Product Description: Neil Double is a 'conference surrogate,' hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery...read more

Product Description: Neil Double is a 'conference surrogate,' hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery...read more

A Bloody Words Light Mystery 2014 FinalistSpa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone facade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings, Penny encounters deception, blackmail, and murder.When the bishop's secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Davies leads the investigation. At Penny's suggestion, Florence Semble, a friend from Penny's adopted hometown, is invited to the Library to decode the secretary's shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful Library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer.Elizabeth J. Duncan's Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By is a fine entry in a series celebrated for its small-town charm, Welsh flavor, and lovable characters.

Product Description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and a Washington Post Notable Book of the YearOn the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr...read more

Product Description: On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of science...read more

Product Description: The con's not the real reason we're here--that's just the cover story. Alien ascensions in hotel ballrooms.Mermaids on cruise ships.Werewolves in dog shows.Steampunk fairy time travelers.A teenage superhero hitching a ride with a supervillain...read more

Product Description: Ben Tennyson is invading bookshelves everywhere with new, ultra cool alien technology!Cooper drags Ben, Gwen, and Kevin Kevin to the annual Sci-Fi convention, a big attraction for comic book geeks everywhere. No one, except Cooper, is that excited about it until a movie prop turns out to be real alien tech and spews out an army of mini-aliens! Ben has to change forms rapidly to try to stop the little aliens while Kevin and Cooper work to trun the machine off...read more

Product Description: A gripping story of con artists and activists, this story follows a crew of elite hackers, new recruits, anarchists, and impersonators as they attempt to take down their most challenging target to date—the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...read more

Product Description: Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, into becoming conference organizer...read more

The drowning death of a visiting American college professor specializing in the study of eighteenth-century English royalty while attending a local conference draws Leeds Inspector Keen Dunliffe into a dangerous undercover assignment to befriend Dr. Jillie Waltham, an American colleague of the victim.

Product Description: In this darkly satirical fiction debut, a harmless joke thrown in after one glass of wine too many triggers a chain of vengeful plots, grotesque confrontations, and literary hoaxes. World experts on Madoc, the great 18th-century poet, are assembling for a celebratory conference in Wales; the setting is an isolated building run by a religious sect advocating purity of mind...read more

Product Description: A Scathing Satire On Psychology, Identity Theory And Class Prejudice; Cards of Identity is a scathing satire of psychology, identity theory, and class prejudice. The plot centers on an annual meeting of the Identity Club, a group of psychologists who come together to present "case histories" promoting their chosen theory of identity...read more

English professor and amateur sleuth Nick Hoffman investigates a murder that occurs during an Edith Wharton conference he organizes