Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Something I love about reading new books is how they remind you of old books. I went through a serious Tom Clancy addiction when I was in junior high school, and I had forgotten how much I’d enjoyed those novels, especially the earlier ones where the scope was slightly more limited and every nation wasn’t [...]

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I met Karin Slaughter when she was on tour for her first book, Blindsighted. Here was a Southern writer (she is from Georgia) that is my age and she is writing some of the best “slice and dice” thrillers I have read in a long time.  I was so excited to meet her and of [...]

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It has really been unintentional…this ignoring of my husband but it really couldn’t be helped.  I was completely engrossed in Justin Cronin’s, The Passage, which is coming out on June 8.  Joe mentioned in his blog about BEA that he was reading this and had actually met Justin Cronin and that sparked my memory that [...]

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Lee Child warned an enthusiastic audience that he was not going to read from his new Jack Reacher novel, 61 Hours. Besides giving away crucial plot information, he said that he did not want to bore us with his monotonous voice. Well, I wanted to jump up and say, “No, we love your voice! Please [...]

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Lee Child is coming to Lemuria on May 19, 2010 to sign his new Jack Reacher novel, 61 Hours.  This will be Mr. Child’s first trip to the bookstore and we are all very excited to meet him.  This is an interview I found in January Magazine that came out when Mr. Child’s novel, Persuader, [...]

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We were honored last night to have Harlan Coben come and sign his new book, Caught, for us.  In the four months I’ve been at Lemuria I’ve never witnessed an event quite like this one.  Dotcom was packed!!   It was one of those happy occasions where everybody walks away feeling great and warm about the [...]

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Hey folks this is Justin, and this is my first blog here at Lemuria.  I can’t say that I’m up on a lot of current mystery novels, but I still love the old harboiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. It probably comes from growing up watching lots of 40′s and 50′s noir [...]

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“Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With [...]

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The Book world will miss Robert B. Parker – the celebrated writer of more than 50 books, the best known of which were his Spenser novels about a wisecracking ex-boxer turned Boston private eye – he died yesterday morning in Cambridge, Mass. He was 77.

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As I was driving into work this morning James Ellroy was on NPR Morning Edition and as usual was his fantastic self!!!  If you missed it here it is…

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