Liz Garrigan

April 9, 2014 Two gay men near Asheville, North Carolina, are brutally murdered, possibly in connection with a backwater preacher’s shocking anti-gay bombast on YouTube, and North Carolina Governor Ann Chandler is worried. Clearly, this is a case for special prosecutor Mary Crow. Sallie Bissell will discuss Deadliest of Sins, her sixth Mary Crow mystery, on April 12, 2014, at Mysteries & More in Nashville at 2 p.m.

March 13, 2014 Evan Stoess spends twelve years as the only poor kid at a prep school for the overprivileged, an experience that offers incentive aplenty for him to strive for wealth, to prove he’s worthy of his peers—better, even. What is Evan willing to do for wealth and fame? That’s the central question of Eat What You Kill, a financial thriller by former Nashvillian Ted Scofield.

August 27, 2013 Roger Hobbs graduated from Reed College in 2011 after studying film noir, literary theory, and ancient languages—all of which he manages to put to good use in his debut novel, Ghostman, a thriller that legendary Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon characterizes as “addictive, electrifying, and quicksilver-paced.”

August 15, 2013 By day, the hero of No Regrets, Coyote, a thriller by award-winning novelist John Dufresne, is a divorced therapist and amateur actor carrying on a platonic affair with his high-school sweetheart, whose husband thinks Coyote is gay. By night, he is a volunteer forensic consultant for the Everglades County Police Department, whose latest case involves the Christmas Eve massacre of a mother and three children and the subsequent suicide of their father. Or what looks like suicide. Dufresne will discuss No Regrets, Coyote at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on August 20, 2013, at 6 p.m.

August 2, 2013 Perhaps it’s no wonder that Ace Atkins writes such believable thrillers: Atkins started his career as a crime reporter at The Tampa Tribune, where he earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for investigative work. In 2011, the Robert B. Parker estate chose Atkins to continue the popular series featuring Parker’s beloved character Spenser, a Boston private investigator. Atkins will discuss Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland at the twenty-fifth annual Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 11-13. All festival events are free and open to the public.

June 4, 2013 Tibbedah County Sheriff Quinn Colson doesn’t much like his little sister’s new boyfriend, Jamey Dixon, a convicted killer mysteriously pardoned by the Mississippi governor. It’s of little comfort that he is now a self-redeemed preacher, and things become even more concerning when the preacher’s former prison buddies escape and come to town. Ace Atkins will read from and sign The Broken Places, his third Quinn Colson mystery, at 6 p.m. on June 5, 2013, at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis.