Tuesday, January 17th, 7:00 PM ELIZABETH GEORGE New York Times Bestselling and Award-Winning Mystery and Suspense Author
Autographing
and discussing her new Inspector Lynley novel, Believing the Lie
Barbara Havers, Deborah St. James, and of course,
Inspector Lynley,
return in Believing the Lie. Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover
to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the
man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The
death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the
surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his
friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals
that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect - Bernard's prodigal
son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict - leads her to Nicholas's wife,
a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely
protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for
information from the rest of the family, including the victim's
bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As
the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks,
with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone
from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left
behind.
Elizabeth George was born Susan Elizabeth George in
Warren, Ohio.
She is a graduate of University of California in Riverside. She also
attended California State University at Fullerton, where she was
awarded a master's degree in Counseling/Psychology and an honorary
doctorate of humane letters
Professionally,
she started out as a teacher. She was employed at Mater Dei High
School in Santa Ana initially, but there she gave in to her bent for
organized labor and was summarily fired along with ten other
teachers for union activity. She moved on to El Toro High School in
El Toro, California (now called Lake Forest, California), where she
remained for the rest of her career as high school English teacher.
While employed there, she was selected Orange County Teacher of the
Year, a tribute in part to the work she'd done with remedial
students for nearly a decade. She left education after thirteen and
a half years when she sold her first novel, A Great Deliverance, to
her longtime publisher Bantam Books.
She has won the Anthony Award, the Agatha Award, and France's Le
Grand Prix de Literature Policiere for her novel
A Great Deliverance, for which
she was also nominated for the Edgar and the Macavity Awards. She
has also been awarded Germany's MIMI for her novel Well-Schooled in
Murder.
Most of her novels have been filmed by for television by the BBC and
have been broadcast in the U.S. on PBS'
MYSTERY.
Did you miss our recent events ?
New York
Times Best-Selling and Award-Winning Mystery and Suspense Author
LAURIE R. KING
Autographing
and discussing her newest Mary Russell novel, Pirate King, as well as her brand new anthology, A Study in Sherlock: Stories
Inspired by the Holmes Canon
Bantam - $25.00
In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her
husband, Sherlock Holmes, New York Times bestselling author
Laurie R. King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent
film -- where the pirates are real and the shooting isn't all done with
cameras.
In England's young silent-film industry, the
megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, at the request of
Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of
criminal activities that swirl around Fflytte's popular movie studio. So
Russell is traveling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew
that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King.
Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, the
project will either set the standard for movie-making for a
generation...or
sink a boatload of careers.
Nothing seems amiss until the
enormous company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, where
the thirteen blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses whom Mary is bemusedly
chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to
provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the
actual filming, Russell feels a building storm of trouble: a derelict
boat, a film crew with secrets, ominous currents between the pirates,
decks awash with budding romance -- and now the pirates are
ignoring Fflytte and answering only to their dangerous outlaw leader.
Plus, there's a spy on board. Where can Sherlock Holmes be? As movie
make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may
experience a final fadeout.
"Pirate King is a Laurie King
treasure chest -- thrilling, intelligent, romantic -- a swiftly unreeling
masterpiece of suspense"
A third generation Northern Californian, Laurie has lived most of her life in the Bay Area. Her background is as mixed as any writer's, from degrees in theology and managing a coffee store to raising children, vegetable, and the occasional building. She has built her reputation and career on novels that push the envelope of convention, winning the Edgar Award for her first novel, A Grave Talen, spotlighting SFPD Detective Kate Martinelli, and then resurrecting Sherlock Holmes for a new era of readers in the form of his wife and companion, Mary Russell. She has also written several stand-alone novels outside of her established series. Folly, for instance, has been a favorite for years with Bay Book staff members and our loyal customers.
Poisoned Pen Press - $29.95
BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLME -- IN AN
IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited
by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Neil
Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen
superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly
original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book.
These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations,
create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in
his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal
their own personal obsessions with the Great Detective.
