A Trio of Legends (Box, Brown, Parker) and a Trio for Romance Readers |
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Hi there,
Well it's lucky 13 today which means it's also
CJ Box and T Jefferson Parker tonight. Two fishing buddies... Join us at 7 PM
EXTRA Parking is half a block east at Arcadia Farms, or to the north of our lot and also to the south alongside Grazie.
Last Saturday we had a lively time discussing 5 day travel from London to Kenya, wardrobes, bad behavior and wife swapping confronting the honeymooners Lady Georgie (golly!) and Darcy, Colonial British attitudes, and the murder.... Serving animal crackers was a nice touch, no?
Here's
Rhys with fellow authors (left to right)
Jenn McKinlay, Paige Shelton, Judith Starkston, and Donis Casey. Rhys' scarf is a nice African touch.
Here's a reminder again that you can listen to our podcasts on Google or on iTunes or
on Podbean. The most recent is one I recorded with Rhys on August 10 which previews her February 2020 book.
Check Rhys and other authors on our YouTube Channel and on Facebook Live As he gets time Patrick is migrating older Livestream videos to You Tube. There is a trove of gems there to unearth for you.
The FBL videos are in chronological order. Please note the YouTube videos are not in date sequence. Just click on the right arrow to access more.
Do check our BLOG. Lesa has done a great post on a book of all of our hearts here, Robert Pobi's City of Windows!! We can't recommend it highly enough for action, character, and the chase after the.... no spoilers here. It's a one-sitting chiller.
And enjoy our other media like Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. Plus Facebook.
Much love to our social media team getting a boost from Rob.
Barbara and all The Pens
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The August Booknews
Staff Picks, Paperback Picks, New Books Lists
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Please note I made one goof too late to correct: the September Ann Cleeves title that is our September British Crime Book of the Month is
The Long Call, a new series start, not the last Shetland mystery.
Do browse our
Web Store . New additions are frequently made to upcoming books and events. I've added loads of titles to Coming Soon... a very big fall looms.
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See It Here. Buy It Here.
Thank you for your business. I remind all of you reading this, that it only takes buying one book a month by each of you to keep us here!
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Our August Books of the Month
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AUGUST BOOKS OF THE MONTH
British Crime Club
One unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
Cozy Crimes Club
One unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
Discovery Club
One paperback or hardcover per month
The best book we could not get signed this year (he's Canadian)
First Mystery Club
One Signed First per month
Think Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair but Dickens, not Bronte, a truly imaginative delight set in and coming from New Zealand
Hardboiled Crime Club
One signed First per month
History/Mystery Club
One Signed First per month
Obreht, Tea. Inland (Random $27)
Arizona Territory 1893
History Paperback
One per month
Modern First Editions
One Signed First per month
SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Club
One Signed First per month
A Don't Miss It -- 1984 for today
Surprise Me! Club
One Signed First Per Month
Thriller Club
One Signed First per month
A legal thriller... with the killer on the jury
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CJ Box
T Jefferson Parker
Tonight 7:00 PM
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Our copies of both books come with photos of these two buddies fishing, each book a different photo
And what do the two books have in common? It's the women!
TUESDAY AUGUST 13 7:00 PM
In this outstanding novel from Edgar winner Box, erstwhile police officer Cassie Dewell, last seen in 2017's Paradise Valley ($9.99), has rebooted her career and become a PI in Montana. A single mother, Cassie sometimes has to take work where she finds it, but her alarm bells go off when attorney Rachel Mitchell offers her a dubious assignment: investigating the arrest of millionaire Blake Kleinsasser, who has been charged with raping his 15-year-old niece, Franny Porché. The black sheep of his wealthy ranching family, Blake admits he was too drunk that night to remember whether he attacked Franny. Thus, gathering evidence that could clear Blake will be a huge challenge.
Box remains at the top of his game.
Patrick, making this the August Hardboiled Crime Club Pick, says, "One of our finest crime writers, Parker never rests on his laurels and is consistently raises the bar for himself. The new novel featuring Private Investigator Roland Ford is a stunner, exploring difficult questions about our troubled, divisive times and keeping it soulful and real."
