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.

  L.J. Sellers with Thrilled to Death (Echelon tpo, $13.99). Due to a family emergency, the author had to cancel her trip to Seattle. She will be mailing us a small supply of the book. Let us know if you'd like one set aside for you.

Tues, Sept 7, noon, Mary Daheim signs Loco Motive (Morrow hc, $23.99). A quiet transcontinental trail trip for the cousins will be anything but relaxing. A recent and entirely annoying guest is also aboard. Worse still – in Montana, the train hits a truck and the journey stops dead. So does their guest. [This book has been postponed a couple of times. If you have already reserved a signed copy you don't need to again.]

Wed, Sept 8, noon, Peter Lewis signs Dead in the Dregs (Counterpoint hc $25, tp $14.95). Debut novel by a local restaurateur and consultant. A notorious wine critic who can create or destroy careers and reputations by what he writes is found dead in a vat of wine at Napa Valley's Norton Winery. There is no shortage of suspects; the victim had a barrel full of enemies.

Sat, Sept 11, noon, Ann Littlewood signs Did Not Survive (Poisoned Pen hc $24.95, tp $14.95). Alone and expecting a baby, Iris Oakley is once again put into the position of investigating death at Finley Memorial Zoo in Vancouver, WA. Her boss was trampled by an elephant, and other animals seem restless – which puts the workers on edge. No one can figure out what is going on and what is wrong and they want Iris to figure it out.

Mon, Sept 13, noon, Rhys Bowen signs Royal Blood (Berkley hc, $24.95). In her 4th adventure, penniless Lady Georgiana Rannoch accepts a request from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding. The catch is that it will take place in Transylvania.

Fri, Sept 17, noon, Jeff Lindsay signs Dexter is Delicious (Doubleday hc, $25.95). 5th with happily homicidal Dexter Morgan. He's happy at home and happy in his work – his homicide work, both with the Miami Police and his free-lance pursuits. But a new case is, well, something new. Goths who are either taking their ghoulishness a bit far, or are acting like it. Cannibalism? Get real!

Sat, Sept 18, noon, Neil Low signs Unreasonable Persuasion (Tigress tpo, $15.95), his 3rd with 1940's private eye Alan Stewart who teams once again with the alluring and dangerous Vera Deward to search for a missing heiress.

Sat, Sept 25, noon, Karianne Larsen signs Liar Liar (Poisoned Pen hc, $24.95, tp $14.95). Debut by 3 sisters, one of whom lives in the Seattle area. PI Cat DeLuca has the reputation of being able to catch any cheating spouse. But someone hires her as a bluff: she's hired to follow a guy who is actually a diamond smuggler. When the building he walks into explodes, Cat is injured. The FBI visits her to find out what she knows and that is not much. [At least two of the sisters will be at the signing!]

Sat, Oct 2, noon, Dana Haynes signs Crashers (Minotaur hc, $24.99). A jetliner crash outside Portland, OR, is quickly seen as no accident. The crack team of NTSB investigators are on the scene. At the same time, a former Israeli intelligence op, hiding in LA, sees a team of suspicious men and attaches herself to them to find out what they are up to. What they are up to is crashing planes. New thriller by an Oregon writer who published three academic mysteries in the '80s as Conrad Haynes.

Sat Oct 9, noon, Alan Jacobson signs Velocity (Vanguard hc, $25.95). Karen Vail's boyfriend seemingly vanishes one night. The FBI profiler is stumped; it isn't like her cop lover to disappear. The only guy who may be able to help is covert Defense Dept. Op who has a unique ability to find info.

Mon Oct 11, noon, Toby Ball signs The Vaults (McMillan, $24.99) At the height of the most corrupt administration in the City's history, a mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults---a cavernous hall containing all of the municipal criminal justice records of the last seventy years. From here, the story follows: Arthur Puskis, the Vault's sole, hermit-like archivist with an almost mystical faith in a system to which he has devoted his life; Frank Frings, a high-profile investigative journalist with a self-medicating reefer habit; and Ethan Poole, a socialist private eye with a penchant for blackmail

Tues, Oct 12, noon, a Soho Double-Header: Stuart Neville signs Collusion (Soho hc, $25). Sequel to his notable debut, The Ghosts of Belfast. DI Jack Lennon is told by his superiors to back away from what he fears: his former lover and their daughter are in danger. Lennon has no intention to do so but he's also dealing with an assassin on the loose and the hints of a conspiracy that is going on between Loyalists and IRA members and even his fellow coppers. It all turns back to him and the women who want nothing to do with him. AND Henry Chang signs Red Jade (Soho hc, $25.00). NYPD Det. Jack Yu works the bloody case of two bodies found in an area known as a tong battleground. His search for a Chinese-American gangster will take him to another Chinatown, and into the orbit of a Hong Kong femme fatale, in Seattle.

