AUTHOR SIGNINGS AND EVENTS

Saturday, November 7 at 4:00 p.m.

RACHEL CAINE discusses and signs FADE OUT (Morganville Vampire Series, #7)
Signet, $6.99 (paperback first edition) Young Adult.
We're thrilled to be getting a visit from Rachel Caine, author of the wildly popular Morganville Vampire series for teens. Human teenager Claire Danvers and her friends are relaxing a little, now that the vampires who dominated Morganville have lost some of their powers. But when a teenager disappears during work on a documentary about the vampires, Claire and her friend Eve realize that Morganville's troubles aren't over yet.

Saturday, November 14 at 2:00 p.m.

THOMAS B. SAWYER discusses and signs NO PLACE TO RUN
Sterling & Ross, $14.95 (trade paperback original)
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 are the driving force behind this breakneck thriller. Twenty-four-old Claudia Lawrence becomes part of the witness protection program when her father, attorney Bill Lawrence, discovers documents that reveal explosive secrets about a murder that happened on that day. When Bill and his wife are killed in a car bomb – and the prime suspect in the bombing is murdered in his jail cell – suspicion falls on Claudia, who goes on the run with her 12-year-old brother. Pursued by the police and the FBI, Claudia discovers horrifying truths behind the September 11 bombings, but may be killed before she can tell anyone.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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.

Saturday, November 14 at 4:00 p.m.

TOD GOLDBERG discusses and signs OTHER RESORT CITIES
OV Books trade paperback, $16.00
CLAIR'S FAVORITE
The ten stories in this extraordinary collection shine like jewels, showing us the inner lives of people we pass and never think about. They range from the grimly funny ("Mitzvah," about a rabbi with a past, and "Rainmaker," about a professor with a dangerous second career) to the heartbreaking ("Walls," "Palm Springs," and "The Models," which offer very different takes on the many ways parents fail their children). Goldberg never condescends to his characters, and finds things to love in even the most unsympathetic.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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.

Saturday, November 14 at 5:30 p.m.
LAUNCH PARTY!

ERIC BEETNER discusses and signs ONE TOO MANY BLOWS TO THE HEAD (by Eric Beetner and J.B. Kohl)
Second Wind Publishing, $13.95
In 1939 Kansas City, Ray and Rex Ward are moving up in the fight world the honest way – clean fights, with Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring. One fateful night changes that, and sets Ray on a course of vengeance. Detective Dean Fokoli is working the mean streets of Kansas City, hunting the person who's killing the dregs of Kansas City's fight world. Megan Abbott called this book "a one-sitting read that sends you back to a lost time of fight halls, Chicago boys and last chances."
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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.

Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m.

MARTIN LIMON discusses and signs GI BONES
Soho, $24.00
We're big fans of this series, now in its fifth installment. Military intelligence investigators Sueno and Bascom go deep into Itaewon, Seoul's red-light district, to solve three mysteries: the decades-old murder of an American GI, the disappearance of an underage officer's daughter with a Latino soldier, and the murders of several leading Korean gangsters.

Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m.

GREG BEAR discusses and signs MARIPOSA: A Quantico Novel
Vanguard, $25.95
Three FBI agents are the only people standing in the way of the Talos Corporation's plans for world domination through the Mariposa project, an experimental treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder that liberates its subjects from all human emotions and concerns. One of the subjects of the Mariposa experiment, Nathan Trace, is the key to dismantling the Talos Corporation's "thinking machines."

Saturday, November 21 at 12 noon

CAROLA DUNN discusses and signs SHEER FOLLY
Minotaur, $24.99
Rescheduled from October! Daisy Dalrymple and her friend Lucy, Lady Gerald, are writing a book about follies – not the theatrical shows, but the architectural kind. They visit Appsworth Hall, owned by the nouveau riche Mr. Pritchard, to photograph a particularly notable grotto, and find a house party in full swing. The obnoxious Lord Rydal, one of the guests, seems to be involved with at least two of his fellow guests – and when Appsworth's grotto explodes, Lord Rydal turns out to have been blown up with it.

Saturday, November 21 at 3:00 p.m.

RICHARD RAYNER discusses and signs A BRIGHT AND GUILTY PLACE: Murder, Corruption and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Doubleday, $25.00
The author of DRAKE'S FORTUNE and THE DEVIL'S WIND (among other books) turns his attention to the story of Dave Clark and Leslie White, prosecutor and investigator in the L.A. District Attorney's Office in the late 1920s. Leslie White, appalled by the corruption he saw, eventually left the District Attorney's Office to write pulp fiction, and later became friends with Raymond Chandler. Dave Clark, movie-star handsome, was drawn into the glamour of Hollywood's dark side, and wound up on trial for the murder of gangster Charlie Crawford. Rayner explores the world these men lived in, and their reasons for choosing such different paths. [photo by Richard Yag]

Saturday, November 21 at 4:00 p.m.

