Join New York Times bestselling author, Alafair Burke, in conversation with bestselling author, Hank Phillippi Ryan.

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About Alafair Burke: Alafair Burke is the New York Times, Edgar Award nominated author of twenty crime novels. Published in more than twenty languages, her books have been featured on “Best Book” lists from the Today Show, Entertainment Weekly, People, O (Oprah Magazine), The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Sun Sentinel, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and numerous other outlets. She has been called “a genius for plot” and “one of our greatest contemporary mystery writers.” She is the current President of Mystery Writers of America and the first woman of color to be elected to that position.​

In addition to the standalone novels that have earned her a reputation as “a virtuoso” of domestic suspense, she authors “two power house series” featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid. In addition to her own work, Alafair also co-authored the “Under Suspicion” series with Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark. Her latest novel, Find Me will be released mid-January 2022. Learn more about Alafair HERE.

About Hank Phillippi Ryan: Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, four Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. Book critics call her “a master of suspense,” “a superb and gifted storyteller,” and she’s the only author to have won the Agatha in four different categories: Best First, Best Novel, Best Short Story and Best Non-Fiction. Her 2019 standalone, The Murder List, won the Anthony Award for Best Novel. Her latest novel, Her Perfect Life, was released Fall 2021 and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, which called it “A superlative thriller.” Learn more about Hank and her work HERE.

Signed copies of both authors' books can be ordered online from our bookstore partner, Haley Booksellers.

This event is hosted by Morrill Memorial Library (Norwood) in collaboration with Massachusetts public libraries (including Memorial Hall Library) and Haley Booksellers.