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Sunday, April 29, 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.
Rhys Bowen signs IN DUBLIN’S FAIR CITY: A Molly Murphy Mystery (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95). Molly returns to Ireland in 1903, looking for a woman who stands to inherit a fortune. Before her ship even arrives, a murder’s taken place and an actress has disappeared. When Molly lands, she finds her own brother trying to pick up the actress’s luggage – but why?
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.
Cornelia Funke signs PRINCESS PIGSTY (The Chicken House, $16.99), GHOSTHUNTERS AND THE TOTALLY MOLDY BARONESS! (The Chicken House, $16.99), and
GHOSTHUNTERS AND THE TOTALLY MOLDY BARONESS! (The Chicken House, $16.99)
GHOSTHUNTERS AND THE MUDDY MONSTER OF DOOM! (The Chicken House, $16.99)
Leslie Klinger signs THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Novels (W.W. Norton, $59.95)
Priscilla Masters signs SLIP KNOT (Allison & Busby, $25.95). Special pre-publication availability! Coroner Martha Gunn is reluctant to call the death of Callum Hughes a suicide – even though the teenaged Callum was found dead in a solitary jail cell, after being arrested for the murder of a popular schoolmate. Gunn, whose own teenaged son is leaving home, doesn’t want to accept the conventional wisdom about the two dead boys, and discovers a truth more disturbing than anyone could have imagined. Masters will also sign NIGHT WATER (Bloody Brits trade paperback, $13.95) and WINGS OVER THE WATCHER: A Joanna Piercy Mystery (Allison & Busby U.K. paperback, $9.95).
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.
Danuta Reah signs BLEAK WATER (Bloody Brits trade paperback, $13.95). Gallery curator Eliza Eliot is thrilled to be able to show a modern reworking of Brueghel’s “The Triumph of Death” – but the discovery of a dead body along the canal behind the gallery suggests that the artist’s images started to spill over into the real world.
Eric Van Lustbader signs THE TESTAMENT (Forge, $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.
11:00 a.m.
Harlan Coben signs THE WOODS (Dutton, $26.95). County prosecutor Paul Copeland is called to a murder scene, because the victim has a stack of press clippings about the disappearance and presumed murder of Copeland's sister, 20 years earlier. Camille was never found, but two other bodies were, victims of a serial killer later convicted for similar crimes. Paul is shocked when he realizes the murder victim is the fourth person who went missing that night -- also presumed killed -- and starts a new search to find out, once and for all, what happened to his sister.
Allan Folsom signs THE MACHIAVELLI COVENANT (Forge, $25.95).
Jesse Kellerman signs TROUBLE (Putnam, $24.95).
David Morrell signs SCAVENGER (Vanguard Press, $24.95).
Thomas Perry signs NIGHTLIFE (Random House, $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.
Eric Stone signs THE LIVING ROOM OF THE DEAD (Forge, $22.95)
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Edward Wright signs RED SKY LAMENT (Orion U. K. paperback, $12.50)
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12:00 p.m.
Joanne Fluke signs KEY LIME PIE MURDER (Kensington, $22.00)
Chris Grabenstein signs SLAY RIDE (Carroll & Graf trade paperback, $14.95). Ad executive Scott Wilkinson calls his car service to complain about a reckless driver, and brings down the vengeance of a psychopath.
Sue Ann Jaffarian signs CURSE OF THE HOLY PAIL (Midnight Ink trade paperback, $13.95)
Laura Levine signs THE PMS MURDER (Kensington paperback, $6.99)
Robert Levinson signs WHERE THE LIES BEGIN (Five Star, $25.95)
Bob Morris signs BERMUDA SCHWARTZ (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95)
1:00 p.m. – The L. A. NOIR Panel
All of this panel’s authors will be signing LOS ANGELES NOIR (Akashic, $15.95), as well as other titles of their own.
Michael Connelly
Denise Hamilton
Naomi Hirahara
Jim Pascoe
Gary Phillips
Christopher Rice
2:00 p.m.
Russell Andrews signs HADES (Mysterious Press, $24.99). In his third outing, small-town police chief Justin Westwood investigates the murder of a Wall Street tycoon on his country estate. The problem is that Westwood’s been having an affair with the tycoon’s wife. The only way to clear his own name is to find the real killer, but Westwood discovers that this murder is only one part of an international conspiracy. “Russell Andrews” is the pen name for novelist and screenwriter Peter Gethers, best known for his nonfiction books (The Cat who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad, and The Cat Who’ll Live Forever.)
Lisa Jones-Johnson signs A DEAD MAN SPEAKS (Genesis Press trade paperback, $12.95).
Dick Lochte signs CROAKED! (Five Star, $25.95). In 1965 Los Angeles, a young man could do worse than to be working for Ogle, a men’s magazine “Devoted to the Masculine Pleasure Principle.” But copywriter Harry Trauble starts to worry when the magazine’s circulation director is crushed by the magazine’s stone mascot (a frog), and a new magazine called “Penthouse” threatens to take over Ogle’s market. CROAKED! is a joyful tribute to 1960s pulp fiction, and marks a long-awaited return for the author of SLEEPING DOG and LAUGHING DOG.
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.
Walter Mosley signs KILLING JOHNNY FRY and THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL (Little, Brown, $19.99). KILLING JOHNNY FRY may be the most controversial crime novel of 2006, “a sexistential novel” about Cordel Carmel’s fantasies of revenge on Johnny Fry, the man Cordel’s girlfriend is sleeping with.
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.
THIS YEAR YOU WRITE YOUR NOVEL distills Mosley’s 30 years of writing experience into an instruction manual for writers who want to finish their own books within the year.
Mark Haskell Smith signs SALTY (Grove trade paperback, $12.00)
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John Morgan Wilson signs RHAPSODY IN BLOOD: A Benjamin Justice Novel (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $24.95)
3:00 p.m.
Sheryl Anderson signs KILLER DEAL (St. Martin’s Minotaur, $23.95)
Brett Ellen Block signs THE LIGHTNING RULE (William Morrow, $24.95)
Jennifer Colt signs THE VAMPIRE OF VENICE BEACH (Broadway trade paperback, $11.95)
Rita Lakin signs GETTING OLD IS CRIMINAL (Dell paperback original, $6.99). The Gladdy Gold Detective Agency is back on the case – two cases, in fact: a peeping Tom, and a suspicious death. Alvin Ferguson wants Gladdy and her sister, Evvie, to find evidence that his mother was murdered by her slimy boyfriend, Philip Smythe – so Gladdy and Evvie move into Smythe’s condo community to dig up the truth. It doesn’t take long for Evvie herself to fall for Philip’s charms, so they’d better find out fast whether he’s a killer.
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.
Pamela Samuels-Young signs EVERY REASONABLE DOUBT (Kimani Press, $14.00) and IN FIRM PURSUIT (Kimani Press, $14.95)
EVERY REASONABLE DOUBT (Kimani Press, $14.00)
IN FIRM PURSUIT (Kimani Press, $14.95)
Alexandra Sokoloff signs THE HARROWING (St. Martin’s, $21.95)