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Clues Unlimited

A Mystery Bookstore

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

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Signings and Special Events

February/March 2012

Saturday, February 11^th at 12:00 Betty Webb will be discussing and signing the latest in the Lena Jones series Desert Wind (PP, 24.95 hc. 14.95 tp), a timely mystery that takes up the issue of uranium mining in northern Arizona.

Sunday, February 12^th at 2:00 the Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Saturday Morning Murders by Batya Gur (HC, 11.00), the first in a series set in contemporary Jerusalem.

Monday, February 13^th at 7:00 Dana Stabenow will be discussing and signing Restless in the Grave (STM, 25.99), the latest in the Kate Shugak series set in Alaska. Please join us.

Saturday, February 18^th Clues Unlimited will welcome two Tucson women of mystery: J. Carson Black will be signing The Shop (T&M, 13.95) and Elizabeth Gunn will be signing Magic Line (Severn, 28.95), a Sarah Burke mystery set in Tucson.

Saturday, March 10^th and Sunday, March 11^th 9-5 the Tucson Festival of Books will be held at the University of Arizona. Please join us for panel discussions with some of your favorite mystery authors and signings at the Clues Unlimited exhibitor’s booth. I will post the signing schedule on the website and it will also be available in a pull-out section from the Arizona Daily Star.

Sunday, March 18^th at 2:00 the Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte (HMH, 14.00), a Spanish literary mystery.

Coming soon: Michael McGarrity and Tony Hays

December2011/January 2012

Saturday, December 17th at 2:00 a real Arizona signing: historian Jim Turner will be signing his beautiful picture book, Arizona and Gary Abromovitz will be signing The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno. Arizona has it all!

Monday, December 26 from 10-4 Clues will celebrate Boxing Day with our annual sale. Everything in the store will be on sale!

Sunday, January 8th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Martin Limon’s Jade Lady Burning the first in a series set in U.S. occupied South Korea.

Monday, January 9th at 7:00pm, Clues Unlimited will host Larry Karp signing A Perilous Conception, a mystery set during the early days of fertility treatments.

Sunday, January 15th at 2:00 Clues will host the inaugural meeting of the Tucson chapter of Sisters in Crime. If you are interested--as a fan or as an author--in promoting mystery in Tucson, please join us. We need your input and would love you to volunteer.

Tuesday, January 17th at 6:00, Ed Kovacs will be here to discuss and sign Storm Damage, a gritty, action-packed debut mystery set in New Orleans.

Coming up: Betty Webb, J. Carson Black, J.A. Jance

October/November 2011

Sunday, October 9th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg (Free Press, $15.00), the first in a series set in a remote Swedish seaside village.

Saturday, November 5^th at 1:30 Gary Abromovitz will be here to discuss and sign The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno: The Final Secrets of a Life in the Mafia (HC, 15.99), a look at the inside workings of the Mafia, written by the son of Tucson’s very own crime boss, Joe Bonanno.

Sunday, November 13th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees (HMH, $13.95), the first in a series set on the West Bank of Jerusalem, featuring Omar Yussef, a Palestinian history teacher who investigates a murder when a former student is arrested.

Sunday, November 20th from 1:00-4:00 we will celebrate Mistletoe and Mystery in conjunction with a celebration of the Arizona Sisters in Crime Chapter’s twentieth anniversary. Please come for a chance to get to know Arizona’s many mystery writers, some local and some from other parts of the state. Refreshments will be served.

August/September 2011

Saturday, August 6th at 2:30 Clues Unlimited will host a book launch party for Shelley Bock who will be discussing and signing Deadly Smile (Wheatmark, 19.95) written as S.K. Varney, a debut mystery set in Pinetop.

Sunday, August 14th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear (HC, 14.99), the most recent in paperback in the Maisie Dobbs series.

Sunday, September 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Medicus by Ruth Downie (Bloomsbury, 14.95), the first in a series set in Roman Britain.

Thursday, September 22 at 5:30 Clues Unlimited will welcome Simon Wood discussing and signing Did Not Finish (Severn, 28.95), the first in a series set in the high-octane world of auto racing.

June/July 2011

Sunday, June 12th at 2:00 please join Clues Unlimited’s Book Club to welcome multiple award-winning author Steve Hamilton who will be discussing and signing Misery Bay (STM, 24.95), his latest novel in the Alex McKnight series set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Saturday, June 18th at 2:30 Earlene Fowler will be here to discuss and sign her latest book in the Benni Harper quilting series, Spider Web (Brk, 24.95). If you enjoy quilting and mysteries, you will want to meet her.