28-year-old Penelope Rideout, whose parents died 10 years earlier in a car crash, hires PI Roland Ford to locate her missing 14-year-old sister, Daley, who has a "wild streak." Soon Ford finds Nick shot to death. The ensuing search for Daley involves a megachurch and its charismatic pastor, an unusually secretive private security firm, and a decommissioned nuclear power plant.
Parker seamlessly integrates the backstories of Daley and Penelope while interspersing Ford's ruminations on his own troubled life .
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Sandra Brown
Thursday 7:00 PM
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THURSDAY AUGUST 15 7:00 PM
Feel free to come at the last minute. We put in tickets to avoid standees or fans in the parking lot.
Sandra Brown
signs
Outfox
(Grand Central $27)
Brown once again shows that why she remains at the top of the suspense field. We are excited that she is making her first formal signing at The Pen. And I add that I was puzzled about aspects of this book until I hit the end... when Brown reveals what's really going on. Masterful. Pretty good sex too.
FBI special agent Drex Easton is obsessed with catching a serial killer who has preyed on wealthy single women for more than 30 years. The cunning murderer, who uses various aliases, leaves no clues behind, only missing women and empty bank accounts. A lead takes Drex and his team to Mount Pleasant, S.C., where he poses as the new neighbor of the suspected killer, now using the name Jasper Ford, who has a beautiful, much younger wife, Talia Shafer. Drex wants to find out whether Talia knows Jasper is a killer, but in the process he falls helplessly in love with her. In a further complication, another FBI agent, who hates Drex and wants to discredit him, tries to shut down the case. Drex sets a trap for Jasper, but his weakness for Talia threatens its success and the lives of his fellow agents.
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Official Romance Day
Join us at 2:00 PM
Selected Giveaways & Treats
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SATURDAY AUGUST 17 2:00 PM
Official Romance Day
John will be handing out giveaways to those attending who buy one of the books (we give you a number for the signing line)
Heather Redmond
signs
Grave Expectations
(Kensington $26)
Set in London in the summer of 1835, this clever reimagining of Charles Dickens's life, journalist Dickens is looking forward to his wedding to Kate Hogarth. Realizing that he has not seen his upstairs neighbor, Miss Haverstock, in several days, Charles takes Kate for a visit. In her rooms, the couple discovers the elderly spinster murdered. Two convicts have recently escaped from a nearby prison, and the neighborhood has suffered a rash of burglaries, leading Charles to suspect a fairly routine crime. Kate insists that the staging of the body-Miss Haverstock is wearing a yellowed wedding gown and a corkscrew is buried in her neck-indicates a complex personal motive instead. Second for this series after
A Tale of Two Murders
($15.95). Clearly the titles play on Dickens' novels.
Cora Larsen is well known on Regent Street where she creates dresses that are "the toast of the Season." She is a gifted maker of men's suits too, not that many Victorians are willing to have a woman take their
measurements. Lord Galavyin believes in marrying for love, not convenience and refuses to consider an arranged marriage. One day, he walks through Cora's door to collect a dress and is smitten with her forward-thinking social ideals. But, despite their growing friendship, he cannot persuade Cora to ignore the difference in their status and address him by his first name-Grant. When Cora loses the lease on her shop, she thinks it is simply a coincidence that the building belongs to Grant's family. She doesn't yet know she is in love with a man whose mother is the worst enemy one can imagine. Grant will do anything to keep Cora safe and employed, even if it takes helping her without her knowledge. What follows is a game of cat and mouse that will test Cora's resolve and Grant's love to their limits. (Calling him "Grant" is IMHO a false note for this period)
Family scandal drove Declan Sinclair into exile years ago. Now he's called home, devastated to discover his brother has been murdered, making Declan the new Duke of Darington. As he tries to unravel what happened to his brother, the clues point to the man he blames for his exile. Declan resolves to ruin the culprit. If only the daughter of the man's business partner, lovely Lady Alethea Swinton, didn't tempt his resolve. Lady Alethea has cultivated her pristine reputation in the hopes of winning her father's praise. When her childhood friend returns, Alethea finds she's willing to court scandal and defy her father to help the handsome Duke uncover the truth behind his brother's death. But his redemption would mean her family's ruin...
