Clues Unlimited

A Mystery Bookstore
123 S. Eastbourne (Broadway Village at Broadway and Country Club)
Tucson AZ 85716
e-mail <info@cluesunlimited.com

Signings and Special Events

June/July 2009

Sunday, June 14^th Clues Unlimited Book Club will read and discuss Fred Vargas’ Have Mercy on Us All (SS, 14.00), a police procedural set in Paris featuring the intuitive Commaissaire Adamsberg.

Saturday, June 20^th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited will host a joint signing with Tucsonans Rebecca MacEldowney, The Reverend Gordon McBride signing The Ghost of Midsummer Common (Windstorm, 18.99), and Frederick Masterman signing Jewels of Stonehenge (Orchard House, 16.95).

Friday, June 26^th at 5:00. Seth Harwood will be here to sign his debut novel Jack Wakes Up (RH, 13.95), a noir novel featuring a former actor, his career derailed by an arrest for domestic violence, who turns investigator when a friend who had set up a drug buy for some Czech visitors is found dead in his Jacuzzi.

Saturday, June 27^th at 2:00 Tucson writer of romantic suspense Elaine Charton will be here to sign Pandora’s Justice (Swimming Kangaroo, 14.99), the second in her Eppie-award nominated series.

Sunday, June 28^th at 2:00 Jilliane Hoffman will be here to sign Plea of Insanity (Vanguard, 25.95), a spell-binding legal thriller about a Miami prosecutor who goes after a doctor accused of murdering his family and whose defense is the insanity plea.

Wednesday, July 1^st at 7:00 join us for an evening in the Orient, with food, music, and a slide show when Eric Stone signs his latest Ray Sharp novel, Shanghaied (Bleak House 24.95 hc, 14.95 trade paper).

Saturday, July 11^th Tucson writer Mark P. Sadler will be here to sign Blood on his Hands (Infinity, 14.95), a crime novel of retribution and redemption about a man who murders his wife and the PI who goes after him.

Sunday, July 12^th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss John Maddox Roberts The King’s Gambit (STM, 14.95), the first in the SPQR series set in ancient Rome.

Sunday, July 26^th at 2:30  Tony Hays will be discussing and signing his debut novel The Killing Way (STM, 24.95), the first in a new series set in Dark Age Britain as part of the Mystery and History series for the Department of History at the U of A.

Tuesday, August 4^th at 7:00 J. A. Jance will be here to sign and discuss her new Beaumont and Brady mystery, Fire and Ice (HC, 26.95). Please join us to hear this bestselling author speak.

Coming soon: Ann Parker, Hailey Lind, Sophie Littlefield, Libby Hellman, Timothy Hallinan, Alan Jacobson.

/March/April 2009

Signings and Special Events

Sunday, April 12^th Clues Unlimited Book Club will read and discuss Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories (GC, 7.99), featuring former cop turned PI Jackson Brodie.

Tuesday, April 28^th at 7:00 Robert Dugoni will be here to sign his latest legal thriller, Wrongful Death (SS, 25.00). Please join us to meet this up-and-coming writer.

Saturday, May 2^nd at 2:00 Jon Talton will be here to sign his newest mystery, Pain Nurse (PP, 24.95), a stand-alone thriller set in a Cincinnati hospital. This will be our very first signing at the new store and we are happy to host an Arizona native and one of my favorite mystery writers for the inauguration of the new location!

Friday, May 8^th at 7:00 we will have a bookstore-warming party featuring food, fun, and three Tucson authors—Louise Ure signing Liar’s Anonymous (STM, 24.95), a thriller set in Tucson, Elizabeth Gunn signing New River Blues (SH, 28.95), the second in the police procedural series set in Tucson, and J. M. Hayes signing Server Down (PP, 24.95), with Mad Dog in Tucson to visit the Yaqui Easter ceremonies.

Sunday, May 10^th at 2:00 the Clues Unlimited Book Club will discuss Kate Morgenroth’s They Did it with Love (Plume, 14.00), a clever updating of an Agatha Christie plot.

Saturday, May 16^th at 2:30 Dianne Emley will be here to sign her three books in the Nan Vining police procedural series set in the Pasadena area: First Cut (BDD, 7.99), Cut to the Quick (BDD, 7.99), and The Deepest Cut (Ballantine, 24.00). If you like a smart, tough female protagonist and clever plotting, you’ll love this Pasadena-based series.

Thursday, May 21^st at 4:30 John Shannon will be here to discuss and sign the latest in the Jack Liffey series set in southern California, Palos Verdes Blue (Pegasus, 25.00). Shannon is one of the foremost writers of neo-noir mysteries and Liffey is a twenty-first century Lew Archer, navigating the distinct cultural worlds of California where anomie and violence come together in often apocalyptic ways.

Coming up: J A Jance, Eric Stone, Tim Maleeny, and Seth Harwood

February/March 2009

Signings and Special Events

Sunday, February 8th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Beautiful Blue Death (STM, 13.95) by Charles Finch, the first in a series set in Victorian England.

Sunday, March 8th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing The Case of the Gilded Fly (F&M, 14.95) by Edmund Crispin, a classic comic mystery featuring Cambridge don Gervase Fen.

Tuesday, March 17th at 11:30 Clues will host a brown bag lunch and book signing with Debby Atkinson who’ll be signing Pleasing the Dead (PP, 24.95) and Vicki Delany who’ll be signing Valley of the Lost (PP, 24.95). I’m planning on sandwiches from Baggins, but Daniel is pushing for a luau--join us and see which it is.

Coming up: Robert Dugoni and Louise Ure

December 2008/January 2009

Sunday, December 14th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Magdalen Nabb’s Death of an Englishman (Soho, 14.00), a Marshall Guarnaccia mystery set in Florence .

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 26th, 27th, and 28th, from 9-5 all three days, Clues Unlimited will host its Annual Sale. Bring your gift certificates and lists and plan to save from 25%-50% on books. Everything will be on sale. We will probably have to move the store in April, so I want to cut down my inventory dramatically.

Friday, January 9th at 7:00 J.A. Jance will be here to sign Cruel Intent (SS, 25.95) the latest in her Ali Reynolds series set in Sedona. Please join us early because Marcelino will make Nicaraguan food to celebrate the newest book by his favorite author.

Sunday, January 11th at 2:00 Clues Unlimited Book Club will be discussing Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (RH, 14.95), a police procedural set in Sweden featuring homicide detective Martin Beck, published in 1965.

Wednesday, January 14th at 7:00 Michael McGarrity will be here to sign the latest in the New Mexico based Kevin Kerney series, Dead or Alive (Dutton, 24.95). Please join us to meet one of the best southwestern mystery writers.

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