ANDIE RYAN discusses and signs SHAKEDOWN
Lenox Road hardcover, $23.95; simultaneous trade paperback, $15.95
This first novel is grounded in the author's long career in risk oversight with several major financial industry firms. Public relations executive Tom Hollister discovers a murder conspiracy within a massive insider-trading scheme. He falls in love with an aging call girl, unaware that she, too, has links to the conspiracy. As Hollister unravels the plot, his own life is in danger, and he must race to prove the truth before others stop him.

Saturday, November 21 at 5:00 p.m.

MARK COGGINS discusses and signs THE BIG WAKE-UP
Bleak House hardcover, $24.95; simultaneous trade paperback, $14.95
The fifth August Riordan mystery begins with an apparently random crime: the shooting death of two women on a San Francisco street corner by a cable car operator who seems to have lost his mind. Riordan had been talking to one of the victims only moments before, and her family hires him to investigate an unrelated mystery: the whereabouts of the remains of the victim's dead aunt, which had been transferred from an Italian cemetery to one in the Bay Area. As Riordan follows the trail, he realizes that the body he's looking for actually belonged to Argentine first lady Eva Peron.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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.

and MICHELLE GAGNON discusses and signs THE GATEKEEPER
Mira, $7.99
STEPHEN'S FAVORITE
Special Agent Kelly Jones is back, tracking down the murder and dismemberment of a senator. The search leads her down a dark path filled with skinheads, biker gangs and border militias – to The Gatekeeper, someone bent on uniting hate groups for one big attack on American soil. Meanwhile, Kelly's fiance, Jake Riley, has been hired to find a kidnapped sixteen-year-old. The more each burrows in their seemingly unrelated cases, the more connections they find. Michelle Gagnon's new book takes the fear we all have inside us of homeland terrorists, and adds twists and turns to a frightful and suspenseful story to give us one great read.
This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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.