Thomas
Perry, for example, has Dr. Watson tell his tale, in a virtuoso work of
alternate history that finds President McKinley approaching the sleuth
with a disturbing request; Lee Child sends an FBI agent to investigate a
crime near today's Baker Street -- only to get a twenty-first-century
shock; Jacqueline Winspear spins a story of a plucky boy inspired by the
detective to make his own deductions; and graphic artist Colin
Cotterill portrays his struggle to complete this assignment in his
hilarious "The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story."
In
perfect tribute comes this delicious collection of twisty, clever, and
enthralling studies of a timeless icon.
Featuring stories from:
Alan
Bradley, Tony Broadbent, Jan Burke, Lionel Chetwynd, Lee Child, Colin
Cotterill, Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman, Gayle Lynds & John
Sheldon, Phillip & Jerry Margolin, Margaret Maron, Thomas
Perry, S. J. Rozan, Dana Stabenow, Charles Todd, & Jacqueline
Winspear
New York
Times Best-Selling Action and Suspense Author
JAMES ROLLINS
AUTOGRAPHING
AND DISCUSSING HIS NEW SIGMA FORCE NOVEL
William Morrow - $27.99
Could the founding of America be based on a fundamental lie, one coded
in secrets that stretch back before the birth of Christ, to a mystery
buried in the prehistoric past? The truth lies hidden within the ruins
of a lost colony of the Americas, vanished in time and cursed into
oblivion. A place known only as
THE DEVIL COLONY
Deep
in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery - hundreds of mummified
bodies - stirs international attention and fervent controversy. Despite
doubts to the bodies' origins, a local Native American group lays claim
to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in
the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script.
During
a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly: burned to ash
in a fiery explosion in plain view of television cameras. All evidence
points to a radical group of Native Americans, including one agitator - a
teenage firebrand who escapes with a vital clue to the murder and calls
on the one person who might help: her uncle, Painter Crowe, director of
Sigma Force.
To protect his niece and uncover the truth, Painter
will ignite a war among the nation's most powerful intelligence
agencies. But an even greater threat looms, as events in the Rocky
Mountains have set in motion a frightening chain reaction - a geological
meltdown that threatens the entire western half of the U.S.
From
the volcanic peaks of Iceland to the blistering deserts of the American
Southwest, from the gold vaults of Fort Knox to the bubbling geysers of
Yellowstone, Painter Crowe joins forces with Commander Gray Pierce to
penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal; one that has been
manipulating American history since the founding of the thirteen
colonies.
But can he discover the truth - one that could topple
governments - before it destroys all he holds dear?
James Rollins is
the author of six previous thrillers in the bestselling Sigma
Force series (Sandstorm, Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas
Strain, The Last Oracle, and The Doomsday Key), the
blockbuster movie novelization of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull, and six individual adventure thrillers. Rollins is also
writing the Jake Ransom series for kids and adults, of which two volumes (Jake
Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow and Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx) are currently available.
New York Times bestselling
author James Rollins holds
a doctorate in veterinary medicine and resides in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains. An amateur spelunker and a certified scuba enthusiast, he can
often be found either underground or underwater.
Known for
building high-octane adventures on a solid science
foundation, Jim juxtaposes the familiar with the exotic and then
turbo-charges his tales with suspense. Always mindful of history's
legacy, Jim reveals how secrets, some hidden for centuries, can change
the course of human events. His novels explore how advancing technology
can impact society, not just by the physical threats of unchecked
developments, but also the spiritual and moral challenges that result.
The true terror of technology is not the cogs and the wheels, but how it
will change us, he says.
