Clues Unlimited

A Mystery Bookstore

3146 E. Ft. Lowell Rd, Tucson, AZ 85716

520-326-8533 info@cluesunlimited.com

 

                                                      

Signings and Special Events

 

 

 

August/September 2010

Signings and Special Events

Tuesday, August 10th at 2:00 at the Nanini Library J.A. Jance will be signing  Queen of the Night  (Morrow, 25.99), the fourth in

 

the series set in Tucson and on the Tohono O’odham reservation, featuring former homicide detective Brandon Walker and his

 

wife, novelist Diane Ladd. This series is noteworthy for the way Jance weaves the legends of the Tohono O’odham in with the

 

crimes.

 

Sunday, August 15th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited book Club will host Brian Gruley, author of the critically-acclaimed Starvation Lake

 

(SS, 15.00) and The Hanging Tree (SS, 15.00). Please join us for a chance to hear what this Pulitzer-prize winning author has to

 

say about turning from journalism to mystery writing.

 

 

Monday, August 16th at 12:00 Clues Unlimited will host Betty Webb for a lunch-time signing of her second book in the Gunn Zoo

 

 series, The Koala of Death (PP, 24.95). We will have sandwiches from Baggin’s.

 

Saturday, August 21 at 2:30 Clues Unlimited will host Bisbee author Betsy Thornton signing Dream Queen (STM, 25.99). The

 

latest to feature Victim Advocate Chloë Newcomb set in Bisbee is a prequel set before Chloe moves to Bisbee from New York,

 

where a visit to Arizona turns deadly when her brother disappears and his girlfriend is found murdered. Thornton received a starred

 

review from Publisher’s Weekly for this literary whodunnit.

 

Saturday, August 28th at 5:00 Clues Unlimited will host a book release party for local author Karen Dahood who will be signing

 

Sophie Redesigned (Outskirts Press, 14.95), the first in a series featuring a senior sleuth, a retired librarian who does computer

 

consulting for a police detective in a tale of corporate chicanery and elder issues. Please join us.

 

Sunday, September 12th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club  will meet to discuss Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know (HC,

 

14.99), a stand-alone thriller about two young girls who disappear thirty years ago from a shopping mall—presumed kidnapped and

 

dead, until a disoriented woman appears claiming to be the younger of the girls.

 

Saturday, September 18th at 3:00 Clues Unlimited will host Jude Johnson, Carol Costa, Dewanne Hopson, and Marianne

 

Hutchinson, four members of Gecko Girls Ink, a group of Tucson authors.

 

 

June/July 2010

 

Signings and Special Events

Sunday, June 13th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss G.M. Malliet’s Death of a Cozy Writer (Mid Ink, 14.95), the first in a cozy series featuring DCI St. Just.

 

Wednesday, June 16th at 5:30 Dianne Emley will be here to discuss and sign Love Kills (Ballantine, 7.99), the fourth in the series featuring Pasadena homicide detective Nan Vining who investigates murder at an exclusive Malibu Canyon compound.

At 7:00 Larry Karp will be here to discuss and sign his fourth in the Scott Joplin series, The Ragtime Fool (Poisoned Pen 24.95hc, 14.95 tp). Please join us.

 

Wednesday, June 23rd at 2:00 British author Zoë Sharp will be here to discuss the first two mysteries in the Charlie Fox series, Killer Instinct and Riot Act (Busted Flush Press, 15.00), now available in US editions. If you’ve read the later books in the series you’ll want to pick these up as well as meet the author of this kick-ass female PI series.

 

Sunday, July 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (HC, 13.99), the first in a series set in Iceland, featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir.

 

April/May 2010

 

Sunday, April 11th at 2:30 Elizabeth Gunn will be at the Clues Unlimited Book Club meeting to discuss her two police procedural series: the Jake Hines series set in Minnesota and the Sarah Burke series set in Tucson.

 

Thursday, April 15th at 7:00 Jennifer Lee Carrell will be here to discuss and sign her new mystery Haunt Me Still (Dut, 25.95). Please join us for the very first signing.

 

Friday, May 7th at 5:30 Ken Kuhlken will be here to discuss and sign his latest mystery The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles (PP, 24.95hc, 14.95 tp). Please join us.

 

Sunday, May 9th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Cold Dish by Craig Johnson (Png, 14.00), the first in the Wyoming-based series featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire.

 

Sunday, May 16th at 2:30 Jon Talton will be here to discuss and sign his newest mystery, Deadline Man (PP, 24.95 hc, 14.95 tp). We hope that you can join us.

 

February/March 2010

 

Sunday, February 14th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Margery Allingham’s Crime at Black Dudley, the first in the Albert Campion series, a classic first published in 1929.

 

Saturday, March 6th at 2:30 Margaret Regan will be here to sign and discuss The Death of Josseline (HMH, 25.95), a heart-wrenching story of a Central American immigrant and her attempt to find a new life in America.

 

Friday, March 12th at 1:30 Cara Black and Libby Fischer Hellmann will be discussing and signing their latest books at a Brandeis Book Fund event. The cost is $10.00. Call Clues at 236-8533 for more information.

