Join us for a suspenseful evening with Shari Lapena and Nicole Lundrigan as they discuss their lates t releases What Have You Done? and A Man Downstairs.
\nAbout the Authors:
\nShari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of the thri llers The Couple Next Door\, A Stranger in the House\, An Unwanted Gue st\, Someone We Know\, \;The End of Her\, Not a Happy Family\, and Eve ryone Here Is Lying\, which have all been New York Times and The Sund ay Times (London) bestsellers. Her books have been sold in forty territori es around the world. She lives on a farm outside of Toronto.
\nNicole Lundrigan is the aut hor of several critically acclaimed novels. Her work has appeared in a var i\;ety of pub\;li\;ca\;tions\, includ\;ing Reader&rsqu o\;s Digest\, \;Moth\;er\;ing: The Nat\;ural Fam\;ily Liv\;ing Mag\;a\;zine\, \;Law and Order: Police Man\;a ge\;ment\, and the Hal\;i\;fax Daily Her\;ald. She is the author of several critically acclaimed novels including An Unthinkable Thing (finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence - Best Crime Novel)\, Hideaway (shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel)\, and The Substitute. Her work has a ppeared on &ldquo\;best of&rdquo\; selections from The Globe and Mail \, C hatelaine\, Now magazine\, and others.
\nAbout What Have You Done?:
\nNothing ever happens in sleepy little Fa irhill\, Vermont. \;But this morning that will change. \;And one i nnocent question could be deadly. What have you done?
\nThe teenager s get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyon e. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked.
\nBut Dian a Brewer isn&rsquo\;t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead s he lies in a hayfield\, circled by vultures\, discovered by a local farmer .
\nHow quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friend ly\, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects\, a place of fear and paran oia.
\nSomeone in Fairhill did this. \;Everyone wants answers.\n
About A Man Downstairs:
\nMolly Wyn ters has moved back to her small hometown to care for her father\, recentl y felled by a stroke and no longer able to communicate. She is ready to ma ke a fresh start with her son after her divorce\, but is haunted by both o ld events and new realities in her childhood home.
\nWhat Molly reca lls of her young life with her father is full of love and care\, even thou gh a violent trauma defined her childhood: when she was a young girl\, she witnessed her mother&rsquo\;s murder\, and her testimony &ndash\; &ldquo\ ;There was a man downstairs&rdquo\; &ndash\; sent a teenager to prison. Th is tragic episode is still very much alive in the culture of the town\, an d the more Molly remembers\, the more she fears that what she said on the stand all those years ago might not have been the whole truth.
\nAft er Molly\, a trained therapist\, volunteers for a local helpline\, the thr eats begin. At first they seem random\, but soon Molly realizes that she i s a target\, and even those closest to her seem suspicious\, especially as unsuspected links between them emerge. More than one life was destroyed o n that horrific long-ago day\, and now someone intends to hold Molly accou ntable.
\nWith its gripping descent into the shadowy corners of the human psyche A Man Downstairs is both an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride and a masterful exploration of the fragile nature of memory.
\nPresented in partnership with Words Worth Books \;in celebration of 40 years.
\nProgrammer: \; Nancy
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