New York Times Best-Selling Suspense Fiction Author
TESS GERRITSEN
AUTOGRAPHING
AND DISCUSSING HER NEW RIZZOLI AND ISLES NOVEL
Ballantine Books - $26.00
"In Gerritsen's gripping ninth Rizzoli & Isles novel (after
Ice Cold), a severed hand found on a Chinatown street leads Det. Jane
Rizzoli, Boston PD, to a rooftop, where she discovers a female body with
a slit throat and without a hand. About the only clues to the Jane
Doe's identity are silvery hairs on the victim's clothes that may not be
human. Rizzoli and her team uncover a link to a 19-year-old
murder/suicide case, in which an illegal immigrant cook, Wu Weimin,
allegedly shot a waiter, three customers, and himself inside the Red
Phoenix restaurant late one night. Some people in Chinatown still
believe Wu was innocent. Meanwhile, in a strange coincidence, two
missing girls turn out to be related to victims of the Red Phoenix
massacre. Medical examiner Maura Isles plays a supporting role, though
both women deal with personal and family issues that reveal their
humanity and lend credibility to this deft thriller." - Publisher's
Weekly
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual
route
to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to
medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she
was awarded her M.D.
Tess began her writing career while on maternity leave from her
work as a physician. Her first romantic suspense novel, Call
After Midnight, was published in 1987, and was followed by eight
more novels in the same genre.
Tess' first medical thriller, Harvest (1996), was also her
first hardcover release, and it marked her debut on the New York
Times Bestseller List. Tess followed Harvest with several
more medical thrillers, each more successful than the last. Then, in
2001, with the publication of The Surgeon, Tess began a series of
suspense novels featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and
medical examiner Maura Isles. Her new release, The Silent Girl,
is the eighth novel to feature these characters.
Tess' novels have been Top-5 bestsellers in the U.S. and abroad. Her
book have been translated into 37 languages, and have sold more than 20
million copies worldwide. Her novels and characters inspired the TNT hit
television series Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and
Sasha Alexander, which is just beginning its second season.
Tess Gerritsen
New York Times Best-Selling Historical and Military Fiction Author
JEFF SHAARA
AUTOGRAPHING AND DISCUSSING HIS NEW NOVEL
In THE FINAL STORM
(Ballantine Books; Hardcover; On Sale: 5/17/2011),
the fourth and final
book of his New York Times
bestselling WWII series, Shaara
takes readers to the Pacific theatre, as soldiers, sailors, and Marines risk
all in a great last push toward a decisive victory. Hailed as the "master of
the war novel" by the Chicago Tribune, Shaara's
narrative dexterity has never been on more brilliant display.THE
FINAL STORM tells the story of the struggle for Okinawa and the dropping of
the atomic bomb at Hiroshima,
through the eyes of characters on both sides, thus providing a vivid
understanding of the moral complexity and importance of this great, final chapter
of World War II.
Jeff Shaara
Jeff Shaara, a descendant of Italian immigrants, was born in 1952
in New Brunswick, New Jersey ("Shaara" was originally spelled "Sciarra"). He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from FloridaStateUniversity in 1974, with
a degree in Criminology. From age 16, Jeff operated a rare coin business, first
out of his home, then in a retail store. In 1974, he moved to Tampa,
Florida, and eventually, Jeff became one of
the most widely known coin and precious-metals dealers in Florida. In 1988, Jeff's father, the writer Michael
Shaara, died, and Jeff made the decision to sell his business, and take over
the management of his father's estate.
In 1993, the film Gettysburg
was released, which was based on his father's classic novel, The Killer Angels. After the
critical and commercial success of the film, Jeff was approached about the
possibility of continuing the story, finding someone to write a prequel and
sequel to The Killer Angels.
After some considerable soul-searching, Jeff decided to try to tackle the
project himself. The decision was difficult in many ways, but most challenging
because Jeff had no previous experience as a writer.
Jeff's eighth book, The Rising Tide, was
published in November 2006. The story is the first of what became a trilogy
following an extraordinary cast of characters through the European theater of
the Second World War. The Rising Tide was again a New York Times
bestseller. The centerpiece of the trilogy, The
Steel Wave, which follows key participants through the Normandy invasion was a New York Times bestseller in 2008.
No Less Than Victory, the
conclusion of the trilogy, which portrays the European war's last act, was
published in November 2009 and was also an instant New York Times bestseller.
His latest novel, The Final Storm,
which will portray World War II in the Pacific, will be published in May 2011
by Ballantine Books.
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