 

Saturday and Sunday, March 13th and 14th the store will be closed because we will be selling books at the Tucson Festival of the Book from 10:00 to 6:00. Come on down to see some of your favorite authors.

 

Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 clues will host  mystery writer Thomas Kaufman signing Drink the Tea (STM, 24.99),  an impressive debut crime novel featuring a DC PI who is asked by a famous jazz musician to locate his missing daughter, but the case attracts the interest of an ambitious right-wing politician in a taut tale of violence and corruption.

 

Sunday, March 21st at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss A Beautiful Place to Die (SS,15.00), a police procedural set in 1950’s South Africa.

 

December 2009/January 2010

 

Sunday, December 6th at 2:00 Gordon McBride will be here to sign his second novel to feature pilot and Episcopal priest, Jerry Hanning, The Vicar of Bisbee (Orchard House, 17.99) who must contend with a range fire threatening ranches in Cochise County and the trafficking in undocumented immigrants pervasive in southern Arizona.

Wednesday, December 9th at 7:00 J. A. Jance will be here to discuss and sign Trial by Fire (SS, 25.99), the latest in the series featuring Ali Reynolds, who is now working for the Yavapai County Police Department.

Saturday, December 12th at 2:00 we will have a joint signing with two first-rate Arizona authors: Betty Webb will be here to sign her latest in the Lena Jones series set in the Phoenix area, Desert Lost (PP, 24.95), one of Library Journal’s Books of the Year along with J. M. Hayes Server Down, and Elizabeth Gunn will be signing Ten-Mile Trials (Severn House, 27.95), the latest in the Minnesota-based series featuring Jake Hines. Please join us.

Sunday, December 13th at 2:00 the Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Caroline Graham’s The Killing at Badger’s Drift (F&M, 14.95), the first in a British police procedural series that has been televised as The Midsummer Murders.

Saturday and Sunday, December 26th and 27th from 9:00 to 5:00 Clues will have its annual after-Christmas sale—everything will be on sale with discounts from 20% to 60%. Come and use up your gift certificates!

Sunday, January 10th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Ellis Peters’ A Morbid Taste for Bones (LB, 6.99), the first in the medieval series featuring Brother Cadfael.

Wednesday, January 27th at 7:00 Lori Armstrong will be her to sign No Mercy (SS, 25.00), the first in a new series featuring a former Army sniper who returns to her family ranch in western South Dakota.

Thursday, January 28th at 5:30 we will have a signing with two writers who use international settings for their mysteries. Jeffrey Siger will sign his latest police procedural set in Greece, Assassins of Athens (PP, 24.95) and Lou Berney will sign his debut novel Gutshot Straight (HC, 24.99), a caper novel that takes place in Las Vegas and Panama. Please join us.

 

 

October/November 2009

 

Monday, October 5th at 5:30 Alan Jacobson will be here to sign Crush (Vanguard, 25.95), a suspenseful thriller set in the Napa Valley world of winemaking and the second to feature FBI profiler KarenVail. Jacobson is one of my favorite writers for two reasons: he creates very convincing female characters and he is a master of the surprise ending.

 

Sunday, October 11th at 2:00, Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Peter Robinson’s Gallow’s View (HarperCollins, 7.99), an Inspector Banks police procedural set in Yorkshire.

 

Saturday, October 17th at 2:30 Clues Unlimited will present a benefit for Arizona Greyhound Rescue, featuring a booksigning with two Tucsonans: Edie Jarolim, author of Am I Boring My Dog (Png, 14.95), a book of advice for new and continuing dog owners, and Marlene Bachmann, author of  Obedient Until Death (Publish America, 27.95), a new mystery set in Tucson dealing with nefarious doings at the local greyhound track. 20% of the book sales for the event will go to AGR. Greyhounds welcome.

 

Sunday, October 25 at 2:30 Clues Unlimited will host a panel discussion of four non-academic women writing history of Arizona and the west as a benefit for the University of Arizona Department of History. The panel will feature Carolyn  Davis author of Hopi Summer (Rio Nuevo, 15.95)and The Hopi People (Arcadia, 21.99), Jane Eppinga author of They Made their Mark: An Illustrated History of the Society of Women Geographers (Globe Pequot, 29.95), Susan Cummins Miller author of A Sweet Separate Intimacy: Woman Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922 (Texas Tech, 26.95), and Barbara Wolfe author of Power, Passion, and Prejudice: Shootout in the Galiuro Mountains (Imago, 12.95). There will be a $10.00 admission charge that is a tax-deductible donation to the History Department’s undergraduate scholarship fund.

 

Thursday, October 29th at 11:30 Libby Fischer Hellman will be here for a lunch and booksigning for her new mystery Doubleback (Bleak House, 24.95 hc, 14.95 trade paper), featuring both Ellie Forman and Georgia Davis, and part of which is set in Cochise County.

