Time to line up those beach-read mysteries.
Jeffrey Deaver is haunting the area with two appearances on Monday. Deaver will bring his third book in a high-tech thriller trilogy, “Roadside Crosses” ($26.95) featuring investigator Kathryn Dance, to Seattle Mystery Bookshop for a signing only at 10 a.m. Monday and to Third Place Books at 7 p.m.
Stick around Seattle Mystery Bookshop till noon Monday as Michael Connelly signs “The Scarecrow” ($27.99). Reporter Jack McEvoy investigates the cold case of a 16-year-old drug dealer who was convicted of murder on flimsy evidence.
Another mystery fave, Lee Child, turns up at noon Tuesday at Seattle Mystery Bookshop with his latest Jack Reacher novel, “Gone Tomorrow,” ($27).
Third Place Books is at 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park. Call 206-366-3333 or check www.thirdplacebooks.com for more author appearances.
Seattle Mystery Bookshop is at 117 Cherry St., Seattle. Call 206-587-5737 or go to www.seattle mystery.com.
From gorillas to grillin’: Anthropologist Richard Wrangham will talk about “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” ($26.95) at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Town Hall Seattle. Wrangham asserts that eating cooked food caused the human digestive tract to shrink and the brain to grow, helped structure society and created the male-female division of labor. Tickets are $5 at the door or online at www.brownpapertickets. com. Call 800-838-3006. Seattle Town Hall is at 1119 Eighth Ave.
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