Murder on the Beach Bookstore Newsletter
March, 2017 Volume 22, Number 3
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Three Author Panel - Mystery & History
Sunday, March 5 at 1 PM
Authors Nancy J. Cohen, Alyssa Maxwell, and V. S. Alexander will discuss Mystery and History and sign their books.
Joanne Sinchuk will moderate. Refreshments will be served.
Nancy J. Cohen is the author of The Bad Hair Day Mystery Series. Her newest book, thirteenth in the series, is Facials Can Be Fatal. During the frenzy of the December holidays, the last thing salon owner Marla Vail needs is a dead body slathered in a green facial mask at her new day spa. Hoping to salvage her reputation, Marla determines to track down the suspects. Kensington 25.95
Alyssa Maxwell pens two historical series,The Gilded Newport Series and The Lady's and Lady's Maid Mysteries. A Pinch of Poison,her newest book,is set in post- World War I England. Lady Phoebe-with the tireless assistance of Eva-has organized a luncheon at the Haverleigh School for Young Ladies to benefit wounded veterans of the Great War.. But too many cooks add up to a recipe for disaster when the school's headmistress, Miss Finch, is poisoned. Kensington 25.00
V.S. Alexander is an ardent student of history with a strong interest in music and the visual arts. The Magdalen Girls, set in Dublin in 1962, is a novel about the lives of girls in one of the Magdalen Laundries, the cruelties they endure and the escape they plot. Denied contact with the outside world, Teagan and Nora find an ally. They discover that the outside world has dangers for women with soiled reputations. Kensington 15.00
Women's Nat'l Book Association, Florida Chapter
Meets Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30
Topic: What's Going On - Situational Awareness
Instructor:Al Hallonquist, with an extensive law enforcement career, will show you how you can keep yourself safe in every day life by being aware of your surroundings.
Members - Free Non-Members:$10.
Holly Brown Signs
This Is Not Over:
Thursday, March 16 at 7 PM
Holly Brown is a practicing marriage and family therapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
This Is Not Over
Dawn and Miranda - two very different women with this in common: Each harbors her own secret, her own reason why she can't just let this go. Neither can yield, not before they've dredged up all that's hidden, even if it has the power to shatter all they've built.
This is so not over. 15.99
Paul Levine Signs
Bum Luck:
Saturday, March 18 at 6 PM
The author of twenty novels,
Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus, and James Thurber prizes.
Bum Luck
The downward spiral begins when Jake's client, Miami Dolphins' running back Thunder Thurston, is cleared of murdering his wife. Jake didn't expect to win, didn't want to win, since he is sure his client is guilty. When Thurston walks free, Lassiter vows to seek his own kind of justice. Street justice. Vigilante justice. 15.95
Ed Lin Signs
Incensed:
Tuesday, March 21 at 8 PM
Ed Lin is a journalist by training and the author of several books:
Ghost Month;
Waylaid, his literary debut; and his Robert Chow crime series, set in 1970s Manhattan's Chinatown.. Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and son.
Incensed
In Taiwan, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for prioritizing family. When 25-year-old Jing-nan's gangster uncle, Big Eye, asks a favor, Jing-nan can't exactly say no, especially because two goons are going to follow him around to make sure he gets it done right. RH 26.95
C.J. Box Signs
Vicious Circle:
Sunday, March 26 at 5 PM
C.J. Box is the author of the Joe Pickett novels, five stand-alone novels, most recently
Badlands; and the story collection
Shots Fired. He was won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards. He and his wife Laurie split their time between their home and ranch in Wyoming.
Vicious Circle
The Cates family had always been a bad lot. Game warden Joe Pickett had been able to strike a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April had been endangered, but he'd always wondered if there'd be a day of reckoning. He's not wondering any longer. Putnam 27.00
Randy Wayne White Signs
Mangrove Lightning:
Wednesday, March 29 at 7 PM
This is
Randy Wayne White's 24th Doc Ford book, after
Deep Blue and
Cuba Straits. A veteran fishing guide who at one time had his own local PBS show, White lives in an old house on an Indian mound in Pineland, Florida.
