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We have returning authors and new authors for you this month — something for everyone!

Be sure and note our future events on your calendars so you don’t miss out on some great authors.

Reminder that our Book Club is open to new members. Check out their information as well as our

Shakespeare group who welcomes people interested in the Bard.

–Anne

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BOOK NEWS

These books will be in shortly after their release date and all will be signed, unless noted below. In some cases, quantity will be limited – please preorder!

  • THE WAITING (BALLARD & BOSCH) NOVEMBER 5, 2024

 

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Book Carnival In-Person Event

Gigi Pandian and Jennifer Chow

March 2, 2:00 P.M.

Gigi Pandian

THE RAVEN THIEF

$26.99Add to cart

Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first project with Tempest Raj officially a part of the team―a classic mystery novel-themed home interior. Their client is now ready to celebrate her new life without her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt. First up, a party, and Tempest and Grandpa Ash are invited to the exclusive mock séance to remove any trace of Corbin from the property―for good. It’s all lighthearted fun until Corbin’s dead body crashes the party.

The only possible suspects are the eight people around the séance table―a circle of clasped hands that wasn’t broken. Suspicion quickly falls on Grandpa Ash, the only one with actual blood on him.

Jennifer Chow
ILL-FATED FORTUNE

$9.99Add to cart

Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom’s apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother’s enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies.

They become so popular that Felicity runs out of generic fortunes and starts making her own personalized predictions. When one customer’s ill-fated fortune results in his murder, Felicity’s suspiciously specific fortune has the police focusing on her as the main culprit. Now Felicity must find a way to turn her luck around and get cleared from suspicion.

 

Book Carnival In-Person Event

March 10, 2:00 P.M.

A.J. Tata
THE PHALANX CODE

$29.00Add to cart

 

Influential tech magnate Mitch Drewson calls on Sinclair and the Dagger team to protect his Project Optimus. An ambitious endeavor that empowers citizens to protect their financial and personal data in the face of increasingly authoritarian federal governments, Project Optimus is a threat to Aurelius Blanc’s Phalanx Corporation. Blanc’s data collection and media application are enabling a global security threat, creating a technofascism that monitors the activity of everyone with a smartphone, tablet, computer, or any web-connected device.

When Phalanx assassin squads overrun an Optimus server farm in California and attack an Optimus coder named Blair Campbell, who happens to be the president’s daughter, Sinclair must deploy a group of warriors to save Blair and protect the remainder of the Optimus team so they can finish their important work―a project that includes deciphering the mysterious Phalanx Code, suspected to be Phalanx’s kill list of Optimus employees.

Book Carnival In-Person Event

March 14, 6:00 P.M.

Kira Peikoff
BABY X

In the near-future United States, where advanced technology can create egg or sperm from any person’s cells, celebrities face the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived. Famous singer Trace Thorne is tired of being targeted by the Vault, a black market site devoted to stealing DNA. Sick of paying ransom money for his own cell matter, he hires bio-security guard Ember Ryan to ensure his biological safety.

Ember will do anything she can to protect her clients. She knows all the Vault’s tricks–discarded tissues, used straws, lipstick tubes–and has prevented countless DNA thefts. Working for Thorne, her focus becomes split when she begins to fall for him, but she knows she hasn’t let anything slip–love or not, his DNA is safe. But then she and Thorne are confronted by a pregnant woman, Quinn, who claims that Thorne is the father of her baby, and all bets are off.

 

Book Carnival In-Person Event

March 16, 2:00 P.M.

Pat Spencer
GOLDEN BOXTY IN THE FRYPAN

In Golden Boxty in the Frypan, Pat Spencer captivates readers with a heartrending and absorbing coming-of-age saga inspired by true events. Her poignant story captures the hearts of readers as they follow Katie’s journey through poverty, illness, and discrimination in Philadelphia to a glorious train trip out west in search of the American dream. But just as she thinks the worst is behind her, a twist of fate reverses her good fortune. Katie must wrestle with her fears, face her insecurities, and assume the role of mother for her three youngest brothers.