Wed, Oct 13, noon, P.L. Gaus signs Blood of the Prodigal (Plume tpo, $13.00). First in a new series set in the quiet and bucolic Amish country. When a small Amish boy vanishes, the local bishop understands that they'll need outside help. He reaches out to two "English" (non-Amish) for help. Professor Michael Brandon and Pastor Caleb Troyer have lived in the area all their lives and the Bishop trusts them. Still, he puts restrictions on what they do among his people and they'll have to work carefully if their investigation is to succeed. The first three books in this series will be released in consecutive months.

Thurs, Oct 21, noon, Michael Ayoob signs In Search of Mercy (Minotaur hc, $24.99). Once abducted and tortured by deranged hockey fans, Dexter Bolzjak is spending his days now in a Pittsburg warehouse, doing little. One day he meets a terminally ill alcoholic who has wants to see the love of his life before he dies. This guy, Lou, offers Dexter a small fortune to go find Mercy, an actress who vanished decades before. Dexter accepts. Latest winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition.

Sat, Oct 23, noon, Ann Rule signs In the Still of the Night (Free Press hc, $26.99). The Masterful Mistress of True Crime delves into the strange case of Ronda Reynolds, a former Washington State trooper whose 1998 death is still under a dark cloud. Her husband called 911 to report she'd committed suicide, but the official ruling as to manner of death has been changed three times. There are questions about the investigation and actions of the Sheriff's office and nothing about the case make sense - much less what the husband says happened.

Sat, Oct 30, noon, Greg Rucka signs The Last Run (Bantam hc, $25.00). Her desires to leave the Special Section will have to wait: a figure high up in the Iranian hierarchy has sent word he wishes to defect and MI6 needs it's best agent to lead the team. They send Tara Chase.

Sat, Nov 6, noon, Stephen Jay Schwartz signs Beat (Forge hc $24.95, tp $14.99), his second with LAPD Robbery and Homicide Det. Hayden Glass. Glass is a man with a sex obsession which leads to personal and professional trouble. He becomes infatuated with a woman he sees on a website and his search for her takes him to San Francisco where he confronts the Russian sex slavers and the group of corrupt cops that protects them.

Wed, Nov 10, noon, Patrick McManus signs The Huckleberry Murders (Simon & Schuster hc, $25.00). An elderly rancher disappears and expectations and rumors are that he's been murdered. Sheriff Bo Tully can't really do anything on the strength of expectations and rumors – then suddenly he can when four bodies are found in a berry patch.

Sat, Nov 13, noon, Gary Alexander signs Disappeared (Five Star, $25 .95) Stand-up comedian Buster Hightower lives next door to Ted Snowe.  Ted has an interesting racket; he captures people, tells them he's a hit man and gives them the choice of dying or vanishing. All choose to disappear. Ted then lives off the proceeds of their abandoned lives.  The trouble begins when the "vanished" people begin to reappear.

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.

Michael Connelly, The Reversal (Oct., Little Brown hc, $27.99). Bosch & Haller.

Vince Flynn, American Assassin (Oct., Atria hc, $27.99).

Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero (Jan., Simon & Schuster hc, $26). Bob Lee Swagger.

William Kent Krueger, Vermillion Drift (Sept, Atria hc, $25). Cork O'Connor.

Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile (Nov., Morrow hc, $26.99). Patrick & Angie!

Elmore Leonard, Djibouti (Oct., Morrow hc, $26.99).

Spencer Quinn, To Fetch a Thief (Nov., Atria hc, $25).

Elizabeth Sims, On Location (Sept., Minotaur hc, $25.99).

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

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