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  Tami Hoag

  By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, February 02, 2012

  Mystery novelist Tami Hoag often finds inspiration for her plots in newspaper headlines. Cases like the Natalee Holloway tragedy sparked a series of “what if” questions for Hoag that eventually became Down the Darkest Road, her latest title. In Da... More >

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  Nevada Barr

  By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, January 19, 2012

  Author Nevada Barr has written 16 books in her series that features park ranger Anna Pigeon. In The Rope, Barr takes us back to the beginning of Pigeon's adventures. It's 1995, and the newly widowed Pigeon moves out of New York City and into Glen ... More >

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  Taylor Stevens: The Innocent

  By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, January 12, 2012

  Taylor Stevens’s new thriller The Innocent is the story of 13-year-old Hannah. For the last eight years, she’s been one of The Chosen, a religious cult that has hidden her from her family, spiriting her from one country to another. Now adult survi... More >

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  Carol O'Connell: The Chalk Girl

  By Margaret Downing | Thu, January 12, 2012

  A red-haired, eight-year-old girl with an elfin smile runs up to strangers looking for a hug. Rather than embracing her, they back off. She’s dirty. There’s spots of red on her T-shirt that look like, and, of course, turn out to be, blood. Best-se... More >

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  Sara Paretsky: Breakdown

  By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, January 05, 2012

  Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple is a mild-mannered, genteel lady who ferrets out crime by using her considerable wits. Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski is nothing like that. Mild manners? Nope. As a matter of fact, Warshawski has a gritty personality... More >

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  houstonpressbestof

  | Wed, May 06, 2009

  There are sometimes as many as six author appearances a week at Murder by the Book. That's reason enough to love it. Add that the store specializing in mysteries has an ­extensive range of titles and an incredibly knowledgeable staff, and it's easy to see why it wins our Best Bookstore award. Authors ­routinely alter their tour plans to stop at Murder by the Book, which they say is among the most hospitable in the country (read: they sell a lot of books). So, want a graphic thriller? Murder by the Book has it. How about a steamy whodunit? Got it. Or an English cozy? Check. Mysteries — with every level of intrigue, sex and violence, and characters ranging from the hardened P.I. to the English grandma, the ­modern vampire to the medieval damsel — cram the shelves.

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