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The Poisoned Pen

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Scottsdale, AZ

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SIGNED BOOKS FOR YOU
PLEASE PREORDER
where not in stock
Click on the title to order
especially for UK books

NUMA Files
Virtual with Brown March 8 6:00 PM
Short inscription requests due March 6

Cotton Malone
Virtual Launch Feb. 23
our copies include something special

IQ
Virtual February 24 7 PM

A WWII story
Virtual February 25 1 PM

Charles Lennox in 1878 Newport
Virtual February 25 6 PM

CJ Box
Virtual Launch March 1
6:00 PM
5 word personalizations ok
if ordered by Feb. 24
Lady Emily
Virtual March 2 6:00 PM

Veronica Speedwell as a kind of Rudolph Rassendyll
Virtual March 2 6:00 PM

Smith College women go to war in 1917
Virtual March 6 2:15 PM with Karen White & Beatriz Williams

Venice's Brunetti
National Virtual Book Launch March 9 1 PM
Purchase required to attend

Maine thriller
in stock now

Our February SciFi/Fantasy Book of the Month
just 4 left in stock

Inspector Ian Rutledge in Wales/Shrewsbury
due in early next week

The Gray Man
in stock now
Missing and Endangered
Sheriff Joanna Brady
Bisbee, AZ
in stock now

A Tip for the Hangman
Christopher Marlowe
due in next week

UK edition
2 left in stock

The Fortunate Ones
A modern Gatsby set in Nashville, TN
in stock now

Archaeologist Ruth Galloway
Due in late February
Liam Campbell #5 at last
in stock now

The Treadstone Exile
Book #2 by Hood
Hyper action!
in stock now

set in Tasmania
Bookplates for the US edition in stock now
The link will show you the 
Our January First Mystery Book of the Month
due in this week
For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing

The Missing American
Meet Emma Djan
A brand new Edgar nominee
We were able to grab more signed stock for this series start recommended by Connelly

Sleep Well, My Lady
Emma Djan #2
Our International Crime Book of the Month
 left in stock
Orphan X
8 left in stock
The Shadow Box
Astonishing double art work: dust jacket and book Boards
in stock now
The Lost Boys
Decker & Lazarus
in stock now
Click on the title to order
especially for UK books
Set in Boston, now we know it starts a series! so don't miss out on a signed first
in stock now

Victorian Mystery
in stock now

in stock now
Carpenter & Quincannon
4 left in stock
Nora Kelly
Signed by both Authors
Comes with fab photo of Doug on horseback
In stock now
American Traitor
Pike Logan & Co
Exciting Taiwan background
in stock now
 
Poems
in stock now
Hi

We've missed seeing you and are thrilled to be reopening tomorrow, Saturday, February 20

Our hours will be more limited to protect the more at-risk member of The Pen's staff. We appreciate your understanding of this and of the protocols we will follow which are reasonably standard.

Scottsdale is under a mask mandate so that is a key requirement.

HOURS:
Mon-Fri 2:00 - 6:00 PM
Sat. 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sun.: 12:00- 5:00 PM Curbside pickup only!

Please come masked. Please do not come if you are feeling unwell but instead choose curbside pickup.
Please use hand sanitizer on arrival. Gloves are available.
Limited to SIX persons at a time. The Pen is not a large retail space.
Please enter through the front door, not the side doors.
No public restroom
Cashless transactions preferred
Please be patient and considerate. If waiting for admittance there is shelter under the overhang

The text below is hard to read but is the same as above. I love seeing this outside The Pen!



There are a number of big books coming up where demand may exceed supply. Please order early. Note that the Donna Leon National Book Launch requires the purchase of a copy of Transient Desires to receive the zoom invitation. This will be her first ever event at The Pen -- super exciting.

Thank you as ever for your interest and support. Stay safe, stay well, and keep reading!.

Barbara and The Pens

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Thank you for supporting The Poisoned Pen since 1989, frequently named Best Specialty Bookstore by the New Times and by the Arizona Republic, one of 45 Great American Indie Bookstores 2013; Best Locally Owned and Operated Business: Scottsdale and more....
Signed Books to Order Now!

