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JANUARY DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
 Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström, THREE SECONDS
Silver Oak, $24.95 (first U.S. edition with tipped-in page signed by both authors)
Sweden's most acclaimed crime authors are this writing team, a veteran journalist and a former criminal. THREE SECONDS won the 2009 Swedish Crime Novel of the Year award from the Swedish Crime Writers' Association. Ex–con Piet Hoffman now works for the Swedish police as an undercover informant, working within the Polish mafia to get the details of their drug distribution network inside the Swedish prison system. When a botched drug deal turns deadly, Hoffman is trapped in prison as Detective Inspector Ewert Grens discovers connections to a string of unsolved murders – and to the highest levels of government.
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DECEMBER DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
 Paul Grossman, THE SLEEPWALKERS
St. Martin’s, $24.99 (signed first edition)
In 1932 Berlin, Willi Kraus is the nation's most famous police detective. A decorated veteran of the Great War, Kraus is also a Jew, and becoming uncomfortable with the direction of the country. The Weimar Republic is collapsing, beautiful women are sleepwalking through the streets, and the corpse of an unidentified young woman with strangely deformed legs is found in the Havel River. As Kraus investigates, he becomes increasingly aware that he is under scrutiny himself, though it's not clear by whom, or why. Highly recommended for fans of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels, and the works of Rebecca Cantrell.
NOVEMBER DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
 Bruce DeSilva, ROGUE ISLAND
Forge, $24.99 (signed first edition)
Rhode Island's small, tightly intertwined political community has always been fertile ground for corruption, but it's taken a long time to see a really good crime novel set there. Bruce DeSilva's debut fills the bill, and promises to make several awards short–lists next year. Burnt–out journalist Liam Mulligan grew up in the Providence neighborhood of Mount Hope. When someone starts setting it on fire, building by building, Mulligan makes it his business to find out why – even if it means putting his career, his freedom and his life at risk.
OCTOBER DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
  HILARY DAVIDSON discusses and signs THE DAMAGE DONE
Forge, $24.99
OCTOBER DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
Few of this year's first novels have gotten as much advance buzz as this one, but it's all deserved. Travel writer Lily Moore returns to New York from Spain when her drug–addicted sister, Claudia, is found dead in her bathtub. Lily's shock turns to bafflement when it turns out that the body in the bathtub belongs to a stranger, not to Claudia – but where is Claudia? And who is the dead girl? The police consider Claudia their prime suspect, but Lily's not so sure; she sees no shortage of possible killers around her, including her own ex–fiance. As she asks more questions, she puts herself in danger, and faces consequences she could not have imagined.
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SEPTEMBER DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
 Thomas W. Young, THE MULLAH'S STORM
Putnam, $25.95 (signed first edition)
This first novel is an action–packed thriller by an Air National Guard who's served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, and elsewhere. Young brings all his experience to bear in this story about the crash of a transport plane in Afghanistan. Three people survive the crash; navigator Michael Parson and Sergeant Gold, a female Army interpreter, make their way across some of the world's harshest terrain with their prisoner, a Taliban detainee. Frederick Forsyth called this debut "Gripping and impressively authentic."
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AUGUST DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
 JOHN RECTOR discusses and signs THE COLD KISS
Forge, $24.99
Nate and Sara, expecting their first child, are driving from Minnesota to Reno, Nevada to get married. At a highway rest stop in Nebraska, a man offers them $500 for a ride to Omaha. It's a stroke of unexpected good luck, but within hours, the man is dead, and a blizzard forces Nate and Sara to take shelter in a run–down motel off the highway. Looking through their passenger's belongings, Nate and Sara find two million dollars in cash, setting off a series of decisions that put the young couple's relationship and very lives at stake.
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JUNE DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
Thursday, June 3 at 7:00 p.m.
  LISA BRACKMANN discusses and signs ROCK PAPER TIGER
Soho, $25.00
First-time author Lisa Brackmann is local, so we're thrilled that she's available for this last-minute addition to the June signing schedule; ROCK PAPER TIGER blew us away. Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper, recently split from her husband, is drifting on the fringes in Beijing when she meets a Uighur, a member of a Chinese Muslim minority, at the home of her lover, artist Lao Zhang. Soon afterwards, Lao Zhang disappears. The authorities interrogate Ellie about the Uighur she met, saying he's a terrorist. Desperate to talk to the man herself, Ellie finds a way to communicate with him through an online role–playing game. She winds up embroiled in deadly conspiracies in the real world as well as the virtual one.
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Thursday, May 6 at 7:00 p.m.
  KEITH THOMSON discusses and signs ONCE A SPY
Doubleday, $25.95
MAY DISCOVERY CLUB SELECTION
Charlie Clark is a gambler on a losing streak who owes too much money to Russian loan sharks; on top of that, he needs to figure out what to do about his father, Drummond, whose Alzheimer's is progressing to the point that he can no longer be alone. Charlie brings Drummond home one day to find his house blown up, and assumes the Russian collectors are after him – but when his father effortlessly hotwires a getaway car, he starts to realize his father's past was much more complicated than he suspected. It turns out that Drummond Clark was once a master spy, and whether he and Charlie survive depends on how much he can still remember. Wickedly funny and surprisingly touching, this is a first novel you won't want to miss.
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Previous Selections
THOMAS KAUFMAN discusses and signs DRINK THE TEA
Minotaur, $24.99
  We're excited about this book, which won the PWA's Best First Private Eye Novel competition before it was published. It introduces Washington, DC investigator Willis Gidney, who grew up wild on the streets until police captain Shadrack Davies became his foster father when Willis was 12. When Gidney's best friend, jazz musician Steps Jackson, asks him to find Jackson's missing daughter, Gidney can't refuse – even though Jackson's daughter has been missing for 25 years. The search turns deadly when a woman who might have been the girl's mother is murdered, and Gidney himself is the prime suspect. |
