Ocean House in October!
What could be a more perfect venue to discuss mysteries and hauntings than a mansion by the sea? Join me, Wendy Walker, Laura Zigman, Diana Josefiwicz, and superstar moderator Deborah Goodrich Royce, for a very special afternoon at atmospheric Ocean House on Sunday, October 25th! The $45 ticket includes lunch and a signed book of…
Read More“Must Read Spooky Books”
I am so grateful to Bookshop for including What Happens at Nightfall in their shortlist of Must Read Spooky Books of 2026– along with Alice Hoffman, Leigh Bardugo, and Elizabeth Kostova! Gothic is having a moment and I am here for it. The folks at Bookshop write: “We are seeing a renaissance in generational curses…
Read MoreWriters to Watch: August 20th
On August 20th, head to Facebook for a livestreamed program about four upcoming books, including my What Happens at Nightfall! Join me, the legendary Lisa Kleypas, B.K. Borison, and Becky Chambers at 7pm ET on August 20th for a lively discussion of our latest books! The Writers to Watch program is hosted by Library Love…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! It’s been a new book bonanza! This week, true to my promise to read books that have come out this decade, I started out with Ashley Winstead’s This Book Will Bury Me, about a college student who falls down the rabbit hole of internet true crime sleuthing after grief over her father’s…
Read MoreNatchez in September!
How cool is this? I’ll be talking about The Girl from Greenwich Street on September 25th in the very house that Levi Weeks designed in Natchez, Mississippi! Do you think Levi will put in an appearance? I have so many questions for him…. I’m so grateful to Natchez Reads for picking The Girl from Greenwich…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! This week I retreated back into the village of Taviscombe with Mrs. Malory, the Jessica Fletcher of 1990s England. I am ridiculously addicted to these vintage cozy mysteries, although I’ve been trying to pace myself so I don’t read them all up too quickly. This week, it was Superfluous Death, involving dodgy…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! I started the week with a recent thriller: Sarah Vaughn’s Based on a True Story, in which an elderly and beloved children’s book author summons her family, friends, and colleagues for a 70th birthday bash at her newly purchased (and, of course, isolated and cliffside) estate in Cornwall, while a BBC documentary…
Read MoreTWO WARS Discussion Questions
Tonight, I’m meeting with a book club to talk about Two Wars and a Wedding— and I had one of those awful moments that sometimes happen to authors where I realized it’s been five books since I wrote Two Wars and I don’t remember my own characters’ names. So I did what one does and…
Read MoreSee you in Connecticut on Thursday!
I’m poking my head out of the writing cave for one special in person book event this summer: Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, CT! Join me this Thursday, July 9th, at 6:30 pm at Oliver Wolcott Library at 160 South Street, Litchfield, CT. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is…
Read MoreA Triple Threat: Three Books on Sale!
It’s an embarrassment of riches! For the holiday weekend, not one, not two, but three of my books are on sale! Do you want to spend the holiday in the early days of our Republic, in 1800 NYC with Burr and Hamilton? Then The Girl from Greenwich Street is for you. Would you rather head…
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