Mangrove Lightning
A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to Doc Ford, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple murder in 1925, in which his family had a shameful part.Putnam 27.00
Wine and food for this event sponsored by Morgan Stanley
Andrew Gross Signs
The One Man
K.J. Howe Signs The Freedom Broker: Thursday, March 30 at 7 PM
Andrew Gross is the author of New York Times and international bestsellers The Blue Zone, Don't Look Twice, and The Dark Tide, which was nominated for the Best Thriller of the Year award by the International Thriller Writers, Reckless, and Eyes Wide Open. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Lynn.
The One Man
1944 - Washington, DC Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghettoy, Nathan longs to do more for his new country.. But never did he expect to be asked to sneak into the most guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war.
Minotaur 26.99
K.J. Howe is the executive director of ThrillerFest, the annual conference of International Thriller Writers. A three-time Daphne du Maurier Award winner, she became fascinated by the kidnap and ransom (K&R) world after meeting Peter Moore, a British computer consultant who became the longest-held hostage in Iraq and the only person to survive of the five men who were taken that day. This is her debut novel.
The Freedom Broker
Twenty years ago, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched, paralyzed with fear. Returned after a harrowing nine months with his captors, Thea's brother has never been the same. This life-shattering experience drove Thea to become what she is today: a world-class freedom broker. Quercus 26.99
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Book Clubs
Sunday Sleuths
Sun Mar 19 at 3 PM
Brain Storm
By Elaine Viets 15.95
Tuesday Murder Club
Tue Mar 21 at 6:30 PM
Last Train to Paradise By Les Standiford15.00
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We Are on
Winter Store Hours
Mon - Sat 10 - 6
Sunday 12 - 5
Events in March: Sun, Mar 5 at 1 PM Panel of Three Authors Nancy J. Cohen Alyssa Maxwell VS Alexander Will Discuss Mystery and History Joanne Sinchuk, Moderator Refreshments Served
Wed, Mar 8 at 6:30 PM Women's Nat'l Book Assoc FL Chapter Meeting So What's Going On Situational Awareness Instr: Al Hallonquist Members - Free Nonmembers - $10
Thu, Mar 16 at 7 PM Holly Brown Signs This is Not Over 15.99
Sat, Mar 18 at 6 PM Paul Levine Signs Bum Luck 15.95
Tue, Mar 21 at 8 PM Ed Lin Signs Incensed 26.95
Sun, Mar 26 at 5 PM CJ Box Signs Vicious Circle 27.00
Wed, Mar 29 at 7 PM Randy Wayne White Signs Mangrove Lightning 27.00 Wine & Food Sponsored by Morgan Stanley
Thu, Mar 30 at 7 PM Andrew Gross Signs The One Man & KJ Howe Signs The Freedom Broker 26.99
Book Clubs
Sunday Sleuths
Sun Mar 19 at 3 PM
Brain Storm
By Elaine Viets 15.95
Tuesday Murder Club
Tue Mar 21 at 6:30 PM
Last Train to Paradise By Les Standiford15.00
Murder on the Beach
Mystery Book Store 273 NE 2nd Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33444
561-279 -7790
Fax:561-279 -7759
Email murdermb@gate.net
We Are on
Winter Store Hours
Mon - Sat 10 - 6
Sunday 12 - 5
Events in March: Sun, Mar 5 at 1 PM Panel of Three Authors Nancy J. Cohen Alyssa Maxwell VS Alexander Will Discuss Mystery and History Joanne Sinchuk, Moderator Refreshments Served
Wed, Mar 8 at 6:30 PM Women's Nat'l Book Assoc FL Chapter Meeting So What's Going On Situational Awareness Instr: Al Hallonquist Members - Free Nonmembers - $10
Thu, Mar 16 at 7 PM Holly Brown Signs This is Not Over 15.99
Sat, Mar 18 at 6 PM Paul Levine Signs Bum Luck 15.95
Tue, Mar 21 at 8 PM Ed Lin Signs Incensed 26.95
Sun, Mar 26 at 5 PM CJ Box Signs Vicious Circle 27.00
Wed, Mar 29 at 7 PM Randy Wayne White Signs Mangrove Lightning 27.00 Wine & Food Sponsored by Morgan Stanley
Thu, Mar 30 at 7 PM Andrew Gross Signs The One Man & KJ Howe Signs The Freedom Broker 26.99
Book Clubs
Sunday Sleuths
Sun Mar 19 at 3 PM
Brain Storm
By Elaine Viets 15.95
Tuesday Murder Club
Tue Mar 21 at 6:30 PM
Last Train to Paradise By Les Standiford15.00
Murder on the Beach
Mystery Book Store 273 NE 2nd Avenue
Delray Beach, FL 33444
561-279 -7790
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Bestseller Lists
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January 2017 Bestsellers at Murder on the Beach
Hardcovers
1. Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich, RH, 28.00
2. Night School by Lee Child, RH, 28.99
3. The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly, HAC, 29.00
4. Into The Lion's Den by Linda Fairstein, BRK, 16.99
5. Seduced by Randy Wayne White, PUT, 27.00
6. This Was A Man by Jeffrey Archer, MPS, 28.99
7. No Man's Land by David Baldacci, HAC, 29.00
8. In Sunlight Or In Shadow by Lawrence Block, NOR, 25.95
9. Trespasser by Tana French, PUT, 27.00
10. The Penny Jumper by James Grippando, 19.99
