Riverstone Books is pleased to partner with the Sourcebooks Booklight Events series to present Clare Mackintosh, Eriq La Salle, and Ashley Winstead as they talk about their newest releases in a conversation moderated by Mary O’Malley, bookseller at Skylark Bookshop!
ABOUT CLARE MACKINTOSH
CLARE MACKINTOSH is the multi-award-winning author of four Sunday Times bestselling novels. Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, have been New York Times and international bestsellers and have spent a combined total of 50 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller chart. Her previous novel with Sourcebooks is Hostage. Clare lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children. She can be found at claremackintosh.com, www.facebook.com/ClareMackWrites or on Twitter at ClareMackint0sh.
About The Last Party:
By midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects...
Tucked into the mountains of North Wales, the village of Cwm Coed is bordered by a shimmering lake on one side and an army of pine trees on the other. But the tranquility is shattered when homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd returns to develop a luxury resort on the shore opposite the village.
Old resentments begin to rise to the surface, and new tensions emerge between the locals and the outsiders. Still, when the resort throws open its doors for a New Year's Eve party, with champagne flowing through the night, none of the villagers can resist the invitation.
The next morning, a body is found floating in the lake—and it's Rhys. Ffion Morgan is summoned to investigate, but with her deep ties to the village she dreads what she might find out about her neighbors, friends, and family. And what about her own link to the victim?
ABOUT ERIQ LA SALLE:
ERIQ LA SALLE is an actor, director, producer, and author best known to worldwide television audiences for his portrayal of the commanding Dr. Peter Benton in the award-winning, critically acclaimed medical drama, ER. He was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and educated at Juilliard and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Laws of Depravity is the first book in a thriller series.
About Laws of Depravity:
30 years. 36 priests butchered. Can they stop him before he strikes again?
New York City. Fall 2011. A priest is found murdered in the most gruesome of crime scenes. The brutal slaying is the work of "The Martyr Maker," a serial killer that for the past 30 years has left behind a legacy of torture and fear around the U.S. Every ten years, he butchers 12 clergymen in twisted scenes reflecting the martyrdom of Jesus and his disciples. NYPD detectives Quincy Cavanaugh and Phee Freeman, along with FBI agent Janet Maclin, know that they have very little time to catch this monster before he completes his final cycle of killing and disappears forever. But the investigation is made even more difficult when they discover that the seemingly unrelated clergymen are anything but the symbols of godliness they would have their community believe.
ABOUT ASHLEY WINSTEAD:
ASHLEY WINSTEAD is an academic turned novelist with a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature. She lives in Houston with her husband, two cats, and beloved wine fridge. Her previous novel with Sourcebooks is In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. You can find her at www.ashleywinstead.com.
About The Last Housewife:
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, comes a dark thriller about a woman determined to take down a patriarchal cult and avenge the women in her life—but to do so, she might lose everything
During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever.
Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find out the truth. When clues lead her to a secret cult devoted to male superiority, she discovers what happened to her eight years ago was only the beginning. When Shay's search for answers turns into an obsession, forcing her to confront her own complicity and conditioning, she'll have to make a life-changing decision: how much would she give up to take down the men who've ruled her life?