The Mystery Bookstore

We had a great time at Left Coast Crime, hanging out with some of favorite authors and making sure that hardcore mystery fans left with everything they needed.  It's always fun to see old friends and make new ones, and it was good practice for the LA Times Festival of Books next month! 

No rest for us this week, though, as we welcome several of our favorite visitors and introduce a brand-new author everyone's already talking about. 

It's not too early to mark your calendar for the biggest event of our year, the LA Times Festival of Books, happening on the UCLA campus April 24–25. We'll be in our usual place at Booth #411, with dozens of authors signing every hour on the hour, and our famous pre–Festival party on Friday, April 23.

Check back here often for news and schedule of author signings.

In the meantime, we congratulate this year's Mystery/Thriller nominees for the LA Times Book Prize:

Megan Abbott, BURY ME DEEP (Simon & Schuster)
David Ellis, THE HIDDEN MAN (Putnam)
Attica Locke, BLACK WATER RISING (HarperCollins)
Val McDermid, A DARKER DOMAIN (HarperCollins)
Stuart Neville, THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST (SOHO Press)