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Welcome to yet another exciting newsletter (on time this month!). This month, I'm turning the writing over to our new hire (yay new hire!), but don't worry I'm sure her newsletters will be just as informative as mine (and probably a less error prone) :) More to come...
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Hi, I'm Elizabeth, and I've just joined the staff here at Poisoned Pen Press. I'll now be handling much of the writing of this e-newsletter and helping out with a variety of other tasks as well. I earned my M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University, so I'm very excited to be joining such a well-known independent press!
Now that I've introduced myself...here are this month's releases.
 Embrace the Grim Reaper by Judy Clemens
Casey Maldonado's life is over--at least as she knows it. In one brief
moment of fire and wrenching metal, everything important was gone. The
car manufacturer was generous with its settlement, but it can never be
enough. Her family and friends, not to mention her lawyers, want her to
go for more. More money. More publicity. More everything. But Casey is
done. No financial gain or courtroom retribution will bring back what
really matters. So she packs up, puts her house on the market, and
leaves town. Her only companion? Death, who won't take her, but won't
leave her alone.
Stopping on a whim in Clymer, a small blue-collar
town in the midst of Ohio farmland, Casey discovers a town wrapped in
tragedy. Not only is HomeMaker, the town's appliance factory and main
employer, moving to Mexico, but the town has been rocked by the suicide
of a beloved single mother.
Casey is drawn to the town, and soon
realizes that many of the citizens don't believe the verdict of suicide
at all. Death encourages her to investigate, and she uncovers
information that points to the factory. Was the victim's death a
cover-up? Did she truly have the means, as she claimed, to keep the
factory from leaving town?
When Casey begins to receive messages
that she should leave well enough alone, she decides she'd be better
off back on the road, but the murderer can't let her go with everything
she knows...
Publishers Weekly notes that "Clemens is adept at creating an appealing cast
of characters while keeping the plot moving at a fast clip." A great read for mystery lovers.
(Hardcover, $24.95)
 Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood
If there's one thing Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and
proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not
eating well--particularly when there are delights like her just-baked,
freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which
denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up and a malnourished
corpse is found in a park, Corinna is very disturbed indeed.
But she
doesn't only have that to contend with. Her hippie mother, Starshine,
has turned up out of the blue, hysterical that Sunlight, Corinna's
father, has absconded to Melbourne with all their money and a desire
for a new young lover. Meanwhile, someone is also poisoning people with
weight loss herbal teas. And odd things are happening at the nearby
Cafe Vlad Tepes, which attracts a very strange clientele.
Altogether, it's a delicious recipe for murder, mayhem and mystery. The third in the Corinna Chapman series,according to Booklist "Greenwood has a definite knack for character and story...[and] Corinna shows every indication of sticking around for a good long time."
(Hardcover, $24.95)
 Server Down by J.M. Hayes
Attending the Yaqui tribe's Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a
dream come true for a Cheyenne-wannabe-shaman like Mad Dog. But
immediately after his midnight arrival, he is accused of being a witch.
Then moments later a policeman is murdered, and Mad Dog is blamed.
Suddenly Mad Dog and his wolf-hybrid, Hailey, are targets of a
city-wide manhunt with shoot-first overtones. Mad Dog's niece, Heather
English, a part-time deputy for her father in Kansas, comes to Tucson
to try to arrange a peaceful surrender or clear her uncle by finding
the real killer.
Back in Kansas, someone has blown Mad Dog's house
off the face of the Great Plains. Sheriff English, investigating that
crime, learns Mad Dog has been playing a massive online computer game:
War of Worldcraft. There, a vampire wizard has made a habit of
tormenting him. Mad Dog claims the creature has reached out of the game
to come after him in the real world by killing that cop in Tucson. The
sheriff isn't convinced...until he begins receiving threats from a
vampire wizard on his office computer. The ghost in the machine
promises death for Mad Dog and explicit and horrible tortures for
Heather. And all before dawn....
Publishers Weekly comments that Server Down is "full of outrageous humor and a plot that will
leave even the most jaded readers demanding more."
(Hardcover, $24.95)
And don't forget our paperbacks--the perfect traveling companions...
