Liz Garrigan

May 17, 2013 It can be a little disorienting to pick up a detective thriller only to discover that the identity of the homicidal maniac is no mystery. To find, in fact, that the killer is making a movie about his serial crimes, directing an imaginary crew to pull back on this decapitated head, move in tighter on that drowning body, etc. But, hey, this is Hollywood, where backstabbing producers must die, and violently. Heywood Gould will discuss and sign copies of Green Light for Murder, the first in a series of Detective Tommy Veasy mysteries, at Mysteries & More in Nashville on May 18 at 2 p.m.

May 2, 2013 In 1959, a young husband returns to his cabin in the Appalachian hills to find his bride having sex with his best friend, and he kills them both. In the decades after the crime, the cabin becomes a camping destination for adventure-seeking college kids—like the ex-governor’s daughter Lisa Wilson, one of a group of friends who stay overnight at the creepy shack in the woods. When she is found gruesomely slain under a pine tree, the North Carolina town of Hartsville struggles for answers, and attorney Mary Crow finds herself with another unforgettable case on her hands. Music of Ghosts is Sallie Bissell’s fifth Mary Crow mystery. Bissell will read and sign the new book at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville at 6 p.m. on May 13, and at Mysteries & More in Nashville on June 15 at 2 p.m.

April 12, 2013 When Sidney Marsh gets a plum assignment at the travel agency where she works—a long “familiarization” trip to Africa—she thinks she’s in for nothing but spa luxury, open bars, and quality time with her colleague and best friend. Then a leopard dines on a fellow traveler. Moore, a Memphis resident, will discuss Game Drive at 6 p.m. on April 15 at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis.

February 13, 2013 Jenny Milchman’s debut novel, Cover of Snow, is memorable and affecting, and it avoids all signs of banality, that great danger for genre fiction in general and new authors in particular. There’s a good reason the characters feel three-dimensional: though Cover of Snow is Milchman’s first published novel, it is in fact the eighth she’s written, and the eleven years she spent honing her skills are evident in this intricately woven thriller. Milchman will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 16 at 2 p.m.