Mass Market/Trade
1. The Widow by Fiona Barton, BRK, 16.00
2. A Voice in the Night by Andrea Camilleri, BRK, 16.00
3. Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman, RH, 9.99
4. City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong, MPS, 15.99
5. The Promise by Robert Crais, BRK, 9.99
6. Gone Again by James Grippando, HC, 9.99
7. Real Tigers by Mick Herron, SO, 15.95
8. Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King, SS, 9.99
9. Pop Goes the Murder by Kristi Abbott, BRK, 7.99
10. The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen, BRK, 16.00
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Signed First Editions
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C.J. Box
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Vicious Circle
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27.00
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Holly Brown
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This Is Not Over
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25.99
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Nancy J. Cohen
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Facials Can Be Fatal
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25.95
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Deborah Crombie
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Garden of Lamentations
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26.99
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Tim Dorsey
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Clownfish Blues
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25.99
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Heather Graham and Jon Land
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The Rising
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25.99
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K.J. Howe
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The Freedom Broker
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26.99
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Brad Taylor
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Ring of Fire
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27.00
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Charles Todd
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Racing The Devil
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26.99
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Randy Wayne White
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Mangrove Lightning
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27.00
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Facials Can Be Fatal
By Nancy J. Cohen
Reviewed By Stephanie Saxon Levine
A dead body slathered in a green facial mask in Marla Vail's new day spa sets Marla on a quest to track
down suspects and restore her good name. The victim, Valerie Weston, had been a major donor for Friends of Old Florida, a nonprofit historic preservation society. Marla's motivation to find the killer is strengthened by the fact that Marla's stylists are scheduled to work backstage at Friends of Old Florida's upcoming gala fashion show.
Val may have stumbled onto secrets that others would kill to keep. What are the connections between a greedy land developer, a dress designer whose husband may have links to the Asian mob, a mortician who might be involved in the human hair trade, and members of the nonprofit group's board of directors? Marla joins forces with her detective husband to solve a decades-old mystery that includes a secret journal, pirate tales, and shipwrecks along the Florida coast.
I found this latest in Nancy Cohen's Bad Hair Day Mystery Series to be fast paced and enjoyable. The author excels in creating a unique and memorable cast of characters. One of her trademarks is that the mysteries always add to the reader's knowledge in the field related to the mystery. It's a joy to follow along with Marla and Dalton as they put the pieces together to solve the crime. Highly recommended.
Kensington First Printing, Signed: 25.95
Incensed
By Ed Lin
Reviewed by Sue Wilder
Big Eye, a Taiwanese gangster, sends two of his henchmen for his nephew Jing-nan, owner of the
Unknown Pleasures food stand in the Taipei Night Market. Big Eye wants Jing-nan to bring Mei-ling, Big Eye's 16 year old daughter, to Taipei for awhile. Mei-ling is rebellious and spoiled, under the influence of her unsavory boyfriend. Big Eye hopes that Jing-nan can set her on a right path.
Jing-nan has no leverage. He is being monitored by Big Eye's goons and manipulated by Mei-ling. Problems begin before they even return to Taipei. As the story evolves Jing-nan realizes that his cousin's visit involves more than just babysitting a troublesome teenager. The action escalates as the big secret underlying Mei-ling's problem comes to the surface.
