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JANUARY
2008
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UPCOMING EVENTS...
Thursday January 17, 12- 1:30pm (EASTON, MD) Talbot County Free Library, 100 Dover
St. Bring your lunch and eat with the authors. The library provides cookie and coffee. Kathy Harig and local authors Diane Marquette (IN OVER MY
HEAD) and Lucia St. Clair Robson (MARYS LAND) will discuss their works.
Tuesday, March 11, 8:00 a.m. (BALTIMORE, MD) Spoons Restaurant, Cross Street.
Have breakfast with Laura Lippman who will be signing her new Tess Monaghan mystery, ANOTHER THING TO FALL. MLC will be selling
books.
Monday, March 31, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. (PIKESVILLE, MD) Baltimore County
Pikesville Library. Mystery authors Cara Black and Libby Fischer Hellman will discuss their works. MLC will be selling books
April 25 - 27, 2008 (CRYSTAL CITY, VA) Malice Domestic XX. Join Lindsey Davis, Charlaine Harris Daniel Stashower, and Peter Lovesey as they celebrate
twenty years of the traditional mystery. www.malicedomestic.org
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 Sheraton's. 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 forms at our Baltimore store or I can send you one. MLC will be in the dealers' room and we plan to be fully staffed
at the Fleet St store for your shopping convenience. See you there.
NEW THIS MONTH…
THE ANATOMY OF DECEPTION by Lawrence Goldstone (24.00) A corpse
of a young woman baffles the doctors and interns in a morgue of a Philadelphia hospital. One intern believes that he knows the woman’s identity
and that many of the others knew her too, but realizes her death could ruin their reputations. So begins a wonderfully engaging, suspenseful medical
mystery set at the beginnings of the modern age of medicine. Its main characters are well known to students of medicine and art in Philadelphia and
Baltimore including Dr.William Osler, famed surgeon and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital William Stewart Halsted, and artist Thomas Eakins.
Goldstone has created a mystery as compelling as THE ALIENIST. It will be interesting to see the reaction to this book in Baltimore. The book was
painstakingly researched and Goldstone made use of Osler’s works and papers. Highly Recommended.
Also recommended is THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS by Eric Weiner
($25.99) What makes us happy? Where can we find true happiness and where do the happiest people on earth live? NPR reporter Eric Weiner, a
self-proclaimed curmudgeon and “grump”, gives us a part-travel log, part philosophical journey to ten countries to discover the answers
to these questions. His dark humor, scientific discussions and unusual facts are a combination of Woody Allen and Michael Palin. We travel with Weiner
to such countries as Bhutan, Qatar, Switzerland, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand and India as he imparts new found information and interviews folks along
the way. In Rotterdam we meet Professor Veenhoven who maintains the WDH or World Database of Happiness and who acts as Weiner’s mentor
throughout the book. Weiner’s quest for happiness is enchanting and is just the ticket for ushering in the New Year.
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON by Pascal Mercier ($25.00) A literary
enigma from a Swiss author which was a bestselling book in Europe. Gregorius, a Swiss Greek and Latin professor suddenly leaves his students behind
and retaining a single book, a book by Amadeu de Prado, takes a night train to Lisbon. It becomes his obsession. The power of literature and the
intellect are paramount.
PALE HORSE by Charles Todd ($24.95) Inspector Ian Rutledge of
Scotland Yard has had his share of nightmares, but the villagers near Uffington, known for the chalk carving of the Great White Horse, live in the
cottages meant for lepers. But their terrors and secrets are not leprosy. Rutledge is originally sent to the area by the War Department to find one
of the villagers who have gone missing. The man had done secret war work during the Great War, and the authorities are keen to find him. Rutledge
spends most of the book trying to get someone to identify a corpse found in the ruins of Fountains Abbey. But the welfare of the residents of the
cottages near the Horse takes precedent as they are being killed by someone unknown. Rutledge, as always is plagued with the ghost of Hamish, the
soldier he killed during the War who offers commentary throughout. Atmospheric and intriguing. FALSE MIRROR ($6.99) is available in
paperback.
