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Happy Monday,
We pack four fabulous authors into three days this week, giving you a diverse selection of summer reads. That transport you in time and place, and in stylish prose and propulsive pace.
Ohio's Amish country. Paterson, NJ. 1937/47 ranging from Kauai to a Spanish desert to ... And ranging around the US with the amazing Mike Bowden, author of the bestselling Blackhawk Down but here digging into true crime.
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Twitter visits with a huge range of authors,
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which is an Instagram platform you can view. This week we'll chat with Keith McCafferty (and discuss tying flies) and Charles Todd., both to be viewed first on our Home Page.
Look for this image in our Instagram and listen to the recorded recommendation for Parry's A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians, our SciFi/Fantasy Book of the Month from a NZ author--thus unsigned.
Lesa does a wonderful job of discovery and recommendation in our Blog bringing in lots of authors for more discovery and recommendations.
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The July Booknews
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Here is the link to the
June Booknews in case you want to review for anything
I also list the
July Books of the Month below. They also appear on our
home page
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More New Podcasts
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There are even more new podcasts up. We can see you are enjoying them. Lots of conversations here!
For those who prefer not to stare at a screen but would like to enjoy our conversations with authors, these are for you.
Visit our new Podcasts Easy download links are provided. They are also available on ITunes and Google Music
Don't forget to search for a favorite author. There are many of them, often frequent visitors to The Pen, but some new to us.
New: Timothy Hallinan/Ragnar Jonasson/ Jeff Siger; Paul Doiron in conversation with Tess Gerritsen; Cozy authors Ellie Alexander and Abby Collette; and a trio of debut authors discussing their varied novels and their paths to publishing, good listening for those wishing to be.
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Shopping with Us
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With infections still rising in Arizona, we are closed to browsing in the store for now.
But eager to connect with you via phone and curbside pickup
Call us 480-947-2974 for sales and for service
Monday-Friday 11:00-3:00 Saturday 11:00-5:00 Sunday 1:00-4:00
For the best customer service other than curbside pickup please continue to email [email protected]
We will update you on reopening the store for shopping after the Fourth Weekend.
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Our July Books of the Month
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First, thank you for your response to The Pen's Books of the Month. The rise in membership means we can do a better job securing signed and unsigned books for you
OUR JULY BOOKS OF THE MONTH
(We renamed the Crime Collectors Book of the Month to this shorter title)
Still working on this selection for July. I am thwarted by one author who is now in Italy and thus unable to sign. An update coming soon.
[Fantastic = fabulous, not fantasy]
International Crime Book of the Month
One Unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
SciFi/Fantasy Book of the Month
One hardcover or paperback per month signed when possible. Our July Pick is by an NZ author and not signed.
Still time to sign up for the rest of 2020
Note: going forward with July joining a club means your book will ship separately from any other orders, and Free.
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Our July Paperback Picks
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OUR JULY SMALL PAPERBACK PICKS
OUR JULY LARGE PAPERBACK PICKS
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Some Signed Bookplates
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Our copies of these come with plates signed by the author,
not glued in but laid in
Grisham, John.
Camino Winds ($28) -- I know, why didn't they become available sooner? So frustrating.... They are specific to this book not generic to Grisham
Due for our August 15 program with Kevin Hearne's
Ink & Sigil
a spinoff of The Iron Druid Chronicles
Please understand that authors living in Canada cannot now travel to the US so bookplates, or nothing, is all we have
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Linda Castillo
Amish Country
Tonight 6:00 PM
Virtual Book Launch
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MONDAY JULY 6 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Linda Castillo signs
Outsider (St Martins $27.99_
Signed books in stock. On sale Tuesday.
Always one to push the envelope with what is at heart a small Ohio town police procedural series set in Amish country, Castillo pens a pure thriller here that allows much of Kate Burkholder's own backstory in.