Book Carnival In-Person Event

 

Herb Williams-Dalgart and David Putnam

March 17, 2:00 P.M.

Herb Williams-Dalgart

JINGLE BOYS

$26.99Add to cart

1943 — Brooklyn, New York

Jingle Boys is the story of Wally Lipkin, a Jewish piano player, gifted in his musical ability but cursed with a secret anxiety problem that causes him to lose consciousness at inopportune times. With his eighteenth birthday fast approaching, Uncle Sam will be calling him to fight overseas—a death sentence for a guy like Wally. If he reveals his condition to avoid the draft, he’ll surely find himself locked up in a sanatorium like his crazy uncle.

Desperate for a solution, Wally—along with his brother Max, and their friend Frankie—enters a radio station jingle contest that promises the winner local fame, fifty clams, and a stateside government job. A win would allow Wally to serve his country.

But when an alluring singer who looks like a motion picture starlet enters the scene, Wally’s plans change dramatically. Now, his choices and his jingles may not only put his life at risk, they may turn the tide of the war.

David Putnam
THE DIABOLICAL

$9.99Add to cart

Ex cop, ex con, Bruno Johnson is hiding from US law enforcement in Costa Rica with his wife, Marie, and the twelve children they rescued from toxic homes in south central Los Angeles. Bruno works at the Lido Cabana Bar at the Punta Bandera Hotel, and his friend, Karl Drago, is getting married on the beach right outside. After the festivities, Bruno and Marie go skinny dipping in the ocean, but they’re quickly interrupted by a visit from law enforcement.

A shooting has just occurred at El Gato Gordo nightclub, and the victim is a prominent local figure and Bruno’s close friend. The chief of police asks Bruno to help investigate, but the stakes are higher than ever—if Bruno doesn’t find the shooter, the chief will turn him over to US authorities.

Everything is complicated further when Bruno becomes a victim of a crime himself, realizing that someone else may be after him.

 

Book Carnival In-Person Event

March 30, 2:00 P.M.

Nicholas George
A DEADLY WALK IN DEVON

Still grieving the death of his long-time partner, Chase reunites with his dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau for a seacoast holiday of historic sightseeing. Assigned a pair of guides from the tour company Wanderers, Chase and Billie join seven other like-minded Americans looking forward to an English getaway. All except for Ronald Gretz. The wealthy entrepreneur behind the international Golden Sunset nursing home chain doesn’t like anything about walking, touring, or England. Coarse and opinionated, Gretz’s complaints get on the nerves of his fellow Wanderers—and his long-suffering trophy wife.

But Gretz’s gripes are tied to his own nerves being frayed. He has been receiving threatening texts and emails signed “An Avenger.” Convinced someone means him harm, Gretz asks Chase to watch his back. Soon, Gretz falls afoul of several “accidents,” leading to more friction with the other walkers. Until one final “accident” results in Gretz dead at the bottom of a cliff.

 

Future Events

Book Carnival In-Person Event

Eric Beetner, Jon Lindstrom, Iris Yamashita

April 20, 2:00 P.M. IN-PERSON EVENT

Eric Beetner
THE LAST FEW MILES OF ROAD

 

Jon Lindstrom
HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE

 

Iris Yamashita
VILLAGE IN THE DARK

 

Book Carnival In-Person Event

April 27, 2:00 P.M.

Mike Befeler
MYSTERY OF THE DINNER PLAYHOUSE

Book Carnival In-Person Event

June 1, 2:00 P.M.

Daniel Weizmann
CINNAMON GIRL

Book Carnival In-Person Event

June 2, 2:00 P.M.

Craig Johnson
FIRST FROST

Book Carnival In-Person Event

June 22, 2:00 P.M.

Marjorie McCown In Conversation With Matt Coyle
STAR STRUCK

Book Carnival In-Person Event

July 14, 2:00 P.M.

John McNellis
SCOUT’S HONOR

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BOOK CONVENTIONS

April 11-14, 2024, Left Coast Crime, Seattle Washington,
Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle’s Eastside
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