Berry, Steve. The Kaiser's Web (St Martins $28.99)
Signed books arriving from Steve with custom insert available

Box, CJ. Dark Sky (Putnam $27.99)
CJ is signing them here, short personalization requests accepted no later than End of Day February 24. Too late after that.

Coben, Harlan. Win (Grand Central $29)
Coming direct from Harlan. Windsor Horne Lockwood's first full thriller.

Cussler, Clive/Graham Brown. Fast Ice (Putnam $29)
NUMA Files. Graham's last full collaboration with Clive.
Brown is signing it here. Short personalization requests accepted no later then End of Day March 6.

Leon, Donna. Transient Desires (Grove $27) Commissario Guido Brunetti
The purchase of a copy is your entry to the conversation with Leon on Tuesday March 9 at 1:00 PM MST. The signed UK edition works too:  Transient Desires (Heinemann $42)
The supply of both is limited so please act now!
The February MidMonth BookNotes and a Second February Booknews

Here is the link to the FEBRUARY BOOKNOTES

John has filled it with many books not in the two February Booknewses. Enjoy

Here is the link to the second FEBRUARY BOOKNEWS
Don't forget to review the Valentine Booknews as well.

And use the share feature with both to reach out to readers you know.
Our Podcast Library Keeps Growing
Visit our  Podcasts Almost 68,000 downloads show your interest

Easy download links are provided. They are also available on ITunes and Google Music

Enjoy conversations from our storied past:

AND more new conversations: 

Charles Todd

The 7 Jungle Red Authors

Reece Witherspoon Book Club Pick and debut author Sarah Pearse with Jayne Anne Krentz

Julie Carrick Dalton, author of our January First Mystery Book of the Month

Mark Greaney with Friends Don Bentley, Marc Cameron, Jack Carr, Joshua Hood, Brad Taylor

JA Jance (on Bisbee)

Debut historical fiction author Ellison Epstein with Susanna Calkins
Buy Audio Books from The Pen Highlighting Black History Month now
We have a partnership with Libro.fm

Your purchase of audio books results in a small income stream to the bookstore so we very much appreciate it.

They do frequent specials and update available audios. Right now you can listen to selections for Black History Month


Tips on our Virtual Events
The times listed are Mountain Standard Time.

Here is the link to view them on Facebook Live
We try to start them on time at the hour posted. You can sign it a bit early and wait for it to start. Or join later.

You can watch them in real time and comment if you do belong to FB. And you can watch them later at any time that is convenient.

You can listen to them in a subsequent podcast

Here's the link to our You Tube channel 

The Videos go back for some years. Watch those posted to You Tube on your Smart TV. It's a nice change from a small screen

A Special Event with William Kent Krueger
February 27
Don't Miss this
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 1:00 PM
East Mesa AAUW Luncheon featuring Kent Krueger in conversation with me. Such fun

$5 per ticket for admission, part of which goes to the AAUW Scholarship Fund

Sign up HERE


Joanne Fluke
Virtual Event Sunday 2:00 PM
Live signing only
2:30 PM
(Chocolate treat provided)
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21 2:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Joanne Fluke discusses Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder (Kensington $27)

The program will be virtual and not open to the public

At 2:30 PM join us in our parking lot for a masked and distanced signing -- and complementary chocolate treat being baked even now as I write this. Yum!

The program will be virtual and not open to the public
Signed books available
 
Hannah Swensen's up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother's penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea-Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered and she's the prime suspect. Even with his reputation for being a bully, Mayor Bascomb-or "Ricky Ticky," as Hannah's mother likes to call him-had been unusually testy in the days leading up to his death, leaving Hannah to wonder if he knew he was in danger. 