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More Ticketed Events
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SATURDAY AUGUST 24 2:00 PM
Extra copies of both will be for sale. True Crime podcaster Jensen has so many fans we can't risk having anyone out in the parking lot in the heat.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19 7:00 PM
THURSDAY OCTOBER 3 7:00 PM
Our 30th Birthday!
Joe Hill in conversation with Leslie S. Klinger
and introducing the Haunted Library Series debuting in January
Klinger signs
The New Annotated H P Lovecraft:Beyond Arkham
(Norton $39.95)
Can't attend? Please order books in the usual way.
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Classic Crimes for August
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British Library Crime Classics
"Never make trouble in the village." You may know about your neighbor's sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It'd make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble. When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first, they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets-envy, hatred, and malice. Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children's home, is a saint-but then her body is found drowned in the mill-race, and the villagers do their best to keep their dark secrets to themselves...
A belated PW Starred Review: "In this ingenious reissue in the British Library Crime Classics series first published in 1950 from Gilbert (1912-2006), Henry Bohun starts work at the London law firm of Horniman, Birley and Craine at an unusually dramatic time. A month before his first day, firm founder Abel Horniman, a stickler for organization, was found dead at his desk, pen in hand. Horniman's son, Bob, who's catching up with correspondence, finds a letter relating to client Marcus Smallbone from another law office that was trying to contact him in connection with a trust. But when the sealed box that was supposed to contain the documents relating to that trust was opened, Smallbone's corpse was found instead. Chief Inspector Hazlerigg, who has worked with a friend of Bohun's, hopes that Bohun will be able to provide him with insider information-though his superior warns Hazlerigg not to be "like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen." Gilbert expertly combines fairly planted clues and self-referential humor. Well-drawn personalities and plausible twists are additional pluses. This high-quality whodunit deserves a wide readership."
Others:
Most of Bagley's nifty thrillers were still in print when I opened The Pen in 1989. I'm glad to see some filtering back. Here Tom Mangan was a sharply successful entrepreneur who lured the super-rich to his luxury hotels in the sun-soaked Bahamas. Then violent tragedy struck: his own family disappeared, and a series of misfortunes, accidents and mysterious epidemics began to drive the tourists away and wreck Mangan's livelihood. Fatally, he becomes determined to confront his enemy - and the hunt is on... This is a little hardcover edition.
The Teahouse Detective, Volume 2. "Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation," says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young Polly Burton of the Evening Observer, in the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street one afternoon. Once she has forgiven him for distracting her from her newspaper and luncheon, Miss Burton discovers that her interlocutor is as brilliantly gifted as he is eccentric: able to solve mysteries that have made headlines and baffled the finest minds of the police without once leaving his seat in the teahouse.
