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These authors will be our featured guests in OCTOBER: Week of Oct. 4 – Joelle Charbonneau Week of Oct. 11 – Lois Duncan Week of Oct. 18 – James Grippando Week of Oct. 25 – Carola Dunn

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Image used with permission: AGATHA CHRISTIE® Copyright © 2010  Agatha Christie Limited (a Chorion company).  All rights reserved. September 15 1890 - 2010 Barnes & Noble's Mystery Book Club  Wishes a Happy 120th Birthday to Dame Agatha Christie! Happy-Birthday In September, Barnes & Noble's Mystery Book Club forum at BN.com will celebrate the 120th birthday of Dame Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 –12 January 1976) all month with guest blogs by authors and others in the mystery world. Many of the authors will visit on the day their blogs are posted. Here are some of the people who will be blogging: KATE STINE, Editor-in-Chief, Mystery Scene Magazine BRIAN SKUPIN, Co-Publisher and Webmaster, Mystery Scene Magazine JEFFREY MARKS, Contributing Editor to Mystery Scene Magazine; Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Maxwell-nominated writer, anthologist, and biographer LYDIA STONE and MATT NEWBURY, org...

In August we're going to have another blow-out feature similar to February's Month of Romantic Suspense. The only difference is I won't be featuring authors on weekends this time, but we will have a different author visiting every weekday. There will be a mix of new and established authors, famous and not-famous-yet authors. Here are some of the authors who have confirmed: RICK MOFINA  - Monday, August 2 SHILOH WALKER  - Tuesday, August 3 BRENDA NOVAK  - Wednesday, August 4 WENDY CORSI STAUB  - Thursday, August 5 STEVEN H. JACKSON  - Friday, August 6 RAFFI YESSAYAN  - Monday, August 9 LISA GARDNER  - Tuesday, August 10 BRAD PARKS  - Wednesday, August 11 BARRY EISLER   - Thursday, August 12 KATE BRADY - Friday, August 13 JOSEPH FINDER  - Monday, August 16 ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF  - Tuesday, August 17 ALAFAIR BURKE  - Wednesday, August 18 MARY BURTON - Thursday, August 19 L.J. SELLERS  - Friday, August 20 W....

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July is Ladies' Month at B&N's Mystery Book Club forum: Week of July 5:   Libby Hellman  Week of July 12: Jennifer McMahon  Week of July 19: Sophie Littlefield  Week of July 26: Kandy Shepherd

Join us this week at Barnes & Noble's Mystery Book Club Forum, authors, publicists and all kinds of behind-the-scenes people from HarperCollins Publishers will be our guests. Join us!

Things are really hopping at the Mystery Book Club this month. We're celebrating a Month of Cozy Crime AND we're getting ready for Father's Day by recommending books and inviting the authors to chat with us. Our featured Cozy Mystery authors are: CONNIE SHELTON KRISTA DAVIS HEATHER WEBBER AVERY AAMES JENNIE BENTLEY In addition, lots of other cozy authors have stopped in to chat with us, including: KATE COLLINS ELLERY ADAMS LOIS WINSTON MARY KENNEDY HANNAH REED LORNA BARRETT WENDY LYN WATSON JEFFREY COHEN CLEA SIMON SUZANNE ARRUDA DENISE SWANSON KATHERINE HALL PAGE E.J. COPPERMAN LEANN SWEENEY JOELLE CHARBONNEAU AMANDA FLOWER CHRISTY EVANS JANET BOLIN and more . . . In addition to the cozy authors, a number of authors are visiting to help us celebrate Father's Day. These include: WILLIAM DIETRICH PHILLIP MARGOLIN JIM COLOMBO THOMAS KAUFMAN ANDREW GROSS DALE BROWN KEITH GILMAN and more . . . JOIN US!

Week of May 31/June 1 - Connie Shelton Week of June 7 - Krista Davis Week of June 14 - Heather Webber (her garden mysteries mainly); she may bring her blog partners along, too Week of June 21 - Avery Aames Week of June 28 - Jennie Bentley

We're globe-trotting at Barnes & Noble's Mystery Book Club in May. During Week One , we are featuring LEIGHTON GAGE , whose mysteries are set in Brazil . Joining Leighton are his blog-mates, authors whose mysteries are also set in exotic places: Cara Black (France) Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip, writing as Michael Stanley (South Africa) Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Iceland) Dan Waddell (England) Tim Hallinan (Thailand) During Week Two (week of May 10), author ERIN HART will join us to talk about her books, which are set in Ireland. Erin is joining us by popular request - I asked our board regulars to pick an author for this feature, and many chose Erin. There is also a separate "thread" where you can make your own recommendations for future international features. For Week Three , our featured guest will be a relatively new author, JAMIE FREVELETTI . Jamie's first book takes us from Miami to  Bogotá; her second book takes us into even more...