Gomez, Vernona. Lefty, An American Odyssey (Random $28) or trade paper Lefty, An American Odyssey($16)

We still have copies. And let me say that the event featured spectacular films of Lefty, the Babe, Joe, and all kinds of cool stuff like a 1934 trip to Japan to promote baseball. What a slice of history. We are hoping to persuade Lefty's daughter Vernona to do this again at a less crowded season.

March is Women's History Month. Our event most in sync with the theme will be Jacqueline Winspear's appearance with a new Maisie Dobbs to kick off her book tour on March 25. 7:00 PM. See cover to order in the left hand column of this Enews.

Not everyone can attend our events so these webcasts provide yet another passport to you readers. The latest Livestream to post is Keith McCafferty's charming debut here at the store, complete with a fly he tied. Nevada Barr is a huge fan of his work and gave me a whole pitch about it Sunday at the Tucson Festival of Books. Nevada will have a new novel out in the fall or early next winter. Yay!

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The March Booknews is jam-packed: 28 pages of reading.

And inevitably, some books got left out. I include a few below as well as a couple of Retrospective Raves

Look in the Booknews for

Event Books

Award Nominees

Irish Books

British Books and Going Global Reads

First Novels

Cozies

March Trade Paperback and Mass Market Picks with reviews

More new books

A few YA books

History/Mystery

To see our Picks, please click here

Our book clubs are for buyers, not for discussion groups. The idea is to give members of each club something new and wonderful to reach each month.

To see our January -March Picks, please click here,

then check out each club for what it offers and the new Picks

To join a book club, email sales@poisonedpen.com

Unsigned Hardcovers: click here  

Signed Hardcovers, click here

  Trade Paperbacks, click here 

Mass Market Paperbacks, click here

TUESDAY MARCH 12 7:00 PM 

Join us for cake, rum and a toast to Randy!

Plus Balloons! and Prizes! It's a PARTY

Night Moves (Putnam $27) The 20th Doc Ford Adventure! 

In addition to the super review below, read more about Night Moves, Doc Ford's 20th adventure, in today's Arizona Republic. Click here

We're getting several landmark books this year! This one is a lulu. 

"The enduring puzzle of Flight 19-five Navy torpedo bombers that disappeared on a training flight on December 5, 1945, off the Florida coast-propels bestseller White's captivating 20th Doc Ford novel Seaplane pilot Dan Futch thinks the answer to Flight 19's fate may lie in an unusual Everglades location near some Indian mounds and a mysterious field of human bones. Fortunately, before Futch takes off with Ford and Ford's sidekick, Tomlinson, Futch notices that someone has sabotaged his plane. But who was the intended target? Meanwhile, back home in Dinkin's Bay, Ford must contend with a host of shady characters, including a putative film maker, a skilled assassin, and a Haitian drug dealer. 

"The fact that unexplained elements are noted within a similar time frame while in the field does not guarantee those elements are linked or even significant," Ford muses, but his survival may depend on figuring out those possible links in this intriguing installment." -PW

Several of you have asked, where are Rob and I going next?

Spain: Madrid, Toledo, Merida, Salamanca. And Lisbon plus a week's cruise up the Douro into port wine country. Late May.

Meanwhile, Lily Moore is a travel agent and with Davidson, we visit Acapulco with her. And Cara Black is leading a trip to Paris for a lucky contest winner! Join us for an evening of travel and mystery!

WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 7:00 PM

 Cara Black signs Murder Below Montparnasse (Soho $26) 

When Aimée LeDuc's long-term partner and best friend Rene leaves their detective agency for a new job in Silicon Valley, Aimée knows she can handle the extra workload. At least, that what she tells herself. Repeatedly. But all bets are off when Yuri Volodya, a mysterious aged Russian, hires Aimée to protect a painting. A possibly priceless long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother's blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that's been buried for 80 years, maybe news of her long-missing mother.

Order ASAP to get the first print with cool extras only available in it. Plus a chance to win a trip to Paris with Black!

When I wrote this, I was reading the NY Times about violence in Acapulco and danger to tourists. So it is for travel writer Lily Moore who arrives late, exhausted, and very hungry at Acapulco's posh Hotel Cerón. Trying to get to her room, Lily is sidetracked into the bar by colleague Skye McDermott who's looking ill and agitated. Lily is no wizard at interrogation and before you know it, Skye heads off to take a call, leaving her purse behind. Soon Lily becomes convinced something terrible has befallen Skye-and she's right. It proves more complex than she could guess. In Lily's world people are a real mix of good and bad, loyalty and treachery, and mixed motives. Plus criminal enterprise. 

