News Events Radio & TV appearances High Crimes Mystery Book Group avid Corbett's third novel, BLOOD OF PARADISE, set in present day El Salvador, is one of the first offerings in the new Random House Mortalis series, featuring crime novels of historical or foreign interest. HEAR DAVID ON DRINKS WITH TONY Download David's interview with the inimitable Tony DuShane on Drinks with Tony, an internationally broadcast Internet radio show that has featured interviews with Steve Buscemi, Nick Cave, Janet Fitch, James Ellroy, Chuck Palahniuk, William T. Vollmann, Irvine Welsh, Wim Wenders, Mark Haskell Smith, Tim Maleeny, and many others. Go to www.drinkswithtony.com/davidcorbett.html. In this August 9th interview with David, he talks about his latest novel, Blood of Paradise, while spinning tracks from throughout Latin America, including tunes by Nacao Zumbi, Celso Pina, Los Mocosos, Sepultura, Moenia, Luis Miguel, Los Shakers, and Maldita Vecindad. Go here to view a video of Tasha Alexander reading a portion of the "heroic" sex scene from BLOOD OF PARADISE. View a 20 minute video interview David provided Author Link, in which he discusses BLOOD OF PARADISE and the writing life. Listen to David reading at Moe's Books in Berkeley. Click any of the red links in the right sidebar. David took part in a Live Chat on www.Gather.com on Thursday, May 17th, discussing BLOOD OF PARADISE, his influences, snarky reviews, his PI background, and other matters. To read the transcript, click here. David hosts the High Crimes Mystery Book Group in Benicia, CA once a month. Click here for more information. Help out on the Crime Lab Project... Read more about it here! EVENTS Friday, April 18, 6:30 PM Library Laureates Dinner: San Francisco Noir San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 website Thursday, June 26 - Sunday, June 29 2008 Passage Mystery Writers Conference 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA 94925 800-999-7909, ext. 238 2008 faculty members include David, Jacqueline Winspear, John Lescroart, Cara Black and David Hewson, along with many other top writers. Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference For more information go here. October 9-12 Bouchercon Sheraton Baltimore City Center 101 West Fayette Street Baltimore , Maryland 21201 Phone (410) 752-1100 Panels TBA Friday, October 17, 6:00 PM Ashland Mystery Readers Group Bookwagon New and Used Books 1652 Ashland Street Ashland, OR 97520 (541) 488-4477 website RADIO & TV APPEARANCES More appearances will be listed... please check back. HIGH CRIMES MYSTERY BOOK GROUP HOSTED BY DAVID CORBETT First Thursday of each month at 7:00pm Benicia, CA Bookshop Benicia 856 Southampton Road in the Southampton Shopping Center For directions call 707-747-5155, or visit their website We focus on crime fiction/mysteries with literary merit and literary fiction that deals with crime 2007-2008 High Crimes Booklist April 10th: The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder May 1st: No Meeting June 12th: Clockers by Richard Price July 3rd: Absent Friends, by SJ Rozan August 7th: Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe September 4th: The Wrong Kind of Blood, by Declan Hughes October 2nd: Dope, by Sara Gran November 6th: Drive, by James Sallis December 4th: The Song Is You, by Megan Abbot January 8th: What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman February 5th: Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell For the full backlist of books discussed in this series, click here.