10/30 Charlotte Arts & Lectures Presents: Spooky Season Mystery Author Panel

Join Charlotte Arts & Lectures and Cleary's Bookstore for a night of frights and fun with our spooky season mystery author panel! 

We're so excited for this mystery panel featuring three authors who know how to write a page turner. Join us for a lively in-conversation, book signing, and of course bites and bevvys, to kick off your Halloween celebrations!

Registration for this event is free. Each author's catalog of books will be available for purchase and signing. If you have a copy of their books already and want to meet the authors and have them signed, you are welcome to bring books from home for this event.

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ABOUT THE BOOKS

The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy

Something wicked this way comes in Roan Parrish's delightfully spooky-yet-cozy LGBTQIA+ romance about a haunted house tour guide in New Orleans.

Jamie Wendon-Dale (transmasc they/them) creates haunted houses for a living. Haunting is their life—but nobody working New Orleans' spooky circuit really believes in ghosts.

Edgar Lovejoy (cis he/him) is actually 100% haunted. No, really. They’ve tormented him since childhood and he’s organized his life around the attempt to avoid them.

When they meet, these opposites are definitely attracted. But while Jamie’s biggest concern is that Edgar seems a bit stiff and distant, Edgar’s fears are much greater. Not only is he scared of encountering ghosts any time he leaves the house, but he’s terrified of making himself vulnerable to Jamie no matter how deep the feelings between them grow. After all, how do you tell someone who believes ghosts only exist when they create them that you see them everywhere you go? And how can you commit to a happy future when you're stuck running scared from a tragic past?

A Long Time Gone

"The best new voice in crime fiction," (praise from William Kent Krueger) is back! A small town cop finds himself at a low point. With no resources or support, he dives into a decades old cold case as a civilian and uncovers far more than he bargained for...

Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother disappeared. Ben watched him walk out the back door of their grandparents’ house and into the cold night. 

His brother was never seen again. 

Decades later, Deputy Packard finds himself with too much time on his hands. A shooting has him on leave and under investigation, and all he can do is dwell on the past. For the first time in years, new information about his brother has surfaced that may lead them to the location of a body.

The midwinter ground is frozen solid. Worse, Packard is cut off from department resources. As he strikes out to finally uncover the truth behind his brother’s disappearance, he stumbles on a separate, suspicious death. A tenuous connection exists between the two cases, and as Packard starts to dig, he meets fierce resistance from friends and foes alike who want him to stand down.  

The winter is long and cold. By the end of it, Packard will risk everything to catch a killer and reveal the shocking truth about his brother.

Fast Boys and Pretty Girls

From the acclaimed author of The Floating Girls and The Night the River Wept comes a gritty, slow-burn Southern mystery exposing the all-consuming power of first love and its impact on a family.

Following a semi-successful career as a teen model in New York City, Danielle Greer has moved back to the mountains of North Georgia and is living in her childhood home with her husband and four daughters. One stifling, lazy afternoon, the girls are exploring the ravine behind the house when they come across a body.

Danielle knows the body doesn’t belong to Benji Law, a local misfit who Danielle had an illicit relationship with as a teenager - him at sixteen, a high school dropout, her at eighteen, a successful model living too grownup a life. No, his body was found right away, after he was killed in a motorcycle accident on the road in front of her family’s house. Danielle has a good idea who the body might be, but she doesn’t know how it got there.

When local police officer Cady Benson is called in to investigate, Danielle’s world is turned upside down, and she’s thrust back into those dark, confusing days leading up to Benji’s death, battling the things she remembers with the things she can’t forget.