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Tonight at 7:00 PM, meet Thomas Caplan, the author of our January 2012 Thriller Club Pick.
The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen ($16 paperback edition_
And the hardcover edition (Viking $26.95) you an order by clicking here. We have a limited number of the hardcover available, your best bet is to come to the program and snag one.
Caplan's first for Ty Hunter became our January 2012 Thriller Club Pick in hardcover. We're delighted to meet him in person with the publication of the paperback!
Here is the Starred Review from Booklist:
Caplan takes a long time between novels (his last, G
race and Favor, was published in 1998), but this one was definitely worth the wait. It has a kick-ass premise. Ty Hunter, once an intelligence officer and now a major movie star (it's a lot more plausible than it sounds), is tasked by the U.S. president to find out whether billionaire Ian Santel has anything to do with some nukes stolen by a now-deceased Russian colonel. The novel boasts great, James Bond-style supporting characters-the colorful Santel; his alluring goddaughter, Isabella Cavill, who designs expensive jewelry and seems to have designs on Ty; Santel's protégé and henchman, Philip Frost. And it has a story that, with its action and intrigue, is guaranteed to keep readers glued to their seats.
This is the kind of novel that the superb Trevanian might have written; his Jonathan Hemlock, art professor, mountaineer, and assassin, is surely no more nor less imaginatively conceived and executed than Ty Hunter. An excellent, don't-dare-miss-it kind of thriller.
"There is wisdom as well as considerable pleasure to be extracted from the stylish, involving, utterly contemporary puzzle that is this novel....
The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen will keep you under its spell and stiffen your resolve to make the world a safer place for our children."
-President Bill Clinton -- a serious crime fiction fan
Tomorrow Wednesday at 7:00 PM at The Pen
 Sue Grafton signs Kinsey and Me ($28)
Essential reading for fans of Kinsey Millhone, not just for the stories featuring Kinsey but for the essay about the private eye genre and Grafton's candid stories that form a picture of how she became the writer she is...
Saturday January 19 at 2:00 PM join us for a Mystery Tea with Priscilla Royal who signs her 9th novel featuring Prioress Eleanor
 Sanctity of Hate ($25 or $15)
The New York Times reviews our December History/Mystery Club Pick:
"Aside from the castle of your father, the king, the safest place for a woman in the Middle Ages was a well-run religious institution like the one that figures in Priscilla Royal's enthralling medieval mysteries. Tyndal Priory has long thrived under the progressive policies of the aristocratic Eleanor, so there's no accounting for the murder and mayhem that seem to plague this holy retreat - except for the opportunity they offer for Royal's insights into the upheavals of the period. The vividly drawn characters enlighten us on many details of monastic life. But it's the harrowing scene of a Jewish woman suffering the agonies of a difficult childbirth while a howling mob threatens violence that sums up Royal's two dark themes: the lowly status and cruel treatment of women, and the persecution of England's Jewish population."
Monday January 21 at 6:30 PM
Brad Meltzer 6:30 PM signs The Fifth Assassin ($29)
Tues. Jan 22: Stephen Hunter signs The Third Bullet ($27)
Thurs. Jan 24: Hardboiled Crime Club
Sun. Jan. 27 Ian Rankin 2 PM signs Standing in Another Man's Grave ($26)
Wed. Jan 30: Erica Bauermeister signs The Lost Art of Mixing ($26)
Thurs. Jan. 31: Charles Todd signs Proof of Guilt ($26)
Feb. 2: Earlene Fowler 2 PM signs The Road to Cardinal Valley ($26)
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Rockefeller, Junior, an impassioned Episcopal minister, architects, preservationists, and some of the town, it continues to evolve with new projects, on-going restoration of sites, and with craftsmen trained in techniques for building and furnishing and costuming and feeding staff and visitors. It's pretty thin of tourists in January so we were able to explore the House of Burgesses, aka the Capitol, the Charlton Coffee House (think Starbucks, and the only one in town), the Peyton Randolph House, and various craft and business staffed by super well-informed guides (in costume) with ease.
