MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY BOOKSELLERS

JUNE 2008

Come experience the joy of a full-service bookstore

*Monthly newsletter & recommendations *20% off your book clubs' books

*Frequent author signings *Special orders *Book gift baskets

*New and gently used books *Listen to us Friday mornings on WCEI 96.7fm

***In Oxford: 202 S. Morris Street, Oxford, MD 21654, 410-226-0010, Hours: Fri & Sat 10-6, Sun, Mon, Wednesday 10-4. **Note change in hours from Tuesday to Wednesdays in June due to the cruise ships docking in Oxford.

In Baltimore: 1730 Fleet Street, Baltimore MD 21231, 410-276-6708, 800-538-0042, Hours: Thurs-Sat 11-5, Sun 12-5.

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UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS.

NEW TIME AND DATE: Friday, June 6, 2008 (Chevy Chase) Launch of CHESAPEAKE CRIMES 3 at the Writer's Center. 4508 Walsh St., Chevy Chase, MD. There will be eats and drinks and many of the CC3 authors will be in attendance. Show your support for the local gals. For more information contact secretary@chessiechapter.org. MLC will sell books

Saturday, July 12, 2008, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (OXFORD) Ellen Byerrum signs ARMED AND DANGEROUS, her new crime of fashion mystery.

Saturday, July 19, 2008: 1:00 - 3:00 pm (OXFORD) Donna Andrews signs COCKATIELS AT SEVEN her newest Meg Langslow mystery.

Saturday August 16, 2008. 1:00 - 3:00 pm (OXFORD) Ellen Crosby signs her third Virginia wine country book BORDEUX BETRAYAL.

Saturday August 23, 2008, 1:00 - 3:00pm (OXFORD) Oxford Highland Creamery owner has written a new Romantic suspense novel, and we will host her launch at our store.

October 9 - 12, 2008 (BALTIMORE) Bouchercon 2008. It is not too early to sign up for Bouchercon in our own Charm City. "Charmed to Death" is being run by Ruth Jordan and her team from Crimespree Magazine. You can reach her at ruth@crimespreemag.com about registering and any of your concerns. The Hotel is the Sheraton Baltimore City Center. Remember there are two Sheratons. Rates are $175.00 for a single and $195.00 for a double. The hotel is located at 101 West Fayette Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Registration for the convention is $150.00. We have new registration forms at our Baltimore store or we can send you one. The Bouchercon 2008 web site is www.charmedtodeath.com. MLC will be in the dealers' room at Bouchercon and we plan to be fully staffed at the Fells Point store for your shopping convenience. See you there.

COME ON DOWN TO THE MYSTERY SALON...

Our new blog www.mysterysalon.com is up. Be up to date on what's mysterious. We post all the news here, first.

NEW THIS MONTH...

Great idea for Father's Day: Arcadia has just published two new Maryland pictorial titles, MARYLAND LIGHTHOUSES and MARYLAND SKIPJACKS. Both are done in classic style, with black and white photos of historical landmarks of Maryland and of course of nautical interest to all watermen on your list. They are $19.95 each. See photos on our blog www.mysterysalon.com.

I SHALL NOT WANT by Julia Spencer-Fleming ($24.95) Priest and ex-military pilot Clare Ferguson and Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne have a lot of issues to resolve and they try not to get in one another's way. They both get caught up, however, in the death of some migrant workers. Is it drug related or something closer to home? The passionate lovers find it difficult to keep apart and the twist at the end will make you want to read the next installment next year.

Magdalen Nabb's final Marshall Guarnaccia mystery is VITA NUOVA. ($24.00). In this one the Marshall goes after the murderer of a beautiful eldest daughter of a wealthy Florentine nightclub owner. The series should be read from the beginning with DEATH OF AN ENGLISHMAN.

Another last mystery is VINEYARD CHILL ($24.00) from Philip R. Craig who died last year. Sailor Clay Stockton brings trouble when he visits retired Boston cop J. W. Jackson on Martha's Vineyard.

THE SPIES OF WARSAW by Alan Furst ($25.00) Furst is probably the best of the historic espionage authors writing today. Set in 1937 Poland.

MURDER AT THE BAD GIRL'S BAR & GRILL by N. M. Kelly. ($23.00) This book comes with the added extra of a small bottle of Bad Girl's Grill barbecue sauce. A female Carl Hiaasen is born in Florida. Danni Keene, ex-horror film actress and owner of said grill is the last hold-out from a developer. The cast also includes a traveling puppet circus, a blind heroine, a hit man, a Barry Manilow tribute artists and Mr. Whit who totes a mean stun gun. What more do you want.

