Seattle Mystery Bookshop closed at the end of September 2017, but it lives on in the hearts and memories of many fans. On April 1, former customers were delighted to find an update to the store’s blog– a fresh edition of the Newzine. (Really– it’s not an April Fool’s joke.) We are all still reading, …
Saturday April 29 marked the third national Independent Bookstore Day and the third Seattle Bookstore Day. In Seattle, the weather held and bookstore love was out in full force. The Seattle Bookstore Day Indie Challenge increased to 23 participating stores, with a visit to 19 stores required to achieve Indie Champion status (and a 25% discount …
Happy news from Seattle author Kevin O’Brien’s Facebook page to start the new year off right: TOP TEN: Seattle Mystery Bookshop has announced its Bestsellers for 2016–and I’m pumped YOU’LL MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE is among the top ten bestselling mass market paperbacks. Among the top ten bestselling hardcovers is my friend and fellow Seattle …
Trouble in Rooster Paradise is a fun mystery set in 1950 Seattle and in 2003 in a Seattle area injury rehab center. 83 year old retired shamus (private detective) Gunnar Nilson is laid up in 2003 in a nursing home with a busted gam (leg). Josephine Tey used a similar gambit in The Daughter of Time, which …
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Buffy Summers from Sunnydale (ie. Buffy, The Vampire Slayer) had been born in Regency England, specifically in 1812 London? The Dark Days Club gives you a bit of hint of what she and her world might have looked like. Now having made this comparison I must …
As has been stated a few times over the years, we [at Seattle Mystery Bookshop] all work so closely together that we start to read the same things to the point where we lack the breadth of knowledge and experience and can only recommend a too-narrow slice of the books here from what we all …
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 is full of fascinating stories of what really went on during the early …
Judging a book by its cover, I picked up a copy of The Smoke, by Tony Broadbent and found myself transported to London, 1947 and immersed in the life of a creeper, London slang for a cat burglar. Our narrator, Jethro, is witty– a bit of a rogue, he is –and makes no excuses for …
There are always books we mean to get to… but somehow time gets away from us, there are newer books popping up, look – something shiny! So it took me until now to finally get to Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine, and I’m sorry it took me so long! I’d been intrigued by the premise: a locked room filled …
Seattle Mystery Bookshop, which moved to its current location at 117 Cherry Street in downtown Seattle in 2005, will be moving back to its previous, smaller space at the end of August 2014 (this month). They’ll still carry a wonderful selection of mysteries (and since they have such great relationships with authors, many autographed copies). …
