Harcourt, $25.00

Sunday, May 18, 2 p.m. Thomas Perry signs his latest thriller, Fidelity, Harcourt, $25.00.
When Phil Kramer is shot dead in the middle of the night, his wife is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. Now that he's been ordered to take out Kramer's widow, he figures there's a bigger secret at work--and a bigger payoff.
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Hilliard & Harris Publishers, $16.95

Saturday, May 24, 2 p.m. Former Herald Examiner journalist Jack Getze signs Big Numbers, Hilliard & Harris Publishers, $16.95.  Who is killing Austin Carr? About to be murdered--snatched off a private fishing yacht by a six-hundred-pound giant blue fin tuna--a down-on-his-luck stockbroker recalls the collection of events, miscalculations, and character flaws that led to his current dire predicament: Living in a truck-mounted camper on the Jersey Shore, struggling to keep up with alimony and child-support payments that no longer reflect his shrinking income, the big-smiling, wise-cracking Austin Carr has been searching for a way out of the stock and bond business. So when his richest client tells Austin he's dying, and the future widow--a redheaded knock-out--offers tender consolation, Austin’s increasingly desperate financial situation draws him deeper and deeper into a barbed web of bad behavior and deceit.

Knopf, $23.95

Saturday, June 7, 2 P.M. Don Winslow signs The Dawn Patrol, Knopf, $23.95.  The author of "The Winter of Frankie Machine" is back with a razor-sharp novel as cool and unbridled as its California surfer heroes, as heart-stopping as a wave none of them sees coming. Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he's out in the break off Pacific Beach with the other members of The Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have "real j-o-b-s"; Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos and wet suits--and in the water whenever the waves are "epic making crunchy." But Boone is also obsessed with the unsolved case of a young girl named Rain who was abducted back when he was on the San Diego police force.