Harrison Teacher, Writer Nina Mansfield Booksigning in Greenwich

Harrison teacher and young adult mystery author Nina Mansfield will appear at the Byram Shubert Library Sept. 26 as part of the Authors Live@Byram program.

The library is located at 21 Mead Ave., Greenwich, CT.

Mansfield will discuss the art of mystery writing, read from her debut young adult mystery novel debut Swimming Alone (Fire & Ice YA, August 2015), and field questions from readers. Refreshments will be served, and books will be available for purchase and signing.

Mansfield began her writing career as a playwright; she has written numerous plays, which have been produced throughout United States and in Canada, Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland and Peru. Her short mystery fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Mysterical-E. Mansfield is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and Sisters in Crime.

In Swimming Alone, the Sea Side Strangler is on the loose in Beach Point, where fifteen-year-old Cathy Banks is spending the summer with her aunt (who happens to be mystery writer Roberta McCabe). Although thrilled to be away from her psychotic, divorcing parents, with no cell phone or internet access, Cathy is positive that her summer is going to be wretched. Just when she begins to make friends, and even finds a crush to drool over, her new friend Lauren vanishes. When a body surfaces in Beach Point Bay, Cathy is forced to face the question: has the Sea Side Strangler struck again?