Clues Unlimited

                                                       Signings and Special Events
 

April/May 2008
 

Sunday, April 13th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Dragon Man (SOHO, $11.00), an Australian police procedural by Garry Disher.

Monday, April 21 at 6:00 Mario Acevedo will be here to sign the latest  Felix Gomez vampire mystery, The Undead Kama Sutra (Rayo, 13.95). Please join us for a fanging good time.

Saturday, May 3rd 2:30 Elizabeth Zelvin will be here to sign her debut mystery, Death Will Get You Sober (STM, 23.95), about a recovering alcoholic who uses a murder investigation to keep his mind off drinking.

 Sunday, May 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom (HC, 12.95), a comic mystery about an English librarian who accepts a job in a small Irish town only to discover that there are no books in the library.

Thursday, May 9th at 7:00 Clues will present a panel discussion featuring Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, Jane Eppinga, and Susan Cummins Miller, Tucson historians who will be discussing the ways in which women’s history of the west gives us a sense of the way things really were.

Friday, May 16th at 7:00 Ted Kerasote will be here to discuss and sign Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog (Har, 14.00) as part of a benefit for Arizona Greyhound Rescue. Tickets will be $10.00 at the door, and come early for heavy-duty Nicaraguan-style munchies and hounds to be loved on.

Sunday, February 10th at 2:00  Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Lyn Hamilton’s Xibalba Murders (Brk, 6.99), set in Mexico, the first in the art and antiquities series featuring Toronto art dealer Lara McClintoch.

Sunday, February 17th at 2:00 Sandi Ault will be here to sign Wild Inferno (Brk, 23.95) set on the Southern Ute Reservation.

Saturday, February 23rd at 2:30 Patricia K. Batta will be here to sign and discuss What Did You Do Before Dying ? (Lillimar, 14.95), a first novel featuring a woman of a certain age who finds her husband dead, the victim of a supposed suicide--or was it? Her sleuthing upsets her children, friends, and neighbors as she seeks to prove that her husband did not kill himself.

Wednesday, February 27th at 7:00 Peter May will be here to sign and discuss The Critic (PP, 24.95), and since the book deals with the murder of a French wine critic, we will have a wine-tasting of French wines. Please join us for a different kind of signing.

Saturday, March 1st at 2:00 Betty Webb will be here to sign Desert Cut (PP, 24.95), the sixth in the Lena Jones series set in  Arizona. Here Lena investigates the death of a young girl in the small border town of Los Perdidos. As always, Webb’s mysteries provide glimpses of little-known aspects of Arizona life. Also Elizabeth Gunn will be here signing Cool in Tucson (Severn, 27.95), the first in a wonderful police procedural series set her in the Old Pueblo.

Sunday, March 9th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Colin Cotterill’s Coroner’s Lunch (SOHO, 11.00), the first in the series featuring the shamanistic chief medical examiner of Laos.

Monday, March 10th at 10:00 Libby Fischer Hellmann and Cara Black will here for a discussion and signing to benefit Brandeis. Hellmann will be signing both of her recent books, Chicago Blues (BH, 14.95), a collection of short stories set in the Windy City and Easy Innocence (BH, 24.95hc and 14.95 tp), a thriller featuring a PI investigating the deaths of girls from Chicago’s North Shore. Black will be signing the latest in the series featuring French-American PI Aimee LeDuc (Murder in the Rue de Paradise, SOHO, 22.95)  in a case that involves her with Paris’ Turkish and Kurdish immigrants.

Saturday, March 15th at 2:00 Ken Kuhlken will be here to sign The Vagabond Virgins (PP, 24.95), the latest in the family saga of the Hickey family in a mystery that takes place in Tijuana and Baja California.

Saturday, April 5th at 2:00 Clues will be having a coming-out party for Emily, the new addition to the Clues Unlimited family, which will be a benefit for the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary. Come and pig-out on food (no pork), drink, and a chance to see the world's cutest baby pig. Check the website for pictures of our newest little bookseller.