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AUTHOR SIGNINGS AND EVENTS Saturday, November 7 at 4:00 p.m. RACHEL CAINE discusses and signs FADE OUT (Morganville Vampire Series, #7) Signet, $6.99 (paperback first edition) Young Adult. We're thrilled to be getting a visit from Rachel Caine, author of the wildly popular Morganville Vampire series for teens. Human teenager Claire Danvers and her friends are relaxing a little, now that the vampires who dominated Morganville have lost some of their powers. But when a teenager disappears during work on a documentary about the vampires, Claire and her friend Eve realize that Morganville's troubles aren't over yet. Saturday, November 14 at 2:00 p.m. THOMAS B. SAWYER discusses and signs NO PLACE TO RUN Sterling & Ross, $14.95 (trade paperback original) The tragic events of September 11, 2001 are the driving force behind this breakneck thriller. Twenty-four-old Claudia Lawrence becomes part of the witness protection program when her father, attorney Bill Lawrence, discovers documents that reveal explosive secrets about a murder that happened on that day. When Bill and his wife are killed in a car bomb – and the prime suspect in the bombing is murdered in his jail cell – suspicion falls on Claudia, who goes on the run with her 12-year-old brother. Pursued by the police and the FBI, Claudia discovers horrifying truths behind the September 11 bombings, but may be killed before she can tell anyone. This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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. Saturday, November 14 at 4:00 p.m. TOD GOLDBERG discusses and signs OTHER RESORT CITIES OV Books trade paperback, $16.00 CLAIR'S FAVORITE The ten stories in this extraordinary collection shine like jewels, showing us the inner lives of people we pass and never think about. They range from the grimly funny ("Mitzvah," about a rabbi with a past, and "Rainmaker," about a professor with a dangerous second career) to the heartbreaking ("Walls," "Palm Springs," and "The Models," which offer very different takes on the many ways parents fail their children). Goldberg never condescends to his characters, and finds things to love in even the most unsympathetic. This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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. Saturday, November 14 at 5:30 p.m. LAUNCH PARTY! ERIC BEETNER discusses and signs ONE TOO MANY BLOWS TO THE HEAD (by Eric Beetner and J.B. Kohl) Second Wind Publishing, $13.95 In 1939 Kansas City, Ray and Rex Ward are moving up in the fight world the honest way – clean fights, with Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring. One fateful night changes that, and sets Ray on a course of vengeance. Detective Dean Fokoli is working the mean streets of Kansas City, hunting the person who's killing the dregs of Kansas City's fight world. Megan Abbott called this book "a one-sitting read that sends you back to a lost time of fight halls, Chicago boys and last chances." This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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. Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m. MARTIN LIMON discusses and signs GI BONES Soho, $24.00 We're big fans of this series, now in its fifth installment. Military intelligence investigators Sueno and Bascom go deep into Itaewon, Seoul's red-light district, to solve three mysteries: the decades-old murder of an American GI, the disappearance of an underage officer's daughter with a Latino soldier, and the murders of several leading Korean gangsters. Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. GREG BEAR discusses and signs MARIPOSA: A Quantico Novel Vanguard, $25.95 Three FBI agents are the only people standing in the way of the Talos Corporation's plans for world domination through the Mariposa project, an experimental treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder that liberates its subjects from all human emotions and concerns. One of the subjects of the Mariposa experiment, Nathan Trace, is the key to dismantling the Talos Corporation's "thinking machines." Saturday, November 21 at 12 noon CAROLA DUNN discusses and signs SHEER FOLLY Minotaur, $24.99 Rescheduled from October! Daisy Dalrymple and her friend Lucy, Lady Gerald, are writing a book about follies – not the theatrical shows, but the architectural kind. They visit Appsworth Hall, owned by the nouveau riche Mr. Pritchard, to photograph a particularly notable grotto, and find a house party in full swing. The obnoxious Lord Rydal, one of the guests, seems to be involved with at least two of his fellow guests – and when Appsworth's grotto explodes, Lord Rydal turns out to have been blown up with it. Saturday, November 21 at 3:00 p.m. RICHARD RAYNER discusses and signs A BRIGHT AND GUILTY PLACE: Murder, Corruption and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age Doubleday, $25.00 The author of DRAKE'S FORTUNE and THE DEVIL'S WIND (among other books) turns his attention to the story of Dave Clark and Leslie White, prosecutor and investigator in the L.A. District Attorney's Office in the late 1920s. Leslie White, appalled by the corruption he saw, eventually left the District Attorney's Office to write pulp fiction, and later became friends with Raymond Chandler. Dave Clark, movie-star handsome, was drawn into the glamour of Hollywood's dark side, and wound up on trial for the murder of gangster Charlie Crawford. Rayner explores the world these men lived in, and their reasons for choosing such different paths. [photo by Richard Yag] Saturday, November 21 at 4:00 p.m. ANDIE RYAN discusses and signs SHAKEDOWN Lenox Road hardcover, $23.95; simultaneous trade paperback, $15.95 This first novel is grounded in the author's long career in risk oversight with several major financial industry firms. Public relations executive Tom Hollister discovers a murder conspiracy within a massive insider-trading scheme. He falls in love with an aging call girl, unaware that she, too, has links to the conspiracy. As Hollister unravels the plot, his own life is in danger, and he must race to prove the truth before others stop him. Saturday, November 21 at 5:00 p.m. MARK COGGINS discusses and signs THE BIG WAKE-UP Bleak House hardcover, $24.95; simultaneous trade paperback, $14.95 The fifth August Riordan mystery begins with an apparently random crime: the shooting death of two women on a San Francisco street corner by a cable car operator who seems to have lost his mind. Riordan had been talking to one of the victims only moments before, and her family hires him to investigate an unrelated mystery: the whereabouts of the remains of the victim's dead aunt, which had been transferred from an Italian cemetery to one in the Bay Area. As Riordan follows the trail, he realizes that the body he's looking for actually belonged to Argentine first lady Eva Peron. This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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. and MICHELLE GAGNON discusses and signs THE GATEKEEPER Mira, $7.99 STEPHEN'S FAVORITE Special Agent Kelly Jones is back, tracking down the murder and dismemberment of a senator. The search leads her down a dark path filled with skinheads, biker gangs and border militias – to The Gatekeeper, someone bent on uniting hate groups for one big attack on American soil. Meanwhile, Kelly's fiance, Jake Riley, has been hired to find a kidnapped sixteen-year-old. The more each burrows in their seemingly unrelated cases, the more connections they find. Michelle Gagnon's new book takes the fear we all have inside us of homeland terrorists, and adds twists and turns to a frightful and suspenseful story to give us one great read. This title is not yet available at The Mystery Bookstore, but will be in stock in time for the event. 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. [Back to top of the page]