 Broken Heartland by J.M. Hayes
Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. The
radical religious right is out to unseat Sheriff English, better known
as Englishman. Englishman's only available deputy rammed a school bus
carrying the Benteen County teen choir while chasing a vehicle involved
in a mystery. Can the Sheriff sort it all out before his family is threatened?
(Paperback, $14.95)
 Different Paths by Judy Clemens
When dairy farmer Stella Crown's friend and veterinarian Carla Beaumont is
car-jacked, it's just the beginning of a rash of vicious attacks on
local business women.
As
Stella investigates, she finds much that doesn't seem right in her
usually quiet town. Between her suspicions of steroids at the local
gym, irate patients at the doctor's office, and Carla's brand-new
boyfriend, Stella's not sure which way to focus her attention. But she
knows she must--before any more women die.
Corinna Chapman is happy with her life as a baker. And her Israeli
lover, Daniel, is as enchanting as ever. She has no intention of doing
any more investigative work. At least not until she bit into what
should have been a lovely violet cream chocolate and instead chomped
down on a chili-filled catastrophe.
(Paperback, $14.95)
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Where Are Our Authors...
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Jessica here again. We're back for another round of where are our authors... And I think I got it right this time. Here's the latest
Aileen G. Baron
- May 17, Borders bookstore, Reagan Airport, Washington, D.C. signing, noon to 2:00 pm.
Vicki Delany
- May 4, 2009, Festival of Mystery
- May 7, 2009, Indigo Spirit, First Canadian Place
- May 23, 2009, Chapters, Kingston, Ontario
- May 27, 2009, Sleuth of Baker Street
- May 29, 2009, Indigo bookstore, Kingston, ontario
- May 31, 2009, Moonshine Cafe, Bookseller - Don Longmuir, Scene of the Crime Books
- May 16, 2009, Chapters, Belleville, Ontario.
J.M. Hayes
- May 9, 2009, Mostly Books, 6208 E. Speedway, Tucson, AZ 85712, (520) 571-0110, Signing, 1-2 pm, with Elizabeth Gunn (River to Nowhere).
- May 2, 2009, The Poisoned Pen, 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. #101, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, 2 p.m., with Elizabeth Gunn (New River Blues) http://home.comcast.net/~pgunn18/ElizabethGunn.html
- May 8, 2009, Clues Unlimited, http://www.cluesunlimited.com/news.htm
- May 8th at 7:00 we will have a bookstore-warming party featuring food, fun, and three Tucson authors Note: Clues Unlimited, located in Tucson, is moving to the southeast corner of Fort Lowell and Country Club.
Ann Littlewood
- May 1, 2009, Malice Domestic, Panel: Behind the Curtain, 10:30AM Sunday May 3.
Ann Parker
- May 1-May 3, 2009, Malice Domestic, Arlington, Virginia, Panel: Saturday, May 2, 4 p.m., Timing Is Everything
- May 12, 2009, Castro Valley Library, 7:30 p.m, Castro Valley, CA.
- May 21-May 24, 2009, Mayhem in the Midlands, Omaha, NE, Panels: All on Friday
Priscilla Royal
- May 14, Orinda Books, check website for time www.orindabooks.com
Clea Simon
- May 1, 2009, Malice Domestic mystery convention, http://www.malicedomestic.org
- May 29, 2009, Backspace Writers Conference, http://www.backspacewritersconference.com/ 2009 Backspace Writers Conference - May 29 & 30, Radisson Martinique, New York City
Jon Talton
- May 2, 2009, Clues Unlimited Bookstore, Tucson, Ariz., 1:00 PM
- May 9, 2009, Mysteries to Die For, Thousand Oaks, Calif., Noon
- May 16, 2009, Seattle Mystery Bookstore, Noon
Betty Webb
- May 5, Phoenix Zoo Auditorium, Arizona Zoo Docents, talk, lunch and signing, 11:30 a.m.
- May 27, Spirit of the Senses, private home in Scottsdale, talk and signing. 7 p.m.
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Happy Reading!
Jessica Tribble (and Elizabeth Weld)
Poisoned Pen Press
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