                  Coming up:  Susan Cummins Miller, Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, Mario Acevedo and Craig Johnson.
December 2007/January 2008

Tuesday, November 27 through Sunday, December 16 the Invisible Theatre presents a deliciously diabolical mystery, The Business of Murder, centering on a television playwright, a detective, and a mystery man--all connected by murder. On Wednesday, December 5th after the performance at 7:30, I will be discussing the theater and the mystery tradition. Call 882-9721 for tickets.

Sunday, December 9th at 2:00  Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie(Png, 6.99) to celebrate the holiday season in murderous fashion.

Saturday, December 29th at 3:00 John Roynnesdal will be here to sign Living in Darkness (Starbooks, 16.95), a thriller set in Honolulu featuring HPD’s homicide detective Philip Michael Carnegie--a cross between Lt. Columbo and Jessica Fletcher--who must solve a series of hate crimes against gays. Hawaiian munchies (but no roast pig, according to Sophie) and discounts on our large selection of GLBT mysteries.

Wednesday, December 26 through Monday, December 31, Clues Unlimited’s Annual Sale will expand to a week this year. Everything will be on sale for a 20% discountWednesday through Sunday and 25% on Monday, December 31. We’re making your Christmas shopping easy--buy a gift certificate and tell the recipient about the sale!

Friday, January 11th at 7:00 J.A. Jance will be here to sign Hand of Evil (SS, 25.95), the third in the series featuring former newscaser Ali Reynolds and set in Sedona. This will be a discussion and signing to benefit the Tohono O’odham library and there will be a $10 charge at the door. Dessert will be served. Call Clues at 326-8533 to reserve your ticket.

Sunday, January 13th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Sharyn McCrumb’s Sick of Shadows (BDD, 6.99) the first of the Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries.

Tuesday, January 15th at 7:00 Michael McGarrity will be here to sign Death Song (Dutton, 24.95), the latest Kevin Kerney mystery set in New Mexico.

Friday, January 25th at 7:00 we will have a joint signing with former Tucsonan Louise Ure signing The Fault Tree (STM, 23.95), a mystery set in Tucson featuring a blind detective, and Leighton Gage signing Blood of the Wicked (SOHO, 24.00) a debut mystery set in Brazil.

               Coming up: Sandi Ault, Susan Cummins Miller, Cara Black, Libby Fischer Hellman, and Betty Webb.
 

October/November 2007

Cancelled. Tuesday, October 9th at 5:30 Ken Isaacson will be here to sign his debut legal thriller, Silent Counsel (Windermere Press, 24.95).

Postponed.Thursday, October 11th at 7:00 Sam Barone will be here to sign his two historical novels set in Mesopotamia, Dawn of Empire (HC, 7.99) and Empire Rising (HC, 25.95).

Saturday, October 13th at 2:30 Nancy Turner will be here to sign the third in her series featuring Arizona pioneerwoman Agnes Prine, The Star Garden (STM, 24.95).

Sunday, October 14th at 2:00 the Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss W. J. Burley’s Wycliffe and the Three-toed Pussy (TSP, 7.99), a British police procedural written in the 1970’s.

Saturday, October 20th at 2:00 Clues will be hosting Rhys Bowen signing Her Royal Spyness (Brk, 23.95), Betty Webb signing her Lena Jones mysteries, and Jude Johnson signing Dragon and Hawk (Scorched Hawk Press, 16.00). Then from 3:00-5:00 join these mysterious ladies for high tea at The Tudor Rose Tearoom on south Craycroft. The signing is free and the tea is $12.95 + tax and tip.

Saturday, October 27th at 7:00 pm Clues is pleased to host Richard Shelton signing Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer (Uof A Press, 35.00hc, 17.95 paper) and Ken Lamberton signing Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment (Uof A Press, 17.95 paper). While these books may seem outside of the mystery  purview, it will be interesting to look at not just crime, but also punishment, and the transformative power of writing. Please join us.