What we have is a hard-bitten woman police officer from Columbus who exercises a late-night escape plan to escape execution by corrupt colleagues. A staggering blizzard helps her  but as she heads out she enters Holmes County and realizes the only person she can think to trust, a fellow trainee back in their police academy days, might be her salvation. But her car wrecks and hurt, she's taken in by a widower Amish farmer with children. And Adam calls in Kate Burkholder, that fellow trainee, who recognizes Gina Colorosa. Gina's ambition caused a rift, and now her baggage is heavy, but she convinces Kate with her tale of dirty cops. And Kate in turn calls in Tomasetti. Meanwhile those bad actor cops are determined to wipe out Gina and anyone around her....
As I said it's a nail biting thriller. Fans of Kate will be pleased to add new dimensions to her character and story.
This is a superb series, one of my favorites. You can order all the Kate Burkholders and read them in order. The plots are stunners but the character development is equally fascinating.
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Mark Bowden
Tuesday 4:00 PM
Virtual Book Launch
with Patrick
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TUESDAY JULY 7 4:00 PM
Signed books in stock now. For true crime and noir buffs.
I was truly gripped by these stories, especially the one highlighted in the title which is an astonishing exemplar of perseverance and detailed investigation, plus some inspired guesswork
Here's an enthusiastic review that highlights other cases:"
The six previously published true crime stories in this engrossing collection from Bowden
showcase his gift for narrative nonfiction.
"The Incident at Alpha Tau Omega" recounts the gang rape of a Penn college student in 1983, providing insights into how both th  victim and the accused were treated in a different era, with the culprits eventually receiving what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Whodunit fans will relish "The Body in Room 348," in which businessman Greg Fleniken was relaxing in a Texas hotel room one evening in 2010 when he was fatally "struck from nowhere" by a mysterious something. The lack of obvious wounds led the police to believe he died of natural causes, until an autopsy revealed severe internal injuries. Fleniken's widow was fortunate to get PI Ken Brennan, who appears in other articles, to crack the case.
In the book's most memorable piece, "why don't u tell me wht ur into," Bowden reconstructs an online sting aimed at child predators via interviews with the FBI agent and the man eventually arrested, and raises thought-provoking questions about entrapment. New readers will want to seek out Bowden's book-length nonfiction after devouring this."
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Beatriz Williams
Wednesday 4:00 PM
with John & Barbara
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WEDNESDAY JULY 8 4:00 PM
Beatriz Williams chats about
Her Last Flight (Harper $27.99), a thriller drawing inspiration from the life of Amelia Earhart
Signed books available
Basically this is Williams turning her imagination loose on Amelia Earhart with some embellishments and alterations.
Williams gives us a glimpse at the amazing early years of aviation and the sort of people who made history happen. Told in alternating chapter timelines of 1947 and the late 20s and 30s, Williams weaves two storylines together
In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett  arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster, Mallory's onetime student and flying partner. Foster's disappearance during a round-the-world flight in 1937 remains one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries.
At first, the flinty Mrs. Lindquist denies any connection to Foster. But Janey informs her that the wreck of Sam Mallory's airplane has recently been discovered in a Spanish desert, and piece by piece, the details of Foster's extraordinary life emerge: from the beginnings of her flying career in Southern California, to her complicated, passionate relationship with Mallory, to the collapse of her marriage to her aggressive career manager, the publishing scion George Morrow [a thinly disguised George Putnam]. As Irene spins her tale to its searing conclusion, Janey's past gathers its own power....
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David Rosenfelt
Wednesday 6:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY JULY 8 6:00 PM
David Rosenfelt chats about
Muzzled (St Martins $27.99), an Andy Carpenter thriller
Signed books available
Paterson, NJ, attorney Andy Carpenter is almost preternaturally astute about the wickedness people get up to, but it takes a predicament for a dog to nudge him into action. He prefers to be retired. "The beauty of retirement is that it is a permanent situation," he says to his wife and chief investigator, former cop Laurie. She replies: "Our differences are semantic. You consider
 yourself retired; I see it as semi-retired. I think you should come around to my point of view; that way you avoid disappointment...." If you take this case, "it fits right in. You won't feel like you failed at retirement. You'll be a success at semi-retirement." Who could withstand the force of this? So Andy agrees to defend a man charged with murder on the basis that his client risked everything, even his freedom and his life, to reunite with his dog." And behind the crimes is a topic that plays straight into the moment: a new drug trial.
