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.

   Tues, July 22, noon, J.A. Jance signs Damage Control
   (Morrow hc, $25.95). Joanna Brady is stretched thin and is
   exhausted – bring the sheriff and the mother of a newborn will
   do that to a person. Her plate is filled further with two events:a
   woman who had been harassed by her ex, shoots an intruder,
   but it isn't her ex; and a car goes through guardrail of a
   mountain highway. [Note: as is our tradition, since this is
                       Judy's first signing for the book, a portion of the sales will
                       benefit the Cancer Fighting Flamingos. Reserve a book or
                       come to the signing and join in!]

   Fri, July 25, noon, Robert Crais signs Chasing Darkness
   (Simon & Schuster hc, $26.00). Three years ago, Elvis
   became a hero when he unearthed evidence that helped clear
   a man accused of murder. Now, that man has been found
   dead and the circumstances point to his guilt in the earlier
   crime. And Elvis is on the hot seat. [Please note: NEW DATE-
   this signing has been moved forward one week.]

   Sat, July 26, noon, Brent Ghelfi signs Volk's Shadow (Holt
   hc, $25.00). Afloat in trouble, Volk is stretched between what
   might have been a terrorist attack on the headquarters of a
   US oil company, the theft of a priceless Fabergé egg and the
   scheming of Abreg, his former commander who has turned to
   terror in the southern mountains and wants Volk back at his
                       side.

                     ALSO

   Michelle Gagnon will sign Boneyard (Mira, $6.99)

                     AND

   Simon Wood will sign We All Fall Down (Leisure, $7.99).

   Fri, Aug 1, noon, Ron Lovell signs Yaquina White (Penman
   Press tpo, $15). In his 7th adventure, Thomas Martindale finds
   that a trip to the Arctic Circle hasn't made his problems go
   away. He'll have to confront them at the Yaquina Head
   lighthouse, where the series began.

   Sat, Aug 2, noon David Waltner-Toews signs Fear of
   Landing (Poisoned Pen hc, $24.95). Canadian vet Abner
   Dueck is working in Indonesia examining some dead cows.
   In the early 1980s, life in Indonesia is anything but calm under
   Suharto and Dr. Dueck's is about to become very
   complicated – politics, infections and murders. Debut by an
   epidemiologist who specializes in food and waterbourne
                       diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health at the University of
                       Guelph.

   Sat, Aug 9, noon Gabriella Herkert signs Doggone
   (Obsidian, $6.99). 2nd in the Animal Instinct series with Sara
   Townley, Seattle-based legal investigator.
  

   PLUS

   Matt Richtel will be here as well, signing the paperback
   release of his novel, Hooked (Hachette, $13.99) ) about Nat
   Idle, who is trying to figure out what's happening when his life
   is saved from an explosion by a girl who resembles his dead
   ex-girlfriend.

   Tues, Aug 12, noon, Kat Richardson signs Underground
   (Roc hc, $21.95). In her 3rd book – and first hardcover –
   Seattle PI Harper Blaine investigates a series of deaths
   among the homeless. The case will take her into the
   Underground. She hears tales of zombies…

   Sat, Aug 16, noon, Trevor Scott signs his most recent
   releases: Burst of Sound (Broadhead Books in trade paper,
   $15.95), the second book in the Tony Caruso Mystery Series,
   and The Cold Edge (Salvo hc, $25.95) the sixth book in the
   Jake Adams International Thriller Series.

   Fri, Aug 22, noon, Kelli Stanley signs her debut novel, Nox
   Dormienda: A Long Night for Sleeping (Five Star, $25.95)
   billed as "Roman Noir". Set in 83 Londinium, Arcturus – the
   half-native, half-Roman doctor to the Governor, Agricola, and
   sometimes problem solver – finds himself in the middle of
   political intrigue. Under an impossible deadline, Arcturus
   must separate falsehood from fact in order to save not only
                       his patron but himself as well.

   Sat, Aug. 23, noon, Chris Grabenstein signs Hell Hole (St.
   Martin's hc, $24.95). 4th with Sea Haven, NJ cop John
   Ceepak. A death on the Jersey shore has ties to the events
   in Iraq. As a former military investigator, the case hits Ceepak
   harder than do most.

   Tues, Aug 26, noon, Olympia's Caitlin Kittredge,
   Pure Blood (St. Martin's pbo, $6.99). Homicide Det. Luna
   Wilder (introduced in Night Life, also a St. Martin's pbo,
   $6.99) finds herself in the middle of a war between rival clans
   of witches. Not a good place for a cop – or a werewolf – to find
   herself.[Please note, this is a change from an earlier schedule
   that had Caitlin here on 8/30.]