Meanwhile, folks with a motive for mayoral murder are popping up in Lake Eden. Was it a beleaguered colleague? A political rival? A jealous wife? Or a scorned mistress? As orders pile up at The Cookie Jar-and children line up for Easter egg hunts-Hannah springs into investigation mode....
Iceland's Yrsa Sigurdardottir with Karin Slaughter
Monday 1:00 PM
MONDAY FEBRUARY 22 1:00 PM
Iceland's Yrsa Sigurdardottir in conversation with Karin Slaughter
No book, just fun

UK's Russ Thomas with Andrew Grant (Child)
National Virtual Book Launch
Tuesday 1:00 PM
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 1:00 PM
Russ Thomas in discussion with Andrew Child (Grant)
Thomas discusses Nighthawking (Putnam $26)
Sheffield DS Adam Tyler
Our British Crime Book of the Month

There will be a Signed UK edition of Nighthawking available in April.

"The discovery of a young woman's body buried in the sprawling Botanical Gardens of Sheffield, England, drives Thomas's outstanding sequel to 2020's Firewatching which introduced DS Adam Tyler. The victim-a Chinese national studying botany at the local university-was found with ancient Roman coins on her eyes, historically valuable artifacts worth a lot of money. 

Tyler, struggling to get the wreckage of his personal life in order and still obsessed about finding out the truth of his father's alleged suicide, offers little help as the brunt of the work falls to Tyler's newly promoted protégé, DC Constable Mina Rabbani, who realizes quickly that the case involves much more than a simple buried body. 

Thomas adeptly develops his diverse cast, but the novel's real power lies in its intricate structure-the mystery surrounding the body is impressively deep, the various levels of tension are relentless, and every chapter ends with a narrative punch to the face. This police procedural is virtually unputdownable."-- PW Starred Review

Grant, who is familiar with Sheffield (and we hope hard at work on a new Reacher for fall), chats with Thomas, a charmer who visited The Pen last year before COVID shut us down.

Steve Berry
National Virtual Book Launch
Tuesday 6:00 PM
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Steve Berry discusses The Kaiser's Web (St Martins $28.99)

Signed books with custom insert available designed by Berry's graphic team 

A secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history - it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe. 

Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day - April 30, 1945 - and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. 

Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin Bormann, Hitler's close confidant, manage to escape? And, even more important, where did billions in Nazi wealth disappear to in the waning days of World War II? The answers to these questions will determine who becomes the next Chancellor of Germany. 

This premise allows Berry to tour you around the globe with Cotton Malone, from Bavaria to the Chilean Lake District which is still a Bavarian enclave, on to South Africa and then into secret vaults in Switzerland.... With the rise of the right in Germany and elsewhere, and the possibility of Merkel's retirement, this is both historical and timely
Our February Books of the Month
Please remember: we read all the book club books BEFORE we select them for each month. No algorithms are at work here, just dedicated readers and  booksellers.

Email Karen@poisonedpen.com to join or with questions. It's never too late to sign up for an exciting mystery box. 

OUR FEBRUARY BOOKS OF THE MONTH
The Crime Book of the Month One Signed hardcover First per month
Berenson, Alex. The Power Couple
 
British Crime Book of the Month One unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
Thomas, Russ. Nighthawking
 
Cozy Crimes Book of the Month One unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
 
Fantastic New Fiction Book of the Month One Signed hardcover First per month
Tarkington, Ed. The Fortunate Ones
 
First Mystery Book of the Month Club One Signed hardcover First per month
Pearse, Sarah. The Sanatorium  we are advised by our London colleagues this book will deliver late thanks to COVID restrictions so it is now the MARCH book. Alexandra Andrews' Who Is Maud Dixon becomes our February book of the Month
 
Historical Fiction Book of the MonthOne Signed hardcover First per month
Epstein, Allison. A Tip for the Hangman
 
International Crime Book of the Month One Unsigned hardcover or paperback per month
Raman, RV. A Will to Kill
 
SciFi/Fantasy Book of the Month One hardcover or paperback per month signed when possible
Frey, Dan. The Future Is Yours  signed  just 4 left

Our REVISED February Calendar

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 7:00 PM
SciFi Friday discusses Alix Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January
($16.99)
 
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20 10:30 AM
Croak & Dagger discuss Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead ($17.99)
 
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21 2:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Joanne Fluke discusses Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder (Kensington $27)
Minnesota baker Hannah Swensen