Lily's first case, The Damage Done (out of print), was a First Mystery Club Pick and won the Anthony Award for Best first Novel.

 In The Next One to Fall ($15), Lily is at Machu Picchu when someone tumbles down a stone stairway to his death. It's treated as an unfortunate accident, but Lily knows what she saw....

THURSDAY MARCH 14 7:00 PM

Hosted by Dana Stabenow and Barbara (me)

Talk about a dangerous evening... actually it will be filled with a discussion of all kinds of danger: danger by nature, danger from humans, dangerous issues affecting Western states, evil Feds, and plenty more dangers that Wyoming and Alaska have in common

CJ Box signs Breaking Point (Putnam $27) in what his publisher calls his "breakout book"

Box. takes Joe Pickett into uncharted territory. The question is: What will he do when he gets there?It was always good to see Butch Roberson, Joe though t - a hard-working, upright local business-owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Butch that day in the forest, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to scout elk, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer. As the manhunt organized itself, Joe heard more of the story - about the tract of land Butch and his wife had bought to build their retirement home on, until the EPA declared it a wetland. About the penalties they charged him when he balked, new ones piling up every day, until the family was torn apart...and finally, it seems, the man just cracked. It was an awful story. But was it the whole story? The more Joe looks into it, the more he begins to wonder - and the more he finds himself in the middle of a war he never expected and never wanted. Powerful forces want Roberson not just caught, but dead -- and the same goes for anyone who stands in their way. Every man reaches his breaking point. Joe Pickett may just have reached his..

Dana reviews: "No one born and raised west of the Mississippi River hasn't had a justifiable mad on at the federal government a time or two. Here, C.J. Box fleshes out that mad, mixing a Molotov cocktail of a motive with one part heavy-handed federal bureaucracy to one part political ambition and one part personal revenge. Run an armed drone around the rim of the glass and toss it off in a national forest mostly dead of beetle kill and you've got a conflagration even Wyoming Game and Fish warden Joe Pickett can't put out, and may not survive himself." She has a couple more comments that I don't include here as they are spoilers but I can in about two weeks... 

NOTE: for our West Side customers, CJ also appears at R.H. Johnson Library, 13801 W. Meeker Blvd., Sun City West, AZ 85375-4406, 623-544-6130, at 2:00 PM. John will be on hand to sell books  

SUNDAY MARCH 17 2:00 PM St Patrick's Day Party

Green lemonade, shamrock cookies, and more

Wear green or suffer.... what? is a pinch traditional? 

Erin Hart (by Skye) signed The Book of Killowen (Scribner $26) 

After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone-pinned beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, missing for mere months and familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents in debate. Both men were viciously murdered, but centuries apart-so how did they end up buried together in the bog? While on the case, Cormac and Nora lodge at Killowen, a nearby artists' colony, organic farm, and sanctuary for eccentric souls. Digging deeper into the older crime, they become entangled in high-stakes intrigue encompassing Kavanagh's death while surrounded by suspects in his ghastly murder. It seems that everyone at Killowen has some secret to protect. Why would an ancient volume of philosophical heresy provoke a murder(s)? 

4^th in the Nora Gavin series which began with FMC Pick Haunted Ground, then Lake of Sorrows and False Mermaid ($15 each). Click here to order each of them, or all. This is our March Surprise Me Club Pick.

Molly Murphy has always been independent and feisty. Marriage to the NYPD's Daniel Sullivan hasn't changed her. And pregnancy has made her restless and irritable, as has the heat of this 1905 Manhattan summer. When a trip to the post office produces a letter addressed to her now-closed detective agency with a request to find a missing Irish maid, Molly figures just asking around isn't breaking her promise to Daniel to quit the business. Right. Then that same day Molly learns that five babies have been kidnapped in the past month. Agreeing to visit Daniel's mother in leafy suburbia to beat the heat, the two puzzles gnaw at her. And so....

Here's some quick info on the holiday

Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at the age of 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people. In the centuries following Patrick's death (believed to have been on March 17, 461), the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrained in the Irish culture: Perhaps the most well known legend is that he explained the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) using the three leaves of a native Irish clover, the shamrock.

