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JANUARY 2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
My very best wishes to you and your loved ones for a Healthy, Happy, and Prosperous New Year in 2025.

We’re off to a good start with three authors on January 4 and we will be welcoming back Robert Crais on January 18. Our Future Events are looking good, too… mark your calendars so you don’t miss out.

NOTE: Even though Book Carnival specializes in Mystery and Suspense, I am happy to order any book you are interested in buying… this indie bookstore appreciates all of your business!

If you are in a traveling mood, check out some of the book conventions for 2025 at the end of the newsletter. Early registration is always recommended.

Our Saturday Sleuths Book Club returns this month, so if your resolutions include:

reading more,
meeting new people,
and making new friends…

then be sure to join us Saturday, January 18, at 9:30 A.M.!

Here are our HOLIDAY HOURS:

Wednesday & Thursday, January 1 & 2, 2025, CLOSED
Friday & Saturday, January 3 & 4, OPEN 11am-4pm

–Anne

Remember, it’s always fun at The Carnival!

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If you are looking for something to finish your collection or a special gift, give us a call or email at annesbookends@gmail.com

–we may have it!

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BOOK NEWS

These books will be in shortly after their release date and all will be signed, unless noted below. In some cases, quantity will be limited – please preorder!

GOING HOME IN THE DARK by DEAN KOONTZ, due May 20, 2025

COLLECTIBLES:

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If you are looking for something to finish your collection or a special gift, give us a call or email at annesbookends@gmail.com

–we may have it!

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Book Carnival In-Person Event
Matt Coyle In Conversation With
Baron Birtcher and James L’Etoile
January 4, 2:00 P.M. IN-PERSON EVENT

Baron Birtcher
KNIFE RIVER

There are rules in the West no matter what era you were born in, and it’s up to lawman Ty Dawson to make sure they’re followed in the valley he calls home. The people living on this unforgiving land keep to themselves and are wary of the modern world’s encroachment into their quiet lives.

So it’s not without some suspicion that Dawson confronts a newcomer to the region: a record producer who has built a music studio in an isolated compound. His latest project is a collaboration with a famous young rock star named Ian Swann, recording and filming his sessions for a movie. An amphitheater for a live show is being built on the land, giving Dawson flashbacks to the violent Altamont concert. Not on his watch.

Matt Coyle
ODYSSEY’S END

San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill’s past comes back to haunt him when he’s at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents’ home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick’s violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE—and she doesn’t trust that he’ll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world.

Rick desperately wants to reunite his family and help provide for Krista’s future—one he fears he won’t be alive to see. A jumpstart toward that future appears in the form of Peter Stone, Rick’s longtime enemy. Stone offers Rick $50,000 to find a woman he claims can save his life with a kidney transplant. Rick can’t pass up the chance to buttress Krista’s future.

When what seems like a simple missing person case spirals out of control into cryptocurrency machinations, dead bodies, and an outgunned faceoff, Rick is forced to battle evil from his past. Can he stay alive long enough to see his family one last time?

James L’Etoile
RIVER OF LIES

The homeless camps spread throughout the city of Sacramento are a topic of heated debate among residents. They’re considered undesirable— a nuisance— an eyesore. But when the camps fall victim to a string of devastating arson attacks, Detective Emily Hunter and her partner, Javier Medina, dive into the investigation and become acquainted with the real people whose lives have been destroyed.

The attacks only begin to draw attention when two of the victims are identified as the city’s former anti-homeless mayor and a camp social worker— but rather than strengthening the push for justice, the movement to completely abolish the camps intensifies.

Saturday, January 18, 9:30 A.M.

For our next Saturday Sleuths Book Club meeting, we will be discussing

YOUR FAVORITE BOOK OF 2024.

This is an in-person book club. Tell your friends, or — better yet — bring a friend with you!

Book Carnival In-Person Event
January 18, 2:00 P.M.
Robert Crais
THE BIG EMPTY
$30.00Add to cart

Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire the best detective she can find: Elvis Cole.

Elvis heads to Rancha where an ex-con named Sadie Givens and her daughter, Anya, might have a line on the missing man. But when Elvis finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, the missing persons cold case becomes far more sinister.

Elvis calls his ex-Marine friend, Joe Pike, for help, and they follow Tommy Beller’s trail into the depths of a monstrous, hidden evil. The case flips on its head, victims become predators, predators become prey, and the question becomes: Can Elvis Cole save them all from this nightmare? —an impossible predicament.

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