Best-selling Authors Lauren Willig and Tasha Alexander to Appear at the Cook Park Library

From Napoleonic France to Victorian London, best-selling authors Lauren Willig and Tasha Alexander will take attendees on a journey of love and intrigue! This free event will be open to the public but registration is required and limited so early registration is recommended. To register, call (847) 362-2330 or go to webres.cooklib.org.

Lauren Willig will discuss The Garden Intrigue, the ninth installment to her bestselling Pink Carnation series. Willig's Pink Carnation series is a must read for those who love a light-hearted, romantic suspense. What makes the series unique is that the structure of the basic historical romance novel is framed by a modern "chick lit" style story. Marie Claire magazine describes it as, "History textbook meets Bridget Jones." The books also feature several different romantic adventures detailing the exploits of a host of characters from early 19th century England and France. In The Garden Intrigue, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England. Willig lives in New York City.

Tasha Alexander will discuss A Crimson Warning, the sixth installment to her bestselling Lady Emily series. Blending romance and historical mystery, Alexander has delightful fun with both genres. Her lively, popular series of mysteries all feature Lady Emily Hargreaves, a crime-solving Victorian vixen who smokes cigars, drinks port, reads Homer in the original Greek and solves mysteries like a female Sherlock Holmes. As quoted by Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs Series, "Tasha Alexander has created Victorian London's most colorful and delightfully eccentric sleuth. Anglophiles and fans of the well-plotted historical mystery will be charmed by Lady Emily - and will thoroughly enjoy A Crimson Warning!" Alexander, a native of South Bend, Indiana, divides her time between her home in Chicago and one in Sheffield, England.

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event, courtesy of the Lake Forest Bookstore.