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ONCE UPON A CRIME
MYSTERY BOOKSTORE

in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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(Readings/Events listed below)

Pat and Gary at ONCE UPON A CRIME are informal, low-tech, and happy to provide the best customer service around. They carry thousands of new mysteries, thrillers, and crime fiction and also have a large collection of rare, used, and hard-to-get volumes. They can order almost any book. Feel free to call ahead to check to see if the book you want is in stock: 612-870-3785 or EMAIL. Please drop a note if you would like to be on the e-mail notification list for information about upcoming appearances.

This site is simple: if you CLICK HERE, you will be taken to a page with maps and information to find the store location. Call if you get lost!

Below you will find a rolling list of upcoming store events. Please stop by for any appearance or just to visit and check out the incredible collection!


Pat, author Owen Laukkanen, and Gary
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STORE HOURS:

Mon - Sat 11AM to 5:30PM
Closed Sundays
Open Late for Events

Independent Bookstores
for Independent Minds

REGULAR EVENTS:
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Sisters in Crime
meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM excluding July and August.

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UPCOMING EVENTS: All readings/signings listed below are evening events unless otherwise indicated.

Sat. June 1 - 7:00 Jussi Adler-Olsen "A Conspiracy of Faith (Copenhagen).

Mon. June 3 - 7:00 David Housewright "The Last Kind Word" - Reception and Signing.

Tues. June 4 - 7:00 Ridley Pearson "Choke Point."

Wed. Jun 5 - 7:00 Taylor Stevens "The Doll: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel" (Governments pay her. Criminals fear her. Nobody sees her coming.) Reading and signing by the author of The Informationist and The Innocent.

Thurs. June 13 - 7:00 Victoria Houston "Dead Insider" - Author chat and signing.

Sat. Jun 15 - 12:00 -2:00 Jarkko Sipila "Helsinki Homicide: Cold Trail" - A Signing by this Finnish author.

Sat. Jun 15 - 3:30 - 5:00 Craig Johnson - "A Serpent's Tooth" - Come to this signing with the author of the "Longmire" series, currently a hit TV show on A&E. We recommend that you reserve your book because Craig has a flight to catch right afterwards.

Wed. June 19 - 7:00 Jenny Milchman "Cover of Snow" with William Kent Krueger "Ordinary Grace."

Sat. July 6 - 12:00-2:00 Virginia Lowell (a/k/a Deborah Woodworth) "One Dead Cookie" - Signing with Refreshments.

Thurs. July 11 - 7:00 Jessie Chandler "Pickle in the Middle Murder" with Lori L. Lake "Jump The Gun" - Launch party and Signing for both books set in the Twin Cities.

Wed. July 17 - 7:00 Martin Walker "Devil's Cave," the fifth in the Bruno series set in France.

Sat. July 20 - 12:00-2:00 Jenifer LeClair "Cold Coast" - Signing by a MN Author.

Sat. July 27 - 1:00-3:00 Minnesota authors Marilyn Rausch & Mary Donlon "Love Can Be Murder."

Thurs. Aug 1 - 7:00 Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, editors, present "Twin Cities Noir: The Expanded Edition" - Reception and Publication Party.

Thurs. Aug 8 - 7:00 Alex Kava "Stranded" and Erica Spindler "Justice for Sarah."

Mon. Aug 19 - 7:00 William Kent Krueger "Tamarack County" - Reception and Signing.

Tues. Aug 20 - 7:00 Sujata Massey "The Sleeping Dictionary" - Historical suspense set in India.

Sat. Sep 7 - 12:00-2:00 S. L .Smith "Running Scared" - Signing by this MN author.

Thurs. Sept 12 - 7:00 Hank Phillippi Ryan "The Wrong Girl" - Reading and Signing.

Thurs. Oct 10 - 7:00 Ellen Hart "Taken By the Wind" - Reading and Signing.

Sat. Dec 5 - 12:00-2:00 Laura Childs "Gilt Trip" - Signing and Refreshments.

Come meet your
favorite authors
and join the fun!
Can’t attend? Call or email and we will reserve a signed and/or inscribed copy for you.

RESERVES GET THE BEST COPIES! Signed/inscribed copies require a credit card.

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