Book Signing: Gary Disher and Laura Lippman May 16, 2009

GARRY DISHER
Blood Moon

"Two major crimes occupy Det. Insp. Hal Challis and his subordinate and now lover, Sgt. Ellen Destry, in this superior police procedural from Australian Disher, the fifth entry in the Ned Kelly Award-winning series (after 2007’s Chain of Evidence). Challis and his team of Waterloo, Queensland, officers investigate the brutal assault on a private school chaplain as well as the murder of a public official in charge of enforcing compliance with land use regulations. Extra pressure for the first case’s resolution comes from a prominent politician who already has an axe to grind with the police... Disher has a gift for terse description ... the personal interactions among Challis and his colleagues will quickly engage even newcomers," said Publishers Weekly.

LAURA LIPPMAN
Life Sentences

Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers -- and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction. "Ms. Lippman makes good use of the way memoirists often choose sides in stories of divorce, and of how their idealizing and demonizing respective parents may be deeply wrong. But her greatest sleight of hand is the maneuvering that deftly compromises Cassandra as she reignites old emotions. Not until the end of Life Sentences ... will the reader grasp how fully Ms. Lippman has shaped and controlled this narrative. Warts and all, Cassandra becomes a sufficiently sympathetic character to lure readers into making the same mistakes that she makes in excavating old truths," said The New York Times. Kirkus said, "Lippman’s writing is powerful and her gaze unflinching as she invokes a world in which no one is either entirely guilty or truly innocent."
ALSO:
-- Butcher’s Hill (William Morrow, 2008, $19.95) SIGNED, NEW.
-- Hardly Knew Her (William Morrow, 2008, $23.95) SIGNED, NEW.