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HEART OF BARKNESS Tour!

Come and try to stump me in the Q&A!

FALMOUTH, MA/CAPE COD, MA Tuesday, July 2 – 7:00 PM Eight Cousins 89 Main St Falmouth, MA 02540

WESTERLY, RI Wednesday, July 3rd – 7:00 PM Savoy Bookshop 10 Canal St Westerly, RI 02891

HOUSTON, TX Tuesday, July 9th – 6:30 PM Murder By The Book 2342 Bissonnet St Houston, TX 77005

SCOTTSDALE, AZ Wednesday, July 10th – 7:00 PM Poisoned Pen 4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251

LITTLETON, CO/DENVER, CO Thursday, July 11th – 7:00 PM Tattered Cover Aspen Grove 7301 S Santa Fe Dr Littleton, CO 80129

WICHITA, KS Friday, July 12th – 6:00 PM Watermark Books & Café 4701 E Douglas Ave Wichita, KS 67218

HINSDALE, IL/CHICAGO, IL Saturday, July 13th –1:00 PM (Hinsdale Humane Society & Frugal Muse) 21 Salt Creek Lane Hinsdale, IL

ORANGE, CA Sunday, July 14th – 2:00 PM Book Carnival 348 S Tustin St Orange, CA 92866

CHATHAM, MA/CAPE COD, MA Tuesday, July 16th – 1:00 PM Yellow Umbrella Books 501 Main St Chatham, MA 02633

CONCORD, NH Thursday, July 18th – 6:00 PM Gibson’s 45 S Main St Concord, NH 03301

FAIRFIELD, CT Saturday, July 20th – 12:00 PM Fairfield University Bookstore Sidewalk Sale & Street Fair 1499 Post Rd Fairfield, CT 06824

Reader Email

Although the Chet and Bernie series is for adults, some kids are reading them. I sometimes read adult books when I was a kid. Let freedom ring!

Here’s the kind of reader feedback that any writer would treasure:

“Hi, my name is XXXX and I am 11, live in XXXXXX, and I have read all of your books on Chet and Bernie (and the short ebooks).

Unless you already have an idea, could I pitch some ideas for the 10th book in your series (if you are doing one)? One idea I had was for Bernie and Chet to go overseas to London to see the new job offer that Suzie gave him in Scents and Sensibility. (But your 9th book hasn’t come out yet so if there is something in that book that interrupts the plot of him checking out London, I’m sorry). In London there could be a missing kid case, in which one of Suzie’s friend’s kid goes missing. Another idea I had was for them to go to Wyoming for a missing kid case. Basically, as Chet would say, missing kids are our MO, which is why I am pitching these to you. Sorry if the first one seemed like the plot of Paw and Order.
Again these are just suggestions, thank you for reading!

Have a nice day!”

I certainly will!

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Beginnings

On Sundays we do beginnings, taking a look at the first few lines of a Peter Abrahams book, including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker. (As a bonus, we get to write that strange word, moniker, once a week.) How about today we do the beginning of HEART OF BARKNESS, the new Chet and Bernie novel coming July 2?

“Red-letter day, Chet,” said Sergeant Rick Torres, our buddy at the Valley PD Missing Persons Department. “In the car.”

Red-letter day was a mystery to me, and maybe red is, too. Bernie says I can’t be trusted when it comes to red, something I’ve never understood. I knew fire hydrants were red, for example, knew that as well as I know my own name. Which is Chet, in case you missed it, right up there off the jump. I also know “in the car,” and never need to be asked twice. Or even once.

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Song For Chet (More)

Without getting into spoiler territory, Song For Chet is sung in a scene in HEART OF BARKNESS. (Of course in the book there are just the lyrics.) Then, through a series of incidents I may get into on the tour, it became a real song with real music, musicians, singer, some of whom are quite well known.

You’re the kind that runs around,

Can’t stop to think till the ship has sailed,

Till the milk is spilled, till the safe is blown …