 Walt Bistline Murder By The BookNew/Used: new books, used books Web site: http://www.murderbooks.com Events: http://www.murderbooks.com/event Twitter account: @murderbooks Description: When attending one of MURDER BY THE BOOK's signing events, please keep the following in mind:
1. The talks/readings are free. However, if you want to get any books signed, the new book must be purchased from Murder By The Book.
2. You may always bring earlier books to be signed, but a limit may be imposed for authors who draw very large crowds.
3. For the bigger signings, numbers will be handed out, with attendees lining up for the signing in numerical order. Arrive early for low numbers.
When sending books to be signed:
We'll get THREE books that you send signed for every ONE copy of the new book purchased from us. Added by: christiguc. Contacted: Yes. Venue ID: 492 MembersFavorites: jgerry41, Texanne8, dvorster, hellraisercollk, private, leahsimone, SamSattler, chadwickswill, Tallis72, Coelacanth, nikkiquitepikki, pwaites, bbeebe, private, benbulben, mermerlibrarian, ktswjw, gwendolyndawson, SuzieHouston, cschulze003, craftychacha — 7 more, lesliej, jemsw, cherlyng, Eurydice, Bestine, dulcibelle, christiguc Visited: jgerry41 Catalogedbgknighton (53), ktswjw (53), christiguc (39), dulcibelle (32), bluemeanie11 (7), starboard (5), svfreeman (2), Venqat65 (1), libraryman_76021 (1) Comment wall | Upcoming events Carolyn Haines (Saturday, May 25 at 4:30pm) Carolyn Haines will sign and discuss Smarty Bones (Minotaur; $24.99) and The Darkling (written under the name R.B. Chesterton) (Pegasus; $24.95). Carolyn Haines is the author of the Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries, including Bonefire of the Vanities, Greedy Bones, Bone Appetit, and Bones of a Feather. She is the recipient of both the Harper Lee Distinguished Writing Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. Before writing fiction, she worked for several years as a journalist, and first visited the Delta, the setting for her mysteries, to do a newspaper story on Parchman State Prison. Born and raised in Mississippi, she now lives in Alabama on a farm with more dogs, cats, and horses than she can possibly keep track of.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Walter Mosley (Wednesday, May 29 at 6:30pm) Walter Mosley will sign and discuss the latest book in his Easy Rawlins series, Little Green (Doubleday; $24.95). He is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 37 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 23 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Jussi Adler-Olsen (Thursday, May 30 at 6:30pm) Jussi Adler-Olsen will sign and discuss the latest book in his Department Q series, A Conspiracy of Faith (Dutton; $26.95). He is Denmark's #1 crime writer and a New York Times bestseller. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in Europe, and he's won many prestigious Nordic crime-writing awards, including the Glass Key Award—also won by Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, Stieg Larsson, and Peter Høeg. He lives in Denmark.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Jussi Adler-Olsen (Thursday, May 30 at unknown time)  Ace Atkins (Saturday, June 1 at 4:30pm) Ace Atkins will be coming to the store to promote 2 books, numbers will be given with the purchase of either Wonderland or The broken places. We will start giving out numbers on Tuesday, May 7th when Wonderland goes on sale. For customers wishing to purchase The broken places (on sale 5/30) for the event, you can preorder a copy and get a number for the event starting May 7th. Ace Atkins is the author of eleven novels, including The lost ones and Lullaby, both out from G.P. Putnam’s Sons in May 2012. As a reporter, Ace earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a feature series based on his investigation into a forgotten murder of the 1950s. The story became the core of his critically acclaimed novel, White Shadow, which earned raves from noted authors and critics. The lost ones and The Ranger represent a return to Ace’s first love: hero-driven series fiction. Quinn Colson is a real hero—a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan—who returns home to north Mississippi to fight corruption on his home turf. The stories, contemporary tales with a dash of classic westerns and noir, are currently in development for a major television series. Ace lives on a historic farm outside Oxford, Mississippi with his family. Lately, he’s been spending a lot of time in Boston, much of it at the corner of Berkeley and Boylston.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Alafair Burke (Wednesday, June 5 at 6:30pm) Alafair Burke will sign and discuss her latest novel, If You Were Here (Harper; $24.99). Alafair Burke is the bestselling author of six previous novels, including 212, Angel’s Tip, and Dead Connection in the Ellie Hatcher series. A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan. Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Alafair Burke will be promoting If You Were Here (Wednesday, June 5 at 6:30pm)  Susanna Kearsley (Thursday, June 6 at 6:30pm) Susanna Kearsley will sign and discuss her new book The Firebird (Sourcebooks; $16.99). PBO New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Susanna Kearsley’s writing has been compared to Mary Stewart, Daphne Du Maurier, and Diana Gabaldon. She recently hit the bestseller lists in the U.S. with The Winter Sea, which was also a finalist for the UK’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award and winner of a RT Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction, and RITA-nominated The Rose Garden, winner of a RT Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Fantasy/Paranormal. Her award-winning books have been translated into several languages, selected for the Mystery Guild, considered for Reader's Digest, and optioned for film. She lives in Canada, near the shores of Lake Ontario.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Jeffery Deaver (Friday, June 7 at 6:30pm) Jeffery Deaver will sign and discuss The Kill Room (Grand Central; $28.00). Jeffery Deaver’s most recent #1 international bestseller is Carte Blanche, the new James Bond novel that brought Ian Fleming’s Agent 007 firmly into the modern age. After revealing his lifelong admiration for Fleming’s novels while accepting the Crime Writer’s Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for his thriller Garden of Beasts, Deaver was approached by the estate of Ian Fleming to write the next Bond thriller. It debuted on bestseller lists around the world.
The author of two collections of short stories and 28 previous suspense novels, Deaver is best known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, most notably The Bone Collector, which was made into a feature starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. His many awards include the Novel of the Year at the International Thriller Writers’ Awards in 2009 for his standalone novel The Bodies Left Behind. The latest entries in the Lincoln Rhyme series are The Cold Moon, The Broken Window, and The Burning Wire.
Deaver has been nominated for seven Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony Award and a Gumshoe Award. He was recently short-listed for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Best International Author. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. He lives in North Carolina.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Ridley Pearson (Saturday, June 8 at 4:30pm) Ridley Pearson will sign and discuss Choke Point (Putnam; $26.95). Ridley Pearson is a New York Times best-selling author with more than 40 novels published in 22 languages in 70 countries. He has had his novels adapted to both network television and the stage. He has also co-produced and written documentaries for television. Ridley has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Craig Ferguson, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and has been reviewed in major newspapers around the world.
Ridley began his career as a singer/songwriter for an acoustic rock band and spent nearly a decade on the road. Today, he continues his music as a founding member of The Rockbottom Remainders, a '60s rock 'n roll band featuring bestselling authors.
Following attendance at Kansas University and Brown University, Ridley’s songwriting led to script writing, and script writing to novels. His first work, Never Look Back, was published in 1985. In 1991, Ridley was the first American to serve as the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow in Detective Fiction at Wadham College, Oxford University, England. In 2008, he was a visiting professor in the College Of International Language and Literature at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Raised in Riverside, Connecticut, Ridley, his wife, Marcelle, and their two daughters currently divide their time between the Midwest and the Northern Rockies.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Steve Ulfelder - CANCELLED (Monday, June 10 at 00am) Due to scheduling conficts, this event has been cancelled.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)  Taylor Stevens (Monday, June 10 at 6:30pm)  Lauren Beukes (Tuesday, June 11 at 6:30pm) Lauren Beukes will sign and discuss her novel The Shining Girls (Mulholland Books; $26.00) She is a writer, TV scriptwriter and recovering journalist. For the sake of a story, she's jumped out of planes and into shark-infested waters and hung out with teen vampires, township vigilantes, and AIDS activists among other interesting folk. When she's not tutoring her baby daughter in practical ways to take over the world, she also writes books, short stories, magazine articles and TV scripts.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Nalini Singh (Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30pm) Nalini Singh will sign and discuss Heart of Obsidian (Berkley; $25.95). Nalini Singh is passionate about writing. Though she's traveled as far afield as the deserts of China, the Highlands of Scotland, and the temples of Japan, it is the journey of the imagination that fascinates her most. She's beyond delighted to be able to follow her dream as a writer. Nalini lives and works in beautiful New Zealand.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Kate Carlisle (Thursday, June 13 at 6:30pm) Kate Carlisle will sign and discuss the newest Bibliophile mystery, A Cookbook Conspiracy (NAL; $23.95). Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier Award winning author Kate Carlisle spent over twenty years working in television production as an Associate Director for game and variety shows, including The Midnight Special, Solid Gold and The Gong Show. She traveled the world as a Dating Game chaperone and performed strange acts of silliness on The Gong Show. She also studied acting and singing, toiled in vineyards, collected books, joined a commune, sold fried chicken, modeled spring fashions and worked for a cruise ship line, but it was the year she spent in law school that finally drove her to begin writing fiction. It seemed the safest way to kill off her professors. Those professors are breathing easier now that Kate spends most of her time writing near the beach in Southern California where she lives with her perfect husband. A lifelong love of old books and an appreciation of the art of bookbinding led Kate to create the Bibliophile Mysteries, featuring rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright, whose bookbinding and restoration skills invariably uncover old secrets, treachery and murder. Kate is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and Romance Writers of America. She loves to drink good wine and watch other people cook. Kate Carlisle will be joined by Dean "Miranda" James for the event.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Jon Steele (Friday, June 14 at 6:30pm)  Scott Phillips (Saturday, June 15 at 1pm) Scott Phillips will sign and discuss his book Rake (Counterpoint LLC; $25.00). He is the author of three of the most highly acclaimed crime novels of recent years. His debut novel, The Ice Harvest, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the California Book Award, a Silver Medal for Best First Fiction, and was a finalist for the Edgar Awards, the Hammett Prize and the Anthony Award. It is now a major motion picture from Focus Features. Its followup The Walkaway continued his success, with The New York Times calling it "wicked fun." His third novel, Cottonwood, is now out in paperback.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, where much of his first two books are set, Scott lived for many years in Paris, and then in Southern California, where he worked on screenplays. Those who frequent Showtime in the middle of the night may see his name on Crosscut (1996). He now lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Steve Berry (Saturday, June 15 at 4:30pm) Steve Berry will sign and discuss his new Cotton Malone thriller, The King's Deception (Ballantine $27). Steve Berry is the New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series. He also has three stand-alone thrillersm, and two e-book original short stories, The Balkan Escape and The Devil's Gold. He has 14 million books in print, which have been translated into 40 languages and sold in 51 countries. Steve's road to publishing was long and arduous, spanning 12 years and 85 rejections over 5 separate manuscripts. He's also an accomplished instructor, having taught writing to audiences across the globe. When Steve's not writing, you can find him either on a beach, a golf course, or traveling --- discovering more things lost --- thinking of the next novel. He lives in the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. Steve and his wife Elizabeth have also started a foundation, History Matters, dedicated to aiding the preservation of our heritage.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Steve Berry (Saturday, June 15 at 6pm) Steve Berry ( The Alexandria Link, The Amber Room, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Paris Vendetta, The Romanov Prophecy, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Venetian Betrayal, The Emperor's Tomb, The Jefferson Key, The Balkan Escape (Short Story), The Columbus Affair, The King's Deception, The Devil's Gold (Short Story), The Cotton Malone Series 7-Book Bundle)
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The King’s Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperor’s Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Amber Room. His books have been translated into 40 languages with more than 15,000,000 printed copies in 51 countries. History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel. It’s this passion, one he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, that led them to create History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation. Since 2009 Steve and Elizabeth have traveled across the country to save endangered historic treasures, raising money via lectures, receptions, galas, luncheons, dinners, and their popular writers’ workshops. To date, nearly 2,000 students have attended those workshops. In 2012 their work was recognized by the American Library Association, which named Steve the first spokesman for National Preservation Week. He was also appointed by the Smithsonian Board of Regents to serve on the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board to help promote and support the libraries in their mission to provide information in all forms to scientists, curators, scholars, students and the public at large. He was named Georgia Author of the Year (2005) and has received the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award and the 2013 Writers for Writers Award bestowed by Poets & Writers. Steve Berry was born and raised in Georgia, graduating from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elective office for 14 of those years. He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers—a group of more than 2,000 thriller writers from around the world—and served three years as its co-president. For more information, visit www.Steveberry.org. (added from Random House)… (more)  Ingrid Thoft (Tuesday, June 18 at 6:30pm) Ingrid Thoft will sign and discuss her debut book, Thoft (Putnam Adult; $25.95) She was born in Boston and is a graduate of Wellesley College. Her interest in the PI life and her desire to create a believable PI character led her to the certificate program in private investigation at the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle with her husband. Loyalty is her first novel.