2010 Schedule

January 13

Capital Crimes
by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman

Internationally bestselling husband and wife Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a powerful one-two punch with Capital Crimes, a gripping pair of original crime thrillers. In San Francisco, homicide detectives must sift through an abundance of suspects and long-buried secrets to uncover the killer of a controversial activist and state representative, while in Nashville, Music City Murder Squad detectives investigate the murder of recently retired, high-living music legend Martel "Sweetboy" Jeffries. Two novels in one.

February 10

Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.
by James Ellroy

A suspenseful noir anthology from the best-selling author of L.A. Confidential presents a range of journalistic pieces in which he examines true crimes and short stories that reveal the dark underbelly of the city of angels.

March 10

And Only to Deceive
by Tasha Alexander

Accepting a dashing viscount's marriage proposal as part of a plan to escape her overbearing mother, Emily finds herself widowed early after her marriage and subsequently learns that her husband was not who he professed to be, a discovery that prompts an investigation in the quiet corridors of the British Museum.

April 14

Triple Cross
by Kit Ehrman

Heading for Louisville for an all-expense-paid trip culminating in the Kentucky Derby, young barn manager and aspiring private detective Steve Cline takes on the job of caring for a Derby runner for his racehorse trainer father, but he soon finds himself caught up in the greedy, vengeful world of the very rich, trying to stop a murderer before it's too late.

May 12

Good People
by Marcus Sakey

Deeply in debt after years of failed infertility treatments, Tom and Anna Reed believe that they have been given a second chance when their downstairs tenant, a hermit, dies in his sleep, leaving $400,000 stashed in his kitchen, but they soon discover that their reclusive tenant had been a criminal who had betrayed some of the most dangerous men in Chicago.

June 9

Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.

July 14

The Long Rain
by Peter Gadol

Lawyer Jason Dark has finally gotten his life together—he has revived his father's dying vineyard and happily reunited with his wife and son. But one rainy night as he drives recklessly along a mountain road, Jason accidentally hits and kills a young man. When he tells no one, the death is pinned on a drifter. In an attempt to save the innocent man, Jason decides to defend him in court. But the case takes an unexpected twist—one which will haunt Jason for the rest of his days.

August 11

A Dog About Town
by J.F. Englert

When his master, Harry, a man still grieving over the loss of his beloved girlfriend Imogen, becomes embroiled with a cadre of would-be occultists, one of whom is also a murderer, Randolph, the canine Labrador sleuth, teams up with some of his animal friends to find a killer.

September 8

In the Lake of the Woods
by Tim O'Brien

Pursued by rumors of the atrocities he committed in Vietnam, a politician and his wife seek refuge in a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota, where a mystery unfolds when the wife mysteriously vanishes into the nearby wilderness.

October 13

The Trouble with Magic
by Madelyn Alt

Starting a new job at Enchantments antique shop, Maggie O'Neill is unexpectedly immersed in mystery when her boss, a self-proclaimed witch, is arrested for murdering her estranged sister, a crime in which it is up to Maggie to prove her innocence, with a little help from beyond. A cozy mystery set in northern Indiana, by Hoosier author Madelyn Alt.

November 10

A Cold Case
by Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch vividly evokes the almost vanished gangland of New York in the sixties, and carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of two extraordinary men who embody opposing but quintessentially American codes of being—the lawman Andy Rosenzweig and the outlaw Frankie Koehler. With A Cold Case, Gourevitch masterfully transforms a criminal investigation into a searching literary reckoning with the urges that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers.

December 8

The Winter Queen
by Boris Akunin

When a young student from a wealthy family unexptectedly commits suicide in the Alexander Gardens, Erast Fandorin of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police is assigned to investigate the supposedly open-and-shut case and discovers that the student's suicide is not an

 isolated case.