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Greetings,
From my friends at the New York Times, some information
Our hearts go out to the people affected by the events yesterday in Boston. Salvation Army is offering help in Boston:http://tinyurl.com/cqsobes. The Red Cross has a Safe and Well Listing:http://tinyurl.com/cd95d8t. People with information on the incident can call 1-800-494-TIPS. Also from the Times and other media, news that this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction goes to
which I am pleased to say was a 2012 Modern Firsts Club Pick. Our  record for picking prize winning books and long-run classics for this club is amazing! and sign up to be a member.
Johnson' novel was also NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * The Wall Street Journal * Los Angeles Times * San Francisco Chronicle * Financial Times * Newsweek/The Daily Beast * The Plain Dealer * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel * Slate * Salon *
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Why Buy Just One Book This Month from The Pen?
An author's view
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We hope you enjoy all our services including reading recommendations, author events, webcasts, and a friendly staff who greet you by name and know what you are reading.
In fact, our staff is our brand. We're unique. We're only available here. We can't be franchised.
The only economic model keeping us all going is a simple one: we sell books.
Here is an interesting look at potential change from Neil Gaiman speaking at the London Book Fair
"We can imagine a world in which novelists no longer make money from selling books, but clean up from charging for readings. Or, a world where your buy a physical book and that automatically gives you the e-books and audiobook. The truth is, whatever we make up is likely to be right."
To that end, Gaiman also suggested he was not ready to concede the end of print books. He recalled a conversation he had years ago with Douglas Adams about the coming of e-books, long before there was an e-book market. "I asked him if he thought the inevitable e-book would mean the end of the physical book," Gaiman said. Adams replied by noting that sharks existed alongside dinosaurs, and yet sharks are still around. "That's because nothing has ever come along that was quite as good at being a shark as a shark is," Gaiman said, adding that books, too, are very good at being books.
Meanwhile, please support this Enews, all our April selection guides and the authors coming to sign and sell books by buying (at least) just one this month and every month
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The April Booknews
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April showers us with wonderful books. It's particularly rich in British mystery (hardboiled, classic, traditional, paranormal) and mysteries and histories of our Southwestern Region. Also in global reach, novels from around the world. Enjoy
To read and/or download the April Booknews, click here
Events, Nonfiction, First Novels, British Books, Global Novels, The Cozy Corner, our new Classics Revisited, Trade and Mass Market Paperback Picks, New Books, Southwestern Stuff, Mass Market Fiction, and History/Mystery
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Our April Staff Picks
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To see our Picks, please click here
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Our April Book Club Picks
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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 -April 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
Note: until Easter Monday is over in New York I can't confirm which title will be our March Thriller Club Pick.
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The April New Books Lists
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Unsigned Hardcovers: click here
Signed Hardcovers, click here
Trade Paperbacks, click here
Mass Market Paperbacks, click here
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Stuart Woods
Thursday 7:00 PM
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THURSDAY APRIL 18 7:00 PM
Stuart Woods signs Unintended Consequences (Putnam $27)
 Enjoy a male fantasy: rich men and their toys (wine, cars, restaurants, gorgeous women, billionaires), and a smooth plot featuring a drugged Stone Barrington who has no idea how he got to a hospital room inside the American Embassy in Paris, and no memory of the last four days. Reading this is like eating chocolates or sipping something delicious-take your pick. Woods really amuses himself and thus you. Terrific fun, sort of my secret vice reading this.
If you missed Stone's January outing, Collateral Damage (Putnam $27), pick it up too.
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Ridley Pearson
Friday 6:15 PM
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FRIDAY APRIL 19 6:15 PM
Ridley Pearson signs The Kingdom Keepers VI Dark Passage (Disney $18) Ages 12+
The Overtakers are rocking the boat on the Disney Cruise Line! The five Kingdom Keepers and their core friends have uncovered a startling  truth: Maleficent and the Overtakers (Disney villains) are plotting a catastrophic event that could have repercussions far beyond the world of Disney. Aboard the Disney Cruise Line's inaugural passage through the new Panama Canal, the Keepers and their holograms uncover a puzzle hidden within the pages of a stolen journal. The point of that puzzle will reveal itself in the caves of Aruba, the zip lines of Costa Rica, and the jungles of Mexico. A destructive force, dormant for decades, is about to be unleashed. The five Kingdom Keepers are to be its first victims.
The latest in Pearson's adventures for middle schoolers. Pearson returns June 13 with a new thriller, second in his splendid Rutherfurd Risk series and set in Amsterdam: Choke Point ($26.95). Start with the first entry, Risk Agent ($9.99).
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Philip Kerr
Friday 7:00 PM
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FRIDAY APRIL 19 7:00 PM
Philip Kerr signs A Man Without Breath (Putnam $27)
"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. "Set in the spring of 1943, Kerr's captivating ninth Bernie Gunther novel (after 2011's Prague Fatale) takes Gunther-now attached to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau-from Berlin to Smolensk.... Josef Goebbels, seeking a propaganda coup after Germany's Stalingrad defeat, is keen to pin the atrocity [slaughter of Poles] on the Soviets. The tormented honest cop also gets on the trail of a killer targeting German soldiers, even as he finds himself in an anomalous moral position ('a situation in which you can have an army corporal hanged for the rape and murder of a Russian peasant girl in one village that's only a few miles from another village where an SS special action group has just murdered 25,000 men, women and children'). Kerr makes everything look easy, from blending history with a clever and intricate whodunit plot to powerful descriptions of cruelty."-- Publishers Weekly
Kerr introduced us to Gunther in his Berlin Noir trilogy and with every new chapter, informs and thrills us more. Think Alan Furst and Joseph Kanon but with a series character, Bernie.
Patrick says, "Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels are modern classics: impeccably researched and elegantly written. A Man Without Breath may be his finest effort yet." The New York Times reviews this book on Sunday April 21.
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Southwestern Crime
Saturday 2:00 PM
Christine Barber, Becky Masterson
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SATURDAY APRIL 20 Southwestern Mystery 2:00 PM
Christine Barber signs When the Devil Doesn't Show (St Martins $25) Santa Fe cop Gil Montoya
 During a chilly November evening when Santa Fe is celebrating Las Posadas, an outdoor folk play of the Nativity, a house fire flares. Inside, firefighters find the two homeowners duct-taped to chairs, and an unidentified third corpse. The search for his ID will lead Detective Gil Montoya to nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory. A DNA test reveals that the unknown victim is a native of Northern New Mexico, but Montoya has reason to believe that his ties to the infamous nuclear testing facility hold the solution to this puzzle. And when a second house fire reveals more bodies, Montoya is determined to find out the answer at any cost. Love Santa Fe as a setting for mysteries --and a lot of authors live there whom I get to see in the summer. The fire scenes in this book are drawn with immediacy and frankly, terrifying.
Barber is the author of First Mystery Club Pick The Replacement Child, which won the first Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Crime Novel, and The Bone Fire, which won a New Mexico Book Award.
Becky Masterman signs Rage Against the Dying (St Martins $25) Tucson FBI Agent Brigid Quinn A First Mystery Pick
The NY Times reviews a First Mystery Club Pick:
"'No one likes a woman who knows how to kill with her bare hands.' Brigid Quinn, the unconventional heroine of Masterman's first novel,  learned that lesson in her former career as an undercover FBI agent. Nowadays, if anyone should ask, Brigid will say she investigated copyright infringements, since she's a fanatic about guarding her secrets from the new husband she adores. Although Brigid is determined to enjoy her early retirement in laid-back Tucson ('which everyone told me was a lovely place but that felt a lot like Siberia, only hot'), it's just her bad luck to attract a killer rapist who claims 'older broads' as his specialty. Still in fighting shape at 59, Brigid is one old broad who is tough to kill. So tough she accidentally kills this creep. Unfortunately, in her panic to cover up the deed, she alerts another maniac cruising the old Route 66, which for serial killers is 'kind of like the Appalachian Trail, only paved.' Brigid wears her age well, and she makes it work for her too. She knows people would like to think that as they get older ' all women must get suddenly serene, their anger draining away with their estrogen.' Some do, some don't. So, take her or leave her, this is Brigid Quinn, raging."
