Seattle Mystery Bookshop has taken to heart the difficulty of the times and really focused on on some of the survival buzz that’s out there for the consideration of the small indie bookshop. Somewhere down in this announcement they say their new offerings will be nut-free. For now, we’re fairly confident there are nuts somewhere …
“Annie Jacobsen’s Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base is one of those books that comes out only after decades of secrecy. Like the raft of books on MI5, the Ultra Secret, or the CIA’s ‘family jewels,’ it’s full of fascinating stories of what really went on during the early decades …
It made for a good story last week when some independent booksellers became critical of Seattle’s most famous librarian after she formed a partnership with Amazon to publish a few out-of-print books. What kind of story, though? It all depends on how you frame it. There’s the story that The Seattle Times told last weekend …
“It is six years after the final scene in Pride and Prejudice, and Elizabeth and Darcy are living happily ever after in Pemberley with Jane and Charles living happily nearby. Their lives are going along smoothly until the eve of the social event of the season when a carriage approaches Pemerbley at full speed. When …
Amazon announced yesterday that Seattle super-librarian Nancy Pearl has signed a contract with the company to launch the Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Amazon’s press release reads: “Book Lust Rediscoveries will publish approximately six books a year and will be made available for sale in print editions via Amazon.com and as audiobooks via Amazon.com and Audible.com, at bookstores, wholesalers and …
“Have you read Val McDermid’s Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series? If you haven’t read them and you like brilliantly plotted thrillers that are edge-of-your-seat paced and filled with flawed and deeply human characters, you should. Begin with The Mermaids Singing (St. Martin, $7.99) and read them all in order. I say this because you …
Seattle Mystery Bookshop announced last week that its founder, Bill Farley, is retiring. For real this time. Farley opened the store in 1990 after having worked at Whodunnit in Philadelphia and being told by visiting author Aaron Elkins that Seattle needed a specialty mystery shop. He sold the now-famous—or is it infamous?—shop to long-time employee JB …
“Martin Anderson is a 44-year-old adolescent. He’s married to a good woman, has two appealing kids, owns a business that buys and sells used private airplanes and he’s a really nice guy. But he has never grown up. It’s 1974, and times are not as tough as in 2011, but surprisingly similar: oil is scarce …
The Seattle Mystery Bookshop opened in historic Pioneer Square in the summer of 1990. The store sells new and used, a large stock of signed firsts and a selection of collectibles—and it mails books to discerning mystery fans all over the planet. Seattle Mystery is a tourist destination and an author destination, hosting author signings nearly …
“Ronnie’s life has recently gone through a massive upheaval; her father burned out on his job and moved the family to a rural town in Oregon to open a B&B. The ray of light in her life is Karen, a ten-year-old girl Ronnie babysits who shows her the wonder of her new world. All of …
