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Hank Phillippi Ryan Joins Thriller Author for Mystery Author Series

Authors Steve Ulfelder and Hank Phillippi Ryan visit Marlborough to sign copies of his new thriller.

Conway Sax is back in a thrilling and heart rending new novel from critically acclaimed, Edgar-nominated author Steve Ulfelder, who is appearing on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. at Marlborough Public Library for the Friends of the Marlborough Public Library’s “2015-2016 McConnell Author/Celebrity Series No. 33” hosted by best selling author and Channel 7 Investigative Reporter, Hank Phillippi Ryan.

Admission is free and open to the public and the auditorium is fully handicapped accessible.

Ulfelder and Ryan autograph books, and all their works will be on sale.

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Steve Ulfelder is the author of four mystery novels featuring unlikely hero Conway Sax. He began his writing career with 20 years as a business and technology journalist, writing feature stories and opinion columns for Computerworldmagazine, among others.

In 2006, Steve left journalism to write novels and focus on Flatout Motorsports, a company he co-founded that builds, rents, sells and services race cars. He spends weekends competing in Sports Car Club of America races at such tracks as New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Lime Rock Park, and Watkins Glen International.

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Hank Phillippi Ryan is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate. She’s won 33 EMMYs, 13 Edward R. Murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. A bestselling author of eight mystery novels, Ryan has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: five Agathas, the Anthony, Daphne, Macavity, and for THE OTHER WOMAN, the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. National reviews have called her a “master at crafting suspenseful mysteries” and “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Her 2013 novel, THE WRONG GIRL, won both the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and the Daphne Award for Mainstream Mystery/Suspense, and is a seven-week Boston Globe bestseller. TRUTH BE TOLD is the Agatha Award winner for Best Contemporary Novel, an Anthony Award nominee and a Library Journal BEST BOOK OF 2014. Ryan also won a second Agatha Award in 2015 for Best Nonfiction, as editor of WRITES OF PASSAGE, an anthology of essays by mystery authors, which was also honored with a Macavity Award and Anthony Award. Ryan’s newest novel, WHAT YOU SEE, is a RT Book Reviews Top Pick for “Exceptional suspense!” and named a Best Thriller of 2015 by Library Journal, which raves, “Mystery readers get ready: you will find yourself racing to the finish.” She’s a founding teacher at Mystery Writers of America University and 2013 president of national Sisters in Crime. Visit her online at HankPhillippiRyan.com, on Twitter @HankPRyan and Facebook at HankPhillippiRyanAuthor.

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