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Laura Tohe
Sunday 2:00 PM
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SUNDAY APRIL 20 2:00 PM
Laura Tohe signs Code Talker Stories (Rio Nuevo $15)
From Patrick, your host. "On these pages, the Navajo Code Talkers  speak, in English and Navajo, about past and present, Laura Tohe, daughter of a Code Talker (and award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist and librettist), interviewed many of the remaining Code Talkers, some of whom have since passed on. The Navajo language helped win World War II, and it lives on in this book, as the Code Talkers remember the war and reflect on the aftermath and the legacy they will leave behind. The veterans, able to speak to a daughter of one of their own in English and Navajo, truly shared from their hearts. They not only provided more battlefield details, but they also reveal how their war experiences affected themselves and the Navajo generations that followed."
To which he adds, "Laura Tohe is a national treasure, and this beautifully conceived and written project is an indispensable addition to American history."
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More April Events
Plus Updates for May
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TUESDAY APRIL 23 7:00 PM Party!
T Jefferson Parker signs The Famous and the Dead (Dutton $27) his 20th novel and 6th and final case for Charlie Hood
THURSDAY APRIL 25 7:00 PM
Hardboiled Crime Club reads Ted Lewis, Get Carter ($15)
SATURDAY APRIL 27 2:00 PM Tea Party
Tea: $5.00 You may come for free, but get no tea.
To honor Reg, bring a favorite stuffed animal. Prizes
Nancy Atherton signs Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince (Viking $26) Lori Shepherd
MONDAY APRIL 29 7:00 PM Women's Fiction
Kristin Hannah signs Fly Away (St Martins $28) Perfect for Mother's Day
WEDNESDAY MAY 1 7:00 PM
Michael Ryan signs The BOOM BOOM Book ($9.99) Practical career advice from the media executive
THURSDAY MAY 2 7:00 PM
Daniel Palmer signs Stolen (Kensington $25) Medical thriller
SATURDAY MAY 4 10 AM-4 PM CozyCon2
Phoenix Public Library 1221 N Central Avenue, Phoenix 85004
Registration: $40 includes lunch and 3 afternoon panels 480 947-2974 or email sales@poisonedpen.com
Paranormal and Psychic: Blackwell, Haines, Laurie
Nothing Like a Dame: Coonts, Kendrick, McKinlay, Milchman
Historical Mystery: Ramsay (Jerusalem 29 CE), Robertson (Sherlock Holmes variation), Gardner (Regency)
Juliet Blackwell signs Murder on the House (Berkley $7.99) Haunted Home Renovation Mystery
Deborah Coonts signs Lucky Bastard (Forge $26) Lucky O'Toole
Ashley Gardner signs A Death in Norfolk ($11) Captain Lacey Regency
Carolyn Haines signs Smarty Bones (St Martins $25) Sarah Booth Delaney AND as RB Chesterton, starts a series with The Darkling (Pegasus $25)
Beth Kendrick signs The Week Before the Wedding (NAL $15)
Victoria Laurie signs What a Ghoul Wants (Signet $7.99) Ghost Hunter Mystery
Jenn McKinlay signs Going, Going, Ganache (Berkley $7.99) Bakery Mystery
Jenny Milchman signs Cover of Snow (Random $26) Debut
Frederick Ramsay signs Holy Smoke (Poisoned Pen $25 or $15) Jerusalem Mystery
Michael Robertson The Baker Street Translation (St Martins $25) Baker Street Letters Mystery
TUESDAY MAY 7 7:00 PM Launch Party
David Morrell signs Murder As a Fine Art (Morrow $26) Thomas De Quincey Victorian thriller
May 8: Gini Koch, May 9: Darrell James, Maegan Beaumont, Matt Coyle; May 10 John Sandford; May 11 Suzanne Rindell Noon following the Coffee and Crime Club May 13 Peter Lovesey; May 14 Jon Talton; May 15 Dan Brown Livestream Happy Hour 4:15; May 16 John Lescroart; May 17 Michael Harvey; May 20 Sophie Littlefield; May 21 Walter Mosley; May 22 Alex Grecian; May 23 Josh Harris of the Discovery Channel's The Deadliest Catch May 25 John Scalzi 5 PM; May 28 Clive Cussler/Graham Brown May 30: Hardboiled Crime Club
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Some New Books on Our Shelves
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Albert, Susan Wittig. Widow's Tears Signed (Berkley $27).
Ruby Wilcox, China Bayles' friend and partner in several plant-related enterprises, steps up as the Sherlock from her usual role as the intuitive  Dr. Watson. Ruby's friend Claire has inherited a beautiful mansion in Galveston with a tragic history. Destroyed along with the five children, husband, and housekeeper to Rachel Blackwood in the devastating 1900 Hurricane, it was rebuilt by the grief-maddened Rachel. And now Claire, grandniece of Rachel's eventual caretaker, wants to turn the home into a B&B. What if it's haunted? Ruby, with her extrasensory perception, may know the answer. And, when a killing follows a bank robbery in Pecan Springs, China is forced to go to Galveston to meet with Ruby, and thereby opens the door to real danger.... Albert does a terrific job weaving the history from 1900 forward into the plot. The Thailand tsunami is fresher in our minds but the Galveston killed over 8,000 people.
Connelly, Michael. The Black Box ($15).
 One terrific case for the LAPD's ornery Harry Bosch who with his drive to solve cases and honed intuition brings, in time, resolution to a murder case that began during the 1992 LA riots. The death then of a young photographer was deemed random and assigned to the Riot Crimes Task Force, but now ballistics link her killing to a recent crime....
Edwards, Martin. The Frozen Shroud (Poisoned Pen $25).
"The insights into contemporary society are as sharp as the dark and discursive plotting."-The Times. And here is a true modern English Gothic.
Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's  Lake District, striking each time on Hallowe'en. Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history of murder, becomes fascinated by the old cases and by whether the two suspects tagged for the crimes really did commit them. He spends Hallowe'en at a party in Ravenbank where a third murder occurs. Once again, the corpse's face is shrouded from view. It all presents DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the Cold Case Review Team, with the toughest challenge of her career. Readers of Peter Robinson and the late Reginald Hill will find Martin Edwards' Lake District mysteries irresistible. Also in trade paper,:The Frozen Shroud ($15)
Gibson, Gregory. The Old Turk's Load Signed (Grove $26). A First Mystery Club Pick
Angelo DiNoto is the most powerful crime lord in New Jersey, his empire bolstered by importing pure heroin courtesy of the poppies grown  by an old Turkish farmer. When a five million dollar heroin shipment lands in the lap of shady developer Richard Mudni, he decides to use it to help his fading business acquire some much needed capital. His daughter, Gloria, is literally in bed with a band of wannabe revolutionaries, and sees the heroin as her ticket out of her meek boyfriend's arms and away from her father's looming shadow. Mailman is a longtime postal clerk who has seen it all-until throat cancer robs him of his voice and the will to live-and thinks finding the drugs is the perfect cap to a failed life. 'Walkaway' Kelly is a punch-drunk P.I. hired by Mundi to tail Gloria, but when he uncovers the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Mundi's wife, he'll do anything to uncover the truth. Stir in Kelly's young protégé, brothers who work as DiNoto's ruthless enforcers, Mundi's conflicted collections agent, and you have an Elmore Leonard-esque cast of characters running rampant. Actually, this new First Mystery Club Pick, recalls Donald E. Westlake.
Hayder, Mo. Poppet Signed (Bantam $36).