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Walter Walker (Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30pm) Walter Walker will sign and discuss his book Crime of privilege (Ballantine Books; $26.00). He is a San Francisco trial attorney, specializing in catastrophic personal injury matters, and the author of five previous novels, including the award-winning A Dime to Dance By. Originally from Massachusetts, he has homes on Cape Cod and in Marin County, California. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg Q & A (Thursday, June 20 at 7pm) Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg will sign and discuss The Heist (Bantam; $28.00). Janet Evanovich is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, the Lizzy and Diesel series, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels and Trouble Maker graphic novel, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author. Lee Goldberg is a screenwriter, TV producer, and the author of several books, including King City, The Walk, and the bestselling Monk series of mysteries. He has earned two Edgar Award nominations and was the 2012 recipient of the Poirot Award from Malice Domestic. Photo (C) Roland Scarpa This will be a ticketed event. This event will be held at the Renaissance Houston Greenway Plaza Hotel. Greenway Ballroom 6 Greenway Plaza East Houston, TX 77046 $35 includes a copy of The Heist (Bantam; $28.00) and self parking at the venue. $8 companion tickets will be available for people attending the event with someone who has purchased a $35 ticket. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The book will be available to pick up at the event or at the store on June 18. (you must have your ticket in order to pick up your book) If you would like to order a signed copy of the book but aren't attending the event, you can do that below. Please note, for this event you will not be able to drop off or mail in any earlier titles. In order to get earlier titles signed, you must attend the event. A copy of The Heist must be purchased from MBTB in order to go through the signing line and get anything signed. Use the hotel self parking once you get to the venue. If you've purchased the $35 dollar ticket we will have another ticket to give you to validate your parking. Tickets will be available at MBTB starting May 9th, and the evening of the event at the door.
Location: Street: Greenway Ballroom Additional: 6 Greenway Plaza East City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77046 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  Mary Kay Andrews (Friday, June 21 at 6:30pm) Mary Kay Andrews will sign and discuss Ladies' Night (St. Martin's Press; $26.99). Mary Kay Andrews is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Fixer Upper, Savannah Breeze and Blue Christmas, as well as Deep Dish, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies and Savannah Blues. She also wrote ten critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series, under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. Her mysteries have been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards.
A native of St. Petersburg, Florida (and a diplomate of the Maas Bros. Department Store School of Charm), Trocheck earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia in 1976 (Go Dawgs!). She started her professional journalism career in Savannah, Georgia, where she covered the real-life murder trials which were the basis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She left journalism after a ten-year stint as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She is a frequent lecturer and writing teacher at workshops including Emory University, The University of Georgia’s Harriette Austin Writer’s Workshop, the Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Workshop, and the Antioch Writer’s Workshop.
As a lifelong “junker” the author claims to know the location of every promising thrift store, flea market and junkpile in the southeastern United States, plus many parts of Ohio.
Married to her high school sweetheart, she is the mother of two grown children and a proud grandmother. After a brief hiatus in Raleigh, NC, she and her husband moved back to their old neighborhood in Atlanta, where they live in a restored 1926 Craftsman bungalow. She divides her time between Atlanta and her restored beach cottage on Tybee Island, GA.
Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Her Last Breath (Saturday, June 22 at 1pm) Meet New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo as she reads from her new mystery novel Her Last Breath, from the Kate Burkholder series. (added from Macmillan)  Diane Fanning (Saturday, June 22 at 4:30pm) |
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