Kepler’s and me

Thanks to everyone who came out to see me talk about Lockdown during the past week–although if you’re in the Bay Area, you can still come down and see me one more time, tomorrow night at Kepler’s.  Send ’em a RSVP, here.

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Seattle Friday

I’m having such fun with this book tour, I think I’ll set off up the coast today and drop by the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, then swing past the University bookstore, before ending up with a reading and talk at the great Third Place Books. Come and join us!

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Lockdown day 2

I’ll be flitting up the length of the Bay Area today, dropping in at various Copperfields and Books Inc shops in Petaluma, Santa Rosa, and San Francisco for the odd ritual of scrawling my name on a lot of title pages, then at 6:00 turning up at Book Passage in the Ferry Building for an…

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Lockdown launches!

Come and play tonight at my beloved neighborhood bookstore, That’s right, it’s time for Bookshop Santa Cruz, my home town kids, talking about Lockdown, my home-town book. About the event, here. ** Lockdown goes on sale today! Order a copy from: Bookshop Santa Cruz (signed), Poisoned Pen (signed), your local Indie, Barnes & Noble, or…

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Me & Mosley!

Hey there friends! If ANY of you are in the neighborhood of Berkeley this weekend, you really ought to come down to the Book Fest–because I get to interview Walter Mosley!! Last year’s Grand Master award from MWA is just one of the jewels in this man’s crown, and I am so looking forward to talking…

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The building of the Unbelievable

Every two years, Venice explodes in art. Even more art than its usual visual treat, that is, with the opening of Biennale, when every decaying palazzo is turned into a gallery, every house overlooking the Grand Canal has a blue man on a balcony or a huge hand holding up its wall. I hadn’t intended…

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Edgar week!

Last week I was in New York for Edgars week, a whirlwind of writers and publishers and really good food and more to drink in two days than I had over the past two months. Wednesday was the Edgars week symposium, which is always interesting and this year was amazing: first-rate authors (most of their…

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Edgars symposium

If you’re interested in crime, or writing, or crime writing—and especially if you’re anywhere near New York the end of this month—you should seriously consider the MWA Edgar symposium. This year is a particularly strong set of offerings, including Jeff Deaver, Alafair Burke, Megan Abbott, Reed Farrell Coleman, Lyndsay Faye, Charles Todd–oh, and that Laurie…

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Takeback Tuesday: social workers and other heroes

[NOTE: corrections below, after my information was corrected. Thank heavens for copyeditors and experts…] Mystery Writers of America, NorCal, had a fascinating program on Saturday with the owners of the house in which serial killer Dorothea Puente lived and did her awful work.  We were joined by the homicide detective, the assistant DA, and the…

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Takeback Tuesday: taking back justice

Today is pub day for a book I’ve been involved with for the past year or more: Anatomy of Innocence is the brainchild of Laura Caldwell and Leslie S.Klinger, both lawyers, both friends of mine. Laura is the director and founder of the Life After Innocence clinic at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, which…

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