Incensed is about an entertaining cast of characters operating in a fascinating setting. The culture of the Taipei Night Market and food stands is authentic-and mouth watering. The sights and smells permeate every chapter of the book. The characters are instrumental in portraying life in Taiwan, including the strong family obligations and respect for the rules governing those relationships.
Mr. Lin is an accomplished writer, expertly giving the reader a mystery laced with a fine sense of humor.
Incensed is the second book in the Taipei Night Market series. The book may be read without reading
Ghost Month, the first book in the series. However, this reader missed the first book and looks forward to reading it. A very enjoyable read.Soho First Printing, Signed:26.95
A Pinch of Poison
By Alyssa Maxwell
Reviewed by Stephanie Saxon Levine
In this second in Alyssa Maxwell's Lady and Lady's Maid series, set in post-World War I England, Lady
Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, encounter an uncharitable killer at a charity luncheon sponsored by a posh school for girls. The Haverleigh School's headmistress, Miss Finch, succumbs to a poison-laced dessert. While the girls at Haverleigh all come from highly respected families, none of them, or the members of the staff, are excluded from suspicion. Lady Phoebe focuses on the students while Eva centers her efforts on the staff. The result is a most enjoyable, entertaining, and suspenseful mystery.
Alyssa Maxwell is adept at weaving a fascinating historical tale, and she more than amply demonstrates that skill here. She has chosen a time and place in which the world was changing swiftly for women. The old roles were shifting, and the members of various generations and social castes adapted in different ways. The author captures this state of flux very well indeed. Her characters are fully realized, the depiction of setting nicely done, and the plot, with its twists and turns, compelling.
All in all, a most delightful read. I look forward to more mysteries in this series.
Kensington First Printing, Signed:25.00
Most Dangerous Place: A Jack Swyteck Novel
By James Grippando
Reviewed by Cheryl Kravetz
I discovered this wonderfully talented author in 1994 with his first book, The Pardon, in which he introduced Miami Attorney Jack Swyteck, and I have read every one of his books since then. I thought he was a uniquely talented writer in 1994 and he has only gotten better as is obvious in his newest, his 25th legal thriller, Most Dangerous Place.
According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past.
Jack's long-time friend, Keith Ingraham and his wife, Isabelle, are flying from their home in Hong Kong where Keith is a high-powered banker to Miami where surgeons are waiting to help their daughter hear again. Jack goes to the airport to pick them up but as they disembark the plane, Isabelle is arrested, accused of conspiring to murder a man who sexually assaulted her years before while she was in college.
Jack works as Isabelle's attorney to learn the facts of the case, but as he interviews Isabelle and others, he discovers some very different and complicated stories.
Most Dangerous Place
is inspired by a real case in which the victim of rape is sent to prison for the death of her attacker.
I especially like James Grippando's thrillers as he keeps readers guessing to the very end.
HarperCollins 26.99
The Magdalen Girls
By V.S. Alexander
Reviewed by Ruth Morris
Dublin, 1962.Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of
the city's Magdalen Laundries. The laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Most of the young women who live there are ordinary girls whose only sin is being too pretty, too tempting to men.Sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan, one such girl, was sent by her family because beauty tempted a young priest.
Nora Craven,and Teagen become friends. The girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. Finally, Nora and Teagan find an ally in Lea, who helps them plot an escape. But the outside world has dangers too, especially for young women with soiled reputations.
I had seen a movie about the Magdalen Laundries several years ago, set in an earlier time period. This novel, set in the very year I graduated from high school, gave me new insight into how crushing life was for the sad young women in the laundry. Despite the contrasts between their lives and mine, it was easy to empathize with Teagan, Nora and Lea. Other characters, all well drawn though not all empathetic, include the Mother Superior, Sister Anne. The descriptions of the surroundings enhance the reader's engagement in this book. The Magdalen Girls is a novel well worth reading, whether or not the reader knows about the Laundries and their terrible history. I highly recommend it. Kensington Signed: 15.00
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Tessa Arlen -
Death by Any Other Name. Lady Montfort and her housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, investigate a murder among a group of amateur rose-breeders while the English summer days count down to the start of WW1.
MPS 25.99
Dave Barry - For This We Left Egypt.
With this hilarious parody Haggadah from the comedic minds of Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach, good Jews everywhere will no longer have to sit (and sleep) through a lengthy and boring Seder. MPS 19.99
M. C. Beaton - Death of a Ghost. Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim and spends the night at the ruined castle.