REVISED: At 2:30 PM join us in our parking lot for a masked and distanced signing
The program will be virtual and not open to the public
Signed books available
 
NEW: MONDAY FEBRUARY 22 1:00 PM
Iceland's Yrsa Sigurdardottir in conversation with Karin Slaughter
No book, just fun

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 1:00 PM
Russ Thomas in discussion with Andrew Child (Grant)
Thomas discusses Nighthawking (Putnam $26)
Sheffield DS Adam Tyler
Our British Crime Book of the Month
Signed UK edition available
 
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Steve Berry discusses The Kaiser's Web (St Martins $28.99)
Signed books with custom insert available
 
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24 7:00 PM
Joe Ide in conversation with Patrick
Ide discusses Smoke (Little Brown $27.99)
LA's IQ
Signed books available
 
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 1:00 PM
Alexis Landau discusses Those Who Are Saved (Putnam $27)
Signed books available
 
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 6:30 PM
Charlaine Harris in conversation with Pat King
Harris discusses The Russian Cage (Saga $27.99)
Signed books available
 
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26 6:00 PM
Charles Finch discusses An Extravagant Death (St Martins $27.99)
Signed books available
 
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 1:00 PM
AAUW Luncheon featuring Kent Krueger as speaker
$5 per ticket for admission, part of which goes to the AAUW Scholarship Fund
Sign up HERE 

Our Full March Calendar
MONDAY MARCH 1 7:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
CJ Box discusses Dark Sky (Putnam $27.99)
Joe Pickett
Signed books available. Personalizations possible
 
TUESDAY MARCH 2 6:00 PM Victorian Crime
Tasha Alexander and Deanna Raybourn in conversation
Alexander discusses The Dark Heart of Florence (St Martins $27.99)
Lady Emily
Raybourn discusses An Unexpected Peril (Berkley $26)
Veronica Speedwell
Signed books available for both
 
WEDNESDAY MARCH 3 6:00 PM
Don Bentley in conversation with Jack Carr
Bentley discusses The Outside Man (Berkley $27)
Signed books available
 
FRIDAY MARCH 5 1:00 PM
Elly Griffiths discusses The Postscript Murders (Houghton $25)
A standalone gem, our March British Crime Book of the Month
 
FRIDAY MARCH 5 6:00 PM
Arkady Martine in conversation with Pat King
Martine discusses A Desolation Called Peace (Tor $26.99)
Teixcalaan # 2
 
SATURDAY MARCH 6 1:00 PM Virtual US launch
The UK's Chris Whitaker in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan
Whitaker discusses We Begin at the End (Holt $27.99)
 
SATURDAY MARCH 6 2:00 PM
Lauren Willig in conversation with Karen White and Beatriz Williams
Willig discusses Band of Sisters (Morrow $27.99)
Smith College women go to France in WWI
Signed books available
 
MONDAY MARCH 8 1:00 PM Virtual US Book Launch
SJ Bennett in conversation with Lesa Holstine
Bennett discusses The Windsor Knot (Morrow $27.99)
Our March Cozy Crimes Pick of the Month
 
MONDAY MARCH 8 6:00 PM National Book Launch
Graham Brown discusses Fast Ice (Putnam $29), his last full collaboration with Clive Cussler
Signed books available, personalizations ok
 
TUESDAY MARCH 9 1:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Donna Leon discusses Transient Desires (Grove $27)
Commissario Guido Brunetti of Venice
Signed books available
The purchase of Transient Desires is required to attend the conversation. Everyone who preorders the book from us will receive an invitation to attend an exclusive webinar with Donna Leon! 
The UK Signed edition: Transient Desires (Heinemann $42)
 
TUESDAY MARCH 9 5:00 PM Baseball!
Emily Nemens in conversation with John Shea and Larry Siegel
Nemens discusses The Cactus League ($17)
Shea discusses Willie Mays "24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid" and Rickey Henderson's autobiography "Off Base: Confessions of a Thief
 
