Author events at Murder by the Book

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Denver’s Murder by the Book released its October/November author appearance slate.

October

October 11, 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Robert Greer The Fourth Perspective
Ex-bail bondsman and bounty hunter CJ Floyd returns in this mystery as he opens up his antique shop in Denver. His new clean-cut lifestyle is short-lived, however, when he becomes entangled in a murder investigation involving a valuable photograph that many collectors would kill for. The photo is a never-before-seen picture of the famous Golden Spike ceremony heralding the completion of the railroad. Robert Greer lives in Denver where he is a pathologist.

October 14, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
James Doss Stone Butterfly
This is Doss’ 11th book featuring part-time tribal investigator and Colorado Rancher, Charlie Moon. This time, he’s called in to investigate a murder that bears eerie similarities to a vision that his aunt, Ute Shaman Daisy Perika, has been having in her nightmares. Award-winning author James Doss lives in New Mexico.

October 19, 5:00 to 6:00 pm
Jan Burke Kidnapped
Our favorite crime reporter Irene Kelly writes a series of articles profiling missing children hoping that they will renew public interest and lead to breaks in the cases. What she doesn’t count on is the fact that her articles will prompt a chain reaction of murderous events involving family members of one of the children. Eventually, Irene herself ends up in peril. Jan will donate money from the sale of each new book sold to the Crime Lab Project.

October 22, 5:00 to 6:30 pm
William Kent Krueger, Ellen Hart, and Carl Brookins
The Minnesota Crime Wave hits Denver! Join us as three great mystery authors sign their books. Copper River is author William Kent Krueger’s sixth novel featuring former sheriff Cork O’Connor. Ellen Hart will sign her book, The Iron Girl, and Carl Brookins will sign The Case of the Greedy Lawyers.

October 28, 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Robert Spiller The Witch of Agnesi
This is the first book by Colorado author and teacher, Robert Spiller. It features math teacher and amateur sleuth, Bonnie Pinkwater, who uses math and math history to solve a series of murders, including that of her young math protege.

November

November 4, 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Mark Coggins and John Billheimer
Mark Coggins will sign his new book Candy From Strangers, his third book featuring San Francisco PI, Augustus Riordan. Risk analyst and part-time crime solver Owen Allison makes his fifth appearance in John Billheimer’s book, Stonewall Jackson’s Elbow.

November 11, 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Ann Ripley Death in the Orchid Garden
Ann Ripley’s horticulture series is a “perennial” favorite and she continues it with this, her fifth in the series to feature PBS gardening host Louise Eldridge. While shooting her show on location in beautiful Hawaii, one of her guests winds up murdered.