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Labor Day - Take a holiday from shipping charges

MLB helps you celebrate the Labor Day holiday with a free shipping offer that starts today (Friday) and runs all the way through the Labor Day Monday, Sept. 1 (which happens to be Richard's birthday, but that's another story.

This Week's Special

This Week's Special features a forensic antropologist who has two bodies, neither identifiable, that will take all her skill to solve. A great read for vacation or after, especially at 20% off as our Weekly Special.

August-September MLB News available

The August-September issue of the MLB News is at the printer's as we speak. You can download a pdf copy right now so you don't have to wait for the postman.

Travel too expensive? Not at MLB

If the high price of gas and the low value of the dollar has you staying at home this summer, you can still visit exotic, overseas destinations this summer with an assortment of foreign mysteries at MLB.

We've prepared a Mystery Travel Guide which outlines the many choices we have for books that will take you to Italy, France, China, Turkey, Africa and many other locations around the globe.

You can also use the search features on our site to locate books with particular settings, just enter the country you're interested in and you get a listing of books that involve that location.

Bon Voyage.

New arrivals

Loads of new arrivals in the past two weeks as the September books begin to arrive. You'll find new books by Jonathan Kellerman, Diane Mott Davidson, Dick Francis, Alexander McCall Smith, Elizabeth Peters and many others.

Among the British New Arrivals are two just-reissued titles by Patricia Wentworth featuring her amateur sleuth Miss Winter.

You'll find the complete list of both US and British books at New Arrivals.

Michael Harvey kicks off Fall Coffee & Crime

Fall is a great time to restart your culture calendar and our Fall Coffee & Crime series is the perfect choice.

On September 6 Michael Harvey will get our Fall series off to a great start with his second novel, The Fifth Floor. This excellent sequel to his debut, The Chicago Way, features PI Michael Kelly who finds that a simple domestic violence case soon leads to politics, murder and the history of the Chicago Fire.

Fall Coffee & Crime continues with:

Upcoming Events

Sept. 5 - Rebecca Drake publication party
Sept. 6 - Michael Harvey Coffee & Crime
Sept. 11 - Carol Goodman Book Club Dinner

Keep on reading,
Richard, Mary Alice and the MLB Staff

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