The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. Hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking for the corpse of a missing woman. He knows all too well how it feels to fail to find a loved one's body. When AJ seeks Caffery's help in investigating the trouble at Amberly, each man must face a bitter truth in his own life. Before staring pure evil in the eye. Unsigned US edition: Poppet (Atlantic $25)
Johnson, Craig. As the Crow Flies ($15).
 In his eighth adventure, Walt Longmire doesn't have time for criminals. His daughter is getting married in two weeks and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals. He needs to find a new site for the nuptials-fast. Unfortunately, his expedition to the Cheyenne Reservation to inspect the nuptials site is derailed by a grisly death. It's not Walt's turf, but he's coerced into the investigation by Lolo Long, the beautiful new tribal police chief. Terrific stuff, dark yet funny. Johnson signs the 9th case for Walt, A Serpent's Tooth (Viking $27), on June 12. And Longmire rolls on on A&E.
Lyga, Barry. Game (LittleBrown $18).
I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history's most  infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove murder didn't run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo's Nod to solve a deadly case. And now, when a determined New York City detective comes knocking on Jazz's door asking for help, he can't say no. The Hat-Dog Killer has the Big Apple-and its police force-running scared. So Jazz and his girlfriend, Connie, hop on a plane to the big city and get swept up in a killer's murderous game. For YA readers and the more mature
Parker, T Jefferson. The Famous and the Dead (Dutton $27).
Parker reaches once more into the real-life story of Operation Fast & Furious to conclude his sprawling, multivolume saga of Charlie Hood, the seen-it-all deputy of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Operation Blowdown, which already went south, is now coming back north. Completes the Charlie Hood series.
"The ensuing ritualistic showdowns, which seem to owe as much to The Lord of the Rings as to other cop novels, show Parker burrowing deep into his characters, so that both heroes and villains spring to unnervingly complicated life. Part cops-versus-drugs-and-guns procedural, part elemental morality play, part fire-and-brimstone mythmaking, all of it inimitably Parker."- Kirkus
Praag, Menna Van. The House at the End of Hope Street (Penguin $26). A debut
Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through  her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. With nothing left to lose, Alba takes a chance and moves in. She soon discovers that this is no ordinary house. Past residents have included Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Parker, who, after receiving the assistance they needed, hung around to help newcomers-literally, in talking portraits on the wall. As she escapes into this new world, Alba begins a journey that will heal her wounds-and maybe even save her life. A whimsical debut in the style of, say, Jasper Fforde if he were interested in women's history.
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10 Authors July 6
Plus Daniel Silva, Frederick Forsyth, and Sue Grafton
all Books at the Biltmore
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Saturday July 6: 9-4:30 Our annual Poisoned Pen Conference
Friday July 19
7 PM: Daniel Silva
Tuesday August 21: Frederick Forsyth
Tuesday September 10: Sue Grafton Book Launch for W Is for....
Our rate at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa for all these exceptional events is $95 night plus taxes.
An upgrade to the next level is $115/night.
The Code to use when reserving a room is 2726435
Our contact is Patrick Pilcher, 602.954.2538
Patrick.Pilcher@waldorfastoria.com
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 Marcia Clark with
Avery Aames, Kate Carlisle, Jane Cleland, Steve Hamilton, Michael Kahn, Susanna Kearsley, Jenn McKinlay, Sheldon Siegel, Qiu Xiaolong. St Martin's Press editor Keith Kahla will be our Luncheon Speaker. Make a weekend of it, enjoy the pool.
Friday July 19 7:00 PM 
Daniel Silva signs The English Girl (Harper $28) Gabriel Allon
(come in early for July 16: Martin Walker, 17: Alex Kava, and 18, Brad Taylor)
Wednesday August 21 7:00 PM
Frederick Forsyth signs The Kill List
(Putnam $27.95)
(stay over for Carol O'Connell August 22)
Tuesday September 10 7:00 PM
Sue Grafton signs W is for .... (Putnam $28.95) Kinsey Millhone #23
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