Publishers, psychologist, police, politicians, and plants.  What do they have in common?  Murder...

Everything begins and ends at the Kentucky Club by stories by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Salt, sugar, fat: how the food giants hooked us by Michael Moss

The sisters brothers [sound recording] by Patrick Dewitt

A curious man: the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley by Neal Thompson

The Confessions of Al Capone by Loren D. Estleman

Missing persons: a Kate Conway mystery by Clare O'Donohue

The return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller

Nightworld by Wilson, F. Paul

Prey on Patmos: an Inspector Kaldis Mystery by Jeffrey Siger

Fall from grace by Wayne Arthurson

The daily you: how the new advertising industry is defining your identity and your worth by Joseph Turow

Deadly valentines: the story of Capone's henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, his blonde alibi by Jeffrey Gusfield

God's jury: the Inquisition and the making of the modern world by Cullen Murphy

Somethin' else: the story of Blue Note Records and the birth of modern jazz by Ashley Kahn

Too big to know: rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren't the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room by David Weinberger

The 13th Annual Love is Murder Conference for Mystery writers and readers will be held in Chicago at the Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel Friday, February 3 through Sunday, February 5. The conference offers author chats, opportunities to meet with publishers and/or agents, and writer's workshops. Entertainment in the evening includes a performance by Those Were The Days Radio Players.

Artistic license by Julie A. Hyzy — Ms Hyzy is the conference's Guest of Honor.