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Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, recently welcomed authors Karen Dukess and David Lewis to the bookstore. Dukess’ Welcome to Murder Week is the First Mystery Pick for June. There are signed copies of it in the Webstore, and signed copies of David Lewis A Beacon in the Night on order. Check the Webstore. https://store.poisonedpen.com/

Here’s the summary of Welcome to Murder Week.

In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.

When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.

Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.

Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.

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Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party and Welcome to Murder Week. Karen has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian studies from Brown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She lives outside of New York City and in Truro on Cape Cod, where she interviews some of today’s most acclaimed writers as host of the Castle Hill Author Talks for the Truro Center for the Arts. Find out more at KarenDukess.com.

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Here’s the description of David Lewis’ A Beacon in the Night.

Like a female James Bond but with better one-liners, an unflappable British spy works alongside her aristocratic partner to root out homegrown Nazi collaborators in this riveting, action-packed WWII caper for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Susan Elia Macneal, and Charles Todd.

London, 1941. Britain has endured the relentless bombing campaign of the Blitz and emerged, scarred but unbroken. Caitrin, too, strives to weather each challenge that comes her way, though her ever-ready banter belies deep heartbreak and loss.

But now the war has entered another phase. Instead of indiscriminate bombing, the Luftwaffe is pinpointing historic targets, including cathedrals and ancestral homes, with the help of homing beacons placed by the enemy. It’s as if Germany plans to erase Britain’s very essence and culture, destroying morale as it does so. 

Caitrin is no fan of the landed gentry, even if her fellow operative and friend, Lord Hector Neville-Percy, is one of them. But soon it is not just historical targets under attack, but hospitals and nursing homes too. Tasked with rooting out the saboteurs placing the beacons, she finds that all roads lead to Daniel “Teddy” Baer, a charismatic Whitechapel crook with high aspirations and zero scruples. He will crush anyone who interferes with his dreams—Caitrin included.

As a member of the female-driven 512 counterespionage unit, Caitrin understands how often women are underestimated and overlooked—and how to use it to her advantage. But she is not the only one who knows how to hide in plain sight, how to outwit and effortlessly manipulate. And sometimes, as with a beacon hidden deep within a building, danger only becomes apparent when it flares to life, right before the moment of impact . . .

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David Lewis was born in Wales and moved to Hollywood to become a director of photography. He has shot everything from movies to commercials and music videos, specializing in comedies. For many years, David worked in and traveled around Scotland. He now lives in southern California with Hank, the noisiest cat in the world, and can be found online at davidlewisnovels.com.

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Enjoy the conversation with Karen Dukess and David Lewis.

Patrick Millikin from The Poisoned Pen talked about Frederic S. Durbin’s new book, The Country Under Heaven. He asked Durbun to talk about his new book. You can order a copy of the book through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/4jZZdeE

Here’s the description of The Country Under Heaven.

Louis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . .

Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War’s most gruesome battles, the Battle of Antietam. As he travels across the country following those visions, he finds himself in stranger and increasingly more dangerous encounters with other worlds hidden in the spaces of his own mind, not to mention the dangers of the Wild West. 

Ovid brings his steady calm and compassion as he helps the people of a broken country, rapidly changing but, like himself, still reeling and wounded from the war. He assists with matters of all sorts, from odd jobs around the house, to guiding children back to their own universe, to hunting down unnatural creatures that stalk the night — all the while seeking his own personal resolution and peace from his visions.

Ovid’s epic journey across the American West with a surprising cast of characters blends elements of the classic Western with historical fantasy in a way like no other.

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Fred Durbin is the author of three novels and short story collections for adults and children. His novel A Green and Ancient Light was named a PW Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror book of the year; an ALA Reading List Honor Book; and won a Realm Award. Durbin taught English and creative writing at Niigata University in Japan for over twenty years before relocating back to the States.

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This book is a little different. Check out the conversation.

A Botanist’s Guide to Rituals and Revenge is Kate Khavari’s fourth mystery featuring Saffron Everleigh. Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, enjoys the series sets in the 1920s. The Pen will have their autographed copies in stock soon, so you can order the through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/4mWYU6K

Here’s the description of A Botanist’s Guide to Rituals and Revenge.

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh faces her hardest challenge yet when she returns to her childhood home in the fourth book in the charming Saffron Everleigh mystery series.

“A cleverly plotted puzzle” (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.

Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctor—in reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.

When their neighbors, the Hales, invite a spiritual medium into the village who starts angling for Saffron’s mother’s attention, Saffron realizes that there is more afoot in her hometown than she originally thought. Not to mention inviting Alexander to Ellington has put their budding relationship under her family’s microscope.

