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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.
We apologize, but due to extenuating circumstances, tomorrow night's Carol S. Vance signing has been cancelled. We will be making arrangments for him to drop by and sign stock at a later date. Please call or e-mail to arrange for signed copies.
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. Saturday,
September 4, 5:00 p.m.
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. "[A] fast and furious new thriller." -- The New York
Times ALSO
AVAILABLE: 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. Sunday,
September 12, 2:00 p.m.
ALSO
AVAILABLE: When local blond bombshell Bunny Scott is found in a suspicious car wreck, the Dahlias decide to dig into the town's buried secrets, and club members Lizzy, Ophelia, and Verna soon find leads sprouting up faster than weeds. The town is all abuzz with news of an escaped convict from the prison farm, rumors of trouble at the bank, and tales of a ghost heard digging around the cucumber tree. If anyone can get to the root of these mysteries, it's the Darling Dahlias.
Together, Alone opens in 1985, as Albert leaves a successful, if rootless, career as a university administrator and begins a new life as a freelance writer, wife, and homesteader on a patch of rural land northwest of Austin. She vividly describes the work of creating a home at Meadow Knoll, a place in which she and Bill raised their own food and animals, while working together and separately on writing projects. Once her sense of home and partnership was firmly established, Albert recalls how she had to find its counterbalance--a place where she could be alone and explore those parts of the self that only emerge in solitude. For her, this place was Lebh Shomea, a silent monastic retreat. In writing about her time at Lebh Shomea, Albert reveals the deep satisfaction she finds in belonging to a community of people who have chosen to be apart and experience silence and solitude. Susan Wittig Albert grew up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. She is a former English professor, university administrator, and vice president. She and her husband co-author a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries under the name Robin Paige. The Alberts live near Austin, Texas. 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. Saturday,
September 25, 5:00 p.m. 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.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I. Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared him for the exotic scents he encounters when an old-fashioned traveling circus comes to town. Bernie scores tickets to this less-than-greatest-show-on-earth because his son Charlie is crazy about elephants. The only problem is that Peanut, the headlining pachyderm of this particular one-ring circus, has gone missing—along with her trainer, Uri DeLeath. Stranger still, no one saw them leave. How does an elephant vanish without a trace?
Some very dangerous people would prefer that Chet and Bernie disappear for good and will go to any lengths to make that happen. Across the border in Mexico and separated from Bernie, Chet must use all his natural strength and doggy smarts to try to save himself—not to mention Bernie and a decidedly uncooperative Peanut, too. To Fetch a Thief shows why readers
everywhere have fallen head-over-paws in love with the Chet and
Bernie mystery series. Top-notch suspense, humor, and insight into
the ways our canine companions think and behave make this the most
entertaining and irresistible book in the series yet. ALSO AVAILABLE, the first two Chet & Bernie books: Dog on It (Atria; $15) Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school ("I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn't remember exactly, although blood was involved"), but he's a detective through and through. Thereby Hangs a Tail (Atria; $15) Praised by Stephen King as "a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre," Chet and his human companion Bernie have both had some setbacks in life -- Bernie in combat, Chet in K-9 school, but together they make up a team like no other. In Thereby Hangs a Tail, Bernie and Chet are called on to investigate threats made against an unlikely target -- a pretty, pampered show dog named Princess. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Warlord is adventure-thriller fiction of the highest
order—told with verve and swashbuckling panache by one of
the absolute best in the game. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Thursday,
October 7, 6:30 p.m.
McKenna's & Brenda's highest recommendations!
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Friday,
October 8, 6:30 p.m. The Good Son (St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99) Recipient of widespread praise for his award-winning crime short stories, Russel McLean’s full-length debut has been characterized by key crime authors and critics alike as the emergence of a major talent. There is something rotten behind the apparent sucide of Daniel Robertson and it’s about to come bursting into the life of J. McNee, a Scottish private investigator with a near-crushing level of personal baggage. James Robertson, a local farmer, finds his estranged brother’s corpse hanging from a tree. The police claim suicide. But McNee is about to uncover the disturbing truth behind the death. With a pair of vicious London thugs on the move in the Scottish countryside, it’s only a matter of time before people start dying. As the body count rises, McNee finds himself on a collision course with his own demons and an increasing array of brutal killers in a violent, bloody showdown that threatens to leave none involved alive. Plumbing the depths of love, loss, betrayal, and one broken man’s attempt to come to terms with his past, The Good Son successfully blends the classic style of the gumshoe era with the outer edges of modern noir. "McLean has all the merits of this brilliant writer [Jean-Patrick Manchette] with the added bonus of a Scottish sense of wit that is like no other." --Ken Bruen Highly recommended by David! The Lost Sister (U.K. import paperback; $17.95) A teenage girl is missing. Her godfather is a known criminal and her mother is hiding a dark secret. For Private Investigator J. McNee, what starts as a favor for a friend soon becomes a nightmare as he races to find the girl before it’s too late. Russel McLean writes for Crime Spree Magazine, The Big Thrill, At Central Booking and Crime Scene Scotland. His short fiction has been published in crime magazines in both the US and the UK. He lives in Dundee, Scotland. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
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.
