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FEBRUARY 2025

HAPPY ST. VALENTINE’S DAY! 

That means flowers, candy and a great book for your loved one!! We can help with the book part with wonderful recommendations.

Six authors for your pleasure this month, three of whom are speaking together!

I added a new Convention for Saturday, March 22 that I will be attending at Cal State Fullerton:  A DAY OF AUTHORS. This is their 32nd annual event and guests of honor include Craig Johnson, Alison Espach, including breakout authors Retired LAPD Detective Rick Jackson with Matthew McGough, and more. If you’d like to attend and meet me there, register early at https://adayofauthors.com/a-day-of-authors-2022-registration/      

I hope to see some of you there!

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, February 15, at 9:30 A.M.!

–Anne

Remember, it’s always fun at The Carnival!

 

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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

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Book Carnival In-Person Event
February 1, 2:00 P.M.
John McMahon
HEAD CASES

$30.00Add to cart

FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind spot on the human side of investigations, a blindness that sometimes even includes people in his own life, like his beloved seven-year-old daughter Camila. Gardner and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve.

When DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead, the team springs into action. A second victim establishes a pattern, and the murderer begins leaving a trail of clues and riddles especially for Gardner. And while the PAR team is usually relegated to working cold cases from behind a desk, the investigation puts them on the road and into the public eye, following in the footsteps of a killer.

Along with Gardner, PAR consists of a mathematician, a weapons expert, a computer analyst, and their leader, a career agent. Each of them must use every skill they have to solve the riddle of the killer’s identity. But with the perpetrator somehow learning more and more about the team at PAR, can they protect themselves and their families… before it’s too late?

Book Carnival In-Person Event
Nicholas George, Kemper Donovan, Rob Osler
February 2, 2:00 P.M.

Nicholas George
A LETHAL WALK IN LAKELAND

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Chase has two compelling reasons for returning to England—a group walk along the famed Coast to Coast trail in the picturesque Lake District, and a chance to further his relationship with Mike, the handsome Devonshire coroner he met on his last trip. The walkers, including Chase’s dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau, assemble at a Cumbrian hotel and begin their adventure with the traditional “baptism of the boots” in St. Bee’s Bay.

The problem is the Uptons—a wealthy family who have arrived from Texas, and whose squabbling antics continually overshadow the bucolic surroundings. Brock Upton, is traveling with wife and his three siblings, along with a family friend. Every member of the party cites a different reason for joining the tour, and Chase’s instincts tell him they’re all lying.

Kemper Donovan
LOOSE LIPS

$28.00Add to cart

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. So goes the adage, but sometimes, even a first-rate ghostwriter and successful mystery author needs to make a buck. Even if that means setting foot on a cruise ship, something she vowed she’d never do. To top it off, the “Get Lit Cruise” is being organized by Payton Garrett, a very popular, bestselling author—and the ghostwriter’s long-time frenemy from back in their MFA days.

Over the years, Payton has reinvented herself. She gained a wife and she’s acquired a rabid following who eagerly snapped up the invitations sent to a select few of her newsletter subscribers. The guests, all female, will receive personalized instruction from experts in five different writing genres, while basking in Payton’s reflected glow.

When an attendee is found dead under suspicious circumstances and several others suffer symptoms of poisoning, there are numerous motives and suspects to choose from. .

Rob Osler
THE CASE OF THE MISSING MAID

$27.00Add to cart

Chicago, 1898. Rough-around-the-edges Harriet Morrow has long been drawn to the idea of whizzing around the city on her bicycle as a professional detective, solving crimes for a living without having to take a husband. Just twenty-one with a younger brother to support, she seizes the chance when the prestigious Prescott Agency hires her as its first woman operative . . .

Only an hour into the job, Harriet has an assignment: Discover the whereabouts of a missing maid from one of the most extravagant mansions on Prairie Avenue. Owner Pearl Bartlett has a reputation for sending operatives on wild goose chases around her grand estate, but Harriet believes the stunningly beautiful Agnes Wozniak has indeed vanished under mysterious circumstances.

Book Carnival In-Person Event
February 9, 2:00 P.M.
Thomas Perry
PRO BONO

$27.95Add to cart

Charles Warren, Los Angeles attorney, has dedicated his career to aiding people in financial straits. He is particularly skilled at the art of recovering assets that have been embezzled or hidden. In his newest case, helping a beautiful young widow find the money missing from her late husband’s investment accounts, Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme—one that echoes the con job that targeted his own widowed mother many years before, and that led him, as a teenager, to commit a crime of retribution that still weighs on his conscience.

Charlie can’t get the present case out of his mind, but within hours of starting his investigation, he is followed, shot at, and has his briefcase stolen. It’s clear that someone doesn’t want him following the trail of the missing money but, as Charlie continues to pursue answers, he quickly becomes too entangled in the web of fraud, betrayal, and career criminals surrounding the theft to escape its deadly snare.

SATURDAY SLEUTHS BOOK CLUB

Saturday, February 15, 9:30 A.M.

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

TOOTH AND CLAW by Craig Johnson

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

Book Carnival In-Person Event
February 22, 2:00 P.M.
Georgia Jeffries
THE YOUNGER GIRL

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In 1933, Chicago tabloids trumpeted the death of twenty-year-old town belle Aldine Younger.

“HEIRESS SLAIN, MARRIED MAN HELD.”

In the aftermath of Aldine Younger’s tragic death, her grieving brother Owen suspects that their wealthy uncle orchestrated a sinister murder plot to cover up the theft of Aldine’s inheritance. Fast forward to 1996, when an aging Owen, burdened by the weight of the past, is compelled to discover the truth before he dies. His daughter, Joanna, becomes the key to unraveling the family’s twisted history.

Father and daughter journey back to Pontiac, Illinois, to claim Owen’s rightful bequest. They find themselves caught in a labyrinth of lies born of family greed and treachery crossing three generations. Amidst violent storms and dramatic revelations, Owen’s sanity teeters on the edge as he confuses Joanna with the sister he lost. Joanna, racing against time, unearths secrets that could shatter her world and discovers a psychic bridge linking past, present, and future. But at what cost? And who will survive the revelations?

Book Carnival In-Person Event
March 2, 2:00 P.M.
Gregg Hurwitz
NEMESIS

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Book Carnival In-Person Event
March 9, 2:00 P.M.
Rick Jackson and Matthew McGough in Conversation with Author Miles Corwin
BLACK TUNNEL WHITE MAGIC

$35.00Add to cart

Book Carnival In-Person Event
April 22, 2:00 P.M.
Matt Goldman
THE MURDER SHOW

$28.00Add to cart

 

 

 

BOOK CONVENTIONS

MARCH 12-16, 2025, LEFT COAST CRIME – Rocky Mountain High Jinks
Guests of Honor: Sara Paretsky & Manuel Ramos
Westin Denver Downtown, Denver, Colorado

MARCH 22, 2025, A DAY OF AUTHORS – 32nd Annual Event
Guests of Honor: Craig Johnson, Alison Espach, including breakout authors retired LAPD detective, Detective Rick Jackson with Matthew McGough, and more.
Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, California

APRIL 26 & 27 LA TIMES Festival of Books
USC Campus – 30th Anniversary

SEPTEMBER 3-7, 2025, BOUCHERCON – Blood on the Bayou: Case Closed
Guests of Honor: Michael Connelly, Lifetime Achievement and Contribution to the Genre
Stef Cha: Suspense Guest of Honor
Craig Johnson: Lifetime Achievement
Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana