The Mysterious Garden Muse

Here's the schedule for January 2012, including our new end-of-the-month feature, American Mystery Classics.  Two of our featured authors this month have visited with us here before, only under different names. I'll leave you to figure out who they are! More guest blogs are forthcoming, including one by the fabulous FAYE KELLERMAN (date to be announced)! Week of January 2 - LUCY BURDETTE An Appetite For Murder    Guest Blog, Thursday, January 5 - CHARLES TODD Week of January 9 - LOIS WINSTON Death by Killer Mop Doll    Monday, January 9 - Guest Blog by JEAN HARRINGTON   Tuesday, January 10 - Guest Blog by JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING Week of January 16: CHRISTOPHER MORGAN JONES The Silent Oligarch    Tuesday, January 17 - Guest blog by MARY JANE CLARK The Look of Love    Week of January 23 - DOUBLE FEATURE! Featured Author - HEATHER BLAKE It Takes a Witch    And Featured Author - CATHY PERKINS Week of Janua

I'm finding it hard to believe we're already coming up on December. I don't know where November went! December is a busy month, so I'm keeping it a little low key at Barnes & Noble's Mystery Forum. Be sure to check out our list of Holiday Mysteries - and please add any we've missed! Thursday, December 1: Guest Blog by Michele Drier Week of December 5:  Ed Kovacs Week of December 12: R.J. Ellory Week of December 19:  Neal Baer & JonathanGreene  Law & Order: SVU executive producers  Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene,  now the co-producers of CBS’s  medical drama,  A Gifted Man,  make their fiction debut with Kill Switch. (This feature will not include an author visit) Week of December 26: No author features

Yay - I have exciting news! The week of November 14 will be a DOUBLE FEATURE with two authors joining us: GRAHAM BROWN and ALAN BRADLEY.  And, by special request of our B&N Mystery Forum participants, DANA CAMERON will be joining us the week of November 21st.  Lots of great authors will be visiting in November. I hope you'll join us! As always, there may be more surprise guest blogs as the month goes on. Week of October 31st  – Rochelle Staab Tuesday, Nov. 1 - Guest blog  by Beth Groundwater Week of November 7 - Betty Hechtman Tuesday, Nov. 8 – Special Guest Blog!  Soho Press's big fall book is  THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE.  The debut novel and first collaboration  of Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis,  Denmark's new queens of crime fiction. (NOTE: This guest blog  will be posted at a later date.) Wednesday, November 9  Guest Blog by Kate Collins Week of November 14 -  It's a DOUBLE FEATURE!  GRAHAM BROWN will be joining us And ALAN