bibliomysteries.
ack in Salem, Mass, Barry's home turf, where where Zee Finch, a respected psychotherapist, has returned after one of her patients commits suicide. There she finds that her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, has been hiding how really sick he is. Barry's first novel The Lace Reader ($15) became a much applauded bestseller and also took place in Salem, drawing in past and present with this town's history.
FMC Pick because the author is a British author here writing under a pseudonym. He introduces Pekkala, once the Romanovs' most trusted investigator. Ten years after the execution of that royal family, Pekkala is in prison but the state needs him for one final mission: find the bodies of the murdered Romanovs, locate the killers, find the royal child rumored to still be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves.
so appreciative of this blockbuster author taking time to sign our books when she can't visit the store. In fact, we have championed Charlaine's work since her second novel way back in I think 1990 and while I warm most to her dark Lily Shakespeare noirs and some like the cozy Atlanta librarian mysteries best, the imaginative and irrepressible Charlaine has reached her widest audience via Sookie Stackhouse (and the TV series she spawned). This is Sookie's latest adventure.
copies are signed, scented with perfume, and stamped with "kisses" at random spots throughout the book! Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritter-ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton-veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans-and for posterity. Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It's wild, it's wicked, it's bold-faced-it's vintage Chuck."
aver, returning from bestseller The Tourist ($15), has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA. These are Steinhauer's first contemporary novels after his knockout Eastern European espionage series.Now faced with the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no choice but to turn back to his old job as a "tourist." Before he can get back to the CIA's dirty work, he has to prove his loyalty to his new bosses. Milo is suddenly in a dangerous position, between right and wrong, between powerful self-interested men, between patriots and traitors-especially as a man who has nothing left to lose. I think of Steinhauer's work as elegant companions to those of Alan Furst and John LeCarre. He is a two-time Edgar award finalist and has been shortlisted for the Anthony, the Macavity, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and the Barry awards. Raised in Virginia, he lives in Leipzig, Germany, which is why we haven't been able to highlight his work with Signed books since his 2003 History/Mystery Pick Bridge of Sighs ($14). If you missed it, wait no longer!
Scott Turow's INNOCENT is available as a signed first edition. To order your copy either click on the link or call The Poisoned Pen. The price is 27.99. This is the sequel to PRESUMED INNOCENT.
ovel to feature Det. Insp. Thomas Lynley (after Careless in Red) offers an intricate plot that will satisfy even jaded fans of psychological suspense. Aggressively career-minded Isabelle Ardery, the new acting superintendent of London's Metropolitan Police, boldly manages to lure Lynley, who's been grieving over his wife's murder, back from Cornwall to look into a murder case. The body of Jemima Hastings, a young woman recently relocated from Hampshire, has turned up in a London cemetery. With suspects in both locales and numerous leads to follow and interviews to conduct, Ardery succeeds in raising the hackles of Det. Sgt. Barbara Havers, Det. Insp. John Stewart, and other members of the investigating team. George tantalizes with glimpses of a horrific earlier murder case; showcases Lynley at his shrewdest, most diplomatic best; and confounds readers with a complex array of evidence, motives, and possible solutions."
ngland and Spain are at war, yet there is peril at home, too. The death of her trusted spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has left Queen Elizabeth vulnerable. Conspiracies multiply.
1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series- the basis for HBO(r)'s True Blood-continues! 
The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent, INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.
