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Saturday, April 28, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Join us at Booth #411
UCLA Campus
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Schedule is subject to change without notice.
10:00 a.m.
Frank Beddor signs THE LOOKING GLASS WARS (Dial, $17.99) Children’s book!
Ed Decter signs EXPEDITION TO BLUE CAVE (Aladdin paperback, $4.99) and EXPEDITION TO WILLOW KEY (Aladdin paperback, $4.99) Children’s books!
EXPEDITION TO WILLOW KEY (Aladdin paperback, $4.99)
Michele Dominguez Greene signs CHASING THE JAGUAR (HarperCollins, $15.99). Young adult book!
Charlie Huston signs NO DOMINION (Del Rey trade paperback, $13.95)
Dana Reinhardt signs HARMLESS (Wendy Lamb Books, $15.99). Young Adult. Ninth-graders Anna and Emma have been best friends since childhood. When Emma becomes friends with Mariah, Mariah persuades the two girls to stay overnight at her boyfriend’s house – a senior’s – and everything changes. The girls lie to protect themselves, but find themselves dealing with the aftermath in unexpected ways. A suspenseful and troubling novel for teenagers.
Nathan Walpow signs THE MANIPULATED: A Joe Portugal Mystery (UglyTown, $24.95)
11:00 a.m.
Jane Cleland signs DEADLY APPRAISAL (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95). In her second adventure, antiques dealer Josie Prescott finds her business in jeopardy when a prominent society matron dies of cyanide poisoning at Josie’s benefit auction. Josie’s a suspect, but it doesn’t take long for her to realize that she may well have been the intended victim.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Robert Crais signs THE WATCHMAN: A Joe Pike Novel (Simon & Schuster, $25.95).
Dianne Emley signs THE FIRST CUT (Ballantine, $23.95).
Jerrilyn Farmer signs THE FLAMING LUAU OF DEATH (Avon paperback, $6.99).
Ken Kuhlken signs THE DO-RE-MI (Poisoned Pen Press, $24.95).
Jeff Shelby signs WICKED BREAK (Dutton, $24.95).
12:00 noon
Reed Farrel Coleman signs SOUL PATCH (Bleak House, $23.95)
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Jim Fusilli signs HARD, HARD CITY (Berkley paperback, $7.99)
Tod Goldberg signs SIMPLIFY (Other Voices trade paperback, $14.99)
Laura Lippman signs WHAT THE DEAD KNOW (William Morrow, $24.95). Over Easter Weekend, 1975, two sisters disappeared from a Baltimore shopping center. Thirty years later, a woman charged with leaving the scene of a car accident says she's the younger of those two girls -- but won't say more without a lawyer. The mysteries only begin here, as this astonishing novel explores the central questions of sisterhood, family, and identity.
T. Jefferson Parker signs STORM RUNNERS (William Morrow, $25.95).
Peter Spiegelman signs RED CAT (Knopf, $22.95).
1:00 p.m.
Stephen Cannell signs WHITE SISTER: A Shane Scully Novel (St. Martin’s Press, $24.95).
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Carol Higgins Clark signs LACED: A Regan Reilly Mystery (Scribner, $24.00). Regan Reilly has married her Jack at last, but crime interrupts their honeymoon at the romantic Hennessey Castle, in western Ireland. The nice elderly couple also staying at the castle are a pair of international jewel thieves, and Jack can’t relax until he figures out a way to make the long arm of the law reach across the Atlantic.
Mary Higgins Clark signs I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE (Simon & Schuster, $25.95). Six-year-old Kay Lansing is the unknowing witness to an incident that might be related to the disappearance of a teenaged girl, the daughter of a wealthy Englewood family. Twenty years later, the adult Kay falls in love with the man who was implicated in the girl’s disappearance. She marries him, but soon learns that he is a sleepwalker – and that he may have other secrets buried, even from himself.
Lee Goldberg signs MR. MONK AND THE BLUE FLU (Signet paperback, $6.99).
Christopher Moore signs YOU SUCK: A Love Story (William Morrow, $21.95).