Saturday, November 3rd at 2:30 Eric Stone will be here to sign his two books in the Ray Sharp series, The Living Room of the Dead (Bleak House 14.95) and Grave Imports (Bleak House, 24.95 hc, 14.95 paper), a first-rate series set in Asia. I will also invite Vietnamese cutie Jean-Paul to represent Southeast Asia. Sam Barone also will be here to sign his two historical novels set in Mesopotamia, Dawn of Empire (HC, 7.99) and Empire Rising (HC, 25.95).
 

Saturday, November 10th Tucsonan J. M. Hayes will be here to sign Broken Heartland (PP, 24.95) the latest in the series featuring Mad Dog and Englishman set in rural Kansas.

Sunday, November 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss C.J. Sansom’s Dissolution (Png, 14.00), an award-winning mystery set in England in 1537 at the time of the establishment of the English Church.

Saturday, November 17th at 2:30 Clues will host former Tucsonan Rose Marie Kinder, signing An Absolute Gentleman (Counterpoint, 24.95) and Santa Fe author Martha Egan signing Coyota (Papalote Press, 21.95 hc and 12.95 paper).

Sunday, November 25th from 1-4 Clues will host our annual Mistletoe and Mystery author signing event and holiday party. Marcelino is already planning the menu. Donis Casey will be attending to sign her new mystery, The Drop Edge of Yonder (PP, 24.95). Check the website for additional authors who will be attending.

      Coming up: J.A. Jance, Michael McGarrity, and Louise Ure
 

August/September2007

Saturday, August 4th at 4:00 J.A. Jance will be here to sign her new J.P. Beaumont mystery, Justice Denied (HC, 25.95).

Saturday, August 11th at 2:30 Elizabeth Gunn will be here to sign her newest Jake Hines mystery McCafferty’s Nine(Severn House, 28.95).

Sunday, August 12th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss the Dylis Award-winning mystery Still Life by Louise Penny (STM, 6.99).

Sunday, September 9th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Eagle Catcher (Brk, 6.99)by Margaret Coel, the first of the series set on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation. Then at 3:00 the author will be here to sign her newest in the series, The Girl with the Braided Hair (Brk, 23.95). Please join us.

Saturday, September 15th at 9:00 am Zoe Sharp will be here to sign Second Shot (STM, 23.95) the second in the series featuring English PI Charlie Fox.
 
 

Thursday, September 20 at 6:00pm Jennifer Lee Carrell will be here to sign her first mystery novel Interred With Their Bones (Dutton, 25.95).

Friday, September 21st  is shaping up to be very busy. At 2:00 Steve Hamilton will be here to sign his superb new stand-alone thriller, Night Work (STM, 24.95). Then  at 5:00 Wiccan/horror writer M.R.Sellers will be here to sign his books. Then at 7:00 Timothy Hallinan will be here to do a one-hour writing workshop and to sign the first in a new series set in Thailand, Nail Through the Heart (HC, 24.95). Please join us.

Saturday, September 29th Kathleen Delaney will be here--with her dogs, as part of a cross-country book tour--to sign And Murder for Dessert (PP, 24.95) her debut mystery set in a California winery.
 

    June/July 2007

Sunday, June 10th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Picador, 14.00), the award-winning debut historical novel set in Istanbul.

Saturday, June 16th at 2:00 Jeff Mariotte will be here to sign and discuss Missing White Girl (Jove, 6.99), a supernatural mystery set in Cochise County.

Wednesday, June 20th at 7:00, U of A Law School alumnus Brent Ghelfi will be here to sign his debut thriller, Volk’s Game (Holt, 19.95), set in Russia.

Friday, June 22nd at 7:00 Steven Havill will be discussing and signing his new Posadas County mystery, Final Payment (STM, 23.95). Please join us to welcome him.

Sunday, July 8th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will meet to discuss Snakeskin Shamisen  (BDD, 12.00) by Naomi Hirahara, featuring Japanese gardener Mas Arai.

Saturday, August 4th (time TBA) J.A. Jance will be here to sign her new J.P. Beaumont mystery, Justice Denied (HC, 25.95).