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BOOKNEWS from ISSN 1056–5655, © The Poisoned Pen, Ltd. 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. Volume 33, Number 10 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 July Booknews 2021 480-947-2974 [email protected] tel (888)560-9919 http://poisonedpen.com FIREWORKS ALL MONTH LONG Happy Fourth: We are closed July 4 and 5 Opening Hours M-Sat 10 AM-6 PM; Sun 12-5 PM Note: All the event times are Pacific Daylight time Watch these virtual events on Facebook Live or on our YouTube channel and any time thereafter at a time that suits you. You don’t have to belong to Facebook to click in. You also can listen to our Podcasts on Google Music, iTunes, Spotify, and other popular podcast sites. TUESDAY JULY 6 4:00 PM TUESDAY JULY 13 5:00 PM Susan Elizabeth Phillips discusses When Stars Collide (Harper Connor Sullivan in conversation with Mark Sullivan $28.99) with John The father and son discuss Sleeping Bear (Atria $27) A Chicago Stars contemporary romance A debut set in Alaska and Russia Signed books available Signed books available TUESDAY JULY 6 7:00 PM Live Event WEDNESDAY JULY 14 5:00 PM TJ Newman signs her debut Falling (Avid/Simon Schuster $28) Ace Atkins discusses The Heathens (Penguin $28) Masks required plus the purchase of a Signed copy from The Pen Quinn Colson Our July First Mystery Book of the Month Chris Offutt discusses The Killing Hills (Grove $26) WEDNESDAY JULY 7 5:00 PM Kentucky noir with an Army CID lead Charles Todd discusses An Irish Hostage (Harper $27.99) Signed books for both available Bess Crawford THURSDAY JULY 15 4:00 PM/ 7:00 PM EDT Signed books available Kathy Reichs discusses her 20th Temperance Brennan, The Bone WEDNESDAY JULY 7 6:15 PM Code (Scribner $27) Dan Fesperman in conversation with Francine Mathews Special appearances by David Baldacci, Harlan Coben, Tess Ger- Fesperman discusses The Cover Wife (Knopf $26.95) ritsen, Karin Slaughter, Louise Penny Spycraft and story Signed copies available and ours come with a special Bone Code Signed books available Pen THURSDAY JULY 8 4:30 PM FRIDAY JULY 16 4:00 PM David Rosenfelt discusses Dog Eat Dog (St Martins $27.99) Liv Constantine discusses The Stranger in the Mirror (Harper Professionally retired attorney Andy Carpenter in Maine $26.99) Signed books available Signed book available Kate White discusses The Fiancée (Harper $16.99) THURSDAY JULY 8 6:00 PM Linda Castillo discusses Fallen (St Martins $27.99) FRIDAY JULY 16 7:00 PM Police Chief Kate Burkholder SciFi Friday discusses Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Last Wish Signed books available ($16.99) The Witcher #0.5 FRIDAY JULY 9 4:00 PM Jeff Abbott discusses Ambush of Widows (Grand Central $28) SATURDAY JULY 17 10:30 AM Terrific standalone, Austin and New Orleans Croak & Dagger discusses Fiona Barton’s The Suspect ($16) Susan Elia MacNeal discusses The Hollywood Spy (Bantam $27) MONDAY JULY 19 6:00 PM National Book Launch Maggie Hope in Hollywood Brad Thor discusses Black Ice (Atria $28.99) Signed books for both available Scot Harvath SATURDAY JULY 10 4:00 PM Signed books available Weston Ochse in conversation with Pat TUESDAY JULY 20 4:00 PM National Book Launch Ochsee discusses Bone Chase ($16.99) Karin Slaughter discusses False Witness (Harper $28.99) Signed SEAL Team bookplates available You must register HERE to attend this free event with Karin, MONDAY JULY 12 5:00 PM National Book Launch Alafair Burke, and surprise guests Daniel Silva discusses The Cellist (Harper $28.99) Our copies are signed for us by Karin and come with a special Gabriel Allon book bag for The Pen’s customers Signed book purchase required to attend the JCC event You will receive a link to join the zoom program 1 ✠ = British PW=Publishers Weekly LJ=Library Journal WEDNESDAY JULY 21 1:00 PM TUESDAY JULY 27 5:30 PM UK’s Owen Matthews in conversation with Alma Katsu Brian Freeman discusses Robert Ludlum’s Bourne Treachery Matthews discusses Red Traitor (Doubleday $27.95) (Putnam $28) WEDNESDAY JULY 21 5:00 PM Signed books available Spencer Quinn discusses Tender is the Bite (Forge $26.99) TUESDAY July 27 7:00 PM Chet (the dog) and Bernie (the Arizona PI) Richard Lange discusses Rovers (LittleBrown $28) Signed books available Signed books available THURSDAY JULY 22 1:00 PM WEDNESDAY JULY 28 12:00 PM Dr. Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne with Karen UK’s BA Paris in conversation with Gilly Macmillan They discuss The Devil You Know (Scribner $28) Paris discusses The Therapist (St Martins $27.99) Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion Our British Crime Book of the Month THURSDAY JULY 22 6:00 PM WEDNESDAY JULY 28 5:30 PM SA Crosby discusses Razorblade Tears (Flatiron $26.99) Nikolas Butler in conversation with Ace Atkins Signed books available Butler discusses Godspeed (Putnam $27) FRIDAY JULY 23 12:00 PM Signed books available for our Notable New Fiction Book of the Camilla Lackberg in conversation with Christina Alger Month Lackberg discusses Silver Tears (Knopf $26.95) THURSDAY JULY 29 5:00 PM MONDAY JULY 26 5:00 PM Laura Sebastian discusses Half Sick of Shadows (Ace $27) Samantha Downing discusses For Your Own Good (Berkley The Arthurian legend’s Lady of Shalott reclaims her story $27) THURSDAY JULY 29 7:00 PM Megan Miranda discusses Such a Quiet Place (SimonSchuster Hardboiled Crime Discusses Stark House Classic Noir, Tall, $26.99) Dark and Dead ($19.95) Signed books available for both TUESDAY JULY 27 1:00 PM Maria Hummel discusses Lesson in Red (Catapult $27) Elisabeth de Mariaffi discusses The Retreat (LittleBrown $28) SIGNED BOOKS There are some interviews of interest in The Big Thrill about June Atkins, Ace. The Heathens (Penguin $28). Patrick writes, “Atkins and July authors begins a new chapter in his terrific Tibbehah County series after Abbott, Jeff.An Ambush of Widows (Grand Central $28). concluding several long-running story arcs in last year’s The Kirsten North, a New Orleans freelance researcher, believes her Revelators. Sixteen year-old T.J. Byrd is a survivor who has been husband, Henry, a software consultant specializing in computer forced to grow up quickly. She and her wayward, hard-living security, is in New York City on a business trip. Then she gets a mom have always had a volatile relationship, so when Gina Byrd call from Henry’s phone that’s not from him. The indistinct voice, ends up brutally murdered and dismembered, T.J. immediately whose gender is unclear, informs Kirsten that Henry has been becomes a prime suspect. Sheriff Quinn Colson doesn’t believe fatally shot in Austin, Texas, then hangs up. An online search that T.J. Byrd killed her mom but everyone else in town seems yields a press report that two men were found shot to death in to think so. Sensing that she’s about to take the fall, T.J. goes on an Austin warehouse two days earlier. Only one victim has been the run with her boyfriend, her best friend and her nine-year old identified: entrepreneur Adam Zhang. Fearing that Henry’s killer brother. As the teens cross the state line, US Marshall Lillie Mar- may have been the anonymous caller, the distraught Kirsten hops shall tracks their trail of burglaries, stolen cars, and even the kid- the first flight to Austin, unaware that her seatmate is shadowing napping of a wealthy teenager. As Marshall focuses on bringing her. After identifying her husband’s corpse in the county morgue, the kids to justice, Colson works hard to prove their innocence. Kirsten begins digging on her own into the baffling tragedy. She Atkins is in great form here, as always.” later joins forces with Adam’s widow, Flora, even though she Bell, David. Kill All Your Darlings (Berkley $27). Bell comes suspects Flora of being behind the murders. Abbott adroitly shifts up with a great concept for this standalone, one that if you like perspectives to raise the suspense. I was torn between this thriller Korelitz’s The Plot will appeal. The two books are very different and Kathy Reichs’ The Bone Code as to which would be our July but at their hearts is the question of who owns a story—plus what Crime Book of the Month. I went with Reichs for the terrific is plagiarism, what is appropriation, what are the consequences of science but I urge anyone to grab this, especially if you are a fan claiming someone else’s story as your own? Bell, a professor, sets of Lisa Unger. It’s an excellent book and not, in fact, unlike the his story on a campus (rather than in the commercial publishing Laura Dave huge hit for June, The Last Thing He Told Me. world) where the stakes are different. He creates a dark, twisty 2 journey through the labyrinth of academia featuring a missing Connolly, John. The Nameless Ones (Hodder $45). In Amster- girl, a murder, a book-within-a-book, and more than one wobbly dam, four people are butchered in a canal house, their remains moral compass. And he manages to weaponize the elements of arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: college, students, teachers, tenure—even the writing of novels. fixer, go-between, and confidante of the assassin named Louis. I’m looking forward to our book chat with JT Ellison and Bell The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. which will post on our home page in July. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their Butler, Nickolas.