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Signings and Special Events
August/September
2008
Sunday, August 10th at
Tuesday,
August 12th at
Thursday,
August 21st at 3:00 Clues will host Chris Grabenstein,
who will sign and discuss Hell Hole
(STM, 24.95), the latest in the series featuring John Ceepak,
set on the Jersey Shore.in a case that has ties to
the war in Iraq.
Saturday, September 6th at
Sunday, September
7th at 3:00 Gordon McBride, retired rector of Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church will be here to sign his new mystery The Ghost of Midsummer
Common (Windstorm, 14.99), set in and around
Saturday, September
13th Tucsonan Jennifer Lee Carrell will be here to
sign the paperback edition of Interred
with their Bones (Png 15.00), her mystery
thriller about a lost Shakespearean manuscript that I call the intelligent woman’s Da Vinci Code.
Sunday, September
14th at
Coming up:
Betsy Thornton and Aimee and David Thurlo.
June/July
2008
Sunday,
June 1st at
Sunday, June 8th at
Monday,
June 16th Douglas Preston will be
here to sign The Monster of Florence, a real-life thriller about
a serial killer written with Mario Spezi. This will
be a benefit for the UA History Department with dessert and coffee.
Tuesday, July 8th Brent Ghelfi will
be here to sign Volk’s Shadow, the second to feature the
Russian army soldier and spy.
Sunday, July 13th at
Sunday,
April 13th at
Monday,
April 21 at 6:00
Saturday, May 3rd 2:30 Elizabeth Zelvin will be here to sign her debut mystery, Death Will Get You Sober (STM, 23.95), about a recovering alcoholic who uses a murder investigation to keep his mind off drinking.
Sunday, May 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom (HC, 12.95), a comic mystery about an English librarian who accepts a job in a small Irish town only to discover that there are no books in the library.
Thursday, May 9th at 7:00 Clues will present a panel discussion featuring Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, Jane Eppinga, and Susan Cummins Miller, Tucson historians who will be discussing the ways in which women’s history of the west gives us a sense of the way things really were.
Friday,
May 16th at
Sunday, February 10th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Lyn Hamilton’s Xibalba Murders (Brk, 6.99), set in Mexico, the first in the art and antiquities series featuring Toronto art dealer Lara McClintoch.
Sunday, February 17th at 2:00 Sandi Ault will be here to sign Wild Inferno (Brk, 23.95) set on the Southern Ute Reservation.
Saturday,
February 23rd at
Wednesday,
February 27th at
Saturday,
March 1st at
Sunday,
March 9th at
Monday,
March 10th at 10:00 Libby Fischer Hellmann and Cara Black will here for a
discussion and signing to benefit Brandeis. Hellmann will be signing both of
her recent books, Chicago Blues (BH, 14.95), a
collection of short stories set in the Windy City and Easy Innocence (BH, 24.95hc and 14.95 tp), a thriller featuring a PI investigating the deaths of
girls from Chicago’s North Shore. Black will be signing
the latest in the series featuring French-American PI Aimee LeDuc
(Murder in the Rue de Paradise,
Saturday, March 15th at 2:00 Ken Kuhlken will be here to sign The Vagabond Virgins (PP, 24.95), the latest in the family saga of the Hickey family in a mystery that takes place in Tijuana and Baja California.
Saturday, April 5th at 2:00 Clues will be having a coming-out party for Emily, the new addition to the Clues Unlimited family, which will be a benefit for the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary. Come and pig-out on food (no pork), drink, and a chance to see the world's cutest baby pig. Check the website for pictures of our newest little bookseller.
Coming
up: Susan Cummins Miller, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis,
December
2007/January 2008
Tuesday, November 27 through Sunday, December 16 the Invisible Theatre presents a deliciously diabolical mystery, The Business of Murder, centering on a television playwright, a detective, and a mystery man--all connected by murder. On Wednesday, December 5th after the performance at 7:30, I will be discussing the theater and the mystery tradition. Call 882-9721 for tickets.
Sunday, December 9th at
Saturday, December 29th at 3:00 John Roynnesdal will be here to sign Living in Darkness (Starbooks, 16.95), a thriller set in Honolulu featuring HPD’s homicide detective Philip Michael Carnegie--a cross between Lt. Columbo and Jessica Fletcher--who must solve a series of hate crimes against gays. Hawaiian munchies (but no roast pig, according to Sophie) and discounts on our large selection of GLBT mysteries.
Wednesday, December 26 through Monday, December 31, Clues Unlimited’s Annual Sale will expand to a week this year. Everything will be on sale for a 20% discountWednesday through Sunday and 25% on Monday, December 31. We’re making your Christmas shopping easy--buy a gift certificate and tell the recipient about the sale!
