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Mystery on Main Street will be taking a short (but well-deserved) break. We will be closed from Wednesday, February 8 through Saturday, February 11. We will resume regular hours on Sunday, February 12.

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Happy New Year!

A new year is always something to celebrate: new possibilities always seem to abound once the the new calendar is hung up on the wall. Here's hoping that you all will fare well in the months ahead. And why not? It turns out that all the brouhaha about the Mayan calendar was remarkably wrong, so there's nothing to fear in the near future.

So, let's make January a time to settle in for some good reads.

Fans of Nordic noir will want to check into Cell 8 by Roslund-Hellstrom (Silver Oak, $24.95). This followup to Box 21 and Three Seconds finds Ewert Grens investigating a crime commited by a man who was declared dead years earlier. How does a man who supposedly died on Death Row in a prison in Ohio reach Sweden and can Grens reconcil Swedish justice with American law? Roslund and Hellstrom will keep you guessing. Cell 8 is now on our shelves.

Also worth keeping an eye out for are:

Jan. 5: The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney (Putnam, $25.95) The author of The Tenderness of Wolves introduces us to small-time private investigator Ray Lovell who tries to find the wife of a Gypsy family, who went missing seven years earlier.

Jan. 10: Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George (Dutton, $28.95), in which Inspector Lynley is sent undercover to investigate the death of a supposed drowning victim; and Jan. 17: The Rope by Nevada Barr (Minatour, $25.99), in which Anna Pigeon's past is revealed in this story that fans have been waiting for. These three books will be available as signed editions in limited quantities. If you are interested in any or all of these titles, call us at 802-258-2211 and we will put them aside for you. (Still available are signed editions of Tag Man by Archer Mayor, The Night and the Music by Lawrence Block, Back of Beyond by C.J. Box, and a host of others.)

New titles available in the first week of January include: Gun Games by Faye Kellerman (Morrow, $25.99), The Darkening Field by William Ryan (Minatour, $24.99), A Charitable Body by Robert Barnard (Scribner, $24), The Confession by Charles Todd (Morrow, $25.99), Breakdown by Sara Paretsky (Putnam, $26.95), Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central, $25.99). Later this month we look forward to All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Riverhead, $26.95), Taken by Robert Crais (Putnam, $26.95) and Raylan by Elmore Leonard (Morrow $26.99). Definitely some great reading in store.

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Mark your calendars:
On Saturday, April 14 Mystery on Main Street will host of roster of top flight mystery writers: John Connolly, William Kent Kruger, Liza Marklund and M.J. Rose. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

1222
by Anne Holt
(Scribner, $25)

In this tribute to Agatha Christie, travelers are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest. (Hardcover)

Slash and Burn
by Colin Cotterill
(Soho, $25)

Dr. Siri's last case takes him into the Laotian jungle where he must solve a series of murders before a fortune teller's ominous prediction comes to pass. (Hardcover)

A Parliament of Spies
by Cassandra Clark (Minotaur, $25.99)

When her loyalty and intelligence capture the attentions of King Richard II, Abbess Hildegard becomes a reluctant spy in a politically torn parliament that hastily gathers at Westminster, where the throne is endangered by enemies on all sides. Jan. 31

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