Thursday, June 23rd at 7:00 Juliet Blackwell and Sophie Littlefield will be signing their most recent mysteries, Hexes and Hemlines (NAL, 7.99) and A Bad Day for Scandal (STM, 24.99) after presenting a writer’s workshop entitled Sex and Passion--learn how to write believable scenes between lovers whether you’re on the sweet or spicy end of the spectrum.

Tuesday, July 5th at 7:00 David Rosenfelt will be here to sign and discuss his latest in the Andy Carpenter series, One Dog Night (STM, 24.99). I hope to partner this with a dog rescue group here in town, because David is very much involved with dog rescue through the Tara Foundation.

Sunday, July 10th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong (STM, 13.95), a mystery set in Beijing.

Saturday, July 16th at 2:30 J.M. Hayes will be here to sign and discuss his new mystery in the Mad Dog and Englishman series, English Lessons (PP, 24.95 hc, 14.95tp), part of which takes place in Arizona. He will be joined by Jane Eppinga who will sign and discuss La Malinche (Floricanto, 24.95).

April/May 2011

Signings and Special Events

Sunday, April 10 at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Arabesk by Barbara Nadel (F&M, 14.95), the second in the police procedural series set in Istanbul.

Saturday, May 7th Clues will present a panel discussion and booksigning, Women Writing the West, with Carolyn O’Bagy Davis discussing Hopi Summer (Rio Nuevo, 15.95), Susan Cummins Miller discussing Fracture (TTUP, 24.95), and Jane Eppinga discussing La Malinche (Floricanto, 24.95). Please join us.

Sunday, May 8th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriđason (STM, 14.00), a police procedural set in Reykjavik.

February/March 2011

Saturday, February 5th at 7:00 J.A. Jance will be discussing and signing her newest book in the Ali Reynolds series, Fatal Error (Touchstone, 25.99). Please join us to meet a Tucson Treasure.

Sunday, February 13th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss The Last Detective (Soho, 13.00) by Peter Lovesey, featuring Bath’s Inspector Peter Diamond.

Saturday and Sunday, March 12^th and 13^th from 10-6 the Tucson Festival of Books will be at the University of Arizona mall. We will close the store from Saturday until Tuesday to sell books at the Festival. Check out the schedule for mystery panels and signings at the Clues Unlimited booth:

Saturday Mystery Panel Schedule

Unlikely but Awesome: Amateur Women Detectives (Sat. 10: ILC 140)

Donis Casey,Juliet Blackwell,Betty Webb

Moderator: Barbara Peters

Native Detectives (Saturday 10:00: Bookstore)

Margaret Coel, Thomas Perry, Sara Sue Hokletubbe, Craig Johnson

Moderator: J.M. Hayes

Elmore Leonard (Sat. 11:30: Modern Languages)

Elmore Leonard

Interviewer: Mike Lupica

Wild Science: Adventures in Crime Fiction (Sat. 11:30: ILC 140)

Susan Cummins Miller, James Rollins, Graham Brown

Moderator: Christine Burke

Jacqueline Winspear (Sat 11:30: Tent, UA Mall)

Jacqueline Winspear

Interviewer: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Writing the Opposite Gender (Sat. 1: ILC 140)

Elizabeth Gunn, Thomas Perry, Alan Jacobson

Moderator: Bob Dugoni

Tough Guys and Mean Streets(Sat. 1: BALLROOM)

T. Jefferson Parker, Peter Leonard, James Rollins

Moderator: Josh Bazell

Blood & Guts: Violence in Crime Fiction (Sat. 2:30: ILC 140)

Rebecca Cantrell, Cara Black, Dianne Emley

Moderator: Zoe Sharp

Martin Cruz Smith (Sat. 2:30: Modern Languages)

Martin Cruz Smith

Interviewer: Tom Miller

Genre Wars (Sat. 2:30: BALLROOM)

J.A. Jance, Diana Gabaldon, Jacqueline Winspear

Moderator: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Killer Action (Saturday 4: Student Union Tucson

Zoe Sharp, Alan Jacobson, Bob Dugoni

Moderator: Margaret Coel

Border Crossings (Sat. 4: BALLROOM)

