Book events

Among the upcoming week’s local literary events:

“New York Times best-selling author J.A. Jance will read from her new Joanna Brady mystery, “Dead Wrong,” on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave.

The 12th installment in the Brady books finds the fictional Cochise County, Arizona, sheriff working to solve both the murder of an ex-con with a link to a prominent judge, and the brutal beating of an animal control officer – even as she prepares to deliver her second child and deals with her dysfunctional, visiting in-laws.

For more information, call Auntie’s at (509) 838-0206.

“Idaho writer Gary Gildner will be featured in a Midsummer Night’s Reading and Book Signing on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Oden Hall, 143 Sunnyside Road in Sandpoint.

Gildner has published 20 books, including novels, memoirs and poetry collections. His many awards and honors include a National Magazine Award for fiction, Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

For more information, call Lost Horse Press at (208) 255-4410, e-mail losthorsepress@mindspring .com or visit www.losthorsepress.org.

“Seattle area author Karen Fisher will read from her novel “A Sudden Country” on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Auntie’s Bookstore.

Based on a journal written by one of her ancestors as an 11-year-old girl, it tells the story of a remarried widow and a Scottish trapper who meet during a westward migration along the Oregon Trail in 1847.

Book talk

“”What Are You Reading This Summer?” book discussion group, Wednesday, noon-1 p.m., Tinman Gallery, 811 W. Garland Ave. Call (509) 325-1500.

“Whitman County Library’s “Who Reads What?” book discussion series (“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini), Thursday, 7 p.m., Colfax Branch, 102 S. Main St. Call (509) 397-4366.