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BOOKNEWS from ISSN 1056–5655, © The Poisoned Pen, Ltd. 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. Volume 32, Number 11 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 July Booknews 2020 480-947-2974 [email protected] tel (888)560-9919 http://poisonedpen.com LITERARY FIREWORKS ALL MONTH THIS JULY Note: All the times are Scottsdale time, 3 hours later than EDT Please look for pop up book chats with authors and editors and who knows what from time to time on our Home Page and then moved to Facebook. Watch these virtual events on Facebook Live or our YouTube and any time thereafter at a time that suits you. Listen to them on Google Music and iTunes our Podcasts WEDNESDAY JULY 1 2:00 PM A Date with International Crime WEDNESDAY JULY 8 4:00 PM Tim Hallinan discusses his final Poke Rafferty Bangkok thriller Beatriz Williams discusses Her Last Flight (Harper $27.99), a Street Music (Soho $26.95) thriller drawing inspiration from the life of Amelia Earhart Signed books available Signed books available Ragnar Jonasson discusses The Mist (St Martins $27.99) WEDNESDAY JULY 8 6:00 PM Jeffrey Siger discusses Island of Secrets ($15.99) David Rosenfelt discusses Muzzled (St Martins $27.99), an WEDNESDAY JULY 1 4:00 PM Andy Carpenter thriller (with dogs) Nicholas Basbanes discusses his biography of Longfellow, A Signed books available Cross of Snow (Knopf $37.50) TUESDAY JULY 14 4:30 (7:30 ET) Virtual Book Launch The author includes a slide show with his discussion. Basbanes is Please join The Poisoned Pen in partnership with Harper to cel- a leading bibliophile whose earlier works on book collecting you ebrate the launch of The Order (Harper $29.99) with Daniel Silva may know. Questions welcome on FB Live and CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel in a conversa- Signed bookplates come with our copies tion! THURSDAY JULY 2 2:00 PM To join us, please purchase a copy of The Order (Harper A Cozy duo with John $29.99). Signed copies while they last, one per customer. Ad- Ellie Alexander discusses Nothing Bundt Trouble ($8.99) ditional unsigned copies are available. Abby Collette discusses A Deadly Scoop (Berkley $16) Once you make your purchase you will receive the confirma- Signed bookplates available for The Deadly Scoop tion for your purchase which will include a link and password to THURSDAY JULY 2 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch register for this special event on Crowdcast. Paul Doiron in conversation with Tess Gerritsen about his new TUESDAY JULY 14 6:00 PM Mike Bowditch Maine thriller One Last Lie (Minotaur $27.99) Jeff Abbott discusses Never Ask Me (Grand Central $27) Signed books for Doiron available. Perfect for CJ Box and Randy Ellison Cooper discusses Cut to the Bone (St Martins $27.99) Wayne White fans Glen Erik Hamilton discusses A Dangerous Breed (Harper FRIDAY JULY 3 4:00 PM Meet New Authors $27.99) A trio of notable debut novels Signed books available for all three Edward A. Farmer discusses Pale (Blackstone $26.99) WEDNESDAY JULY 15 6:00 0PM Our July Fantastic New Fiction Book of the Month Ace Atkins discusses The Revelators (Putnam $27) Kimicho Guthrie discusses Block Seventeen (Blackstone Each of our copies includes a Quinn Colson bumper sticker from $26.99) Atkins James Wade discusses All Things Left Wild (Blackstone $27.99) J Todd Scott discusses Lost River (Putnam $27) Signed books available for all three authors Signed books available for both MONDAY JULY 6 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch THURSDAY JULY 16 6:00 PM Linda Castillo signs Outsider (St Martins $27.99) Spencer Quinn discusses Of Mutts and Men (Forge $26.99) A Kate Burkholder thriller in Amish country! Signed books available Signed books in stock MONDAY JULY 20 12:30 PM TUESDAY JULY 7 4:00 PM Virtual Book Launch Camilla Lackberg joins us from Sweden to discuss The Golden Mark Bowden discusses The Case of the Vanishing Blonde and Cage (Knopf $26.95) Other True Crime Stories (Grove $27) with Patrick Signed books in stock 1 = British PW=Publishers Weekly LJ=Library Journal MONDAY JULY 20 4:00 PM TUESDAY JULY 28 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch Australian Author Anna Downes discusses The Safe Place (St Brian Freeman discusses Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Evolu- Martins $26.99) tion (Putnam $28) MONDAY JULY 20 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch Signed books available Brad Thor discusses Near Dark (Atria $28.99) WEDNESDAY JULY 29 11:00 AM Signed books available and a special postcard UK author Alice Feeney discusses His & Hers (Flatiron $27.99) TUESDAY JULY 21 6:00 PM Our July British Crime Club Book of the Month Jim Butcher discusses Peace Talks (Ace $29) WEDNESDAY JULY 