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood. Here, a new group of heroes will inherit a quest. But to survive the journey, they’ll need the help of some familiar demigods. Rick will drop by & sign/inscribe copies of The Lost Hero that customers have purchased from Murder By The Book and left at the store. He will also sign & discuss The Lost Hero at a special Blue Willow Bookshop event that evening. Please visit Blue Willow's website for more information. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most exhilarating political thriller to date, a pulse-pounding tale of espionage that introduces fans to the young Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first, explosive assignment. 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. Saturday,
October 23, 5:00 p.m.
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.
Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
October 26, 6:30 p.m. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Wednesday,
October 27, 6:30 p.m. First novel! 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. Tuesday,
November 9, 6:30 p.m. Very 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.
Pursuing a trail of clues and victims to the beautiful medieval city of Rouen and a crumbling chateau in the country, Emily begins to worry about her own sanity: she hears the cries of a little girl she cannot find and discovers blue ribbons left in the child's wake. As Emily is forced to match wits with a brilliant and manipulative killer, only her courage, keen instincts and formidable will to win can help her escape becoming his next victim. Tasha Alexander attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. She lived in Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut and Tennessee before settling in Chicago. McKenna, Dean, John & Anne highly recommend Tasha Alexander!
Amid the lush foothills of the Himalayas, dark deeds are buried and malicious thoughts flourish. The Brisbanes uncover secrets and scandal, illicit affairs and twisted legacies. In this remote and exotic place, exploration is perilous and discovery, deadly. The danger is palpable and, if they are not careful, Julia and Nicholas will not live to celebrate their first anniversary. 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. McKenna, Dean, John, Anne & Michelle highly recommend Deanna Raybourn!
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. McKenna & Michelle highly recommend Lauren Willig!
David & Michelle highly recommend Andrew Grant! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Saturday,
November 13, 3:00 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. "Casey's turbulent third mystery featuring Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong (after 2009's Blood Lines) draws the criminal profiler into a breathless drama as scary as a hurricane's eye.... When clues surface that imply an eerie link between the two investigations, a terrifying cat-and-mouse game develops, pointing to more stormy weather ahead for Sarah in the best in the series to date." -- Publishers Weekly
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.
Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever. Fortunately, they are now more than friends
-- they're a pack. They are Virals. 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.
Go here for tickets! Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Monday,
November 22, 6:30 p.m. 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.
A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WW II. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn’t been the same since her fiance jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother’s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in ‘the distant hours’ of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it. Morton once again enthralls readers with an atmospheric story featuring unforgettable characters beset by love and circumstance and haunted by memory, that reminds us of the rich power of storytelling.
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. Saturday,
December 18, 5:00 p.m. Highly recommended by Brenda!
Charles quickly embraces his new life and responsibilities. But on his first day, the school's star dancer disappears from rehearsal, and the next day another student is run down in the street. When the dancer's body is found under the worst possible circumstances, Charles is determined to find the killer in spite of being ordered to leave the investigation. "Amazing... Ms. Rock takes you back to fascinating and dangerous 17th-century Paris so well that I suspect her of being a time-traveler who's been there." -- Ariana Franklin, national best-selling author of Mistress of the Art of Death "Superb historical debut… With an experienced writer’s ease, Rock incorporates details of the political issues of the day into a suspenseful story line." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review Judith Rock has written on dance, art, and theology for many journals, and has been artist-in-residence and taught and lectured at colleges, seminaries, and conferences across the United States and abroad. After years in New York, she and her husband currently split their time between Louisville, Kentucky, and Sarasota, Florida. Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies.
Among his 22 published books, Raymond Benson wrote six original James Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories—all published worldwide. Three 007 titles each are collected in the recent anthologies Choice of Weapons and The Union Trilogy . His series of “rock ‘n’ roll thrillers” include Dark Side of the Morgue and A Hard Day's Death. As “David Michaels” Raymond wrote two New York Times best-sellers in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series. Raymond is also the author of two Metal Gear Solid novelizations. www.raymondbenson.com Please call or e-mail to order signed or inscribed copies. Tuesday,
December 28, 6:30 p.m.
And that the resident phantom won’t push them off a cliff. That is what has befallen those who have come to the Castle in the past, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure. Dunlow Castle has more spooks than turrets—including the long-dead lord in all his ghostly glory—but they all pale in comparison to the phantom. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her fellow ghostbusters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom—before they plunge headfirst into one cliffhanger of an ending. 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 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: 
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.
