The Mystery Bookstore

Gregg Hurwitz,THEY'RE WATCHING
St. Martin's, $24.99
JULY CRIME CLUB SELECTON and KIRK'S FAVORITE and PAM W.'S FAVORITE
Half the Mystery Bookstore's staff would have made this their July favorite, but that wouldn't have been fair. It's a phenomenal breakout thriller for our friend Gregg Hurwitz. Screenwriter Patrick Davis is dealing with career disasters and a crumbling marriage when he starts getting DVDs in the mail – DVDs filmed inside his own house, showing him and his wife living their everyday lives. It's only a matter of time before the emails start, offering to make the stalking stop if Patrick will follow instructions carefully. Nothing is as it seems in this twisty thriller, and you won't be able to put it down. Come to the event and quiz Gregg on his self-proclaimed Hitchcockian homage!
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THE INCORRIGIBLE CHILDREN OF ASHTON PLACE, BOOK I: THE MYSTERIOUS HOWLING by Mayrose Wood
Balzer & Bray, $15.99 (unsigned first edition) Ages 8–12.
Miss Penelope Lumley, a 15-year-old young woman recently graduated from the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, has been hired by Lord Frederick to be a governess at Ashton Place. When she arrives at the manor, she discovers that her three young charges (the incorrigibles of the title) were found living wild in the forests surrounding Ashton Place, where they were raised by wolves. Penny takes in stride her first introduction to her charges, with their near–naked bodies, matted hair, and indecipherable growling. Soon she has them listening to poetry and playing about with Latin, but mystery abounds at Ashton Place. How did Lord Frederick come upon these children? Who wants them out of Ashton Place? Will Penny be able to teach them the schottische? This cross between Jane Eyre and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is great fun.
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Laurie R. King, THE GOD OF THE HIVE
Bantam, $25.00 (signed first edition)
The latest Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mystery (King's 10th) picks up where last year's THE LANGUAGE OF BEES left off. Russell and Holmes are on the run in Europe, but separately, not together; their pursuers are not only followers of a deadly cult, but agents of an unknown government as well. Raising the stakes even more, Mary Russell has Holmes' young granddaughter in her care, and can only communicate with Holmes through coded messages. The entire Holmes family is in danger, including Holmes' brother, Mycroft, in an adventure that proves to be King's most thrilling yet.
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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.