The Mystery Bookstore

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.