Ok folks hold onto your hats…it has been confirmed today that in our store, Lemuria, we will have at the same time some of the best crime fiction writers in the world! Are you ready…Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, and Peter Leonard will be here on June 15, 2009. They will be signing at 5:30 and then down in the DotCom building at 6:30 there will be a panel discussion and you can ask all the questions that you want to!!! Can you believe it?!?!? I will be off that week because I will have gotten married on June 13 but I just might have to come up here for this event.
Elmore Leonard is back with his first contemporary novel since 2004. In Road Dogs, Leonard brings back some of his favorite characters. Jack Foley from Out of Sight is serving out the rest of his 30 year sentence for bank robbery and has made a friend in the Miami Penitentiary who might be able to help him out with that problem. Cundo Rey from LaBrava, a former transvestite go-go dancer and now Foley’s fellow wealthy inmate, arranges for Foley’s sentence to be reduced, released a week before himself and a place to live (in his pink house). Waiting at home for Rey, is his common-law wife and psychic, Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap. She has her own motives for waiting for Cundo to come home mainly his money. She wants it all!! When Jack arrives at the house she thinks she might have found the perfect partner to help her with her plans. Cundo is Jack’s good friend but can he trust him and can either of them trust Dawn? Road Dogs is typical Leonard and you will love seeing Cundo, Jack, and Dawn back in action and working together…or are they?
Michael Connelly brings back Jack McEvoy from The Poet to a thriller that is just as creepy! In The Scarecrow , Jack is still a crime beat reporter but he has just been laid off from the Times. The same day he receives this news he gets a phone call from a lady saying that he is a liar. Ms. Sessums’ drug dealing grandson, Alonzo Winslow, has been arrested and confessed to the murder of a young woman found strangled in the trunk of her car. Ms. Sessums swears he is innocent and wants Jack to recant his article he had written the week before. Since he is being forced to leave the paper he decides to go out with a bang and begins to investigate the murder and uncovers that the confession is bogus and connects this murder with an earlier murder in Las Vegas. Jack begins to realize that this might be his biggest story since the Poet murders, which jump-started his career, but what he doesn’t know is that the killer is on to him and is waiting and watching his every move.
George Pelecanos has been called “one of the most literary of America’s crime writers” In The Way Home Chris Flynn a “bad kid from a good family” has been given a second chance. With the help of his loving parents he had started a new life after spending a good bit of his teenage years in juvenile prison. While at his new job of laying carpet he and a co-worker, a “juvie friend” find a satchel of money. At first, they leave it where they found but soon find the temptation is too great and both are drawn back into the life they had hoped to leave behind. Chris’s father, Thomas Flynn, owns the carpet buisness and soon realizes that something is wrong but knows that he cannot always protect his son from the world’s evils and you just have to let them find thier own way home. This is a unforgettable novel of fathers’ hopes and sons’s ambitions, of love, drive, and forgiveness.
Peter Leonard is a new author to the mystery genre. His father is Elmore Leonard but Peter can stand on his own. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel says “Peter Leonard’s energetic style makes one forget the name Elmore and concentrate on the Leonard…Good writing may be in his genes, but the style’s all his own”. In Trust Me, Karen Delaney has made two mistakes, first she entrusted $300,00 to her boyfriend, Samir, the head of a illegal bookmaking operations and second she broke up with him. After Karen’s home is broken into, she enlists the thieves to steal her money back but she soon realizes that she is in way over her head. Karen is being chased by an ex-con/ex-cop, O’Clair, who wants the money so he can retire, by Ricky, Samir’s nephew, who needs the money for his gambling debts, by the two thieves who have double-crossed and by two hit men who want thier piece of the American dream. Peter Leonard made a splash with his debut, Quiver, and now he reaches for new heights with Trust Me, a thriller loaded with double- and triple-crosses.
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