Chris Scott

May 29, 2012 In his new novel, A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara tells a story centered on the Battle of Shiloh, the most famous battle ever fought in Tennessee. Following the format established by his Pulitzer Prize-winning father, Michael Shaara, and honed over a series of novels chronicling America’s major wars, Shaara once again treads the ground where he started his own writing career—the Civil War. Jeff Shaara will discuss A Blaze of Glory at the Nashville Public Library on June 5 at 6:15 p.m. as part of the Salon@615 series.

May 2, 2012 In The Inquisitor’s Key, Bill Brockton, the fictional incarnation of Bill Bass, world-famous founder of the University of Tennessee’s Body Farm, travels to France, where ancient bones draw him into a very modern murder mystery. In their seventh outing, Jon Jefferson and Bill Bass, the writing team known as Jefferson Bass, have juxtaposed fourteenth-century religious fervor with twenty-first-century science. And if any combination of pursuits can prove deadly, it’s science and religion. Bass and Jefferson will be promoting The Inquisitor’s Key during May at several Tennessee venues.

March 7, 2012 In his novel When the Killing’s Done, T.C. Boyle sets conservationists against animal-rights activists in a battle royal over the ecosystem of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. It’s a fight both philosophical and physical, and it leaves no one unscathed. Boyle will discuss and sign When the Killing’s Done on March 16 at the Nashville Public Library as part of the Salon@615 series. A free public reception begins at 6:15 p.m. and will be followed by a reading at 7. Click here for details.