The Back Room: Cocktails & Conversation with Your Favorite Authors

Join Hank Philllipi Ryan and Karen Dionne for a fantastic evening of cocktails and conversation with your favorite authors!

March 6, 7 PM ET | Riveting Stories

Cara Black • Kellye Garrett • Catriona McPherson • Ben Mezrich

Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, which is set in Paris. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. This riveting 20th installment entangles Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris's 15th arrondissement. Purchase at an independent bookstore near you via indiebound.org. Purchase online at bookshop.org. Kellye Garrett’s first novel, Hollywood Homicide, was released by Midnight Ink in August 2017 and was named one of BookBub’s Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. In addition to receiving starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, it won the Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Independent Publisher “IPPY” awards for best first novel. It was also nominated for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and Barry award for Best Paperback Original. "Brimming with suspense and wit, Like a Sister is a tense, twisting mystery that explores the complex bonds within family and the elusive nature of truth. Smart, sharp, and completely engrossing—an absolutely can’t-put-it-down read!"—Megan Miranda, New York Timesbestselling author of All the Missing Girls and Such a Quiet Place Purchase at an independent bookstore near you via indiebound.org. Purchase online at bookshop.org.

National-bestselling and multi-award-winning author, Catriona McPherson (she/her), was born in Scotland and lived there until immigrating to the US in 2010. She writes historical detective stories set in the old country in the 1930s, featuring gently-born lady sleuth, Dandy Gilver. Despite efforts to create a safe environment to see out the pandemic, the residents of the Last Ditch Motel face more dangers than they imagined possible in this hilarious yet claustrophobic mystery. Purchase at an independent bookstore near you via indiebound.org. Purchase online at bookshop.org. The reigning cowboy of narrative non-fiction with a writing career spanning nineteen years, Ben Mezrich has authored twenty-four books – major international and NYT bestsellers, with more than ten million copies sold. He's best known for his book to movie pathway, including The Social Network, 21, and Bringing Down the House, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Coming soon: his latest non-fiction title The Antisocial Network. Ben returned to his fiction roots with a serialized novella-to-book, published in the Boston Globe during the pandemic and becoming  a new hardcover from Grand Central Publishing: The Midnight Ride. “A plot to savor. Witty, smart, detailed, and highly entertaining. The Midnight Ride is exactly what you’d expect from a master storyteller.”—Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Cotton Malone series Purchase at an independent bookstore near you via indiebound.org. Purchase online at bookshop.org.

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