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NOVEMBER 2010
  JERI WESTERSON discusses and signs THE DEMON'S PARCHMENT: A Medieval Noir
Minotaur, $25.99
Disgraced noble Crispin Guest has been making his living by his wits in the lower social circles of London. Winter brings tough times and few clients, but even so Crispin is leery of taking on a new client, Jacob of Provencal, a Jew who attends the Queen in defiance of the century–old banishment of the Jews from England. Jacob believes that the recent murders of young boys are related to recently stolen parchments – parchments that someone may be using to raise a demon who is stalking the streets of London. With the help of his young apprentice Jack Tucker, a thief, Crispin races against time to find the killer before his own nearest and dearest fall prey to the demon.
SEPTEMBER 2010
 Kathy Reichs, SPIDER BONES
Scribner, $26.99 (signed first edition)
Doctor Temperance Brennan leaves her normal bailiwick for Hawaii and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command after the corpse of a 67–year–old man in Montreal matches the prints of a young man who supposedly died in the Vietnam War, and was buried in honor in West Virginia. With her daughter distraught over the death of a loved one in Afghanistan and her own emotions in a tangle over Ryan, Tempe throws herself into the world of wartime dead identification, and learns that when a lost soldier comes home, his bones can unravel a web of lies fifty years thick.
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 Dan Fesperman, LAYOVER IN DUBAI
Knopf, $25.95 (signed first edition)
The unique world of Dubai comes alive in all its bizarre glory in the story of Sam Keller, an auditor for a Big Pharma company. Sam is not known for his partying habits, so his company has sent him to keep an eye on a party–boy colleague in hedonistic Dubai. When his companion turns up dead in a brothel, Sam finds himself in a world of trouble. Pursued by cops, mobsters, diplomats and corporate hitmen, Sam must rely on an unlikely ally to get to the heart of the mystery and survive his trip.
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 Lauren Belfer, A FATAL RADIANCE
HarperCollins, $25.99 (unsigned first edition)
In New York during World War II, beyond the glamorous photos that Claire Shipley takes for LIFE magazine, a child can still die of blood poisoning from a simple scrape. Sent to chronicle the breakthrough discovery of a new antibiotic called penicillin, Claire becomes involved with one of the doctors, and in the struggle between pioneering researchers and pharmaceutical companies out to financially exploit the discovery. When a beautiful female researcher falls to her death and penicillin becomes a matter of national security, Claire risks everything to find the truth. This is an unexpectedly fun, pulpy read about a real but forgotten aspect of 20th century history.
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 Anne Perry, THE SHEEN ON THE SILK
Ballantine, $27.00 (signed first edition)
In a departure from her regular stories, Anne Perry takes us to Constantinople in 1273, in the middle of the Crusades. Anna Zarides, a trained physician, disguises herself as a eunuch in order to investigate the case of her twin brother Justinian, accused of murdering a nobleman and suspected of plotting against the Emperor. Anna maneuevers through the hidden layers of Byzantine society, her disguise giving her access but causing chaos for a handsome ship captain who crosses her path. With time running out and the Imperial court closing in around her, the truth may cost Anna more than the lie she is living.
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Seth Grahame–Smith, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER
Grand Central Publishing, $21.99 (signed first edition)
 Abe Lincoln is a bookish boy with no taste for killing, until the day his mother dies from vampire sickness. Ax in hand, he embarks on a single–minded mission to destroy all undead. Henry Sturges, a worldly, benevolent vampire, saves him from an early demise and becomes his mentor. Abe becomes one of America's greatest Vampire Hunters, until the day when Sturges sets him a greater task: become President, and win the coming war with the South, where the worst vampires take refuge and plot the enslavement of all mankind. Seth Grahame–Smith, the author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, molds a fascinating, grotesque, oddly poignant and sometimes hilarious secret life for the 16th President out of real Lincoln quotations and his own imagination.
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