Authors @ the Teague

Monday, October 1st, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library

Award-winning author Hank Philippi Ryan will discuss and sign her latest thriller, The Other Woman, during this Authors @ the Teague event.

While disgraced newspaper reporter Jane Ryland investigates a candidate's secret mistress, Detective Jake Brogan hunts for a killer dumping unidentified women on a Boston bridge. As their cases connect before a crucial Senate election, it's clear a scandal's being silenced by any means necessary. Politics can't get much dirtier -- or deadlier -- than this. This edge-of-your-seat thriller is “...a dizzying labyrinth of twists, turns, and surprises. Readers who crave mystery and political intrigue will be mesmerized by this first installment of her new series.” -- (Library Journal - starred review)

A former US Senate staffer, political campaign aide, radio reporter, and Rolling Stone editorial assistant, Hank Phillippi Ryan has been the investigative reporter for Boston's NBC affiliate for the past 30 years. She has won 28 Emmys, 10 Edward R. Murrow awards, and dozens of other honors while performing work that has changed laws and changed lives. In her guise as a bestselling mystery novelist, she has also won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She lives in Boston with her husband, a well-known civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and is the founder of the Lyric Stage of Boston’s “First Curtain” theater education program for underprivileged students. For more information, see her website.

The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439.

Thursday, October 25th, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library

It's an Authors @ the Teague "Two for the Show" when Award-winning authors Donis Casey and Vicki Delany discuss and sign their latest books, The Wrong Hill to Die On and More Than Sorrow.

In The Wrong Hill to Die On, the sixth book in a series, Shaw and Alafair Tucker bring their ailing daughter Blanche from Oklahoma to Alafair's sister in 1916 Arizona, hoping the desert climate will cure her lungs. Unfortunately, along with sunny weather, the Shaws find ethnic tensions, family strife, and murder.

A third-generation farm girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Donis Casey worked as an academic librarian and a Tempe shopkeeper before becoming a full-time writer. Twice winner of the Arizona Book Award, her Alafair Tucker mysteries were partly inspired by her genealogical research on her own family. She and her husband, poet Donald Koozer, now live in Tempe. For more information, find Donis Casey online.

More than Sorrow is a modern Gothic suspense novel. Brain-damaged former war correspondent Hannah Manning takes comfort in her sister's small farm and a growing friendship with Hila Popalzai, an equally traumatized Afghan woman, until Hila disappears and Hannah's ten-year-old niece is threatened.

A retired systems analyst, Vicki Delany was born in Winnipeg, married in South Africa, traveled around North America for a year with her dog, Shenzi, and now lives in rural Prince Edward County, Ontario. A mother of three grown daughters, she writes standalone suspense novels, police procedurals (the Constable Molly Smith series) and humorous historical mysteries (the Klondike Gold Rush series). For more information, visit the author's website.

The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439.