Donย’t you just hate it when you help a serial killer go free? Thatย’s what happens to P.I. Elvis Cole in Robert Craisย’s Chasing Darkness. Three years ago, Cole was hailed as a hero when he helped to free an seemingly innocent man wrongly accused of murder. But now the former suspect has been found dead, an apparent suicide, with a scrapbook open on his lap filled with photos of seven brutally murdered women ย— seven women killed over seven years, including two since Cole helped exonerate him. Did Cole unknowingly free a serial killer? See what hints Crais gives away at todayย’s reading. 6 p.m. Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-524-8597 or visit www.murderbooks.com. Free.

Sat., July 26, 6 p.m., 2008