Wendy Webb reads from "The Fate of Mercy Alban," and Erin Hart reads from "The Book of Killowen"
Common Good Books, Wednesday, March 6 at 7pm
Common Good Books presents an evening of mystery and suspense, featuring two Minnesota writers.
Wendy Webb’s new novel The Fate of Mercy Alban (available February 5) is a chilling tale from the North Shore. Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. With the help of the disarmingly kind--and attractive--Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims.
Wendy Webb is the author of The Tale of Halcyon Crane, the 2011 winner of the Minnesota Book Award for genre fiction, an Indie Next Pick from the Independent Booksellers Association, a Midwest Connections Pick from the Midwest Booksellers Association, and a Great Lakes, Great Reads Pick from the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Erin Hart takes readers to the Emerald Isle in The book of Killowen (available March 5), a haunting, lyrical novel of forensics, archeology, and history--the fourth in her acclaimed suspense series.
After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone; beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents in debate. Both men were viciously murdered, but centuries apart—so how did they end up buried together in the bog?
Erin Hart is the author four novels featuring Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire, set mostly in Ireland, revolving around archaeology, forensics, history, traditional music and folklore. : Haunted Ground has been translated into ten foreign languages, as has the second novel in the series, Lake of Sorrows. The third novel in the series is False Mermaid. Erin lives in Minnesota with her husband, Irish button accordion player Paddy O'Brien. They make frequent visits to Ireland, going to music sessions, and carrying out essential research in bogs and cow pastures and castles and pubs.
Location: Street: 38 S Snelling Ave City: Saint Paul, Province: Minnesota Postal Code: 55105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
Wendy Webb’s new novel The Fate of Mercy Alban (available February 5) is a chilling tale from the North Shore. Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. With the help of the disarmingly kind--and attractive--Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims.
Wendy Webb is the author of The Tale of Halcyon Crane, the 2011 winner of the Minnesota Book Award for genre fiction, an Indie Next Pick from the Independent Booksellers Association, a Midwest Connections Pick from the Midwest Booksellers Association, and a Great Lakes, Great Reads Pick from the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Erin Hart takes readers to the Emerald Isle in The book of Killowen (available March 5), a haunting, lyrical novel of forensics, archeology, and history--the fourth in her acclaimed suspense series.
After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone; beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents in debate. Both men were viciously murdered, but centuries apart—so how did they end up buried together in the bog?
Erin Hart is the author four novels featuring Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire, set mostly in Ireland, revolving around archaeology, forensics, history, traditional music and folklore. : Haunted Ground has been translated into ten foreign languages, as has the second novel in the series, Lake of Sorrows. The third novel in the series is False Mermaid. Erin lives in Minnesota with her husband, Irish button accordion player Paddy O'Brien. They make frequent visits to Ireland, going to music sessions, and carrying out essential research in bogs and cow pastures and castles and pubs.
Location: Street: 38 S Snelling Ave City: Saint Paul, Province: Minnesota Postal Code: 55105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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