Cast
of Shadows (Vintage; $13.95) This
icily innovative thriller begins with every parent’s worst
nightmare, when Davis Moore’s teenage daughter is brutally
raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. It gets worse. For Davis
Moore is a fertility doctor, dealing with cutting-edge genetic reproductive
techniques. It’s a controversial and dangerous occupation:
Moore has already been the object of a fanatic’s assassination
attempt. But for a father driven half-mad by grief, his work presents
one startling and dangerous opportunity–the chance to look
into the face of his daughter’s killer. 
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.
New
York Times best-seller Susan Wittig Albert
will sign & discuss her new Beatrix Potter mystery, The
Tale of Oat Cake Crag (Berkley Prime Crime;
$23.95). In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the
new hydroplane are disrupting life in the village of Near Sawrey.
Miss Beatrix Potter can barely hear herself think-which she needs
to do for the new case she's just taken up. Her friend Grace Lythecoe
has been receiving some anonymous letters, threatening her good
name. 
Now
Beatrix must proceed quietly, so as not to arouse village gossip.
And while her visit to Near Sawrey has proven to be anything but
quiet, there is yet another piece of business for Beatrix to address:
that of her own future. When she's offered a second chance at love,
she decides that sometimes causing a disturbance can be well worth
the trouble.
The
Darling Dhalias of Cucumber Tree (Berkley
Prime Crime; $24.95). The country may be struggling through
the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are
determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their
garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new clubhouse
and garden, complete with two beautiful cucumber trees in full bloom....
But life in Darling is not all garden parties and rosemary lemonade.
Together
Alone (Univ. of Texas Press; $24.95)
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded
in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to
a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your
own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan
Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully written memoir, she
movingly describes how she has experienced place, marriage, and
aloneness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country with her
husband and writing partner, Bill Albert.
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?
Thursday,
September 30, 6:30 p.m.
The best-selling author of the Chet & Bernie mysteries will
sign & discuss the latest, To Fetch a Thief
(Atria; $25). 
At
first there’s nothing Bernie and Chet can do— it’s
a police matter and they have no standing in the case. But then
they’re hired by Popo the Clown, who has his own reasons for
wanting to find out what has become of the mysteriously missing
duo. After Chet takes a few sniffs in Peanut’s trailer and
picks up her one-of-a-kind scent, he and Bernie are in hot pursuit,
heading far away from the bright lights of the traveling show and
into the dark desert night.
Best-selling
thriller writer Ted Bell will sign & discuss
his new novel, Warlord (Atria;
$27.99), in which counterspy Alexander Hawke races
to stop a madman hellbent on murdering the British Royal Family.
His
Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend, desperately needs
his help. Someone is threatening the lives of the British Royal
Family. And the death threat Prince Charles received carries a signature
identical to one Charles found in a book belong to his uncle, Lord
Mountbatten—the beloved family patriarch who was assassinated
30 years before. Someone from the past again has the British crown
in his sights, and has proven once before that these threats are
not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty Hawke needs
to get back in action—if the killer doesn’t end his
life first.
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.
ALSO
AVAILABLE FOR THE SIGNING:
Scottish
crime writer Russel McLean will sign & discuss
his two private eye novels!
"The
Good Son is the most exciting, and gripping, Scottish crime
fiction debut of recent years. Stylish and atmospheric, it marks
the arrival of a exceptional talent." -- John Connolly 
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.
#1
New York Times best-selling young adult writer Rick
Riordan will drop by & sign copies of the first in
a new Camp Half-Blood series, The Heroes of Olympus,
Book One: Lost Hero (Hyperion/Disney; $18.99).
After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and
friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next
generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy
of their own:
New
York Times best-selling thriller writer Vince Flynn
will sign & discuss his new Mitch Rapp novel, American
Assassin (Atria; $27.99). Fans of
Vince Flynn will finally see what made his character Mitch Rapp
become Mitch Rapp. Signing line numbers available beginning
the book's on-sale date, Tuesday, October 12, with purchase of American
Assassin from Murder By The Book. 
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). Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest
movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including
the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolade is raking in the
booty and selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats
and ships. When Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband Joe
take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're stunned when a mischievous
band of pirates hops on board. Lee's is the first boat boarded that
summer, and the town couldn't be more amused by the mysterious buccaneers.
But when a body washes up on shore, the pirates' antics stop being
so entertaining. Now Lee has to figure out the truth behind the
Warner Pier Pirates, before someone else winds up walking the plank.
JoAnna
Carl is the pseudonym of mystery writer Eve Sandstrom.
She spent more than twenty-five years in the newspaper business
as a reporter, feature writer, editor and columnist.
