BOOK SIGNINGS
A schedule of Ed’s bookstore appearances to follow the U.S. publication of Damnation Falls on Aug. 5. Check store websites for updated information:
- LOS ANGELES – Saturday, Aug. 9, 3:30 p.m., The Mystery Bookstore, 1036-C Broxton Ave.
- PASADENA, CA – Friday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m., Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.
- ORANGE, CA – Saturday, Aug. 16, 1 p.m., Book Carnival, 348 S. Tustin Ave.
- GLENDALE, CA – Wednesday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 210 Americana Way.
- THOUSAND OAKS, CA – Saturday, Aug. 23, 2 p.m., Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd.
- CORTE MADERA, CA – Friday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
- SAN MATEO, CA – Saturday, Sept. 6, 2 p.m., M is For Mystery
, with Julie Compton, 86 E. Third Ave.
- SOUTH PASADENA, CA – Sunday, Sept. 21, 2 p.m., Book ’Em, 1118 Mission St.
BOUCHERCON 2008
Ed will be rubbing elbows with some of the world’s best mystery writers at Bouchercon Baltimore on Oct. 9-12. Among the awards to be announced there will be the Barry, for which the British edition of Ed’s Damnation Falls has been nominated.
NEW BOOK, NEW PROTAGONIST
Ed's new novel, Damnation Falls, arrives in August from St. Martin's Minotaur. Rather than another installment in the John Ray Horn series, this is a stand-alone mystery-thriller. The setting is small-town East Tennessee, and the story deals with a disgraced ex-Chicago newspaperman (who bears absolutely no resemblance to the author), a former governor, the persistence of history in the South, old secrets coming to light, and a murder or two or three. Here’s the opening:
All through my growing-up, my father and I would often tramp through the woods around our small Tennessee town. Once, when I was eleven, I turned up a rusty, scorched piece of metal, rectangular in shape and bearing the letters CSA.
My father held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time. Being of the South, and steeped in its history, I didn’t need to be told that the letters stood for Confederate States of America. It was a Southern soldier’s belt buckle. I knew that no battles had been fought there in our part of the Cumberland Plateau during that long-ago war, but I had heard other stories.
“Is this from the Burning?” I asked him.
“What do you know about that?” he replied, not taking his eyes off the object.
“Just what people say.”
“Nobody knows if that story is true,” he said deliberately. “You shouldn’t repeat it.”
“I won’t,” I said, because I admired my father and wanted him to respect me. “But where do you guess this comes from?”
“I wouldn’t know,” he said, finally looking at me. “But all kinds of things are buried around us. And whatever’s here, one day the earth will give it up.”
NOTE TO BOOKSELLERS
Red Sky Lament, winner of the 2006 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award, and
published by Orion Books, is available from Independent Publishers Group, 814 N. Franklin, Chicago, IL 60610. Telephone (312) 337-0747. www.ipgbook.com
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