Friday, January 11th at 7:00 J.A. Jance will be here to sign Hand of Evil (SS, 25.95), the third in the series featuring former newscaser Ali Reynolds and set in Sedona. This will be a discussion and signing to benefit the Tohono O’odham library and there will be a $10 charge at the door. Dessert will be served. Call Clues at 326-8533 to reserve your ticket.
Sunday, January 13th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Sharyn McCrumb’s Sick of Shadows (BDD, 6.99) the first of the Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries.
Tuesday, January 15th at 7:00 Michael McGarrity will be here to sign Death Song (Dutton, 24.95), the latest Kevin Kerney mystery set in New Mexico.
Friday, January 25th at 7:00 we will have a joint signing with former Tucsonan Louise Ure signing The Fault Tree (STM, 23.95), a mystery set in Tucson featuring a blind detective, and Leighton Gage signing Blood of the Wicked (SOHO, 24.00) a debut mystery set in Brazil.
Coming up: Sandi Ault, Susan Cummins Miller,
Cara Black, Libby Fischer Hellman, and Betty Webb.
October/November 2007
Cancelled. Tuesday, October 9th at 5:30 Ken Isaacson will be here to sign his debut legal thriller, Silent Counsel (Windermere Press, 24.95).
Postponed.Thursday, October 11th at
Saturday, October 13th at
2:30 Nancy Turner will be here to sign the third in her series featuring
Arizona pioneerwoman Agnes Prine,
The
Sunday, October 14th at 2:00 the Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss W. J. Burley’s Wycliffe and the Three-toed Pussy (TSP, 7.99), a British police procedural written in the 1970’s.
Saturday, October 20th at
Saturday, October 27th at 7:00 pm Clues is pleased to host Richard Shelton signing Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer (Uof A Press, 35.00hc, 17.95 paper) and Ken Lamberton signing Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment (Uof A Press, 17.95 paper). While these books may seem outside of the mystery purview, it will be interesting to look at not just crime, but also punishment, and the transformative power of writing. Please join us.
Saturday, November 3rd at
2:30
Saturday, November 10th Tucsonan J. M. Hayes will be here to sign Broken Heartland (PP, 24.95) the latest in the series featuring Mad Dog and Englishman set in rural Kansas.
Sunday, November 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss C.J. Sansom’s Dissolution (Png, 14.00), an award-winning mystery set in England in 1537 at the time of the establishment of the English Church.
Saturday, November 17th at
2:30 Clues will host former Tucsonan Rose Marie Kinder, signing An Absolute Gentleman (Counterpoint, 24.95) and
Sunday, November 25th from 1-4 Clues will host our annual Mistletoe and Mystery author signing event and holiday party. Marcelino is already planning the menu. Donis Casey will be attending to sign her new mystery, The Drop Edge of Yonder (PP, 24.95). Check the website for additional authors who will be attending.
Coming up: J.A. Jance, Michael McGarrity, and
Louise Ure
August/September2007
Saturday, August 4th at 4:00 J.A. Jance will be here to sign her new J.P. Beaumont mystery, Justice Denied (HC, 25.95).
Saturday, August 11th at
Sunday, August 12th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss the Dylis Award-winning mystery Still Life by Louise Penny (STM, 6.99).
Sunday, September 9th at
Saturday, September 15th at 9:00 am Zoe Sharp will be here to sign Second Shot (STM, 23.95) the second in the series
featuring English PI Charlie Fox.
Thursday, September 20 at
Friday, September 21st
is shaping up to be very busy. At 2:00 Steve Hamilton will be here to
sign his superb new stand-alone thriller, Night Work (STM, 24.95). Then
at
Saturday, September 29th Kathleen Delaney will be
here--with her dogs, as part of a cross-country book tour--to sign And Murder for Dessert (PP, 24.95) her debut mystery set in a
California winery.
June/July 2007
Sunday, June 10th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Picador, 14.00), the award-winning debut historical novel set in Istanbul.
Saturday, June 16th at 2:00 Jeff Mariotte will be here to sign and discuss Missing White Girl (Jove, 6.99), a supernatural mystery set in Cochise County.
Wednesday, June 20th at 7:00, U of A
Law School alumnus Brent Ghelfi will be here to sign
his debut thriller, Volk’s Game (Holt, 19.95), set in
Friday, June 22nd at 7:00 Steven Havill will be discussing and signing his new Posadas County mystery, Final Payment (STM, 23.95). Please join us to welcome him.
Sunday, July 8th at
Saturday, August 4th (time TBA) J.A. Jance will be here to sign her new J.P. Beaumont mystery, Justice Denied (HC, 25.95).