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Author Event with Hank Phillippi Ryan and Kate Flora
Bestselling Authors Hank Phillippi Ryan and Kate Flora at Bestsellers Cafe on December 11 at 6:00 p.m.
Join us as we present mystery writer Hank Phillippi Ryan, who will talk about her new thriller, “Truth Be Told” and author Kate Flora, who will discuss her latest mystery, “And Grant You Peace” and her latest true crime book, “Death Dealer”.
Kate Flora is the author of 14 mystery and true crime books including “Finding Amy”, a 2007 Edgar nominee co-written with a Portland, Maine deputy police chief. Her other titles include the Thea Kozak mysteries and the starred-review Joe Burgess police series, the third of which, “Redemption”, won the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. A former assistant attorney general for the state of Maine, Kate is a founding member of the New England Crime Bake Conference. She has served as editor and publisher of Level Best Books and as international president of Sisters in Crime.
Hank Phillippi Ryan is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate. She has won 32 EMMYs, 12 Edward R. Murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her ground-breaking journalism. A bestselling author of seven mystery novels, Ryan has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: three 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”, has the extraordinary honor of winning the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and the Daphne Award for Mainstream Mystery/Suspense, and is a seven-week Boston Globe bestseller. Her newest hardcover, “Truth Be Told”, is a Library Journal Best Book of 2014, Library Journal Editor’s Pick and RT Book Reviews Top Pick, with starred reviews from Booklist and from Library Journal, which raves, “Drop everything and binge read!” Hank is a founding teacher at Mystery Writers of America University and 2013 president of national Sisters in Crime.
Bestsellers Cafe is located at 24 High Street, Medford MA, 781-391-7171, www.bestsellers-cafe.com.