 

Saturday October 31, Steven Havill will be here at 1:30 to sign two new mysteries, a Bill Gastner mystery set in New Mexico, Red, Green, or Murder (PP, 24.95) and Race for the Dying (STM, 25.99), a historical mystery set in Washington state at the turn of the twentieth century about a young doctor who discovers that the doctor he is working for is engaging in mail fraud by providing mail-order diagnoses.

 

Saturday, October 31 from 4-8, Clues will host a Halloween party featuring food, drink, and tarot readings by Mindy E. Mezzy. Come in costume as your favorite mystery character. Daniel promises to dress as Carmen Miranda!

 

Saturday, November 7th at 2:00 Pete Goodman will be here to sign Smoking Frog Lives! (Con, 14.95), a debut mystery about a PI-turned-archaeologist who chases an elusive murderer dressed as a Mayan war god through the crumbling temple of Yaxnax.

 

Sunday, November 8th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss The Chalk Circle Man (Png, 14.00) by French mystery writer Fred Vargas. This is the first to feature Parisian police Inspector Adamsberg. Also at 2:00 we will have a Phoenix Noir event, featuring Patrick Millikin (editor) and contributors: Robert Anglen, Charles Kelly, and Kurt Reichenbaugh. Phoenix Noir (Akashic, 15.95) is a collection of short stories all set in the Phoenix area.

 

Monday, November 9th at 7:00 Jeri Westerson will be here to sign the second in her series set in London in the fourteenth century, The Serpent in the Thorns (STM, 24.99), the second in her series that combines noir sensibility with historical accuracy. The talk and booksigning is part of the Mysteries in History series that benefits the History Department of the University of Arizona. $10.00 admission charge.

 

Saturday, November 14th Kris Neri will be here to sign her latest mystery, High Crimes on the Magical Plane (Red Coyote Press, 16.95) a funny combination of the supernatural, sham psychics, gangsters, and the FBI. At 1:00 Kris will present a writer’s workshop on “Mixing Magic and the Supernatural into your Writing,” and at 2:00 she will be signing and discussing her new mystery.

 

Sunday, November 22nd beginning at 1:00 Clues will present Mistletoe and Mystery. Join us to meet Elizabeth Gunn (who’ll be signing her new Jake Hines mystery, Ten Mile Trials), J. M. Hayes, Susan Cummins Miller, Kate Mathis, Leighton Rockafellow, and Mark Sadler. See you then.

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, October 5th at 5:30 Alan Jacobson will be here to sign Crush (Vanguard, 25.95), a suspenseful thriller set in the Napa Valley world of winemaking and the second to feature FBI profiler KarenVail. Jacobson is one of my favorite writers for two reasons: he creates very convincing female characters and he is a master of the surprise ending.

Sunday, October 11th at 2:00, Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Peter Robinson’s Gallow’s View (HarperCollins, 7.99), an Inspector Banks police procedural set in Yorkshire.

Saturday, October 17th at 2:30 Clues unlimited will present a benefit for Arizona Greyhound Rescue, featuring a booksigning with two Tucsonans: Edie Jarolim, author of Am I Boring My Dog (Png, 14.95), a book of advice for new and continuing dog owners, and Marlene Bachmann, author of        , a new mystery set in Tucson dealing with nefarious doings at the local greyhound track. 20% of the book sales for the event will go to AGR. Greyhounds welcome.

Thursday, October 29th at 11:30 Libby Fischer Hellman will be here for a lunch and booksigning for her new mystery Doubleback (Bleak House, 24.95 hc, 14.95 trade paper), featuring both Ellie Forman and Georgia Davis, and part of which is set in Cochise County.

Saturday October 31, Steven Havill will be here at 1:30 to sign two new mysteries, a Bill Gastner mystery set in New Mexico, Red, Green, or Murder (PP, 24.95) and Race for the Dying (STM, 25.99), a historical mystery set in Washington state at the turn of the twentieth century about a young doctor who discovers that the doctor he is working for is engaging in mail fraud by providing mail-order diagnoses.

Saturday, October 31 from 4-8, Clues will host a Halloween party featuring food, drink, and tarot readings by Mindy E. Mezzy. Come in costume as your favorite mystery character. Daniel promises to dress as Carmen Miranda!

Saturday, November 7th at 2:00 Pete Goodman will be here to sign Smoking Frog Lives! (Con, 14.95), a debut mystery about a PI-turned-archaeologist who chases an elusive murderer dressed as a Mayan war god through the crumbling temple of Yaxnax.

Thursday, November 12th at 3:30 we will have a Phoenix Noir event, featuring Patrick Millikin (editor) and contributors: Stella Pope Duarte, Robert Anglen, Charles Kelly, and Kurt Reichenbaugh. Phoenix Noir (Akashic, 15.95) is a collection of short stories all set in the Phoenix area.

Saturday, November 14th Kris Neri will be here to sign her latest mystery, High Crimes on the Magical Plane (Red Coyote Press, 16.95) a funny combination of the supernatural, sham psychics, gangsters, and the FBI. At 1:00 Kris will present a writer’s workshop on “Mixing Magic and the Supernatural into your Writing,” and at 2:00 she will be signing and discussing her new mystery.

 

Coming soon: Gordon McBride, J A Jance, and Betty Webb.