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MysteryPeople Pick for August: Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories by Frank Bill Frank Bill has been building quite a buzz around him. His rough and tumble stories have been published in some of the best online crime zines like Beat To A Pulp and Crime Factory and he has been praised by the likes of … Continue reading MysteryPeople Pick of the Month: ‘Crimes in Southern Indiana’
~Post by MysteryPeople Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott Montgomery MysteryPeople will welcome CJ Box to BookPeople Friday, August 5, 7p For years CJ Box has delivered one engaging read after another with his put-upon game warden Joe Pickett. His consistency had many of us taking him for granted. That ended when his first stand-alone, Blue … Continue reading CJ Box Comes to MysteryPeople With a Unique New Thriller
~Post by MysteryPeople Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott Montgomery We're halfway through 2011, and it's already been a strong year for crime fiction. Since I know other great books are coming out soon by some of my favorite authors and new unknowns come out with something every season that always blows me away, I thought it … Continue reading Top Ten Crime Fiction Novels of the Year So Far
On Friday we had a wonderful evening with bestselling thriller writer Meg Gardiner. A great crowd showed up to hear Meg talk about her latest book, The Nightmare Thief (including another bestselling thriller writer, Austin's own Jeff Abbott.) For those of you who couldn't make it, we caught some of Meg's talk on video: In … Continue reading Our Evening with Meg Gardiner
I first met Meg Gardiner at Bouchercon, the big world mystery conference, two years ago. She was sharing a panel with my buddy, Craig Johnson. After the discussion, I made a note to get her to come to the store. It wasn't just because she's a great writer, which she is (just ask Stephen King, … Continue reading MysteryPeople Presents (your new favorite thriller writer) Meg Gardiner
MysteryPeople Pick of the Month: The End of Everything by Megan Abbot Review and Q&A by MysteryPeople Coordinator Scott Montgomery ~ Megan Abbott is a master in that most difficult to define genre, noir. She uses the genre's trademark of people who are ruled by their passions to create characters who are both … Continue reading MysteryPeople Q&A with Noir Queen Megan Abbott
Tonight MysteryPeople is hosting an event with two proud-to-be-independent Texas mystery authors, Reavis Z. Wortham and W. Allen Dark. It is HARD work not only to publish your own book, but to get bookstores to stock it and readers to pay attention to it without the big bucks of the big New York City publishing … Continue reading Indies Love Indies
Tonight at 7p we welcome back bestselling Austin mystery author David Lindsey, now writing as Paul Harper, to speak about and sign the first book in his new series featuring a San Francisco detective, Pacific Heights. Millions of copies of Lindsey's bestselling thrillers have been printed and we're very excited to help him launch this … Continue reading Paul Harper/David Lindsey/Paul Harper
It's been a few years since we've had the pleasure of welcoming mystery writer David Lindsey, now writing as Paul Harper, to BookPeople. On Monday, July 11 at 7p, the wait is over! Lindsey will be here for an event with MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore-within-a-bookstore. He'll be talking about his new thriller, the first in … Continue reading A Note from Paul Harper (aka David Lindsey in Disguise)
It's time for another MysteryPeople event, folks, so you know what that means - Happy Hour! Join us on Saturday, July 9, 5p for Happy Hour with Duane Swierczysnki. Duane is the author of several fast-paced thrillers that are digging a niche with readers who like sharp dialogue, plenty of action, and a wry look … Continue reading Happy Hour with Duane Swierczynski
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