STORE EVENTS:

Saturday, May 25^th, 6:00 p.m. – Joe Clifford & Tom Pitts

Joe Clifford’s JUNKIE LOVE traverses the lost highways of America, down the rocky roads of mental illness to the dead ends of addiction.  The book draws on a heavy dose of pulp fiction as it threads a rollicking narrative through a doomed love triangle. 

Joe Clifford is acquisitions editor at Gutter Books and managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. A 2103 Acker Award recipient and Pushcart nominee, Joe also produces Lip Service West, a “gritty, rereading series in Oakland.

“PIGGYBACK by Tom Pitts restores Noir to it's dark kingdom, a rollicking pumping novel of losers, psycho's, stone killers, idiotic amateur rip-off artists and a road-movie of a story that is as fast as it is beautifully written. Think Don Winslow's Savages meets Christopher Cooke's Robbers and you have the dark read of the year."  --Two-time Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen

In Tom Pitts, PIGGYBACK, two young girls disappear with a trunk-load of pot, unaware that their payload has been packed with kilos of cocaine and resulting in a sociopathic killer pursuing them across Northern California that ends in a place none of them could have foreseen.

Saturday, June 1, 11:00 a.m. - Robert K. Tanenbaum –
ECHOES OF MY SOUL 

New York Times best selling author and legendary criminal prosecutor, Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider’s account of the historic “Career Girls Murders” of 1963 with his new nonfiction thriller about the courageous stand that forever changed the American justice system:

“Tanenbaum recreates the proceedings with a novelist’s sense of plotting….Tanenbaum’s take on the case, which was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1966 Miranda v. State of Arizona decision regarding self-incrimination, is a thrilling and insightful addition to the true crime genre.” - PW 

Tanenbaum is one of the most successful prosecuting attorneys, never losing a felony trial and convicting hundreds of violent criminals as the homicide bureau chief for the New York D.A.’s Office.  He also served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Congressional Committee investigation into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.  

ECHOES OF MY SOUL will be the “Good Day Book Club Pick” on FOX-TV’s Good Day New York with Tanenbaum being interviewed on the show on June 4, 2013. 

Saturday, June 8^th, 2:00 p.m. - Dennis Palumbo – WRITER’S WORKSHOP

Palumbo will be doing a Writer’s Workshop as well as discussing and signing his latest thriller, NIGHT TERRORS.

"In NIGHT TERRORS, Palumbo takes a brilliant premise and turns it into the kind of thriller most of us wish we could write.  Thrills, surprises, and momorable characters.  A terrific book."  Timothy Hallinan 

Saturday, June 22^nd, 6:00 p.m. – Lisa Brackmann –
HOUR OF THE RAT

Join us for wine and cheese with Lisa Brackmann’s newest crime novel

In Brackmann’s HOUR OF THE RAT, Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli, even though Zhang’s mysterious disappearance has her in the sights of the Chinese authorities. Then an old Army buddy’s brother disappears in picturesque Yangshuo, and Ellie agrees to try to find him. At worst, she figures she’ll have a few days of fun, but Ellie soon realizes that she’s stumbled into a dangerous conspiracy that may or may not involve a sinister biotech company, eco-terrorists, and an art-obsessed Chinese billionaire - one that will take her on a wild chase through some of China’s most beautiful places.

OUTSIDE EVENTS:

Sunday, May 26^th, Orange County Sisters in Crime Meeting – ocsistersincrime.org

2:00 p.m. Forum on ethnic mysteries
3:00 p.m. Speaker – Edgar Award winning author, Naomi Hirahara

 Sunday, June 2^nd, 2:00 p.m. - Tatjana Soli – THE FORGETTING TREE Fullerton Library, 353 W Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton, (714) 738-6333

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