Lemuria Bookstore Blog

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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Blood’s A Rover: A Novel James Ellroy (Random House, 2009) Hard-boiled crime fiction is at its boiling point in 2009. Chef Ellroy has finished his fine hot meal with his new novel, Blood’s A Rover, as a cowboy steak for his main course. American Tabloid (1995) was the appetizer, followed by the salad, Cold Six [...]

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Yes, I have jumped on the bandwagon.  With the rest of the world I too am reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.  In fact I had my book in my “hot little hand” by 8:10 am on Tuesday ( I did get the store opened before I made my purchase) and then went straight [...]

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Road Dogs: A Novel by Elmore Leonard Morrow (2009) In June, Lemuria was visited once again by our pal Elmore “Dutch” Leonard. Real joy from working in a bookstore comes from developing a friendship with an author which is bridged and forged by the tool of the book itself. The author’s work meets your work [...]

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If you are a Greg Iles fan you will be pleased to know that this novel is set in Natchez and Penn Cage is now the mayor.  In his quest to improve the Natchez public schools and bring jobs back to Natchez he has turned to casino gambling like other Mississippi towns.  There are now [...]

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