Saturday, November 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Please join us on Saturday, November 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of our move from West Hollywood to Westwood. We’ll have the usual food, drink, door prizes, and authors galore, as well as a few special treats throughout the day: a visit from wandering magician Bill Wu, music Ted Falcon and Fabiano Nascimento, and more!



Dozens of authors will be dropping in – among those we expect to see are Marissa Batt, Tony Broadbent, Jerrilyn Farmer, Thomas H. Griffith, Leslie Klinger, Harley Jane Kozak, Kelly Lange, Laura Levine, Paul Levine, Robert Levinson, Tom Nolan, Gary Phillips, Thomas Perry, Thom Racina, Kirk Russell, Walter Satterthwait, Barbara Seranella, John Shannon, Eric Stone, Jim Tenuto, Louise Ure, John Morgan Wilson, Don Winslow, and Ed Wright.



We’ll also have several formal signing events:




11:00 a.m. – MARGARET COEL signs the 10th Anniversary Edition of THE EAGLE CATCHER

ASAP Publishing, $45.00

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of its publication, ASAP Publishing has created this beautiful hardcover edition of Margaret Coel’s first Wind River Reservation mystery, THE EAGLE CATCHER. Father John O’Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, joins forces with Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden to try to clear Anthony Castle of charges that he murdered his uncle, the Arapaho tribal chairman. This edition includes 40 illustrations and an afterword by the noted artist Phil Parks. We will also have a small number of the specially-bound, boxed and lettered Collector’s edition, at $350.






12:00 noon – CHILDREN’S EVENT!!! --- CHARLES FLEMING signs NICKY DEUCE: Welcome to the Family, by Steve Schirripa and Charles Fleming; read by Richard Brewer

Delacorte, $15.95

Charles Fleming’s first book for young adults, written with The Sopranos’ Steve Schirripa, is the story of the summer Nicky Borelli spent at his grandmother’s, in Bensonhurst – and how he got to know the shadier side of his family. It’s a long way from Nicky’s suburban prep-school lifestyle to the warehouse where Nicky and his friend wind up held at gunpoint -- but not everything is what it seems to be, and all ends well. Mystery Bookstore alumnus and actor Richard Brewer will read from the book, which is suitable for ages 9 and up.






3:00 p.m. -- Photographer LAURIE ROBERTS signs BEHIND THE MYSTERY: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed by Stuart Kaminsky, Photographed by Laurie Roberts

Hot House Press, $29.95

Edgar award winner and past President of the Mystery Writers of America Stuart Kaminsky brings mystery fans into the living rooms, offices, and gardens of his talented friends and fellow writers in this tribute to the mystery genre. Professional photographer Laurie Roberts captures the writers, their families, homes, and pets while Kaminsky probes into their personal lives and writing to go "behind the mystery" to meet the writer. Many of the best are included: Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, Martin Cruz Smith, Robert B. Parker, Lisa Scottoline, James Lee Burke, Tony Hillerman, Ann Rule, Mickey Spillane, Michael Connelly, Evan Hunter, Sara Paretsky, Joseph Wambaugh, Lawrence Block, and John Jakes.






3:30 p.m. -- PATRICIA SMILEY signs COVER YOUR ASSETS

Mysterious Press, $23.95

ANNIE’S FAVORITE and BOBBY’S FAVORITE:

Tucker Sinclair is back for her second adventure, this time investigating the death of her college boyfriend, Evan Brice. As Evan was a big Hollywood agent, this simple personal favor leads Tucker through a world of drugs, drama and dreck. In addition, new feelings and suspicions arise and her closest college friends become suspects, including Tucker’s ex-best friend (who is, incidentally, the victim’s widow.) And in case one investigation wasn’t enough, Tucker also has the more pressing search of finding a hot date to her ex-husband’s wedding. Annie says, “Smiley’s wit and characters are so much fun, I found myself reading more slowly in an effort to make the book last longer. Thus, this is not only my November pick, but my plea for Ms. Smiley to give us more Tucker!”






4:30 p.m. – HARRY SHANNON signs EYE OF THE BURNING MAN

Five Star, $25.95

Controversial radio psychologist Mick Callahan, introduced in MEMORIAL DAY, seems to have straightened his life out at last – he’s clean and sober, working, he has a girlfriend, he’s saving money. But when Mary, the crack addict who saved his life in the first book, shows up to ask for help, he can’t refuse – and when someone snatches Mary from Mick’s house, he tracks them down, all the way to the Burning Man festival.






6:30 p.m. – ROCHELLE KRICH signs NOW YOU SEE ME…

Ballantine, $13.95 (trade paperback original).

DELICATE BUT DEADLY CLUB SELECTION and CLAIR’S FAVORITE:

Krich’s fourth Molly Blume novel finds the crime reporter settling into married life with her husband, Zack, when a stranger asks her to look into the disappearance of a missing teenaged girl. As it turns out, Molly knows the girl’s family very well; the girl’s father is one of the principals of Molly’s high school, and someone Molly holds an old grudge against. But the missing girl is unquestionably in danger – if not of her life, of her reputation and the hopes for a happy future within her Orthodox community. This book – in fact, this whole series – is a textbook example of how to write a gripping mystery without either violence or gimmicks, and Krich’s descriptions of Orthodox life are a gift to all of us outside that community.