HEAVENLY PLEASURES by Kerry Greenwood ($24.95) Corinna Chapman returns in her second cozy set in a bakery in Melbourne. Filled with the great characters from EARTHLY DELIGHTS, like Jason the reformed junkie who Corinna befriended and is now her apprentice, and Mistress Dread, the leather maven as well as a menagerie of cats, Corinna goes after a trickster who is injecting Belgian chocolates with chili sauce. For those who like their mysteries droll and cozy. Greenwood brings out QUEEN OF THE FLOWERS her next Phryne Fisher mystery in July.

Last summer's treat THE CONJURER by Cordelia Frances Biddle introduces Philadelphian Martha Beale, the daughter of a wealthy financier who has disappeared in 1842.

Author Josephine Tey makes an appearance in a theatrical mystery EXPERT IN MURDER by Nicola Upson ($24.95).

NIGHT CALLS: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes by David Pirie ($14.95) is the latest mystery featuring Conan Doyle and his forensic investigator mentor.

Dixie Cash returns with DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN YOU AND MY SHOES ($13.95). Debbie Sue and Edwina impart big-hair tips and Texas wisdom while helping solve a murder and recovering stolen funds for a librarian.

One of my recent favorites is back. THIS NIGHT'S FOUL WORK ($14.00) by Fred Vargas features Paris Commissaire Adamsberg who must solve a gruesome crime with the help of Ariane Lagarde.

Richard Hawke aka Tim Cockey gives us his second thriller set in New York COLD DAY IN HELL ($7.99) featuring private detective Fritz Malone. A witness at the trial of a late night TV star accused of killing two women turns up dead.

Revenge and money is the key to Michael Koryta, A WELCOME GRAVE ($6.99) set in Cleveland. PI Lincoln Perry is asked by his fiancée's other boyfriend's widow to find the man's son.

SHORT CHANGE by Patricia Smiley ($6.99) and COOL CACHE ($23.95) both feature Tucker Sinclair a LA based consultant. In the first her client's business and lives are threatened in the second, there's a death by chocolate.

THE HISTORIAN by Elizabeth Kostova ($9.99) If you haven't read this one now is your chance. A motherless American girl becomes the latest historian of the surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.

DEATH OF THE RUG LORD by Tamar Myers. ($6.99) In this Den of Antiquity mystery Abigail Timerlake Washburn finds a great rug but a dead proprietor.

DOUBLE DOG DARE by Linda O. Johnston ($6.99) LA attorney and pet sitter Kendra Ballantyne looks for clues to her missing boyfriend PI Jeff Hubbard.

ROAR OF THE BUTTERFLIES by Reginald Hill ($7.99) Private detective Joe Sixsmith takes up a golf challenge when he is asked by the son of a wealthy family to keep their golf membership at an exclusive country club. But a crime lord intervenes.

MURDER IN CHINATOWN by Victoria Thompson ($7.99) Sarah Brandt midwife/sleuth encounters Irish women who married Chinese men and helps Sergeant Malloy search for one of their nieces.

HIGH MARKS FOR MURDER by Rebecca Kent ($6.99) In this mystery set at a British boarding school, the headmistress finds a link between flowers and murder.

HAM BONES by Carolyn Haines ($6.99) PI Sarah Booth goes after the murderer of a diva and star of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but she must play a part herself.

KILLER STITCH by Maggie Sefton ($6.99) When an alpaca farmer turns up dead, knitter and sleuth Kelly Flynn find many women in Fort Connor who wished him dead. DYER

CONSEQUENCES comes out in hardback as well this month.

Jeffrey Deaver tells the tale of body language expert Kathryn Dance in THE SLEEPING DOLL ($9.99)

And finally don't miss MASTER OF THE DELTA by Thomas H. Cook and NOT IN THE FLESH: A WEXFORD NOVEL by Ruth Rendell ($25.95

That's about it for now, except that we welcome Sammi Russell as our new helper at the Baltimore store. Be sure to say hi. She is also a very good companion to Nick and Nora. See blog for pictures.

Hope you can visit this summer. You can order online anytime atwww.mysterylovescompany.com

Happy summer reading from Kathy, Tom, Dotty, Sammi and Nick and Nora.