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Tickets for Two
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TUESDAY JULY 14 4:30 (7:30 ET) Virtual Book Launch
 Please join The Poisoned Pen in partnership with Harper Collins to celebrate the launch of The Order (Harper $28.99) with Daniel Silva and CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel in a conversation!
To join us, please purchase a copy.
Once you make your purchase you will receive the confirmation for your purchase which will include a link and password to attend this special event...at Daniel's home
SUNDAY AUGUST 9 1:00 PM (4 PM ET; 9 PM BST)
UK author Mark Billingham in conversation with Lee Child
To attend this special event, you must purchase a copy of
 Billingham's
Cry Baby (Grove Atlantic $26), a prequel to the hugely successful London copper Tom Thorne series, from The Pen
Your purchase means you will receive an invitation to the event shortly beforehand.
And FREE SHIPPING FOR CRY BABY
If you have not read Tom Thorne, this is the perfect chance.
Attendees will be able to ask questions of both authors with the Zoom chat feature.
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ThrillerFest 2020
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Check out the International Thriller Writers fabulous virtual
THRILLERFEST with loads of author pairing up for conversation, writing advice, and much more.
It might be your best investment of the summer.
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Our July Calendar
please keep checking
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MONDAY JULY 6 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Linda Castillo signs
Outsider (St Martins $27.99_
Signed books available. Please order quickly to secure yours
TUESDAY JULY 7 4:00 PM
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY JULY 8 4:00 PM
Beatriz Williams
chats about Her Last Flight (Harper $27.99), a thriller drawing inspiration from the life of Amelia Earhart
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY JULY 8 6:00 PM
David Rosenfelt
chats about Muzzled (St Martins $27.99), an Andy Carpenter thriller
Signed books available
TUESDAY JULY 14 4:30 (7:30 ET) Virtual Book Launch
Please join The Poisoned Pen in partnership with Harper to celebrate the launch of The Order (Harper $29.99) with Daniel Silva and CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel in a conversation!
To join us, please purchase a copy of
The Order
(Harper $29.99).
Signed copies while they last, one per customer. Additional unsigned copies are available.
Once you make your purchase you will receive the confirmation for your purchase which will include a link and password to register for this special event on Crowdcast.
TUESDAY JULY 14 6:00 PM
Signed books available for all three
WEDNESDAY JULY 15 6:00 0PM
Each of our copies includes a Quinn Colson bumper sticker from Atkins
Signed books available for both
THURSDAY JULY 16 6:00 PM
Signed books available
NEW: MONDAY JULY 20 12:30 PM
Camilla Lackberg
joins us from Sweden to discuss
MONDAY JULY 20 4:00 PM
Australian Author Anna Downes
discusses The Safe Place
(St Martins $26.99)
MONDAY JULY 20 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Books signed by Brad for us available but order soon before we sell out. Our copies also come with a special Postcard
TUESDAY JULY 21 6:00 PM
Harry Dresden
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY JULY 22 6:00 PM
Signed books available
THURSDAY JULY 23 6:00 PM
SATURDAY JULY 25 2:00 PM Cozy Fun
MONDAY JULY 27 6:00 PM
Signed books available.
TUESDAY JULY 28 5:00 PM
Signed book available
TUESDAY JULY 28 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Signed books available
WEDNESDAY JULY 29 11:00 AM
UK authors Alice Feeney
discusses His & Hers (Flatiron $27.99)
Our July British Crime Club Book of the Month
NEW: WEDNESDAY JULY 29 12:00 PM
(Joseph $35) Signed copies.
