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Clues Unlimited

A Mystery Bookstore

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

520-326-8533 info@cluesunlimited.com

Signings and Special Events

December 2009/January 2010

Sunday, December 6^th 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 9^th 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 12^th 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 13^th 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 26^th and 27^th 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 10^th 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 27^th 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 28^th 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 5^th 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 11^th 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 17^th 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 29^th 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 7^th 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 8^th 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 9^th 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 14^th 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 22^nd 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.

Saturday, October 17^th 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, November 12^th 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.

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