T. Jefferson Parker, Luis Urrea

Moderator: Scott Simon

Twisted & Torn: Relationships in Crime Fiction(Sat. 4: Modern Languages)

Wendy Corsi Staub,Libby Hellmann, Sheldon Siegel

Moderator: Barbara Peters

Ripped from the Headlines: Current Events in Crime (Sat. 4: Tent)

CJ Box: Environment ;Betty Webb: Polygamy; John Lescroart: Politics

Moderator: Charlotte Lowe

Death in the Desert: Arizona Crime Author Spotlight (Sat. 4: ILC 119)

Elizabeth Gunn

Interviewer: J.M. Hayes

Sunday Mystery Panel Schedule

Against the Odds: Women in Jeopardy (Sun. 10: ILC 150)

Wendy Corsi Staub, Libby Hellmann, Juliet Blackwell

Moderator: Dianne Emley

Slaying with a Smile (Sun 10: Chem 111)

Craig Johnson, Sophie Littlefield, Josh Bazell

Moderator: Cara Black

Elmore Leonard & Family (Sun 10: Tent)

Elmore Leonard, Peter Leonard, Chris Leonard

Women in the Shadow of War: Histories Mysteries (Sun 11:30: ILC 150)

Jacqueline Winspear, Rebecca Cantrell, Suzanne Arruda

Moderator: Christine Burke

The Best and the Brightest: the Professional Detective (Sun 11:30 Modern Languages)

Alan Jacobson (FBI),CJ Box (Game & Fish), Martin Cruz Smith (KGB)

Moderator: Susan Cummins Miller

Amazing Adventures (Sun. 1: Tent, UA Mall)

Suzanne Arruda, Graham Brown, James Rollins

Moderator: Sheldon Siegel

The Seamy Side of Paradise: California Crime (Sun 1: ILC 120

Dianne Emley, Thomas Perry, T. Jefferson Parker

Moderator: Patrick Millikin

Writing the West: Crime Fiction

(Sun 1: Student Union Tucson)

CJ Box, Margaret Coel, Susan Cummins Miller

Moderator: J.M. Hayes

The Scene of the Crime: Place as Character (Sun 2:30: Tent, UA Mall)

Cara Black, Martin Cruz Smith, Jennifer Lee Carrell

Moderator: Charlotte Lowe

Women and Noir

(Sun 2:30: ILC 150)

Sophie Littlefield, Elizabeth Gunn, Zoe Sharp

Moderator: Patrick Millikin

Kill all the Lawyers: the Legal Thriller (Sun 2:30: Modern Language)

Sheldon Siegel, John Lescroart, Bob Dugoni

Moderator: Graham Brown

Women Writing Mystery: Inaugural Lecture with J.A. Jance (Sun 2:30: BALLROOM)

J.A. Jance

Interviewer: Christine Burke

Saturday Signing Schedule at Clues Unlimited Booth

10 am Robert Dugoni and Sheldon Siegel

11 am Diane Gabladon and Sophie Littlefield

12 pm C J Box, Rita Lakin, and Dianne Emley

1 pm Craig Johnson, Cara Black , and Susan Cummins Miller

1:30pm Jennifer Lee Carrell

2 pm Libby Fisher Hellmann and Wendi Corsi Staub

2:30 pm Thomas Perry and Alan Jacobson

3 pm Betty Webb, James Rollins, and Donis Casey

4 pm Josh Bazell and Rebecca Cramer

Sunday Signing Schedule at Clues Unlimited Booth

10 am Elizabeth Gunn and J.M Hayes

11:15 J.A. Jance

12 pm Robert Dugoni, Patrick Millikin, and John LesCroart

1 pm Craig Johnson, Libby Fisher Hellman, and Cara Black

1:30 Alan Jacobson and Zoe Sharp

2 pm Diana Gabladon and Sara Sue Hokletubbe

230 pm C.J. Box and Suzanne Arruda

3 pm Juliet Blackwell, Margaret Coel, T. Jefferson Parker, and Rebecca Cantrell

4 pm

Please check back to learn the latest schedule changes. We’ll post new authors and times by March 1^st to make your Festival experience the best possible.

Sunday, March 20th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Tarquin Hall’s Case of the Missing Servant (SS, 14.00), the first in a comic cozy series featuring Vish Puri, Delhi private investigator.