THURSDAY JULY 30 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Signed books available
THURSDAY JULY 30 6:00 PM
Nicholas Griffin in conversation with John Sandford
about Griffin's
Our copies come with a postcard of 1980s Miami
SATURDAY AUGUST 1 2:00 PM
(St Martins $27)
A few
Signed books remain for our August First Mystery Book of the Month
MONDAY AUGUST 3 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Karin Slaughter
discusses
The Silent Wife
(Morrow $28.99)
Preorder your signed copy to get an exclusive: a cell phone wallet to go with the book. FREE SHIPPING FOR the book.
TUESDAY AUGUST 4 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Her Royal Spyness
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New & Notable
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The winner of the National Book Award is memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. A book of great ambition, The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina.
Library Reads says: "First: dragons. Need I say more? Fine-then let's throw five competitors from rival houses into a top-secret competition for the emperor's throne where only one will emerge victorious... and the others will die. But this time the calling seems to have gone terribly wrong, and the candidates range from a stable hand to a bastard to a girl with illegal magic. Yet none can escape their fate, and so the games begin. There will be betrayal, there will be blood, and there will be fire. Cluess has created a sweeping start to a series that is sure to enthrall Readers Ages 8 and up."
Yorkshire, 1845. A young wife vanishes. "Appropriately gothic touches as well as the author's solid research on the lives and works of the Brontës-including cameos by their dissolute brother, Branwell; their good-hearted father, Patrick; and Charlotte's clumsy future husband, Arthur Nicholls-enrich a diverting adventure. "The Brontë sisters as sleuths-what a delicious idea! Bella Ellis has brilliantly recreated the feel and atmosphere of the Brontë novels, as well as bringing the three sisters (and their dissolute brother) vividly to life. What's more, it's a rattling good story!"--Rhys Bowen
Courtney Kelly, the proprietor of the Open Your Imagination fairy garden store, doesn't just believe that fairies are real; she has proof to share. Her store is home to Fiona, a mischievous fairy who's in a sort of remedial fairy-in-training program to get her adult wings. Apparently her propensity for pranks in fairy school has obliged her to demonstrate to the queen fairy that she's serious about her do-gooding duties. When Courtney becomes a suspect in the murder of Mick Watkins, the owner of the Wizard of Paws grooming salon, it seems like the perfect time for Fiona to give Courtney an assist that the queen fairy will notice. If Courtney's innocent, though, who's to blame? Kirkus Reviews adds: "In this old-fashioned cozy... 25 pages of appended recipes...complement the fairy focus of the story with some serious calories." And so, whether you cook or not, this is our July Cozy Crimes Book of the Month.x
As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious crime baron Joe Irving, who is coming to the end of a prison sentence. The problem is that Ben's father, George, is the Deputy Chief Constable. A more uncomfortable set of in-laws would be hard to imagine. But mothers and sons are a formidable force: a wedding in the Abbey and reception in the Roman Baths are arranged before the career-obsessed DCC can step in. Peter Diamond, Bath's head of CID, is appalled to be put in charge of security on the day. Ordered to be discreet, he packs a gun and a guest list in his best suit and must somehow cope with potential killers, gang rivals, warring parents, bossy photographers and straying bridesmaids. The laid-back Joe Irving seems oblivious to the danger he is in from rival gang leaders, while Brace can't wait for the day to end. Will the photo session be a literal shoot? Will Joe Irving's speech as father of the bride be his last words? Can Diamond pull off a miracle, avert a tragedy? The relevance of confetti is revealed. The real reason to delight in his book is Diamond Dagger and MWA Grand Master Lovesey's delight in Bath Abbey and the Roman Theater across the way. He revels in the architectures, traditions, histories, stained glass at the Abbey.... You will too.
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Mystery-of-the-Month Club
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The Mystery-of-the-Month Club is individually tailored to each customer's specific tastes. Just let us know what kinds of mysteries you enjoy, whether your looking for signed hardcover books or paperbacks, and we'll take it from there!
For more information, drop Patrick King a line at
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