There's no sign of any ghost, but there is a dead body propped against the wall of the cellar. HAC 26.00
Trudy Nan Boyce - Old Bones.
During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. PUT 27.00
Dan Chaon - Ill Will. Two sensational unsolved crimes, one in the past, another in the present, are linked by one man's memory and self-deception. RH 28.00
Julia Chapman - Date with Death.
Samson O'Brien, fired from the police force is back in his home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales, where he sets up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. MPS 25.99
Laura Childs - Pekoe Most Poison.
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning attends a "Rat Tea," where servers dressed in rodent costumes and white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas. BRK 26.00
Stephen Dobyns - Saratoga Payback.
Charlie Bradshaw begins to look into the murder of the town pest and finds himself entangled in a mission to rescue an old acquaintance's kidnapped horse. PUT 27.00
Caite Dolan-Leach - Dead Letters. A missing woman leads her twin sister on a twisted scavenger hunt. RH 27.00
Kevin Egan - Shattered Circle.
After an accident leaves New York City judge William Lonergan mentally impaired, his wife, Barbara, who doubles as the judge's confidential secretary, is determined to protect his health, his career, and his reputation. MPS 27.99
Miranda Emerson - Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars.
A disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress. HC 26.99
Amy Engel - Roanoke Girls. After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke went to live with her grandparents and cousin, Allegra. Lane rand away after she discovered the dark truth about her mother's mysterious family. Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra is missing. RH 25.00
Loren D. Estleman - Lioness is the Hunter.
Detroit entrepreneur Carl Fannon hires Amos Walker to find his partner, Emil Haas, whose sudden disappearance has jeopardized their firm's plans to purchase the historic Sentinel Building. MPS 25.99
Joanne Fluke - Banana Cream Pie Murder.
A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as she anticipated.
ZEB 26.00
David Gibbins - Testament. 586 BC. The priests of the Temple look to the greatest navigators ever known to save their treasures. 1943. Allied codebreakers play a game of life and death. Present-day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his friend Costas hunt for Nazi gold and nearly destroy themselves. MPS 25.99
James Grippando - Most Dangerous Place.
Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies. HC 26.99
Peter Heller - Celine.
Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons, but when a young woman asks for her help, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. RH 25.95
Mick Herron - Spook Street. A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known to few modern spies. SO 26.95
Miranda James - Twelve Angry Librarians.
Light-hearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, for walking his cat, but he may soon be taken for a walk himself in handcuffs. PUT 26.00
Faye Kellerman - Bone Box.
Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical, serial killer who's been hiding in plain sight. HC 27.99
Christobel Kent - Loving Husband.
In a dilapidated farmhouse in the English Fenlands, Fran awakes groggily to her baby's cries and finds her husband is gone. Moving uneasily through the drafty rooms, searching for her husband, Fran soon makes a devastating discovery. MPS 27.00
Joe R. Landsdale - Rusty Puppy. Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town. HAC 26.00
Owen Laukkanen - Forgotten Girls.
Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime force discover a string of murdered young women drifters. PUT 27.00
Charlie Lovett - Lost Book of the Grail. An obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail. PUT 26.00
Clare Mackintosh - I See You.
When Zoe Walker sees her photo in an ad in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation: just a grainy image, a website address and a phone number. PUT 26.00
Nicolas Obregon - Blue Light Yokohama.
Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. MPS 25.99
Carlene O'Connor - Murder at an Irish Wedding. The O'Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, is catering the matrimonial affairs of a celebrity couple until a cunning killer turns an Irish wedding into an Irish wake. ZEB 25.00
Brad Parks - Say Nothing.
Judge Scott Sampson is about to pick up his six-year-old twins to go swimming when his wife, Alison, texts him that she'll get the kids from school instead. When he gets home Scott realizes she doesn't have the children and she never sent the text. PUT 26.00
Eliot Pattison - Skeleton God.
Shan Tao Yun, constable of a remote Tibetan town, investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. MPS 25.99
Bill Pronzini - Violated. In Echo Park, in Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. MPS 26.00
Daniel Pyne - Catalina Eddy.
