We are a full service mystery bookstore in Denver, Colorado with mystery book clubs and mystery book newsletters (with book reviews). We read the mystery books!
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See an animated image of the former home of our mystery bookstore, Murder by the Book in winter, summer and the Holiday Season. Murder By the Book is now reachable by telephone and email (see below). Signings are held at the location specified in the listing for each signing below.
Gift Certificates are now available for purchase.
Award Winning Book Club
Join our Book Clubs to automatically receive our favorite murder mysteries every quarter. You can join one or all of our Cozy, Firsts (first book by a new author) or Hardboiledbook clubs. We read all of the books in each genre and pick the best of the lot to send for each book club issue. Many of our recent selections are award winning so Join one of our book clubs today!
Next Author Book Signings
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 SANDRA DALLAS – TRUE SISTERS
6:00 pm Signing at the Mortgage West Gallery, 1705 S. Pearl St., Denver, CO
Sandra began a writing career as a reporter with Business Week, serving as the magazine’s first female bureau chief. While a reporter, she began writing award-winning nonfiction. Sandra has also published nine novels. She won the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. True Sisters is about four women who are members of the Martin Company pushing handcarts across the prairies and mountains to Utah. The characters are fictional, but they are based on journals, stories, & accounts of real women who braved the hardship of the handcart trek, finding faith, friendship, & joy in the journey.
Sunday, May 6, 2012 NANCY ATHERTON – AUNT DIMITY AND THE VILLAGE WITCH
1:00pm Signing at the Bell Studio Gallery, 1573 S. Pearl St., Denver, CO
To keep the peace in her quiet village of Finch, Lori helps a world famous artist, Amelia, to conceal her true identity and sets to work solving the riddle that brought Amelia to Finch in the first place. A fragment of a family diary hints that Amelia might be a direct descendant of Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. So goes the 17th book in this popular series that has gotten Nancy Atherton a Macavity nomination for Best First Novel, and a Best Novel nomination for the Dily’s Award. Nancy herself lives in Colorado Springs, CO having relocated from the middle of a cornfield in Illinois.
See ALL of our upcoming author signings, events and past events
Mystery Books – Murder by the Book in Denver, Colorado
Murder by the Book is an independent Mystery Bookstore in Denver, Colorado specializing in murder mystery books and crime fiction. A longstanding (since 1980) mystery bookseller in the Colorado Front Range community, we sell mysteries in both hardback and paperback, new and used books, as well as host author book signings for signed 1st editions.
Bi-Monthly Mystery Books Newsletter
We list the books to be received in the next 2 months in our free mystery book newsletter. Our newsletters also contain book reviews, book signings, special issues, rare books, used books, readers group information, etc. The book reviews cover the books that are coming out in the next 2 months, and historical online book reviews are listed also. If you provide us with your email address in the box at the top-right of all pages in the site we will email the newsletters to you every other month.
Murder by the Book
Denver, Colorado 80210
(800) 300-2595 toll free voice
(303) 871-9401 voice in Colorado
(815) 346-2492 faxHours of Operation:
11:00 am – 6:00 pm Tuesday – Friday
11:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday
