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Tim Applegate presents Flamingo Lane

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back local author Tim Applegate to read from Flamingo Lane: A Novel of Southern Noir. Chance is a hitman with hippie roots and deep emotional wounds, disillusioned by life and stung by love--and his next target is the woman who rejected him. But taking on such a job is not without complications. As he closes in on his victim, Chance struggles to rediscover the competitive edge that normally makes him so deadly. Faye Lindstrom escaped a life of captivity and addiction in Quintana Roo, but she can't flee the woman she has become. For now, she holes up in a house in Crooked River owned by an old friend, the reclusive novelist William Dieter. But that safe haven will only last until…

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Alafair Burke

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

From Alafair Burke, author of the runaway hit, The Wife, comes The Better Sister (Harper), another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters – one the dead man’s widow, the other his ex – must set aside mistrust and old resentments… but can they escape their past?

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Valerie Brooks presents Revenge in 3 Parts

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Oregon author Valerie Brooks to read from her debut thriller, Revenge in 3 Parts. In this gripping psychological thriller and debut noir that takes the reader from Paris to Portland, Oregon, and finally to Kauai, criminal attorney Angeline Porter is forced to fight crime outside the law. Angeline thrives on crime--righting wrongs, fighting for justice, putting away murderers. But after rebuking the sexual advances of the head of her firm, plus putting away his friend, a serial rapist, Angeline is disbarred. When Angeline's beautiful, but troubled sister Sophie commits suicide, she seeks to right the myriad of injustices that provoked her sister and acts to avenge her death. Guilt for not protecting Sophie drives Angeline to investigate, and after discovering Sophie had…

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Fake Radio presents The Maltese Falcon

The Vault Theater and Event Space 350 E Main Street, Hillsboro, OR, United States

Lynne Stewart, star of PeeWee's Playhouse and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia joins the cast of Fake Radio for the third show of their 2019 season. In 1941, Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor lit up the screen with John Huston’s masterpiece, The Maltese Falcon. A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. The film won three Academy Award nominations and grossed nearly $1 million at the box office, a massive sum for its era. It cemented Humphrey Bogart as the biggest star of the decade, and remains to this day one of the best-known film noir classics. In 1943, The Lux Radio Theater presented their version of the Dashiell…

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Liska Jacobs

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

To coolheaded, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, 40-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world – relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. In The Worst Kind of Want (MCD), Liska Jacobs…

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Deadly Diversions Book Group

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

This month our group meets to discuss Dennis Lehane’s Kenzie and Gennaro series. Join us!

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Cancelled – Emily Beyda

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

[From Powell's website: Powell's Books Suspends Event Programming Through April 2020 Following Governor Kate Brown’s announcement of new rules to slow the spread of COVID-19 and our own commitment to ensure the safety of our employees and customers, Powell’s is cancelling all author events, book clubs, and other scheduled gatherings at each of our store locations through the end of April 2020. Please check back here for updates, and thank you for your patience as we continue to adjust our plans as national and local events unfold.] A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where…

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Accra Noir Literary Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

How we'd love for you to join us this Saturday, December 13th at 1pm PT for a reading featuring contributing writers of the highly anticipated and award nominated anthology, Accra Noir. Including editor and contributor, Nana-Ama Danquah. Please register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwucOirpj8rEtT1JfQYI8maR89Z_742ZMjq Each contributor will read briefly from their story and then we can take questions from the audience. Kwame Dawes has published over thirty-five books, most recently the novel Bivouac. He was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and is considered one of the Caribbean’s leading writers. Dawes is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, an honorary FRSL, and programming director of the Calabash In-ternational Literary Festival. At the University of Nebraska, he is the Glenna Luschei Editor of…

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