As tensions rise at Ellington, Bill demands that Saffron hand over old research documents belonging to her late father. With her relatives under his power as their ‘doctor,’ Saffron fears she may be forced to surrender the files along with her hopes of ever understanding her father’s obscure legacy. Nothing and no one is as they seem at Ellington. It’s through the perfumed haze of the séance’s smoke that Saffron must search for the truth before it’s too late.

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USA Today bestseller Kate Khavari is the author of fiction ranging from historical mysteries to high fantasy epics. She has her parents to thank for her fascination for historical mysteries, as she spent the majority of her childhood memorizing Sherlock Holmes’s and Poirot’s greatest quips. She lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas with her husband and children and a lovely garden that contains absolutely no poisonous plants.

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Enjoy the conversation about Gothics and houses, as well as Khavari’s new book.

Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, welcomed Jon Land and Jeff Ayers who write together as A.J. Landau. Landau’s latest book is Cold Burn. There will be signed copies of Cold Burn available soon in the Webstore. You can preorder copies now. https://bit.ly/44aQ0et

Here’s the description of Cold Burn.

Agent Michael Walker returns when multiple deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are just the first steps in a potential global disaster.

National Park Service investigator Michael Walker is battling smugglers stealing priceless artifacts when he’s dispatched to Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, where, in the first stage of a potential global disaster, a team of scientists has gone missing.

Meanwhile, in Florida’s Everglades National Park, FBI special investigator Gina Delgado traces the murder of an environmental science intern back to another U.S. Geological Survey team’s ongoing experiments that are decimating the fragile ecosystem. That is before she’s dispatched to the scene of a sunken U.S. nuclear submarine, the entire crew of which has inexplicably been killed.

The connection between these disparate investigations lies in a deadly prehistoric organism, frozen for thousands of years in the ice until global warming brings it back to life in what could mean the death of all life on Earth. An organism that a rogue billionaire sees as the ultimate fuel source and a Russian strongman views as the ultimate weapon that can shift the global balance of power forever. Against that backdrop, Walker and Delgado find themselves desperately doing battle across multiple fronts against an ancient, unstoppable enemy.

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A. J. LANDAU is the pseudonym for two authors, Jon Land, the award-winning, bestselling author and co-author of more than fifty books, and Jeff Ayers, reviewer, former-librarian, and author. Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and Jeff Ayers lives in Seattle, Washington.

Jeff Ayers is the author of several books, including Voyages of Imagination. He has been a book reviewer for the Associated Press, Library Journal, and Booklist, and currently reviews for Criminal Element and firstCLUE. He is a retired public librarian and lives near Seattle, Washington.

Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of more than fifty books, over ten of which feature Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong. The critically acclaimed series has won more than a dozen awards, including the 2019 International Book Award for Best Thriller for Strong as Steel. He is also the author of Chasing the Dragon, a detailed account of the War on Drugs written with one of the most celebrated DEA agents of all time. A graduate of Brown University, Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island and received the 2019 Rhode Island Authors Legacy Award for his lifetime of literary achievements.

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I’m sure you’ll enjoy the conversation with A.J. Landau, Jeff Ayers and Jon Land.

Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, said she loved A Case of Mice and Murder when it came out in Britain last year. Now, she welcomed author Sally Smith to talk about the book now that it’s being released in the U.S. You can order a copy through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/4dYerzi

Here’s the summary of A Case of Mice and Murder.

“I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant.” -Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal

The first in a delightful new mystery series set in the hidden heart of London’s legal world, introducing a wonderfully unwilling sleuth, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Nita Prose.

When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case-the disputed authorship of bestselling children’s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse-that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.

But even he cannot fail to notice the judge’s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of London’s legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to the casebooks. Until now . . .

The police can enter the Temple only by consent, so who better to investigate this tragic breach of law and order than a man who prizes both above all things? But murder doesn’t answer to logic or reasoned argument, and Gabriel soon discovers that the Temple’s heavy oak doors are hiding more surprising secrets than he’d ever imagined . . .

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Sally Smith spent all her working life as a barrister and later King’s Counsel in the Inner Temple. After writing a biography of the famous Edwardian barrister, Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, she retired from the bar to write full time. A Case of Mice and Murder, her first novel, was inspired by the historic surroundings of the Inner Temple in which she still lives and works and by the rich history contained in the Inner Temple archives. A Case of Mice and Murder is the first in a series starring the reluctant sleuth Sir Gabriel Ward KC.

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Enjoy the conversation with Sally Smith.

The Poisoned Pen Bookstore and its customers are lucky enough to have a preview appearance for Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes novel. Knave of Diamonds. Barbara Peters, owner of the bookstore, welcomed King and author and Sherlock Holmes expert Leslie Klinger. And, Laurie mentioned the artwork that will accompany signed copies of the book from the Pen’s Webstore. https://bit.ly/3HzxAvd

Here’s the description of Knave of Diamonds.

Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle—and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve.

When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.

It was a theft that shook a government, enraged a king, threatened the English establishment—and baffled not only the Dublin police and Scotland Yard, but Sherlock Holmes himself. And, now, Jake expects Russell to step into the middle of it all? To slip away with him, not telling Holmes what she’s up to? Knowing that the theft—unsolved, hushed-up, scandalous—must have involved Mycroft Holmes as well?

Naturally, she can do nothing of the sort. Siding with her uncle, even briefly, could only place her in opposition to both her husband-partner and his secretive and powerful brother. She has to tell Jake no.

On the other hand, this is Jake—her father’s kid brother, her childhood hero, the beloved and long-lost survivor of a much-diminished family.

Conflicting loyalties and international secrets, blatant lies and blithe deceptions: sounds like another case for Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.

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Laurie R. King is the award-winning bestselling author of eighteen previous Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a series featuring SFPD cold-case Inspector Raquel Laing, the contemporary Kate Martinelli series, the historical Stuyvesant & Grey stories, and five acclaimed standalone novels. She lives in Northern California, where she is at work on her next Raquel Laing mystery.

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Enjoy the conversation with Laurie R. King, Leslie Klinger and Barbara Peters.

Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, recently welcomed Kimberly Belle and Julie Clark to the bookstore to talk about their latest books. Belle’s new book is The Expat Affair. Julie Clark’s Hot Book of the Week is The Ghostwriter. You can order signed copies of the books in the Webstore. https://store.poisonedpen.com/

Here’s the description of Kimberly Belle’s The Expat Affair.

An American expat’s startling discovery plunges her into the deadly world of Amsterdam’s diamond industry. 

Rayna Dumont came to Amsterdam for a fresh start. She’s never been the type for a one-night stand, but this move is all about adventure, and Xander is handsome and successful and more than willing to go along for the ride. Until the morning after, when Rayna finds him dead, millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds missing from his safe.

Willow Prins is captivated by the news. Her husband is Xander’s former boss and heir to a diamond house, and the scandal strains their already-rocky marriage. As the house comes under scrutiny, Willow wonders how much of the blame she can place on Rayna. Soon, the two women are dragged into the dark underbelly of the diamond market, where they’ll have to uncover the truth to survive. Who killed Xander? Where are the missing diamonds? And who can you trust in a city thousands of miles from home?

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Kimberly Belle is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author with over one million copies sold worldwide, with titles including The Paris Widow, The Marriage Lie, a Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist for Best Mystery & Thriller, and the co-authored #1 Audible Original, Young Rich Widows. She divides her time between Atlanta and Amsterdam. 

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Here’s the summary of The Ghostwriter.

June, 1975.

The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets.

Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she’s offered a job to ghostwrite her father’s last book. What she doesn’t know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it’s not another horror novel he wants her to write.

After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.

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Julie Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lies I Tell and The Last Flight, both of which were also #1 international bestsellers and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and a goldendoodle with poor impulse control.

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Enjoy the conversation with Kimberly Belle and Julie Clark.

There are a few technical difficulties with the recent video with James Lee Burke. Patrick Millikin from The Poisoned Pen had to talk to Burke via phone. Burke’s latest book is Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie. There are signed copies available through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/4kRaOxb

Here’s the description of Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie.

Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland

At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world.

Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. But when she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father Hackberry, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie’s spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.

A welcome return to the beloved Holland series and populated with characters both radiant and despicable, Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie is an epic story of a remarkable young girl who fights against potentially overwhelming forces.

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James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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As I said, please overlook the technical difficulties.

As of the time I wrote this, there were 965 signed copies of Badlands at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. Barbara Peters, owner of the bookstore said they’ll all be sold by the weekend, so order your copy now. https://bit.ly/43ZW21s. And, Peters said many of the books will be going to Spain. Preston said he’s been told they’re bestsellers in Bulgaria and Russia.

Here’s the summary of Badlands.

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.

In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. 

Is it suicide or… sacrifice? 

Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found—exactly like the other—the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price. 

