Meet the Author

These authors will be in our shop to sign their books. You're welcome to come in to meet them, or reserve a copy to be shipped or picked up later.

   Wed, Feb 10, noon, Jedediah Berry signs the paperback
   release of The Manuel of Detection (Overlook, $15). JB
   and Fran both recommended this quirky story earlier this year
   when it came out in hardcover: Charles Unwin clerks in a large
   and famed investigative firm. He types up reports send down
   by the private operatives. When the most famed PI goes
   missing, Unwin is unexpectedly promoted to his office and
                       assigned to find him. It is a strange, nearly surreal story, set
                       in an unnamed east coast city with a port and at an
                       unspecified time (there are still horses on the streets). Fun
                       and bizarre.

   Fri, Feb 26, noon, Joanne Fluke signs Apple Turnover
   Murder(Kensington hc, $24.00). 14th investigation for bakery
   owner and amateur sleuth Hannah Swensen. As has become
   the routine, Gretchen will make the turnovers from the book's
   recipe and have them at the signing. Come join the fun, get a
   book signed and munch with the author!

   Wed, Mar 3, noon, Stella Cameron signs Out of Body (Mira
   pbo, $7.99) Clairvoyant Marley Millet has seen the fate of two
   missing New Orleans jazz singers. With the help of cop-
   turned-writer Gray Fisher, Marley has to try to stop what her
   sight tells her is going to happen next. [This is the first in a
   special paranormal trilogy. The next two will be released in
   the next two months, the second in April, the final one in May.
                     Each book will have its own special collectors packet for those
                     who reserve early! Order all three – Stella will be in to sign
                     them all!]

   Sat, Mar 6, noon, Bethany Maines signs Bulletproof
   Mascara (Atria tpo, $15). Debut comic thriller from a Tacoma
   resident. 26 year-old Nikki Lanier desperately wants to get out
   on her own and takes a job selling door-to-door for the Carrie
   Mae Cosmetics Company. Once employed, she's told that the
   outfit is really a cover for an international intelligence agency
   devoted to helping women everywhere. Nikki has stumbled
                       into a world of espionage, human trafficking and weaponized
                       make-up.

   Tue, Mar 9, noon, David Corbett signs Do They Know I'm
   Running? (Ballantine tpo, $15.00). Stuck in a desolate
   California town, 18 year-old Roque Montalvo does little but
   help out his family. When an uncle is deported, Roque takes
   on the task of smuggling the old man back from El Salvador.
   What the kid doesn't know when he starts out is that there are
   others who will travel back with them who are both mysterious
                       and dangerous.

   Wed., Mar 17 , noon, Cara Black signs Murder in the Palais
   Royale (Soho, $25.00). Aimee's partner is shot, an
   eyewitness maintains Aimee's the culprit, and there's a
   mysterious deposit in Aimee's account.  Obviously she's
   being set up, but who?  With ties going back to her
   experiences in Murder on the Marais, Aimee will have to
   search desperately for answers.

Sat, March 20, noon, Kelly Theron signs A Patient Enemy (Tigress tpo, $15.95). Debut novel by a Seattle cop using a penname to maintain some distance from her cases and future testimony. Kate's sister was raped and murdered in what has become a media nightmare for the family. To make it far worse, the accused is released due to a legal technicality. Kate begins to consider justice of her own and the question becomes is killing always murder? As she weighs the morality of her thoughts, the killer becomes aware of her and her potential threat.

   Tues, Mar 23, noon, Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star (Mar.,
   Harper hc, $25.99). First US release of this 2005 bestseller.
   Oslo Det. Harry Hole is partnered with a cop he detests and
   distrusts. Their latest case involves a dead woman who has a
   pentagram cut into the inside of her eyelid. Five days later,
   another body is found. And soon Harry realizes that there is a
   killer about who is obsessed with the number five. 3rd in this
                       Norwegian series, though it was the first to be translated into
                       English.

   Wed, April 1, noon, Lisa Lutz signs The Spellmans Strike
   Again (Simon & Schuster hc, $25.00). Fourth (and last - at
   least for a while) in this funny series with Izzy Spellman and
   her off-kilter family of private investigators. April 1st is Izzy's
   birthday so, of course, there will be cake!

   Sat, April 3, noon, Peter May signs Virtually Dead
   (Poisoned Pen, simultaneously available in hc $24.95, and tp
   $14.95). After his wife dies leaving a financial mess, crime
   scene photographer Michael Kapinsky is persuaded to enter
   Second Life to be part of a group therapy attempt. Once in
   this virtual world, he learns of a murder that isn't confined to
   the net. AND The Runner, 5th in his Chinese series with
                       Beijing Det. Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret
                       Campbell. (Poisoned Pen, simultaneously available in hc
                       $24.95, and tp $14.95). First US release of this 2003 book. In
                       paper, The Killing Room, 3rd in the series (Poisoned Pen,
                       $14.95). AND Freeze Frame, his 4th with forensics expert
                       Enzo Macleod (Poisoned Pen, simultaneously available in hc
                       $24.95, and tp $14.95) and Blacklight Blue (Poisoned Pen,
                       $14.95), the 3rd.

   Tues, April 13, 1pm ( note the time!) Jacqueline Winspear
   signs The Mapping of Love and Death (Harper hc, $25.99).
   Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is engaged to
   look into a mystery from the Great War. A young American –
   son of a British father – was listed as missing in 1917 but his
   remains have been found in France. Amongst his effects are
   love letters to a nurse. Maisie's job is to find the nurse.

   Fri, April 16, 12:30 pm, C. J. Box signs Nowhere to Run
   (Putnam hc, $25.95). During the last days of his most recent
   assignment in Baggs, WY., Joe Pickett is following his
   routine, but strange occurrences and a surprise attack lead
   him to believe that there is something happening, that it might
   all be linked, and decides that he can't leave until he figures
   out what's going on.

   Sat, April 17, noon, Larry Karp signs The Ragtime Fool
   (Poisoned Pen hc, $24.95). Scott Joplin himself is long dead
   but ragtime is becoming popular again. One man in Sedalia,
   MO, hears a rumor that the composer kept a journal of his
   time there and left it behind when he moved on. Brun
   Campbell searches for it, hoping it can become the
   centerpiece of a museum to Joplin and his music. But there
                       are people who don't want it to ever find the light of day. As
                       this battle plays out, a young white protégé learns the music
                       and learns that talent may not be enough if you're black in
                       1950s Missouri.

   Tues, April 20, noon, Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Ann
   Krentz) signs Burning Lamp (Putnam hc, $25.95). From its
   inception, the Arcane Society has been torn asunder. The
   founders' relationship was destroyed by a rivalry that
   continues to the present. One of them, Nicholas Winters,
   created a legendary device of great powers and generations
   of Winters men have gotten great talents from its power as
                       well as the curse of madness. Now crime lord Griffin Winters
                       has the curse. 2nd part of the trilogy. [Collector's packets will
                       be available for those who order in advance.]

   Sat, May 15, noon, Michael Gruber signs The Good Son
   (Holt hc, $26). Psychologist Sonia Laghari is captured with
   eight members of a symposium on peace being held in
   Pakistan. She doesn't know what the terrorists want or how it
   will all end but she becomes the leader of the hostages. She
   begins to use her Jungian training to deal with their captors, to
   try to learn what their aims are and to make the hostages
                       more human in their eye and resolve the situation peacefully.
                       At the same time, her son Theo is an ex-Delta soldier and he
                       works from the outside.

   Thurs, May 27, noon, Robert Dugoni signs Bodily Harm
   (Touchstone hc, $25.00). Seattle defense attorney David
   Sloane has just successfully defended a prominent
   pediatrician against charges in the death of a young boy.
   Something about the case always bothered Sloane and after
   the verdict a guy on the street claims to have been
   responsible for that death and another. And then the guy
                       vanishes. Sloane finds out the man is a toy inventor. Why
                       would a toy inventor be killing kids?

   Tues, June 8, noon, Monica Ferris will be in to sign and
   chat. Her most recent book is Blackwork (last Oct, Berkley
   hc, $24.95), the 13th in her needlecraft series. She also
   published mysteries under the pen-name Mary Monica
   Pulver ( her maiden name) and, with Gail Frazer, she co-
   wrote the first six Dame Frevisse medieval mysteries as
                       Margaret Frazer. Come in to meet her and get your
                       collection signed.

   Thurs, June 10, noon Jeffery Deaver signs The Burning
   Wire (Simon & Schuster hc, $ 26.99). Rhyme's decision to
   go ahead with risky medical plans is complicated by a
   diabolical killer. The medical risks are that the procedure
   could greatly improve his life – or kill him.

Sat, June 12, noon, Simon Wood signs Terminated (Dorchester pbo, $7.99). Gwen couldn't know she'd crossed the wrong co-worker when she gave Stephen Tarbell a poor job evaluation.  That was all it took to push him over the edge. He already believed Gwen took the promotion that was rightfully his.  Now it's his turn to take…and to take everything she has.

Sat, June 19, noon, Bill Cameron drives up from Portland to sign Day One (Tyrus hc, $24.95, tp $14.95). Trouble is heading to Portland in the form of a woman trying to escape her abusive husband and in-laws. Retired cop Skin Kadish is unable to give up on one case: a cold murder case and the runaway teen who was the only witness. Things will intersect as none could foresee.

Tues, July 27, noon, J.A. Jance signs Queen of the Night (Morrow hc, $25.99). 4th in the Legends series weaves the stories and traditions of the Desert people around current events: retired detective Brandon Walker works the cold case of a murdered co-ed while the border patrol and a county homicide cop track a killer who is outside of what they've experienced before. [As usual, a percentage of the sales at the signing – and reserved copies – will be donated to a charity of Judy's of choice. Add to the fun and help!]

Signed Copies to Reserve

These authors will not be in our shop to sign, but we'll be getting a limited quantity of signed copies, so reserve one early for later pick-up or to be mailed. The date following the title is the month of release.

Brunonia Barry, The Map of True Places (May, Morrow hc, $25.99).

Harlan Coben, Caught (Mar, Dutton hc, $27.95). Stand-alone thriller.

Linda Fairstein, Hell Gate (Mar, Dutton hc, $26.95). Alexandra Cooper.

Philip Kerr, If the Dead Rise Not (Mar, Putnam hc, $26.95). Bernie Gunther.

Walter Mosley, Known to Evil (Mar, Riverhead hc, $26.95). Leonid McGill.

Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky (April, Morrow hc, $24.95). Peabody.

Michael Slade, Red Snow (Dec, Penguin Canada tpo, $to be determined). Special X

Martin Cruz Smith, Golden Mile (Mar, Simon & Schuster hc, $25.95). Renko. Now Sept and re-titled Three Stations.

Julia Spencer-Fleming, One Was a Soldier (Apr, St. Martin's hc, $24.99).

Dana Stabenow, A Night Too Dark (Feb, St. Martin's hc, $24.99). Shugak.

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