A collection of three loosely connected crime novellas, each set in a distinct era. PUT 27.00
Tom Rosenstiel - Shining City. Peter Rena and his partner, Randi Brooks, get their biggest job yet when the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme Court. HC 26.99
Annelise Ryan - Dead in the Water.
Deputy coroner Mattie Winston,
investigator working for the medical examiner's office in small-town Sorenson, Wisconsin, is called when a body is found trapped against a dam with his throat slashed, turns out to be newest staff member in the ME's office. ZEB 25.00
Emelie Schepp - Marked for Revenge. When a Thai girl overdoses smuggling drugs, the trail points to Danillo, the one criminal MMA-trained public prosecutor Jana Berzelius most wants to destroy. HC 26.99
Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer The Will to Kill. Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. RH 27.99
Chevy Stevens - Never Let You Go.
Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped with her young daughter, leaving an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband was sent to jail. When he is released from prison, Lindsey senses someone is watching her, tracking her every move. MPS 26.99
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M. J. Carter - Infidel Stain.
London 1841. A shocking series of murders in the world of London's gutter press forces Jeremiah Blake and William Avery back together after time and distance weakened the close bond between them. 16.00
Clive Cussler - Cutthroat.The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency is hired to find a young woman who ran away from home to become an actress. PUT 29.00 - Gangster. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree of kidnapping, extortion and arson. When a group of the Black Hand's victims hire the Van Dorn agency to protect their businesses, Detective Isaac Bell forms a crack squad and begins scouring the city for clues. 9.99
Phillip DePoy - English Agent.
In 1583, young Christopher Marlowe, student, brawler, rakehell, and would-be playwright, has had a dreadful evening. The first performance of his play in a disreputable Cambridge bar is a flop, and then he's attacked while in the company of Thomas Kyd. MPS 26.00
David Downing - Lenin's Roller Coaster.
Winter 1917. British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission deep in Central Asia, where German influence is strong. SO 27.95
Lindsay Faye - Jane Steele. A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. 16.00
Alan Furst - Hero of France. 1941. In Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. 16.00
C. S. Harris - When Falcons Fall. Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. 15.00
Philip Kerr - Other Side of Silence.
1956.
The war is over and Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is living on the French Riviera and is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat where the richest and most famous living writer in the world, W. Somerset Maugham, is being blackmailed. 16.00
Ian McGuire - North Water. Henry Drax is a harpooner on a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage. 16.00
Renee Patrick - Design for Dying. Los Angeles.1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. 15.99
Cathy Pegau - Murder on Location. In the Alaska Territory, suffragette Charlotte Brody is a newspaper reporter in the frontier town of Cordova. She's a woman ahead of her time living on the rugged edge of civilization, but right now the most dangerous element she faces may come from sunny California. 15.00
Anne Perry - Murder on the Serpentine.
It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons, so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queen's confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. RH 28.00
- Treachery at Lancaster Gate. When an explosion in London kills two policemen and seriously injures three more, many believe that anarchists are the culprits. But Thomas Pitt, commander of Special Branch, knows the city's radical groups well enough to suspect that someone with decidedly more personal motives lit the deadly fuse. 16.00
Bill Schutt - Hell's Gate. 1944. As war rages across Europe and the Pacific, Army intel makes a shocking discovery: a three-hundred-foot Japanese submarine marooned and empty, deep in the Brazilian interior. 9.99
Jacqueline Winspear - In This Grave Hour.
Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. HC 27.99
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New Nonfiction in March
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Tobias Anthony - Very Modern Dictionary.
Trouble negotiating the modern world with all these newfangled words and phrases? Communicating in the modern world is hard. Let us be your guide. RH 12.95
Jerome F. Buting - Illusion of Justice. Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. HC 27.99
Erika Janik - Pistols and Petticoats. An exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years. 18.00
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New Paperbacks in March
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Winnie Archer - Kneaded to Death.
Struggling photographer Ivy Culpepper enters a bread making class at Yeast of Eden and feels an instant connection with owner Olaya Solis. But Ivy's spirits crumble when a missing classmate is discovered dead in her car and Olaya Solis is the prime suspect.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Till Death.
A young woman comes home to reclaim her life even as a murderer plots to end it.
9.99
David Baldacci - Last Mile. Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is in the last hours before his execution for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier when another man confesses to the crime. 9.99
M.C. Beaton - Death of a Nurse.
