Author Tom Laird will sign copies of his book, “Desert Storm Heart” on Saturday, July 13 at I Know You Like A Book in Peoria Heights. This is Laird’s sixth novel, and as always, he delivers a page-turning crime thriller.

“Desert Storm Heart” focuses on the aftermath of the murders and rapes of several young girls in Kuwait during Desert Storm. Will Koehn, an NCIS investigator, looks into the slayings but never locates the killer. Later, he returns to the United States and subsequently becomes a homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department. Soon after, a murder and rape occurs in Chicago and the killer’s MO matches that of the girls murdered in Kuwait. The killer has followed Will home.

The signing, a part of the bookstore’s Local Author series, begins at 2:00 p.m. at I Know You Like A Book, 4707 Prospect Rd. in Peoria Heights. 685-2665.