,
and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations
take her into the backwaters of ugly waistcoats, Scotland, she is
prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only A soulless can.
Nicole
Peeler will sign & discuss Tempest Rising
(Orbit; paperback original; $7.99). Living in small town
Rockabill, Maine, Jane True always knew she didn't quite fit in
with so-called normal society. During her nightly, clandestine swim
in the freezing winter ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to startling
revelations about her heritage: she is only half-human. 
Jaye
Wells (Red-Headed Stepchild) will sign
& discuss her second Sabina Kane novel, The Mage
in Black (Orbit; paperback original; $7.99).
Sabina Kane doesn’t have the best track record when it comes
to family. After all, her own grandmother, leader of the vampire
race, wants her dead. So when she arrives in New York to meet her
mage relatives, the reunion puts the fun in dysfunctional. Not only
is mage culture completely bizarre, but everyone seems to think
she’s some kind of ‘Chosen’ who’ll unite
the dark races. Sabina doesn’t care who chose her, she’s
not into destiny.
Have
lunch & bush tea with
New
York Times best-seller Laurie R. King will
sign & discuss the new Mary Russell novel, The God
of the Hive (Bantam; $25), at two
MBTB events!
Top
ten New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King "enriches
the Sherlockian legacy" (The Boston Globe) in her
mesmerizing, powerful conclusion to the blockbuster hit The
Language of Bees. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are each
on the trail of exposing a ruthless villain. Will being apart help
them solve a devilishly difficult mystery, or make them easier targets...?
Picking up where the bestselling The Language of Bees left
off, The God of the Hive finds its characters scattered
to the four winds. Russell is covertly making her way back to London,
picking up a mysterious friend with a hidden past along the way.
Holmes has fled to Holland, hiding a wounded son, poring over a
host of questions. And the villains who nearly killed them all are
still alive, back in London and laying traps to lure and finish
off the intrepid detectives. King weaves a jawdropping cat-and-mouse
tale, where Russell and Holmes must draw upon all of their considerable
wits to solve this mystery and survive a foe who intends to see
the entire Holmes bloodline bled dry.
New
York Times best-seller Lee Child will sign
& discuss the new Jack Reacher thriller, 61 Hours
(Delacorte; $28), at two MBTB events!
Sixty-one
hours. Not a minute to spare.
Houston
mystery writer Leann Sweeney will sign & discuss
new Jillian Hart novel, The Cat, the Professor and the
Poison (Obsidian; paperback original; $7.99).
Between her kitty quilt-making business and her three beloved cats
-- Merlot, Chablis and Syrah -- Jillian Hart has her hands full.
that doesn't stop her from wanting to solve the mystery of the milk
cow that's gone missing from her friend's farm. But imagine her
surprise when a stolen cow leads to the discovery of fifty stray
cats and one dead body -- a victim of cold-blooded murder.
Now
Jillian has an even bigger investigation on her hands. Good thing
her kitties are always ready to help. With their curiosity, smarts,
and talent ofr sniffing out rats, the the three felines are bound
to help Jillian and her best friend, Deputy Candace Carson, stop
a killer -- someone evil enough to give humans a bad name.
Tarquin
Hall, the acclaimed author
of last year's debut, The Case of the Missing Servant,
will sign & discuss the sequel, The Case of the
Man Who Died Laughing (Simon & Schuster;
$24). Vish Puri is back with a fresh collection of investigations.
When a so-called Guru Buster is killed one morning at his local
"Laughing Club," witnesses point to one of the country's
most recognizable Hindu ascetics. Puri, who has worked with the
victim in the past -- in The Case of the Man Who Predicted His Own
Death -- pursues the case, sending his undercover operative Facecream
to the sacred town of Haridwar disguised as the bratty daughter
of an Indian businessman -- aka Puri.
Meanwhile,
Puri continues his bread-and-butter work of vetting potential arranged-marriage
candidates. He's hired by a wealthy Sikh scaffolding manufacturer
to look into the background of a young woman and her family. The
girl, studying at an air hostess academy, checks out. But her parents
are hiding something from their past.
Young
adult thriller writer Victoria Laurie will sign
& discuss the sequel to The Secrets 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. 