Sunday, March 27th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited will present Tony Hays signing the third in his series set in Roman Britain, featuring the historical King Arthur, The Beloved Dead (Forge, 24.99).

December 2010/January 2011

Sunday, December 12^th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Bad Medicine by Aimée and David Thurlo (Forge, 15.95), a mystery featuring tribal policewoman Ella Clah set on the Navajo Reservation.

Sunday, December 26^th from 12:00-5:00 Clues will have its annual after-Christmas sale. Everything in the store will be on sale with discounts from 20%-50%, as well as a special selection of $1 and $5 books. Bring your wish list!

Sunday, January 9^th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Karin Fossum’s The Indian Bride (HMH, 14.00), a mystery set in a small Norwegian village featuring Inspector Sejer.

Sunday, January 16^th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited will present “Death in the Desert” featuring two Arizona mystery writers discussing how our state lends itself to writing about crime and violence. Please join Jon Talton who will be signing his new David Mapstone mystery set in Phoenix, South Phoenix Rules (Poisoned Pen, 24.95 hc, 14.95 tp) and Elizabeth Gunn who will be signing her latest Sarah Burke mystery set in Tucson, Kissing Arizona (Severn, 28.95). Booksigning.

Wednesday, January 19^th at 7:00, Clues Unlimited will welcome Lori Armstrong who will be discussing and signing her latest mystery set in western South Dakota, Mercy Kill (SS, 25.00), featuring rancher and former Army sniper Mercy Gunderson.

Saturday, January 22 at 2:30 Clues Unlimited will present a discussion and booksigning with Cathy Hufault the author of Death Clouds on Mt Baldy (Arizona Mountain Publications, 22.95), the true story of a search for three boy scouts lost during a freak blizzard in 1958.

October/November 2010

Sunday, October 10th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club discuss Stieg Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (RH, 14.95), the first in the Millenium trilogy.

Tuesday, October 19th at 5:30 P.L. Gaus will be here to discuss and sign Blood of the Prodigal (Penguin, 13.00), the first in a wonderful series set in Ohio’s Amish country.

Thursday, October 21st at 5:30 Ann Littlewood will be here to sign and discuss her series set in a Vancouver, WA zoo, featuring zookeeper Iris Oakley, Night Kill (PP, 14.95) and Did Not Survive (PP, 24.95 hc, 14.95 tp). A must for animal lovers and environmentalists.

Monday, October 25th at 5:30 Alan Jacobson will be here to discuss and sign the most recent in the series featuring FBI agent Karen Vail, Velocity (Vgrd, 25.95) set in California’s Napa Valley.. Please join us for wine and cheese.

Sunday, November 14th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Iron Lake (SS, 15.00, the first in the series featuring Cork O’Connor set in northern Michigan.

Saturday, November 13th from 2:00 to 4:30 Clues Unlimited will present a workshop with former FBI agent and private investigator Ernie Patino for mystery writers and fans entitled “What a Real PI Does.” This workshop is free, but space is limited, so call for reservations. After the workshop, there will be a booksigning.

Sunday, November 21st from noon to 4:30 Clues Unlimited will present Mistletoe & Mystery to kick off the Christmas season. This year we will be presenting three panels: “Science & Mystery” with Susan Cummins Miller and Graham Brown; “History’s Mysteries” with Jennifer Lee Carrell and Tony Hays; and “Death in the Desert” with Betty Webb, Betsy Thornton, J. M. Hayes, and Elizabeth Gunn. Please join us for a fascinating look at what mystery writers have to say about the books they write. Refreshments and booksigning.

August/September 2010

Tuesday, August 10^th 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 15^th 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 16^th 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 28^th 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.

Tuesday, August 31st at 5:30 Clues Unlimited will host a book launch party for Graham Brown’s Black Sun (BDD, 7.99) a

suspenseful thriller featuring a beautiful researcher, a Mayan legend, and an international chase.

Thursday, September 2^nd at 5:30, Wendy Hornsby will be here to sign her latest in the series featuring filmmaker Maggie. MacGowen , The Paramour’s Daughter (Pers, 14.95). After receiving notice that she has been left a sizable inheritance by an unknown French relative, Maggie journeys to France. Please join us for this chance to meet Wendy.

Sunday, September 12^th 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 18^th 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 23^rd 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 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.