Doctors
orders are preventing best-seller Carolyn Hart
from attending this signing. However, we'll arrange for copies of
the new Bailey Ruth mystery -- starring an impetuous, redheaded
ghost -- Ghost in Trouble (Morrow;
$19.99), to be signed & available for sale at the event!
Reserve your copies now! 
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. 
New
York Times best-selling young
adult author Rachel Caine will launch her national
book tour for the latest Morganville Vampires novel, Ghost
Town (NAL; $17.99), at Houston's
Murder By The Book the book's on-sale date!
While
developing a new system to maintain Morganville’s defenses,
student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental
powers. Through this, she’s able to re-establish the field
around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it
from outsiders. But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence:
people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are—even
the vampires. Soon, the town’s little memory problem has turned
into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to
pull the plug on her experiment—before she forgets how to
save Morganville. 
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.
Tasha
Alexander will sign &
discuss her new Lady Emily mystery, Dangerous to Know
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99). Set in the lush countryside
of Normandy, France, this new novel of suspense featuring Lady Emily
Hargreaves is filled with intrigue, romance, mysterious deaths,
and madness.
Returning
from her honeymoon with Colin Hargreaves and a near brush with death
in Constantinople, Lady Emily convalesces at her mother-in-law's
beautiful estate in Normandy. But the calm she so desperately seeks
is shattered when, out riding a horse, she comes upon the body of
a young woman who has been brutally murdered. The girl's wounds
are identical to those inflicted on the victims of Jack the Ripper,
who has wreaked havoc across the channel in London. Emily feels
a connection to the young woman and is determined to bring the killer
to justice.
Deanna
Raybourn will sign & discuss the new Lady Julia Grey
mystery, Dark Road to Darjeeling
(Mira; paperback original; $14.95). For Lady Julia Grey
and Nicholas Brisbane, the honeymoon has ended...but the adventure
is just beginning.
After
eight idyllic months in the Mediterranean, Lady Julia Grey and her
detective husband are ready to put their investigative talents to
work once more. At the urging of Julia’s eccentric family,
they hurry to India to aid an old friend, the newly-widowed Jane
Cavendish. Living on the Cavendish tea plantation with the remnants
of her husband’s family, Jane is consumed with the impending
birth of her child—and with discovering the truth about her
husband’s death. Was he murdered for his estate? And if he
was, could Jane and her unborn child be next?
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 Sarah Armstrong
series -- Singularity (St. Martin's
Minotaur; $24.95) and Blood Lines
(St. Martin's Minotaur; $24.99).
And
Casey's latest true-crime: Shattered: The True Story
of a Mother's Love, a Husband's Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Texas
Murder (Harper; paperback original; $7.99)
Hero, Husband, Father... Monster? In Creekstone, Texas, a small,
quiet suburb of Houston, football was king... and David Temple was
a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach,
he had a fairy-tale marriage to bright, vivacious Belinda Lucas,
a teacher at the local high school who was so warm and popular her
colleagues called her "The Sunshine Girl." The fairy tale
ended savagely on January 11, 1999, when Belinda's lifeless body
was discovered in a closet. Her skull had been shattered by a shotgun
blast at close range. She was eight months pregnant. There was no
damning evidence directly linking the brutal murder to husband David,
who stood by emotionless and dry-eyed as police searched the crime
scene. But a dogged eight-year investigation would expose a shocking
history of cruelty and domination, infidelity and rage—ultimately
resulting in an epic courtroom battle for the ages—as the
scandalous truth was revealed about love betrayed and innocent lives
. . . shattered.
New
York Times best-seller Dr. Kathy Reichs will
sign & discuss her first young adult thriller, Virals
(Razorbill; $17.99). Signing
line numbers available beginning the book's on-sale date, Tuesday,
November 2, with purchase of Virals from Murder By The Book.
As
the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes,
they must combine their scientific curiosity with their newfound
physical gifts to solve a cold-case murder that has suddenly become
very hot-if they can stay alive long enough to catch the killer's
scent.
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).
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.
Paris,
1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin
Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been
helping heretics escape the king's dragoons, the bishop sends him
far away-to Paris, where Charles is assigned to assist in teaching
rhetoric and directing dance at the prestigious college of Louis
le Grand. 
New
York Times best-seller Victoria Laurie will
sign & discuss her new Ghost Hunter mystery, Ghouls,
Ghouls, Ghouls (Signet; paperback original;
$7.99), the day the book goes on sale!
When
M.J. and the crew of her cable TV show, Ghoul Getters,
venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, they hope
the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be
at their backs, that the sun will shine warm upon their faces…
And
we're already scheduling into 2011...
The
search will take Remy to dark places he would rather avoid. But
to save an innocent, Remy will ally himself with a variety of lesser
evils -- and his soul may pay the price.