THE PAINTER OF BATTLES By Arturo Perez-Reverte ($24.95) A man
returns from being a war photographer and encounters a man whose life was altered by one of the photographs.
THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM by Matt Beynon Rees ($13.95) Omar
Yussef is the protagonist in this award nominated mystery.
BETRAYAL by John Lescroart ($26.95) Lescroart’s novel is
torn-from-the-headlines suspense.
FRIEND OF THE DEVIL by Peter Robinson ($24.95) Robinson is
certainly a friend of this bookseller and he has kept us turning pages for many years. Here he gives us two separate but entwined cases assigned to
Inspector Banks and Detective Annie Cabot. They both involve cases in Banks and Cabot’s past, so it will make the most sense to have read all
of Robinson’s work. But even to newcomers to Inspector Banks cases they will experience the thrill of knowing you are in the hands of a master
of the crime genre.
CHRISTINE FALLS by Benjamin Black ($14.00) Booker Prize winning
novel of a Dublin pathologist who follows the case of a murdered woman to the heart of Dublin’s Catholic society.
Michael McGarrity returns with his 11th novel in the
Kevin Kerney New Mexico police series with DEATH SONG ($24.95)
THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE BY Kate Sedley ($14.95) Roger the
Chapman is tasked with tracing the three lovers of Isabella Linkinhorne after her remains are found on nunnery land twenty years after she
disappeared.
CHAMELEON’S SHADOW By Minette Walters ($24.95) A British
Lieutenant returns home from Iraq with head injuries and a disturbed psyche.
THE SERPENT’S DAUGHTER by Suzanne Arruda ($23.95) Jade
del Cameron on her third adventure this time through 1920s Morocco.
FOOTPRINTS OF GOD by Greg Iles ($9.99) The next stage of human
evolution may not be human at all.
DEATH OF A MAID By M. C. Beaton ($6.99) Mrs. Gillespie is
struck by a bucket and Hamish Macbeth is sure she delighted in discovering her client’s secrets.
THE CHINESE ALCHEMIST by Lyn Hamilton ($7.99) Antiques dealer
Lara McClintoch life is targeted when she tries to recover a rare Tang Dynasty box with a precious elixir.
DEATH OF A SQUIRE by Maureen Ash ($6.99) Templar Bascot de
Marins has to discover who killed a squire found hanging in a tree before a meeting of kings in Lincoln. This is #3 in the series.
GETTING OLD IS TO DIE FOR by Rita Lakin ($6.99) Gladdy Gold
head from Florida to New York to solve the murder of her first husband, a cold case that occurred 47 years ago.
HELL HATH NO CURRY by Tamar Myers ($6.99) Magdalena Yoder gets
involved in pre-marital infidelities when she investigates the murder of a man found dead in another’s bed just days before the wedding. With
Pennsylvania Dutch recipes.
WATER LIKE A STONE by Deborah Crombie ($7.99) Not even
Kincaid’s family is safe from harm when Kincaid and Gemma James are interrupted on holiday.
SILENT IN THE SANCTUARY by Deanna Raybourn ($13.95) One of Lady
Julia cousins confesses to a murder of a guest at her father’s crowded home during the holidays.
NINE FINGERS by Thom August ($7.99) Members of a Chicago Jazz
band are being murders by a hit man names The Cleaner.
MURDER IN GOTHAM by Isdore Haiblum ($6.99) Yiddish detective
Morris Weiss is asked to investigate by a missing man’s wife to investigate as he must go to gangland’s Lower East
Side.
REMAINS TO BE SCENE by Richard Tyler Jordan ($6.99) What if
Carol Burnett had starred in “Murder She Wrote”? This debut mystery probes that question while dishing the dirt on real-life
Hollywood.
STATE OF THE ONION by Julie Hyzy ($7.99) Assistant White House
Chef Olivia Paras stars in this debut mystery as she discovers someone wants her out of a job and dead. Includes recipes.
That’s about it for this month. Hope your New Years is
well on the way of being the best. Remember to put a little mystery in your life. Read!
Kathy, Tom, Dotty, Brenda, Nick and Nora wish you Happy 2008.
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