Events
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Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Join Denise Hamilton and Patricia McFall for an afternoon of Southern California noir on Sunday, April 11, at 2:00 PM. Denise, the award-winning author of the Eve Diamond Series, compiled the original Los Angeles Noir anthology a few years ago, and now she and a bevy of great writers have returned to the birthplace of noir. Los Angeles Noir 2 contributors include contemporary authors like Naomi Hirahara (meet Naomi at MG on April 17) and James Ellroy, as well as those who are no longer w8ith us, like Ross Macdonald, Joseph Hansen and Leigh Brackett. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Join Denise Hamilton and Patricia McFall for an afternoon of Southern California noir on Sunday, April 11, at 2:00 PM. Denise, the award-winning author of the Eve Diamond Series, compiled the original Los Angeles Noir anthology a few years ago, and now she and a bevy of great writers have returned to the birthplace of noir. Los Angeles Noir 2 contributors include contemporary authors like Naomi Hirahara (meet Naomi at MG on April 17) and James Ellroy, as well as those who are no longer w8ith us, like Ross Macdonald, Joseph Hansen and Leigh Brackett. | 12
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Michele Scott offers A Toast to Murder with her new Nikki Sands Wine Lovers’ mystery, and MG offers a toast to Michele when she joins Peter May on Monday, April 12, at 7:00 PM. The Malveaux Estates winery manager, and her fiancé, Derek Malveaux, have set their wedding date. But as the big day draws near, a variety of disasters strike, at first limited to family and fashion, but eventually turning fatal! Michele also has two new non-genre books, the sweeping family border epic, El Patron, and her Napa Valley novel celebrating women’s friendships and wine, Happy Hour. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Scottish author and former British television writer Peter May is fascinated by and knowledgeable about a number of places and topics, and mixes his knowledge with imagination to create a bevy of different series and protagonists. In the year since Peter last visited, he has produced three new novels. First, there’s Freeze Frame, the new Enzo Macleod mystery, in which the Scots forensics expert finds himself challenged to solve a cold case on a tiny island off of France. | 13
| 14
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
According to debut author Dan Wells, I am Not a Serial Killer is “about a teenage sociopath who follows strict rules to keep himself from hurting anyone, until one day a real killer comes to town and he has to break all of his rules to stop him. It’s being marketed as both YA horror and as an adult psychological thriller. It has a strong focus on psychology and morality, as the hero tries to do what’s right when his own darker nature rages at him to do evil. | 15
Start: 7:00 pm
MG offers a reason to look forward to Thursday, April 15, when we enjoy a 7:00 PM visit with Wyoming suspense author C.J. Box. Chuck has won nearly every possible mystery award, and written a couple of well-received stand-alone thrillers as well as his Joe Pickett series. | 16
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Spend a fantastic evening at MG on Friday, April 16, at 7:00 PM, when local author and international bestseller Raymond Feist signs and discusses his second book of the Demonwar Saga. A decade after the end of the Darkwar Saga, Midkemia faced a new danger thought buried in myth and antiquity in Rides a Dread Legion. Now the inhabitants of Midkemia, including Master Pug, who has lost loved ones to prophecy, stand At the Gates of Darkness, besieged by a lost race of elves, the taredhel, and their demonic pursuers. | 17
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Saturday, April 17, at 2:00 PM, we suggest customers visit our mystery event as part of our e-Free Day Celebration. Dr. D.P. Lyle writes both forensic fiction and award-winning forensic non-fiction, including the always popular Forensics for Dummies. Stress Fracture introduces forensic expert Dub Walker, who is called in to help catch a serial killer when the killer’s latest victim is Dub’s friend, Sheriff Mike Savage. The series of savage murders is perpetrated by a killer that is at once careful, calculating, and organized as well as brutal, impulsive, and disorganized. Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Edgar award-winning author Naomi Hirahara joins fellow Southern CA mystery author D.P. Lyle on Saturday, April 17, at 2:00 PM. In Blood Hina, gardener and sleuth Mas Arai is initially committed to serving as best man at his best friend’s wedding. But when his friend’s fiancee’s antique Japanese doll display is taken, and the groom-to-be is the main suspect, Mas steps in to clear his name, discovering in the process a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder. |
