Love is in the air–and so is murder. Forget the candy, ask for books from your sweetheart.
In Mac Faraday's 9th outing, he's on his way to the altar. It's the social event of the year for Deep Creek Lake. Mac's not concerned with droopy flowers or guests who fail to RSVP. Instead, he's got a professional hit squad on his heels. With Three Days to Forever, Lauren Carr keeps us on the edge of our pews.
It's not beach blanket bingo but Murder on the Beach. That's the theme of this year's Bouchercon, set in Long Beach, California, November 13-16.
Bouchercon is the Annual World Mystery Convention. It's named after Anthony Boucher, aka William Anthony Parker White. He was a writer, editor and critic. Some consider him the cornerstone of modern mystery analysis. Like the Olympics, the convention is bid on by different cities. The convention attracts major mystery authors and fans from across the globe.
With the cooler fall weather nearly upon us, time to curl up with a good book. Need suggestions? Continue reading!
Prolific author, John Grisham, has a new legal offering with Gray Mountain. Samantha Kofer never saw the recession of 2008 coming. When she loses her job at a Wall Street law firm, she goes to work for a legal aid clinic in Brady, VA, in the Appalachians. Although she isn't getting paid, reward and life lessons come from helping people with real problems.
Three places you should be glad you didn't go to on vacation this year are Windigo Island, Lost Island and City of Ghosts.
Windigo is the name of a mythical beast and Windigo Island is the name of William Kent Krueger's 14th Cork O'Connor mystery. When the body of a teenage girl washes up on the shores of the island, the Ojbwe tribe knows it's an evil omen. Cork is asked by a friend to investigate and in the process he faces his own demons, both mythical and real.
We cannot get enough of those thriller heroes, so Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Jeffrey Deaver and 20 other writers of the genre got together to produce 11 stories for the anthology, Faceoff. Each story contains two characters from different authors solving crimes. Double the reading pleasure!
Ah, summer! A chance to lie in the sun coated with sunscreen and read. Quench your thirst for a good story with these novels: KRL “fave,” Nancy J. Parra has a new series out featuring event planner/sleuth, Pepper Pomeroy. A surprise marriage proposal and getaway for her sister gets hijacked at a private airport when a man's body is found in the women's restroom. Does the fiancé have more to hide than an engagement ring? Pepper's on the case! Engaged in Murder is available in trade and on Kindle.
California's much needed rain is not dampening excitement for LCC Monterey. Here are more of the authors to look for at the event:
NYPD Det. Max(ine) Maguire's assignment is to protect a wine critic who received a death threat. When the woman is killed, Max must team up with a French official she fell for while solving a murder in Champagne.
It's Molly MacRae's first LCC and she'll be joining her brother Andrew in the festivities. She’s launching the third book in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery series, Spinning In Her Grave. Kath Rutledge's Weaver's Cat fabric store comes with gloomy ghost Geneva in residence.
Getting excited about Left Coast Crime, Monterey? Well, here are some more authors attending and their books to get excited about!
Continuing the countdown to Left Coast Crime Monterey, here are more authors who will be attending. For those of you who have to miss the Calamari Crime event, you might want to check these out for new reads.
