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Wednesday March 7th at Noon - Patricia Briggs signs Fair Game
Charles and Anna are sent to Boston, when the FBI requests the pack's help on a local serial killer case. They quickly realize that not only the last two victims were werewolves - all of them were. Someone is targeting their kind. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer's sights... 3rd in the Alpha & Omega series, recommended by Fran and Amber.
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Charlie Newton - Start Shooting
The recent storms did knock out one of our signings: 24 hours before he was to sign with us, Charlie Newton was alerted by his airline that his flight to Seattle had been canceled.
We will see if we can send books to him, somewhere, to be signed. Have patience. We’ll let you know.
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Taylor Stevens - The Innocent
In our store now!
Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her.
Now, those who’ve searched the longest know where to find her. They are childhood survivors of The Chosen, thirty-somethings born and raised inside the cult who’ve managed to make lives for themselves on the outside. They understand the mindset, the culture within that world, and turn to Vanessa Michael Munroe for help, knowing that the only possibility of stealing Hannah back and getting her safely out of Argentina is to trust someone who doesn’t trust them, and get Munroe on the inside.
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Robert Crais - Taken
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When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities.
Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers . . . before it is too late.
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Lisa Unger - Fragile
Gretchen Recommends:
I have enjoyed all of Lisa Unger’s books. They range from dark, disturbing thriller to webs of psychological family drama. Her current falls into the latter category. Fragile tells the story of a family caught in a skein of disappearance. Maggie and Jones have a teenage son Ricky who is suspected in the disappearance of another teen, Charlene.
Although Maggie is convinced that Ricky has nothing to do with this, many details point to him. As they live in a small town, it is inevitable that the history of another disappearance 20 years ago resurfaces. Although the, “killer” is in jail, many questions remain unanswered and this current disappearance brings it all back again.
I love books in which the current story plot weaves in between the back story. We watch and learn about what Jones had to do the last time. And what he chooses to do now. Excellent story telling, characters to love, hate and commiserate with.
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Loren D. Estleman - Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection
Signed and Numbered Copies Still Avalible
JB:
“He had one of those faces you couldn’t have picked out of a lineup if you were married to him – young and unlined without a single distinguishing feature.”
I credit Bill with turning me onto an author who I promote as the finest writer of Chandlerian private eye fiction in the last thirty years: Loren D. Estleman. You can have Spenser. I’ve read them both and I think Amos Walker is the best. Besides having written 19 Walker novels (#20 will be released in December), Loren has written a slew of Walker short stories and this September will give us Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection. It’ll contain 31 previously published stories plus one brand new one written for this collection.
I’ve read the advance copy. It is a shameless tease, giving me just 16 of the pieces that will be in the final hardcover, but what gems they are – bright and clean and colorful, ready to be read and enjoyed and drooled over. “What the Glasscocks called a cottage would have housed Detroit’s homeless with room left over for all the corks on the mayor’s staff.”
It takes a real master to craft an entire little world within the confines of a handful of pages and, like Chandler or Hammett or Block, Estleman does it with the lively and polished style of fine artist with an eye and ear for the memorable line. “She was a five-by-five chuck with marcelled orange hair and round black eyes imbedded in her face like nailheads in soft wax.”
Sometimes, I like a book of short stories as a break from the unending parade of novels. Sometimes, I’m not sure what to read next and a few short stories from a collection can be a handy break. Not this book. I devoured these miniature marvels. I think you would, too.
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Featured In the Collectable Corner are - older 1st editions, imports, map backs and/or cool stuff we like! You can e-mail us directly at staff@seattlemystery.com about these books or purchase these titles thru our listing on Biblio.com.
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Jasper Fforde - Lost In A Good Book
Book Condition - New / Dust Jacket - New
East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin USA, 2003. First American edition.
Hard Cover.
Signed "Jasper" on title page.
Imaginative and crafty author's 2nd mystery with literary detective Thursday
Next. In mylar dj protector.
Also Included:
- Lost In A Good Book floor display
riser topper-Signed and dated "Jasper 24.02.04" 15"x15" (VG slight wear to
edges)
- One point-of-sale advert with US cover art on the front and back,10“
tall. (VG slight crease at top)
- One US promotional self-adhesive bumper
sticker with “Lost in a Good Book printed like the US cover in yellow against a
grey background.
- One promotional book mark laid in for the American release of
The Eyre Affair on one side and Lost in a Good Book on the other.
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Dick Francis - Odds Against
Book Condition - Very Good / Dust Jacket - Very Good
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover.
Light shelf wear, spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket is clean and bright with striking artwork on first panel, and in a dj cover. Edgar nominee.
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2012 Edgar Nominations
Mystery Writers of America announced on the 203rd birthday of Edgar Allen Poe, its Nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allen Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2011. The Edgards will be awarded on April 26, 2012.
Edgar Nominated YA Books
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Sheela Chari - Vanished
 A veena is a traditional Indian string instrument, used to play classical Indian music. The strings are plucked and pressure applied to the frets in order to change the notes when playing. It is part of the lute family of instruments.
Neela dreams of becoming a famous musician when she grows up. Playing for her audience on her special veena, the one her grandmother passed down to her--- the one with the dragon carved on it. This dream comes crashing down when her veena vanishes from a church Neela ducks into to escape a sudden storm. Neela becomes obsessed with finding her missing veena, following the clues, receiving a threatening note and discovering a curse. All of which lead her back to India and the store where her grandmother bought the veena originally.
This is an engaging mystery I enjoyed reading. It uses tools of investigation available to kids in believable ways, which is great to read. I also enjoyed the multicultural taste of the book, the author does a good job of adding both American and Indian cultures in a way which avoids stereotypes. As well as avoiding becoming heavy handed with the multicultural theme of the book.
I would recommend this book for girls (or open minded boy---there is a boy in this book, however it is told exclusively from Neela’s point of view), from ages 9-12. It is worth 10 AR points.
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And The Award Goes To.....
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2011 Best Translated (into Swedish) Novel:
The Swedish Crime Academy or the Svenska Deckarakademin (beware, it is written all in Swedish...) was founded in 1971, which is also the first year in which the organization began recognizing outstanding crime fiction. Initially, only books translated into Swedish were given awards — with the occassional award for Best First Novel in Swedish — then in 1982 original crime novels in Swedish were given their own category.
Denise Mina - The End Of The Wasp Season
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.
Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. It's a web that will spiral through Alex's own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away.
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