Greg Bear signs Mariposa

Mysterious Galaxy hosts our own "mini-Men of Mystery" event on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:00 PM, with three crime authors, whose works are set in the past, present and future.

Greg Bear, who has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards for his speculative fiction, ventured into the thriller field with Quantico, a near-future examination of law enforcement, politics, and terrorism. Mariposa returns to that world, with some of the same characters, as three FBI agents work to stop a quasi-military company that has enjoyed great success training soldiers and developing security technology -- and is now poised to take over the U.S. government. Greg also serves as an advisor to a number of businesses and agencies, including the U.S. Army, the CIA, and Homeland security.

Alan Jacobson introduced FBI profiler Karen Vail in last year's The 7th Victim. In Crush, Karen is hoping to relax and enjoy the charms of the Napa Valley with Detective Robby Hernandez. However, their discovery of a body deep in an elite wine cave, with all the earmarks of a serial killer's work, turns their trip into a working excursion, as they lend their skills to the local Major Crimes Task Force. Are the murders just the result of a psychopath's desire for fame? Or are they related to the politics of the local vintners?

Seoul in the 1970's is the setting for G.I. Bones, the new mystery featuring Army criminal investigators George Sueno and Ernie Bascom. Martin Limon, praised by Lee Child for writing "the best military mysteries in print today," sets his team on the trail of a cold case, a soldier who went missing in 1953. The case leads them into the intrigue of Seoul's red-light district, as they follow clues from a Korean fortune-teller and a trail of corruption, kidnapping, and murder.