James Harrison and private nurse Gloria Dainty recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland. Hamish Macbeth welcomes them to the neighborhood but Harrison is rude to him. A few days later, Gloria's body washes up on the beach. 7.99
Louis Begley - Kill and be Killed.
Jack Dana, former Marine Corps officer turned novelist, continues his quest to avenge his murdered uncle. 16.00
Samuel Bjork - I'm Traveling Alone.
A six-year-old girl is found in the countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer-and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit re-opens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Kruger, who has been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past. When Mia views a photograph of the crime scene and spots the number "1" carved into the dead girl's fingernail, she knows this is only the beginning. Could this killer have something to do with a missing child, abducted six years ago and never found, or with the reclusive religious community hidden in the nearby woods? Mia returns to duty to track down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer. But when Munch's own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, Mia realizes that the killer's sinister game is personal, and I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive-and shocking-conclusion.
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International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer-and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime
A six-year-old girl is found in the countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit re-opens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Kruger, who has been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past. When Mia views a photograph of the crime scene and spots the number "1" carved into the dead girl's fingernail, she knows this is only the beginning. Could this killer have something to do with a missing child, abducted six years ago and never found, or with the reclusive religious community hidden in the nearby woods? Mia returns to duty to track down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer. But when Munch's own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, Mia realizes that the killer's sinister game is personal, and I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive-and shocking-conclusion.
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Bethany Blake - Death by Chocolate Lab.
Daphne Templeton investigates the murder of Steve Beamus, the controversial owner of Blue Ribbon K-9 Academy. At the top of the suspect list is Daphne's sister, Piper, Steve's latest wronged girlfriend. 7.99
Laura Bradford - Silence of the Flans.
Baker Winnie Johnson, owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, has a deft touch in the kitchen and a soft spot for lost causes. 7.99
Allison Brennan - Make Them Pay. Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan are two weeks away from their wedding when Eden, Sean's estranged sister, shows up saying she's in town for the wedding and wants to mend fences. Lucy's boss, SSA Noah Armstrong, begins a quiet investigation of Eden and her elusive twin, Liam. He's certain that, since they're both thieves and they're here for a job. 7.99
Lynn Cahoon - Fatality by Firelight. Cat Latimer's Colorado bed-and-breakfast plays host to writers from all over. But murder is distinctly unwelcome. 7.99
Laura Childs - Devonshire Scream. Catering a trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. But, the party is crashed by a gang of masked muggers who steal the precious gems on display and disappear leaving a dead body in their wake. 7.99
Janet Evanovich - Pursuit. Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. 8.99
T. Greenwood - Golden Hour. Wyn Davies paints commissioned canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. Robby Rousseau, who has spent the past two decades in prison for a terrible crime against her, may be released based on new DNA evidence unless Wyn breaks her silence about what happened. 15.00
Beth Gutcheon - Death at Breakfast. Set in small-town New England, this is a stylish and witty mystery series featuring a pair of unlikely investigators. 14.99
Jane Haseldine - Last Time She Saw Him. A reporter searching for her kidnapped son must untangle the connection to her brother's long-ago disappearance. 9.99
Lisa Jackson - Expecting to Die. For some, the menacing woods of Grizzly Falls, Montana, is the perfect setting for partying and pranks. But among the tangled trees lurks a killer with a different kind of game in mind. 9.99
Pam Jenoff - Orphan's Tale. Sixteen-year-old Noa became pregnant by a Nazi soldier and was forced to give up her baby. When she discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. 15.99
Iris Johansen - Night and Day. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want to kill her. Now Eve is their next target. 8.99
Lene Kaaberbøl - Considerate Killer. Nina Borg and her husband traveled to a beach resort in the Philippines for a dream vacation. Six months later she is attacked outside the grocery store. 16.95
Kelly Lane - Cold Pressed Murder. Eva Knox and the residents of Knox Plantation are excited about the activities planned for the Farm Family Fare. But the enthusiasm evaporates after one of the star chefs is found dead in a refrigerated truck. 7.99
Christine Lennon - Drifter. For two decades, Elizabeth has tried to escape the ghosts of her past. But twenty years after graduating from the University of Florida, she is forced to confront the past. 14.99
Donna Leon - Waters of Eternal Youth. Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal. She was pulled from the water by an alcoholic but she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her unable to learn or mature. The girl's wealthy and aristocratic grandmother asks Brunetti if he will investigate. 16.00
Kylie Logan - Gone with the Twins.
In South Bass Island on Lake Erie, ambitious twins are causing double trouble for the League of Literary Ladies. 7.99
Stuart Macbride - In the Cold Dark Ground. Sergeant Logan McRae's team finds a body dumped in the woods, but is it the missing businessman they've been searching for, or something far more sinister? 15.99
Jason Matthews - Palace of Treason. Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service is secretly working for the CIA. Her "sparrow" training in the art of sexual espionage further complicates the mortal risks she must take. 16.99
Maggie McConnon - Bel of the Brawl. Wedding planner Bel McGrath loves her work as a wedding chef. But with her latest event set to take place at Shamrock Manor, she just can't seem to catch a break. The Casey wedding has left her with ten thousand greenbacks in the hole, a missing staff member, and a dead groom. 7.99
Adrian McKinty - Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly. Belfast 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet. 15.95
Denise Mina - Blood Salt Water.
Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna Fuentecilla, a gorgeous Spanish woman who recently relocated to Glasgow under mysterious circumstances. She is also Morrow's prime suspect in an investigation that resembles a soap opera until Roxanna vanishes. 15.99
Karim Miske - Arab Jazz. The 19th arrondissement in Paris has all the trappings of a cosmopolitan melting pot where multiethnic citizens live, love, and worship alongside one another. But dark passions are brewing beneath the idyllic vision of peacefully coexisting ethnicities. 16.99
Kevin O'Brien - Only Son.
Amy McMurray runs from her car to the cash machine and in that brief minute her infant son is snatched from the back seat. 9.99
Chris Ould - Killing Bay.
When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high and a woman is found murdered.14.95
T. Jefferson Parker - Crazy Blood.
The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. The town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, patriarch Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history. 16.99
Nora Roberts - Obsession. Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. 17.00
Peter Robinson - Bad Boy.
A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. She had found a loaded gun hidden in her daughter's bedroom. 15.99
Michael Robotham - Close Your Eyes. When a former student bungles a murder investigation, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin must face a ruthless killer. 15.99
Sara Rosett - Marriage Monsters-in-Law and Murder. After agreeing to help plan her sister-in-law Summer's destination wedding on one of Georgia's beautiful barrier islands, organizer Ellie Avery finds her biggest challenge is to prevent two mothers-in-law from killing each other. 7.99
Lisa Scottoline - Most Wanted.
Christine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate for a baby and find themselves facing a difficult choice. 15.99
Daniel Silva - Black Widow. Gabriel Allon is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, ISIS detonates a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible. 9.99
Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Old Lady. Maigret takes a case from a lively old widow whose maid has been poisoned. 12.00
Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer Murder Never Knocks. A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up and lands him an unlikely job. 7.99
Peter Straub - Interior Darkness: Selected Stories. Peter Straub explores the deepest, shadow-filled corners of his imagination featuring damaged people, from the righteous to the depraved, from the working class to the wealthy. 16.95
Anton Svensson - Father.
This book is inspired by the true story of three brothers who committed ten bank robberies in Sweden over the course of two years. 16.99
Paul Tremblay - Disappearance at Devil's Rock.
A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy 14.99
Fred Vargas - Climate of Fear. A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. 16.00
Robin Wasserman - Girls on Fire. On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand. 15.99
Debra Webb - No Darker Place. Detective Bobbie Gentry's objective is to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child and her life. 9.99
Randy Wayne White - Deep Blue.
On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. 9.99
Linda Wiken - Roux of the Day. Event planner Jennifer "J.J." Tanner is planning a cruise ship casino night but the party comes to a screeching halt when TV personality Miranda Myers is found dead on the main deck. 7.99
Stuart Woods. Dishonorable Intentions.
Stone Barrington's latest lady friend is a sensual woman with unexpected desires. But she has some unfinished business with a temperamental man who believes Stone is an intolerable obstacle in the way of his goals. 9.99
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Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore Newsletter
Publisher- Joanne Sinchuk
Editor- Stephanie Saxon Levine
Contributors-
Cheryl Kravetz, Stephanie Saxon Levine, Stacey Schwartz, Joanne Sinchuk, Sue Wilder, and David Wulf
A Murder on the Beach Publication
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