Start with
The Old Man in the Corner
($14.95), the first collection of mysteries featuring the Teahouse Detective-a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes, with a brilliant mind and waspish temperament to match that of Conan Doyle's creation. Golden Age mysteries from the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Our August Calendar
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TUESDAY AUGUST 13 7:00 PM
Cassie Dewell
PI Roland Ford
Our copies of both books come with photos of these two buddies fishing, each book a different photo
THURSDAY AUGUST 15 7:00 PM
Sandra Brown
signs
Outfox
(Grand Central $27)
SATURDAY AUGUST 17 2:00 PM
Official Romance Day
TUESDAY AUGUST 20 7:00 PM
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
sign
Old Bones
(Grand Central $28)
Nora Kelly #1 Signed by both authors
Lincoln Child participates by Skype
Preorders accepted now as we often sell out
THURSDAY AUGUST 22 7:00 PM
Steve Cavanagh
signs
Thirteen
(Flatiron $26.99)
Lawyer Eddie Flynn in a sensational legal thriller
FRIDAY AUGUST 23 7:00 PM
NEW: TICKETS
SATURDAY AUGUST 24 2:00 PM
Extra copies of both will be for sale
MONDAY AUGUST 26 7:00 PM
FRIDAY AUGUST 30 7:00 PM
Will Trent
AUGUST DISCUSSION CLUBS
Coffee & Crime
: No Meeting
SciFi Friday
: August 16 7:00 PM
Croak & Dagger
: Saturday August 17 10:30 AM
Hardboiled Crime:
Thursday August 29 7:00 PM
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Our September Calendar
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 3 7:00 PM
Coonts will be joined by 3 former CIA agents turned authors
Dave Austin signs Tehran's Vengeance ($12/99)
Thomas Pecora signs
Guardian
: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror (Post Hill Press $27.99)
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5 7:00 PM
A coming of age story; think Huck Finn
Our copies come with an extra written by Kent just for you
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7 2:00 PM
A Library Lovers Mystery
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9 7:00 PM
Poisoned Pen Press Party with giveaways and treats
American forensics specialist in New Zealand
Reporter Geneva Chase
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16 7:00 PM
WWII New York City thriller
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17 7:00 PM Book Launch
A thriller
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 7:00 PM
Wow!
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19 7:00 PM
Ticketed Event
$32 admits one with one book; $37 admits two with one book
Sheriff Walt Longmire
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23 7:00 PM
Justice Flanagan 1803 New York City
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 7:00 PM
Publication Party for James Sallis
Lydia Chin & Bill Smith
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 7:00 PM
Suspense based on a true story of a Downs child
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 7:00 PM
Mitch Rapp
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28 2:00 PM Mystery Tea
Mary Anna Evans
signs
Catacombs (Sourcebooks $26.95 and $15.95)
Faye Longchamp Archaeology Mysteries
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29 2:00 PM
Poisoned Pen Press Party with giveaways and treats
Warren Easley
signs
No Way to Die (Sourcebooks $26.95 and $15.95)
Lawyer Cal Claxton Oregon Mysteries
Psychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldo
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 30 7:00 PM Book Launch
Our copies come with an exclusive custome-designed extra that fits
The Body in the Library of Virgil Flowers #12
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2 7:00 PM
JP Beaumont
OFFICIAL 30th BIRTHDAY PARTY
TICKETED EVENT Limited to 150
Reception at Arcadia Farms Catering 6:00 PM
Program 7:00 PM
SEPTEMBER DISCUSSION CLUBS
Please buy your copy from The Pen. Anyone welcome but remember you risk spoilers if you don't read the selection in advance
Coffee & Crime
: Saturday September 14 10:30 AM
SciFi Friday
: September 20 7:00 PM
Croak & Dagger
: Saturday September 21 10:30 AM
Hardboiled Crime:
Wednesday September 25 7:00 PM
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Summer Reading Challenge via Libro.fm
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It's easy, just visit our webstore and search for the title you're interested in.
If Libro.fm has it available you'll see a new
Buy The Audiobook button on the same page where you order the book.
More info from
Libro.fm can be found by clicking on the link.
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Parking, Drinks & Dining
and a generous offer from Arcadia Farms Cafe
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We suggest when you can you come early to The Pen (chairs go down around 5:00 PM or 1:00 PM for afternoon events), reserve your seat(s), and explore our vibrant Old Town Scottsdale neighborhood.
Parking is more difficult sometimes because of the restaurants (editorial comment -- the City of Scottsdale's parking policies suck!).
We've given you locations beyond our parking lot.
Good News: Arcadia Farms Cafe has generously offered us its parking for evening events when needed. You can also park just south of our lot between the alley and Main Street.
One reason we don't have a cafe or bar in The Pen is there isn't enough dedicated parking to allow one.
Enjoy --there are all sorts of food and beverages on offer.
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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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