Since around the ninth or 10th century, people in Ireland have been observing the Roman Catholic feast day of St. Patrick on March 17. Interestingly, however, the first parade held to honor St. Patrick's Day took place not in Ireland but in the United States. On March 17, 1762, Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as with fellow Irishmen serving in the English army. 

MONDAY MARCH 18 7:00 PM

John Billheimer signs Field of Schemes (Five Star $26) Baseball mystery

THURSDAY MARCH 21 7:00 PM

 Owen Laukkanen signs Criminal Enterprise (Putnam $27) Stevens & Windermere

SATURDAY MARCH 23 12:00 PM

The Nancy Drew Group reads Nancy Drews #37 and #38

MONDAY MARCH 25 7:00 PM Launch Party

Jacqueline Winspear signs Leaving Everything Most Loved (Harper $27) The 10th Maisie Dobbs!

TUESDAY MARCH 26 7:00 PM Launch Party

William Kent Krueger signs Ordinary Grace (Atria $25) Standalone

Date Change: WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 7:00 PM

Hardboiled Crime Club reads Stuart MacBride's Birthdays for the Dead ($15)

New: THURSDAY MARCH 28 7:30 PM

Ian McEwan at ASU. See Details below.

The 2013 SciFi Meets SciFi Fact Lecture 

Doors Open: Approximately 6:30pm

Start Time: 7:30pm

Cost: Free & open to the public

Where: MUR 101, ASU Tempe Campus | Click HERE for a map of ASU.

Parking: MUR 101 is in the center of campus so you have many choices. For a detailed list of parking locations and rates please click HERE. 

Seating: Seats are open to reservation holders on a first-come, first-served basis and only to the person(s) present at registration. We recommend arriving by 7pm to ensure a seat. We will be opening up all unoccupied seats to non-RSVP'ed guests by 7:15pm.

RSVP: This RSVP system is for predicting attendance. Your RSVP does not guarantee seating. Seats are open to reservation holders on a first-come, first-served basis.

Book Signing: Ian McEwan will be participating in a book signing after the lecture! This opportunity is open to lecture guests on a first-come, first-served basis.

Cancellations: If you are not able to attend, please notify us by emailing deepthought@asu.edu so we may accurately calculate attendance. Thank you in advance for your kind courtesy.

Questions: Please feel free to contact us via email at deepthought@asu.edu or by calling us at 480-965-3240

TUESDAY APRIL 9 7:00 PM

Our First Ever Baby Shower/Book Signing 

It's a Girl, so let's go frilly and pink for Lauren's first child

On Wednesday April 10, Lauren Willig speaks to the Scottsdale Chapter at its Author Luncheon in the wonderful Artichoke Grill at Scottsdale Community College. Proceeds go to scholarships for the College.

$45, Reservations required. Details to come

Lauren's new novel, a standalone British mystery, is called The Ashford Affair (St Martins $25)

I will be on  hand selling books 

 The Arizona Biltmore hosts our annual Conference once again.

Saturday July 6 9 AM-4:30 PM

Registration $50  Cash buffet lunch. Cupcakes for dessert to go with the Cupcake Cozy Panel

Call 888 560 9919 or 480 947-2974 

Confirmed authors now include:

Avery Aames, Lauren Beukes, Kate Carlisle, Jane Cleland, Steve Hamilton, Michael Kahn, Susanna Kearsley, Jenn McKinlay, Sheldon Siegel,Qiu Xiaolong 

And St Martin's Press editor Keith Kahla will be our Luncheon Speaker. It's July -- think the pool, too

Griffiths, Elly. A Dying Fall Signed (Quercus $35). 

Cambridgeshire's Ruth Galloway, who lives with her toddler daughter in a somewhat ramshackle cottage at the Saltmarsh, hasn't kept up with four friends from university days. Then she hears from one, Dan Golding, a real highflyer at school now working in Lancashire near Pendle, that he thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever. And he needs Ruth's expertise with bones.  Ruth packs up Kate and the baby's godfather, the druid Cathbad, and heads for Lancashire, arriving to learn that Dan has been killed by an arson attack on his cottage. The only clue Ruth has is the reference in his letter to the Raven King. Who's that? Meanwhile DCI Nelson, married father of Kate, is also in Lancashire, on holiday and reconnecting with his friend Sandy of the Blackpool CID who is working Dan's murder. Plus a right-wing group called the White Hand is making threats and trouble at Dan's university. If the bones Dan found in his excavations of a tomb are those of a King Arthur, Ruth discovers a shocking fact that links to the White Hand. And puts her and Kate in danger. A lovely mix of unusual ingredients, plus a step back from Ruth's behavior in A Room Full of Bones which I truly disliked, make this 5^th chapter in Ruth's career a winner. 

