Water Street Bookstore Hosts Local Mystery Author on Friday

EXETER__Water Street Bookstore is hosting Lara Bricker on Friday Sept. 17 for a pop-up book signing for Dead on Deadline, the first book in the new Piper Greene Exeter mystery series.

Bricker will be at the bookstore from 5 p.m. through 7 p.m. to sign copies of the book. Dead on Deadline is a cozy murder mystery that takes place during the town’s annual Independence Festival. An early review calls it “the best modern version of Miss Marple and Murder She Wrote that I’ve read.” Water Street Bookstore has sold out of the book several times and has had orders from England, Australia, and Canada for signed copies.

Bricker is an award-winning journalist, podcaster, former private investigator, certified cat detective and true crime author. She is one of four crime writers on the hit podcast, Crime Writers On and the author of the true crime book Lie after Lie: The True Story of a Master of Deception, Betrayal, and Murder.

Her work has appeared in the Portsmouth Herald, the Exeter News-Letter, the Hampton Union, the New Hampshire Union Leader, Woman's World magazine, USA Today, Vulture, and the Boston Globe. In 2008, she covered the first death penalty case to go to trial in New Hampshire in almost fifty years for the Associated Press. As a news reporter, she has received numerous awards from both the New Hampshire Press Association and the New England Newspaper & Press Association for her crime and investigative reporting.

For more information go to www.larabricker.com