   Sat, Aug 30, noon, Cricket McRae, Heaven Preserve Us
   (Midnight Ink tpo, $13.95). Seattle home crafts maven Sophie
   Mae Reynolds (first seen in Lye in Wait , Midnight Ink,
   $12.95) works nights on a crisis helpline. Her first call of the
   evening is from a man who threatens suicide and then
   threatens her.

Wed., Sept 17, noon, Carola Dunn signs Black Ship (St. Martin's hc, $24.95). After the death of an uncle, Daisy and family move into a large house on the edge of London. Though it needs some work, it is a lovely setting with a group of houses that share a communal garden. The only problem is that there's a dead person under one of the bushes and, what's worse, this being 1925, the deceased had ties to international liquor smuggling aboard ghostly black ships.

Thurs, Sept 18, noon, Marc Lecard signs Tiny Little Troubles (St. Martin's hc, $24.95). A famous nano-technologist cannot keep his fly closed , allowing bad people to get near him and have the chance to steal his secrets. Nothing will go as planned and everyone – good guys and bad guys – will have a hell of a time.

Sat, Sept 20, noon, Larry Beinhart signs Salvation Boulevard (Nation hc, $24.95). A new PI story by the Edgar-winning author of No One Rides for Free and the political satire Wag the Dog . Carl Van Wagener accepts a case that will test his skills and his soul. Everyone involved in the case of the murder of an atheist professor is from a different faith.

Wed, Oct 1, noon, Tess Gerritsen signs The Keepsake (Ballantine hc, $26.00). ME Maura Isles thinks the examination of a mummy will be an interesting departure from current crimes. But the body turns out to not be centuries old but actually a recent victim. Other similar bodies begin to appear.

Tues, Oct 7, noon, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Yellow Moon (Aug., Atria hc, $24). 2nd in her New Orleans trilogy (the 1st, Voodoo Season, $14, out in tp from Simon and Schuster 6/06). Physician and voodoo practitioner Marie Levant is alarmed by the rise in violence whose victims she sees in the ER. At night she dreams about torrents of blood and realizes a wamimomo - an African vampire – is approaching, something that is just as threatening as the beginning hurricane season. 

Sat, Oct 11, noon, Rosemary Poole-Carter signs Women of Magdalene (Kunati hc, $24.95). At the Ladies Lunatic Asylum in the South after the Civil War, women are dying and no one seems to care, least of all the haughty director. It falls to Dr. Robert Mallory to look into the deaths.  Rik Deskin (artistic director of Eclectic Theater Company) will give a brief, dramatic reading from the book.

Sat., Nov 1, noon, Larry Karp, The King of Ragtime (Poisoned Pen hc, $24.95). As Scott Joplin's health declines he is once again tied into a murder; a young student finds him over a bloody body. The story will involve a manuscript sent to Irving Berlin, a hit man named Footsie and a kidnapped girlfriend. In paper, The Ragtime Kid (Poisoned Pen, 14.95).

Wed, Nov 12, noon – the Bleak House Boys: Bill Cameron signs Chasing Smoke. A Portland homicide detective, on medical leave for cancer treatments, begins looking into a string of suicides that are all connected to the same doctor – his doctor, and Eric Stone signs Flight of the Hornbill , his third with ex-pat journalist Ray Stone. It's a crime novel based on a case Eric covered as a reporter, The Bre-X gold fraud of '97. Each book is available in three versions: their 'evidence collection' hardcover (signed, numbered and thumbprinted) for $45, regular hardcover for $24.95, and simultaneous trade paperback, $14.95. Reservations for evidence collection copies required.

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.

Linda Barnes, Lie Down with the Devil (July, St. Martin's hc, $24.95). Carlotta Carlyle.

Lisa Black, Takeover (Sept., Morrow hc, $24.95).

Rhys Bowen, A Royal Pain (July, Berkley hc, $23.95). Lady Georgie

Ken Bruen, Once Were Cops (Nov., St. Martin's hc, $22.95).

Alafair Burke, Angel's Tip (Sept., Harper hc, $24.95). Ellie Hatcher. 

Sean Chercover, Trigger City (June, Morrow hc, $24.95). 

Tana French, The Likeness (July, Viking hc, $24.95).

Laura Lippman, Hardly Knew Her (Oct., Morrow hc, $23.95).

Archer Mayor, The Catch (Oct., St. Martin's hc, $24.95). Joe Gunther.

Carol O'Connell, Bone by Bone (Jan. 2009, Putnam hc, $24.95). stand alone.

Elizabeth Peters, The Laughter of Dead Kings (Aug., Morrow hc, 25.95). Vicky Bliss.

Marcus Sakey, Good People, (Aug.).

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