Marisha Pessl signs SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS (Penguin trade paperback, $15.00).
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
2:00 p.m.
Robert Gregory Browne signs KISS HER GOODBYE (St. Martin’s, $23.95). In this debut thriller, ATF agent Jack Donovan shoots the pregnant wife of gangster Alex Gunderson in the chase following a bank robbery. Seeking retribution, Gunderson kidnaps Donovan’s teenage daughter, Jessie – and buries her alive.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Craig Johnson signs KINDNESS GOES UNPUNISHED (Viking, $23.95).
Larry Karp signs THE RAGTIME KID (Poisoned Pen Press, $24.95).
Sheila Lowe signs POISON PEN (Capital Crime trade paperback, $14.95).
George Pelecanos signs THE NIGHT GARDENER (Warner paperback, $7.95).
Keith Raffel signs DOT DEAD: A Silicon Valley Mystery (Midnight Ink trade paperback, $13.95).
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Stuart Woods signs FRESH DISASTERS (Putnam, $25.95). Stone Barrington agrees to represent a hapless swindler who’s decided to sue an infamous Mafia boss.
3:00 p.m.
Cara Black signs MURDER ON THE ILE ST. LOUIS (Soho Crime, $23.00).
Mark Coggins signs CANDY FROM STRANGERS (Bleak House Books, $23.95).
David Corbett signs BLOOD OF PARADISE (Mortalis trade paperback, $9.95).
Kjell Erickson signs THE CRUEL STARS OF THE NIGHT (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95). In this sequel to last year’s THE PRINCESS OF BURUNDI, police inspector Ann Lindell investigates the disappearance of an elderly professor. The bodies of two old men are found, but neither is the missing man. Critics are calling Erickson a “Swedish Ed McBain,” but the books have a unique charm of their own.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Hakan Nesser signs THE RETURN: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Pantheon, $22.95).
Cornelia Read signs A FIELD OF DARKNESS (Mysterious Press, trade paperback, $12.99). An Edgar nominee for Best First Novel.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Helene Tursten signs THE GLASS DEVIL (Soho Crime, $24.00). Inspectors Anderson and Huss of the Goteborg Crime Police drive out to a remote cottage to look for a missing schoolteacher. They find a gruesome corpse; when they go to inform the victim’s parents, they find the old man and his wife shot to death as well. The one surviving member of the family is a daughter in England, and Inspector Irene Huss travels to London to find the truth.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
4:00 p.m.
Megan Abbott signs THE SONG IS YOU (Simon & Schuster, $23.00).
Will Beall signs L. A. REX (Riverhead, $24.95).
James Ellroy signs THE BLACK DAHLIA (Mysterious Press trade paperback, $13.99).
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Theresa Schwegel signs PROBABLE CAUSE (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95).
Jason Starr signs LIGHTS OUT (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $22.95).
5:00 p.m.
Bill Bryan signs KEEP IT REAL (Bleak House Books, $24.95). Ted gave up his life as an investigative reporter to become a producer on the reality show “The Mogul.” He’s rich but miserable; then he sees a violent argument between a gangsta rapper, Boney, and Boney’s girlfriend, Patrice. When Patrice goes missing, all of Ted’s investigative instincts wake up – but at what cost? >KEEP IT REAL is the first novel from a veteran TV writer and producer; Dave Barry calls it “wonderfully, viciously hilarious.”
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
Sean Doolittle signs THE CLEANUP (Dell paperback, $6.99).
Victor Gischler signs SHOTGUN OPERA (Dell paperback, $6.99).
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.
John Shannon signs THE DARK STREETS: A Jack Liffey Mystery (Pegasus Books, $25.00).
Duane Swierczynski signs THE BLONDE (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95).
Robert Ward signs FOUR KINDS OF RAIN (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $22.95).
Don Winslow signs THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE (Knopf, $23.95).
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore. Please contact us directly to reserve a copy. You may email orders@mystery-bookstore.com or telephone us on our toll-free number, (800) 821-9017.