Hannah, Sophie. Carrier (Hodder $35)

When her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren Cookson - but why is she scared of Gaby in particular? Lauren won't explain. Instead, she blurts out something about an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didn't commit, and Gaby soon suspects that Lauren's presence on her flight can't be a coincidence-the murder victim is Francine Breary, the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved. Tim Breary has confessed, and even provided the police with evidence. The only thing he hasn't given them is a motive. He claims to have no idea why he murdered his wife.... Another gem from an emerging queen of suspense.

Hilton, Matt. Rules of Honour Signed (Hodder $4). 

  In his 8^th taut adventure, Joe Hunter has to stop his friend Rink from a headlong rush to vengeance. Rink's mother has witnessed the crime. And Yukiko isn't telling everything she knows. Her silence is governed by the Japanese tradition of giri, or moral obligation. But when there are more vicious deaths -all of them elderly men known to Yukiko -  it becomes a matter of honour to uncover the shameful secret that lies behind the murders.... For Jack Reacher creatures.

Jones, Chris Morgan. The Jackal's Share Signed (Macmillan $39). Our February Thriller Club Pick takes you into global finance. Very scary stuff! 4 unsold copies.

Kerr, Philip. Man Without Breath Signed (Quercus $41). 

It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther, Berliner and longtime cop, has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in the capital. Reports have been circulating of a mass grave hidden in a wood near Smolensk. The grave's whereabouts are uncertain until, deep in the Katyn Forest, a wolf digs up some human remains. Rumor has it that the grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians-a war crime that is perfect propaganda for Germany. But it needs a detective of subtle skill to investigate this horrific discovery.I tell you, I read this Saturday night and however vile and tough the Nazis were, they were never a match for the ferocity of the Russians (which is why they lost at Leningrad and Stalingrad). Kerr adds Notes with fascinating info about the fates of Germans, some of them in the Army, who participated in plots to assassinate Hitler.

On April 19, Kerr comes to The Pen to sign Man Without Breath (Putnam $27) 

Taylor, Andrew. The Scent of Death Signed(Collins $39 6 left). 

 Edward Saville of the American Office in London is sent by his superior to rebellious 1778 New York, a city of secrets, profiteers, loyalists, and double agents. As the last part of America under British rule, the city under Governor Clinton is home to a swelling tide of refugees seeking justice from the British crown. Saville is to investigate claims for damages of dispossessed loyalists. His escort upon landing embroils him in a case of murder: a gentleman robbed and slain in ramshackle Canvas Town. Saville is not convinced the slave summarily executed is guilty. And as events develop in the city and at his lodgings with the wealthy Wintour family, and around the conduct of Mr. Noak, the clerk who shared his suffocating cabin aboard ship, Saville is sucked into a miasma of fear, suspicion, and more crimes including the answer to where Mrs. Arabella Wintour's missing husband might be. No one in this complex story has clean hands, reminding us of the terrible choices war forces and that our Revolution was by no means unanimously supported by those residing in the Colonies. Overall the novel reminds me of David Mitchell's brilliant The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet ($15), also a stranger in a strange land scenario where a Dutchman arrives in the Shogun's Japan. Delayed, but our February History/Mystery Pick. I try to mix up eras for this club.

And one in from New York

Klavan, Andrew. A Killer in the Wind Signed (Mysterious Press $26). 

Dan Champion has retired from the NYPD after an undercover case left him broken and paranoid. Now a small town detective, he hopes for a life of relative ease. But when a body washes ashore-a woman who has haunted his dreams for years-Champion finds himself on the run from a cadre of ruthless killers. Klavan has done a terrific job melding suspense with a hint of the fantastic. "Taut, frightening...the edgy story complements a lead character whose fragile memory can't always separate the real from the imaginary." -PW Starred Review. Multi-Edgar winner Klavan is one of my favorite writers-also Patrick's. Sadly he doesn't' write fast enough....