Since 1980, the mystery specialty bookseller Murder by the Book has been an icon in the Houston, Texas, USA landscape.

Murder by the Book will donate 10% of the sales of the new Kathy Reichs novel Devil Bones to Helping a Hero.org, a non-profit, non-partisan organization providing support for military personnel severely injured in the war on terror. Helping a Hero's principal activity is to provide specially adapted homes for qualifying service members as well as engaging the community to provide services and resources for wounded heroes and their families.

To date, HelpingaHero.org has awarded 13 homes in the Houston area to severely injured heroes who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. HelpingaHero.org currently has four homes under construction including a Perry Home in Friendswood in the West Ranch Subdivision for Cpl Steven Schulz, USMC (Ret.), a Meritage Home in Delaney Cove for Spec. Sergio Trejo, US Army (Ret.), a Perry Home in Summerwood for SGT Richard Massimino, USMC (Ret.), and a Perry Home in Shadow Creek Ranch for SGT Javier Negrete, US Army (Ret.).

On Friday, September 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM, the New York Times best-selling author of the Tempe Brennan novels, Dr. Kathy Reichs, will sign & discuss her latest in the "Bones" series, Devil Bones (Scribner; $25.95). Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs, international number one best-selling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hit Bones, returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santería, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims.

If you are unable to attend the event but would like to order a signed/inscribed copy of Devil Bones from Murder by the Book, please e-mail or call (888-424-2842 / 713-524-8597) to purchase. 10% of your purchase will be submitted to Helping a Hero.