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The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child “stand head and shoulders above their rivals” (Publishers Weekly). Preston and Child’s Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series and the newer, popular Nora Kelly series, and their recent novels include Badlands, Angel of Vengeance, Dead Mountain, The Cabinet of Dr. Leng, Diablo Mesa, Bloodless, The Scorpion’s Tail, and Crooked River. In addition to his novels, Preston is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book The Lost City of the Monkey God. Child is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published eight novels of his own, including such bestsellers as Chrysalis and Deep Storm.

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Enjoy the conversation with Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Laura Lippman’s Murder Takes a Vacation is The Poisoned Pen’s Cozy Crimes Subscription Book of the Month. If you want a copy, you should order it now from the Webstore. https://bit.ly/43OdhSj

We’re lucky to have Oline Cogdill’s review of Murder Takes a Vacation, reviewed in the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Book review: A river cruise is more than a getaway in energetically entertaining ‘Murder Takes a Vacation’

‘Murder Takes a Vacation’ by Laura Lippman; William Morrow; 272 pages; $30

Travel broadens our horizons, as the adage goes. It educates us in the ways of the world and changes us, sometimes in small ways, other times in large, unexpected ways. All that, and a lot more, happens to Muriel Blossom, the Baltimore widow whose adventures fuel Laura Lippman’s energetically entertaining “Murder Takes a Vacation.”

In this stand-alone novel, Lippman manages to combine a light amateur sleuth story with a harder-edged thriller, combining both types of mysteries, which seldom intersect, into a cohesive, solid plot.

“Murder Takes a Vacation” is an homage to the joys of travel, of discovering new passions, of never giving up — with a bit of a nod to “The Maltese Falcon.” It also is a valentine to aging well, to older women who often feel invisible, and a plea to not fade away.

Muriel Blossom — she prefers to be called Mrs. Blossom, as Lippman does throughout — has been a widow for a decade. At 68 years old, she feels she’s led a good life and, when her husband was alive, “even an excellent one,” but it’s also been “a rooted-to-the ground kind of existence.” She’s lived in Baltimore and more recently Phoenix, helping her daughter with the children. But now her daughter’s family is moving to Japan, where her son-in-law has accepted a promotion, and Mrs. Blossom wasn’t invited. Feeling more than a little adrift, Mrs. Blossom decides to return to Baltimore. But before that move, her life changes again when she finds an $8 million lottery ticket in a convenience store parking lot. No one claims the ticket.

To celebrate, Mrs. Blossom books a river cruise in France, planning a few days in Paris before her lifelong best friend, Elinor, joins her for a seven-day tour. Because she can, she is treating Elinor to the trip. Mrs. Blossom’s meticulous planning should assure smooth sailing, and it starts well when she’s upgraded on her transatlantic flight. Another surprise — she strikes up a friendship with Allan Turner, a charming, fellow traveler. Mrs. Blossom believes romance is a thing of the past, figuring that her plus size and age are drawbacks. But Allan seems romantically interested. They spend a wonderful time in London after they miss their connecting flight to Paris, tentatively making plans to have dinner in Baltimore.

Then Allan is found dead in Paris, where he is not supposed to be. Mrs. Blossom can’t seem to shake a young man, Danny Johnson, who keeps following her around in Paris, insisting on showing certain sights. And her hotel room is searched. All that happens before she sets sail.

Lippman superbly keeps “Murder Takes a Vacation” on course, adding realistic tension, dialogue and events that could happen to anyone. More experienced travelers might be aware of stranger danger and know how to avoid Danny. But Mrs. Blossom is more naive than worldly, not used to traveling and certainly not in a strange country, or by herself. She is not self-conscious about her size but she is about eating in restaurants solo.

Mrs. Blossom knows to call private investigator Tess Monaghan, the heroine of Lippman’s 12-novel series who makes clever cameo appearances. Mrs. Blossom worked as an assistant to Tess, frequently doing surveillance, knowing that older women often seem invisible to others.

Mrs. Blossom is a charming, appealing character, who would make a great travel companion and a true friend. Her emotional growth and new outlook on life are realistic.

Like in real life, this is a cruise that ends too soon. Readers will wish Mrs. Blossom much luck as she begins her new life when the cruise docks.

About the author

Earlier this year, the Mystery Writers of America named Laura Lippman and John Sandford as 2025 Grand Masters, an honor that recognizes their work. Lippman debuted in 1997 with “Baltimore Blues,” which introduced Tess Monaghan, a reporter-turned-private investigator. Lippman’s bibliography includes 12 books in the Tess series, 13 standalone novels, a short story collection, two essay collections, and a children’s book with her daughter. The Grand Master interview with Lippman and Sanford may be viewed at YouTube.com.