So Much to Celebrate in April...
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Greetings,
Mystery solved! Why do some of the photos I include in the Enews disappear from my computer to yours?
Rob worked it out. Photos on my computer when dropped in appear to me, but not to thee.
We have to pay our Enews program host for image storage which is expensive. So the way to go is link to photos posted on our website or other websites, which you can then see as well as me. My apologies for not working this out (right--like I was ever going to....) and kudos to Rob,my personal IT guy, for doing so.
Here is a photo of a palo verde tree coming into bloom which is what I  wanted you to see last time from our morning walk through the fabulous Desert Botantical Gardens here in Phoenix.
Meanwhile Ariel has displayed real creativity in updating our Flickr photos on poisonedpen.com. To view please click here and then go to the upper right of the first photo and click on "Older" and eventually you will land in photos of our staff trip to Alaska last August--then quit. We'll keep the photos and the blog livelier from now on.
Don't forget we do our very own programming from The Poisoned Pen. View past and upcoming livestreamed events by clicking here. New in Livestream: Jacqueline Winspear, William Kent Krueger See it Here Buy It Here. Keep US Here. Thank you for your continued support Barbara and The Poisoned Pen Staff | |
 
Thank you for supporting The Poisoned Pen, named Best Specialty Bookstore 2011 and 2012 by the New Times, 2012 by the Arizona Republic, and Poisoned Pen Press, winner of the 2010 Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America and named the 2011 Best Local Publisher by the Arizona Republic.
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New Website Features
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Will has composed a blog post explaining how to use new search features in our STORE
To read (and then apply), please click here
Also Ariel has taken charge of our Home Page Photos
To view click here
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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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Buy Just One Book This Month from The Pen
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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.
Please do your share by buying just one book this month, and every month. And if you come to see an author, think of it as a night out like going to the movies or a concert or a sports event and think of buying the author's book as your ticket.
Ticketing events is becoming a bookstore standard We prefer it to be voluntary.
Many thanks, Barbara and The Pens
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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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Four Books at the Biltmore Program for This Summer
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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 or Wed. 22: A surprise, not yet confirmed
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
Tuesday September 10 7:00 PM
Sue Grafton signs W is for .... (Putnam $28.95) Kinsey Millhone #23
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Jenn McKinlay
Today April 6
A Cupcake Cozy 2:00 PM
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SATURDAY APRIL 6 2:00 PM A Cupcake Cozy!
Jenn McKinlay signs Going, Going, Ganache (Berkley $7.99)
Join us for cupcakes and fun!
 After a cupcake-flinging fiasco at a photo shoot for a local magazine, Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura agree to make amends by hosting a weeklong corporate boot camp at Fairy Tale Cupcakes. The idea is the brainchild of billionaire Ian Hannigan, new owner of SWS (Southwest Style), a lifestyle magazine that chronicles the lives of Scottsdale's rich and famous. He's assigned his staff to a team-building week of making cupcakes for charity. It's clear that the staff would rather be doing just about anything other than frosting baked goods. Then the magazine's creative director is found murdered outside the bakery... Includes recipes.
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A Poisoned Pen Press Party
Sunday April 7 2:00 PM
Tammy Kaehler and Tina Whittle
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SUNDAY APRIL 7 2:00 PM Poisoned Pen Press Party
As with all our parties, we'll have nibbles and prizes!
Tammy Kaehler signs Braking Points (Poisoned pen $25 or $15)
Kate Reilly's on a bad track. She wrecks her racecar at Road America  in Wisconsin, sending a visiting NASCAR star to the hospital, and loses her cool on-camera, only to end the day by discovering her boyfriend with a friend of hers. A dead friend. With little time to grieve, Kate finds herself the pariah of the racing world, the target of vicious e-mail messages, death threats, and a frenzy of blame on racing sites and blogs, including an influential, anonymous blogger who's trying to get her fired. But nothing is as bad as knowing her friend's killer is still out there. All this plus she's juggling a new sponsor, a boyfriend she's not sure she can trust, and a new-found family she doesn't want to claim. Plus coming up is Petit Le Mans, the ten-hour endurance classic. Will the wheels come off or will Kate run down a killer?
Meet Kate in Dead Man's Switch ($15).
I never thought I'd enjoy this special racing world but it's terrific fun, plus Kaehler has a gift like Dick Francis for making the technicalities of sport understandable and exciting. I didn't care about British racing either until he (and wife Mary) came along.
Tina Whittle signs Blood Ash and Bone (Poisoned Pen $25 or $15)
"Tai Randolph relishes the idea of leaving her gun shop in Atlanta (where she's been involved in too much mayhem, recounted in the first  two books in this series) for a long weekend on her home turf of Savannah, where she plans to be a vendor at a Civil War expo. Even better, the ex who broke her heart two years earlier hires her to track down a Civil War Bible that's very valuable (if it's authentic), and her current boyfriend, corporate security agent Trey Seaver, comes along for a job that dovetails with her own. But after two men are murdered in their quests for Civil War items, and both Tai and Trey find themselves in danger, it's clear that someone will stop at nothing to get a particular relic. Tai's knowledge of Savannah and her reconnection with her powerful but ailing ex-con uncle, Boone, add texture to this third series entry, but its greatest asset is the exploration of the relationship between frequently foolhardy Tai and cool, collected, and brain-damaged Trey; as more secrets are revealed, the relationship reaches new depths. Whittle's snappy prose and nonstop action revolving around these fascinatingly flawed characters combine to make this series a must."-Booklist Starred Review.
Meet Tai first in The Dangerous Edge of Things
($15).
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Monday April 8
Andrew Gross, Lachlan Smith
7:00 PM
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MONDAY APRIL 8 7:00 PM
I originally described this as Hardboiled Crime Night. But while neither author pulls a punch, each of their protagonist faces the entirely sudden death of someone central to his or her life in surprising circumstances and then deals with the aftermath. We can talk about grief and guilt as fuel for narrative drive.
Andrew Gross signs No Way Back (Morrow $28)
 A chance meeting with a stranger in a hotel cabaret leads to an unwise tryst upstairs, and then in a shocking murder. Wendy Gould is an average mom---and the only witness. But, she's a former cop. Lauritzia Velez knows a shocking secret that could prove to be deadly. Both of their lives in danger, this unlikely pair must work together against a network of dangerous men who want nothing more than to see them dead. What happens to relatively ordinary people thrust mercilessly into extraordinary circumstances?
We also have Gross' terrific thriller from last year in stock:
15 Seconds ($25.99).
S
o what can happen in 15 seconds? Leading surgeon Henry Steadman can get pulled over by a cop for a minor traffic violation, the cop can get shot by someone speeding by in a blue sedan, and Henry can get blamed, as he's suddenly targeted by a huge manhunt.
Harlan Coben, a master at this kind of thriller, says,
"A total white knuckle, stay-up-all-night thrill ride. Enjoyed the heck out of it!"
Lachlan Smith signs Bear is Broken (Grove $24) Debut
"Set in 1999, Smith's powerful legal thriller debut, the first in a series,  grabs the reader by the throat and doesn't let go. At a San Francisco restaurant, where Leo Maxwell, a freshly minted attorney, has met older brother Teddy, a local legend as a defense lawyer, for lunch, Leo feels flattered when Teddy tells him, "I ought to let you close this one," a reference to the closing statement Teddy is soon to deliver in the case of Ellis Bradley, who's accused of raping his wife.
Then a stranger comes up behind Leo and shoots Teddy in the head. This violent act, which puts Teddy in a coma with little chance for recovery, places Leo in the position of trying to serve Bradley's interests by avoiding a mistrial and carrying on in his brother's stead-and finding out the who and why of the murder attempt. Assured prose and taut plotting add up to a winner," says PW.
"Smith's first novel offers a superior blend of amateur-detective mystery and belated-coming-of-age novel cunningly masked as a legal thriller ... a terrific debut. A perfect match with David Carnoy's novels and Michael Connelly's Mickey Haller series."--Booklist Starred Review.
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Baby Shower/Book Launch
Lauren Willig
Tuesday April 9 7:00 PM
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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
Pink cupcakes, ice tea.
Lauren has signed all her books but the first here at The Pen and she's chosen to launch this fabulous new British mystery based on a novel called The Bolter written by a descendant of the Bolter... England, Africa, even Scottsdale!
Lauren's new novel, a standalone British mystery, is called The Ashford Affair (St Martins $25)
The April Indie Next Pick for our April British Crime Club Pick: "This is a convincing portrayal of 1920s English society and a family history artfully hidden from the current generation. Snippets of information dropped at her grandmother's 99th birthday celebration start Clemmie on a search for the truth about her grandmother. Rich details, realistically flawed characters, and a narrative that travels from England to the high life of the ex-pat community in Kenya and finally to present day Manhattan make this a book to remember."
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For Ladies Who Lunch...
