| Meet
the staff of
Murder By The Book!
McKenna
Jordan, owner
at
Murder By The Book since 2003
McKenna
has her Bachelor's Degree in English and a Master's in Violin Performance
from University of Houston. She's concertmaster for Houston's Opera
in the Heights.
Some
of McKenna's favorite authors: Megan Abbott, Cara
Black, Ken Bruen, Kerry Greenwood, Charlaine Harris,
Carolyn Haines, Peter Lovesey, Daniel Silva, Jacqueline
Winspear.
David
Thompson, assistant manager
at Murder By The Book since 1989
David is also the owner
of Busted Flush Press,
which he founded in 2005 with the intent of publishing original
crime anthologies and reprints of some of our store's favorite (though,
sadly, out-of-print) mysteries, including David Handler's
Edgar Award-winning Hoagy & Lulu novels and Ken Bruen's
early novellas & stories, collected in A Fifth of Bruen.
Damn Near Dead, edited by Duane Swierczynski,
was nominated for five mystery awards, including the Edgar!
A Hell of a Woman, edited by Megan Abbott,
was nominated for three mystery awards, including the Edgar!
Some of
David's favorite authors: Ken Bruen, Robert
Crais, Martin Limón, Victor
O'Reilly, Randy Wayne White, Joyce
Porter, Peter Lovesey, Val McDermid,
Lee Child, Barry Eisler, Michael Connelly,
Stephen Hunter, Reed Farrel Coleman, David Handler, Don Winslow.
Terry
Farmer
at
Murder By The Book since 2008
Terry has
been coming to MBTB since 1990 when a friend from graduate school
dragged her into the store. Reading mysteries was all that kept
her sanity intact through graduate school, post docs, and the last
job. Terry is currently "on sabbatical" and started working
part-time at MBTB in March 2008.
Favorite
authors: Mark Schweizer, Craig Johnson,
Lee Child, Megan Abbott, Dean
James, Dick Francis, Harlen Coben,
Robert Crais, Patricia Briggs,
Jim Butcher, Elizabeth Peters / Barbara
Michaels, Minette Walters (and I could
go on and on...).
Dean
James
at
Murder By The Book since 1984
Our former store manager, Dean now works
full-time at the Texas Medical Center Library (in addition to a
Ph.D. in History from Rice, he has a Master's in Library Science)
and part-time (every other Saturday) at Murder By The Book. He's
also an award-winning author of both mystery non-fiction -- including
By a Woman's Hand and Killer Books (both co-written
with Jean Swanson) -- and mystery fiction, including the Wanda Nell
Culpepper novels (written as Jimmie
Ruth Evans) and the "Bridge Club" mysteries
(written as Honor Hartman).
Some of
Dean's favorite authors: Margery Allingham, Elizabeth
Peters / Barbara Michaels, Anne Perry,
Charlaine Harris, Carolyn Haines, Carolyn
Hart.
Sarah
Jones
at
Murder By The Book since 2008
Brenda
Jordan
at
Murder By The Book since 2009
Anne
Kimbol
at
Murder By The Book since 2008
A
research professor in health law by day, Anne spends some of her
afternoons and evenings at the store helping with signings, mailings,
and otherwise disguising being around great books and great people
as "work."
Her favorite authors include: Charlie Huston,
Dennis Lehane, Charlaine Harris, Jim
Butcher, Megan Abbott, among others.
Michelle
McNamara
at
Murder By The Book since 2007
Some
of her favorite authors: Daniel Silva, Megan
Abbott, Connie Willis, Kathryn
Neville, Jasper Fforde, Carolyn
Haines, Charlaine Harris.
Kinley
Paisley
at
Murder By The Book since 2009
Kathryn
Priest
at Murder By The Book since 2007
Kathryn was the counselor at the High
School for Performing and Visual Arts for many years.
Some of
her favorite authors: Leslie Ford, Dorothy
Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Julia Spencer-Fleming,
Louise Penny.
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