WEDNESDAY MARCH 10 6:00 PM
Phillip Margolin discusses 
A Matter of Life and Death (St Martins $27.99)
Robin Lockwood legal thriller
Signed books available
 
THURSDAY MARCH 11 6:00 PM
Joel Rosenburg in conversation with Kyle Mills
Rosenburg discusses The Beirut Protocol (Tyndale House $27.99)
Military fiction
Signed books available
 
MONDAY MARCH 15 Virtual Book Launch
Harlan Coben discusses Win (Grand Central $29)
Signed books available
 
TUESDAY MARCH 16 6:30 PM
Australia's Candice Fox in conversation with Adrian McKinty
Fox discusses Gathering Dark  (Forge $27.99)
 
WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 1:00 PM
St. Patrick's Day Party
Carlene O'Connor discusses Murder in an Irish Bookshop (Kensington $27)
Irish Village Mystery #7
Signed books available

WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2:15 PM
The Pen presents debut authors Julie Carrick Dalton, Nancy Johnson, Sarah Penner
Dalton discusses Waiting for the Night Song (Forge $26.99)
Johnson discusses The Kindest Lie (Harper $27.99)
Penner discusses The Lost Apothecary (Park Row $27.99), our March Historical Fiction Book of the Month

FRIDAY MARCH 19 7:00 PM
SciFi Friday discusses Leigh Bardugo, The Ninth House ($17.99)
 
SATURDAY MARCH 20 10:30 AM
Croak & Dagger discusses John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ($16)

SATURDAY MARCH 20 4:00 PM Virtual book launch
Lisa Scottoline' first historical, Eternal (Putnam $28),  set in WWII Rome
Signed books available

MONDAY MARCH 22 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Jacqueline Winspear discusses 
The Consequences of Fear (Harper $27.99)
Maisie Dobbs
And her Edgar nominated memoir, This Time Next Year Well Be Laughing (Soho $20)
Signed books available for both titles

TUESDAY MARCH 23 5:00 PM
Alma Katsu in conversation with Michael Koryta
Katsu discusses Red Widow (Putnam $27)
Signed books available
 
THURSDAY MARCH 24 5:00 PM
Nicola Derobertis-Theye discusses The Vietri Project (Harper $27.99)
Signed books available
 
FRIDAY MARCH 26 1:00 PM
Jillian Cantor in conversation with Nuala O'Connor
Cantor discusses Half Life (Harper $16.99)
O'Connor discusses
 
MONDAY MARCH 29 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch
Allison Brennan in conversation with JT Ellison
Brennan discusses Tell No Lies (Mira $27.99)
Ellison discusses Her Dark Lies (Mira $28.99)
Signed books available n
 
MONDAY MARCH 29 6:15 PM National Book Launch
Will Staples discusses his fiction debut Animals (Blackstone $27.99)
Signed books available
 
TUESDAY MARCH 30 4:00 PM
Cara Black in conversation with Rhys Bowen
Black discusses Three Hours in Paris ($16.95)
Bowen previews her April novel The Venice Sketchbook (Lake Union $24.95/$14.95)
Signed books in April for Bowen
 
TUESDAY MARCH 30 5:15 PM
Ellen Crosby discusses The French Paradox (Severn $30)
Signed books available
 
WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 5:00 PM
Erica Ruth Neubauer discusses Murder at Wedgefield Manor (Kensington $26)
Signed books available

THURSDAY APRIL 1 Virtual Book Launch
Paula Munier in conversation with Margaret Mizushima
Munier discusses The Hiding Place (St Martins $27.99)
Signed books available

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Winner, 2001 Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America! Winner,
2012 The Arizona Republic and the New Times Best of Phoenix and Best of Scottsdale, Best Bookstore! 2013 Arizona Republic's Critics' Choice and Reader's Choice Best Specialty Bookstore
12-time Nominee, Publishers Weekly's Bookseller of the Year
Winner, James Patterson Page-Turner Award
Poisoned Pen Press, Winner, The 2010 Ellery Queen Award from The Mystery Writers of America
Member of the Crime Writers of Canada, British Crime Writers Association, The American Booksellers Association,