Join Lauren and Me
Wednesday April 10
11:30 AM The Artichoke Grill
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On Wednesday April 10, Lauren Willig speaks to the Scottsdale Chapter of the American Association of University Women at its Author Luncheon in the wonderful Artichoke Grill at Scottsdale Community College. Proceeds go to scholarships for the College.
$45, Reservations required. We can arrange for you to pay at the door.
$45 does not include a copy of Lauren's book since the lunch is a fundraiser for scholarships. I will however have books for sale at the lunch.
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Linda Barnes
Thursday April 11 7:00 PM
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THURSDAY APRIL 11 7:00 PM
Linda Barnes signs The Perfect Ghost (St Martins $25)
"A delicious twist...Em's dramatic story of rebirth, addressed to Teddy in absentia, unfolds with the fitting precision of a stage play...An outstanding effort from Barnes." -- Booklist
Em Moore, an agoraphobe who ghostwrites celebrity biographies under  the joint pseudonym T.E. Blakemore, worries whether she can complete her current project -- an "autobiography" of famed actor-director Garrett Malcolm -- without her writing partner, Teddy Blake, after his death in a car crash. Though timid Em always left the interviewing to Teddy, she summons the resolve to talk to Malcolm in his isolated Cape Cod, Mass., beach house. At first, Malcolm casts her aside dismissively, but as Em perseveres and wins his trust and admiration, she persuades both him and herself of her own worth. As she grows closer to Malcolm, secrets about his life begin to pile up-as well as secrets about Teddy's life. Love, rivalry, and revenge. Barnes is writing suspense here in a break from her 16-book Carlotta Carlisle PI series set in Boston which I have always gobbled up. Her work has won the Anthony and American Mystery Awards, and received numerous nominations for the Edgar and Shamus Awards. |
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More April Events
Plus Updates for May
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THURSDAY APRIL 11 7:00 PM
Linda Barnes signs The Perfect Ghost (St Martins $25) Standalone suspense
SATURDAY APRIL 13 10:30 AM
Coffee and Crime discusses Alan Bradley's debut, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie ($15)
SATURDAY APRIL 13 11:00 AM
Join Coffee and Crime visiting with Alan Bradley by Skype
Barbara interviews Bradley
SATURDAY APRIL 13 2:00 PM
Deborah Ledford signs Crescendo (Second $16)
Kris Neri signs Revenge on Route 66 (Cherokee ($18)
THURSDAY APRIL 18 7:00 PM
Stuart Woods signs Unintended Consequences (Putnam $27) and the previous Stone Barrington, Collateral Damage (Putnam $28)
FRIDAY APRIL 19 6:15 PM A Double TGIF NIGHT
Ridley Pearson signs The Kingdom Keepers VI Dark Passage (Disney $18) Ages 12+
And then at 7:00 PM
Philip Kerr signs A Man Without Breath (Putnam $27) Bernie Gunther
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
Becky Masterman signs Rage Against the Dying
(St Martins $25) Tucson FBI Agent Brigid Quinn A First Mystery Pick
SUNDAY APRIL 20 2:00 PM
Laura Tohe signs Code Talker Stories (Rio Nuevo $15)
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
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), Ashley (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
SEE CHANGES
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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A Film to Share
April 25 7:30 PM
Harkins Esplanade
Reservations Required
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This news in from a friend. To speak about a movie with such passion is appropriate in a week in which thoughts about and memories of movie critic Roger Ebert who has died of cancer fill the media.
A new film by Academy Award winning director Richard Robbins called "Girl Rising". It explores the individual stories of 9 extraordinary girls from 9 different countries, and the transformative impact of education on each girl's life. It is written by 9 celebrated authors and narrated by famous actors and actresses. Girl Rising showcases the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world.
If interested, the website is www.girlrising.com. You can read about it and see a trailer. It is a perfect film to take your kids and grandkids to see-it strikes a great balance and is age appropriate for anyone 12 and older.
It is not widely released yet and the only way to see it is at the Harkins Esplanade on Thursday, April 25th at 7:30 pm. Enough people have to buy tickets for the screening to take place! To attend, you must reserve/buy tickets online at http://gathr.us/screening/2447
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Winner, 2001 Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America! Winner,
2012 The Arizona Republic and the New Times Best of Phoenix and Best of Scottsdale, Best Bookstore!
12-time Nominee, Publishers Weekly's Bookseller of the Year
Winner, James Patterson Page-Turner Award
Poisoned Pen Press, Winner, The 2010 Ellery Queen Award from The Mystery Writers of America
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