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There's something new on our website

We've made a little change to the mysterylovers.com website. Take a look and let us know what you think.

Have you got a favorite set of mysteries with a theme?

Most mystery readers have a set of favorite mysteries set in Italy or perhaps with a forensic anthropologist sleuth. You might have five favorite Roman mysteries or any other category you might enjoy.

We'd like to know what your Five Favorite... list is. You can pick any five mysteries that share some common characteristic or theme. If you send us your list we'll put it up on the website under our Five Favorite... category.

Here's how to get your Five Favorites up on the website:

  1. Pick five mysteries with a common theme: setting, sleuth, time period, etc.
  2. Check each of your favorites against the website to see if it's still around
  3. Use our Five Favorites form to tell us about each of your favorites and what it is that you like about it

Take a look at our Five Favorite... section to get an idea of what other readers have come up with.

David Corbett on April 10

A favorite author will be making his first trip to MLB on April 10. David Corbett will be out guest for a Coffee & Crime author breakfast on Saturday, April 10 at 10 am.

Corbett began his writing career with the Anthony-nominated The Devil's Redhead about a man who gets out of prison and finds that his former girlfriend's life has taken a new and deadly direction. More recently Corbett has turned his attention to El Salvardor, first with Blood of Paradise, a powerful crime novel that portrayed the corruption and criminality rampant in that country as the US deports thousands of Salvardoran gang members.

Corbett's new book, Don't They Know I'm Running, is a complex tale told on both sides of the border. It begins when the uncle of a young man is deported as an illegal alien. This begins a trek across the border, back to El Salvador in a desparate attempt to bring the Uncle back to his family. I guarantee that you will never look at the immigration issue the same way after reading this book.

Cost of the Coffee & Crime breakfast is $5 and reservations are necessary.

Fifteenth Annual Festival of Mystery on May 3

Yes, Virginia, there is a Festival of Mystery. We're pulling out all the stops for our 15th Annual Festival of Mystery on Monday, May 3.

Complete details are available on the website and will be in the upcoming April-May issue of the MLB News. We've got 44 authors coming this year with 15 of them here for the very first time.

Tickets are available now and can be ordered through the website.

April Staff Picks are here

From espionage to Japanese best sellers; from fictitious authors to the reincarnation of classic writers you'll find something for every taste in our Staff Picks for April.

Signed first editions: here's what's coming

We've just learned that we'll be getting signed copies of The Double Comfort Safari Club, the latest No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency novel. Expected late April.

Other books signed by popular authors that we have or expect include:

Nancy Martin - Our Lady of Immaculate Deception, here now

Lisa Scottoline - Think Twice, here now

Alafair Burke - 212, here now

Rita Mae Brown - Cat of the Century, expected mid-April

Jonathan Kellerman - Deception, expected early April

Anne Perry - Sheen on the Silk, here now

Elaine Viets - Half-Price Homicide, after Festival May 3

John Sandford - Storm Prey, around May 18

As always, supplies of these signed books are limited so please order early.

We're on Facebook, become a fan (591 already are)

Please stop by our Facebook for Mystery Lovers Bookshop and become a fan. We're starting to see more posting about author events and other topics. We're happy to hear about what you're reading, authors yhou discovered and other mystery news.

If you've already signed up we encourage you to post your thoughts. Read a good mystery, looking for suggestions, our fan page is a great place to post.

We'll be using Facebook to notify fans about events in the store and other developments at MLB.

All of our upcoming events are also listed and we would love for customers to post comments or photos about events that they attend.

A book club on Facebook?

A few folks have posted comments about a book club on Facebook, especially for customers who don't live in the greater Pittsburgh area.

If you are interested in this idea, please post a comment on our Facebook page to let us know.

I don't have the slightest idea how this would work so I'm open to suggestions.

New Arrivals

A nice assorment of New Arrivals as we continue to get April books. During the next week we'll see a much larger group of April titles so check back often to see what's come in.

Meanwhile, here are some notable new arrivals:

Ariana Franklin's A Murderous Procession is the fourth in her Mistress of the Art of Death series featuring Adelia Aguilar, the mistress in question, who is an early form of a coroner or forensic pathologist to Henry II.

The Black Cat is the 22nd Richard Jury book for Martha Grimes. Naturally, the title refers to a pub.

Matterhorn is an extraordinary novel that took its author Karl Marlantes over thirty years to write. Remarkably, its a Vietnam war novel and my initial scepticism was totally overcome when I began reading it. It is engrossing, horrifying, funny and immerses you completely in the experience of war. Based on Marlante's own experiences it is authentic in a way that few war novels are.

Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb is another of his pre-war Berlin novels with cop Nikolai Hoffner. This time its murder at the German film studio UFA and director Fritz Lang seems to be in the middle of it.

Janet Evanovich's very first book is being reissued with minor revisions: Hero at Large is the title.

Donna Leon's Inspector Brunetti is back for the 18th book, About Face, now in paperback.

Rebecca Tope's Slaughter in the Cotswolds is the latest for her house-sitting sleuth Thea Osborne

News books arrive every day check our New Arrivals page often for everything new at MLB.

What's on the website now

Here's what you can find at www.mysterylovers.com:

Upcoming Events

Apr. 10 - David Corbett
May 3 - Festival of Mystery
May 22 - Peter May

More events...

Enjoy your Passover, if that's your thing, or have a splendid Easter.
Richard, Mary Alice and the MLB Staff

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