29 12:00 PM Harry Dresden. Signed books available Samantha Downing discusses He Started It (Berkley $26) WEDNESDAY JULY 22 6:00 PM Signed copies available Joe R. Lansdale discusses More Better Deals (Mulholland $27) Adele Parks discusses Lies, Lies, Lies (Mira $17.99) with Patrick Stephanie Wrobel discusses The Recovery of Rose Gold (Joseph Signed books available $35)/ Darling Rose Gold (Berkley $26) HOLDING FOR CONFIRMATION THURSDAY JULY 30 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch Stan Parish discussing his superb caper Love and Theft (Double- Karen Dionne discusses The Wicked Sister (Putnam $28) day $26.95) in conversation with Peter Nowalk, creator of How Signed books available to Get Away with Murder either on July 23 5:00 PM or Aug 5 THURSDAY JULY 30 6:00 PM 5:00 PM Nicholas Griffin in conversation with John Sandford about Signed books available Griffin’sThe Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Co- THURSDAY JULY 23 6:00 PM caine in Miami 1980 (SimonSchuster $26.99) Patrick hosts Gary Phillips in a discussion of Matthew Henson Snazzy postcard of 1980 Miami comes with each copy and the Ice Temple of Harlem (Polis Books $16) SATURDAY AUGUST 1 2:00 PM SATURDAY JULY 25 2:00 PM Cozy Fun Erica Ruth Neubauer discusses Murder at the Mena House (St Daryl Gerber discusses A Sprinkling of Murder (Kensington Martins $27) $15.95) A few Signed books remain for our August First Mystery Book of Maria DiRico discusses Here Comes the Body (Kensington $7.99) the Month MONDAY JULY 27 6:00 PM MONDAY AUGUST 3 5:00 PM Virtual Book Launch James Carlos Blake discusses The Bones of Wolfe (Grove $26) Karin Slaughter discusses The Silent Wife (Morrow $28.99) Neal Griffin discusses The Burden of Truth (Forge $27.99) Preorder your signed copy to get an exclusive: a cell phone Signed books available wallet to go with the book TUESDAY JULY 28 5:00 PM TUESDAY AUGUST 4 6:00 PM Virtual Book Launch Shawn A. Cosby discusses Blacktop Wasteland (St Martins Rhys Bowen discusses The Last Mrs. Summers (Berkley $26) $26.99) with Patrick Her Royal Spyness Signed book available It is possible that Jenn McKinlay discusses Paris Is Always a Good Idea (Berkley $16). If not Jenn will be with us on August 22 Signed books available for both SIGNED BOOKS With Advance Reading Copies on Pause and our doing so many You will appreciate the savvy way in which Abbott fits together events at or before publication, in many instances I must quote the pieces of the puzzle. reviews or the publisher Atkins, Ace. The Revelators (Putnam $27). Tibbehah County Abbott, Jeff. Never Ask Me (Grand Central $27). Set in an afflu- Sheriff Quinn Colson, bullet-holed and left for dead, is feeling ent Austin, Texas, suburb, this cunning and complex domestic vengeful but kept from getting back to work by the interim thriller centers on the Pollitt family: parents Iris and Kyle and sheriff-who ordered his murder. And hard pressed to keep his their teenage children, Julia and Grant. Early one morning, Julia patch of Mississippi in line. Quinn’s 12-year-old nephew, Jason, and a friend, Ned, find Ned’s mother, Danielle Roberts, murdered goes AWOL along with his schoolmate Ana Gabriel Hernandez- in a neighborhood park. The Pollitts’ lives are turned upside Ramirez to accept an unsavory invitation to follow the trail of down as all four family members become entangled in the subse- Ana’s mother, one of 53 undocumented workers from the local quent investigation. Danielle—who facilitated the Pollitts’ con- chicken processing plant rounded up by U.S. Immigration and tentious adoption of Grant from a St. Petersburg orphanage when Customs Enforcement, Brock Tanner won’t issue an Amber Alert. he was a baby—had a complicated history with Iris and Kyle. It’s clear that Tanner is uncomfortably cozy with grasping madam Julia is tangentially involved in Ned’s prescription drug dealing Fannie Hathcock, “the queen hellcat of north Mississippi”; with business, and Grant has been receiving disturbing emails warning J.K. Vardaman, the good-old-boy governor who’s never met a him that his parents are lying to him. Excerpts from Iris’s old graft he wouldn’t latch onto; and with the Watchmen, a militia journal chronicling Grant’s adoption process raise the suspense…. looking to boost their stockpile of weapons. Tanner’s deputies 2 harass Quinn’s kid sister, Caddy, and go even further with activist The publisher adds, “Eagerly awaited by wizard Harry Hector Herrera. And it gets worse.... Dresden’s legion of fans, this 16th book in the series is definitely Blake, James Carlos. The Bones of Wolfe: A Border Noir (Grove worth the wait. Wonderful scenes feature magical illusions, and $26). At the start of Blake’s rollicking new Border Noir, Eddie many familiar characters return for peace talks in Chicago.