Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! Here’s how it works: published author/s will read from their books and there’ll be an audience Q & A. And we’ll also have “Book Talk,” in which an intrepid Malvern staff member will introduce you to one of our favorite prose titles. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).
This month’s Novel Night authors are Joseph Reid and Meg Gardiner. Joseph will be reading from his recent thriller, False Horizon, and Meg will also be reading from her most recent thriller, Into the Black Nowhere, the second novel in the UNSUB series, featuring rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix.
“An exciting final battle, plenty of technical details, quirky characters, and the West Virginia setting all add up to a riveting, fast-moving thriller.” —Publishers Weekly
A commuter flight has fallen from clear skies over West Virginia, its wing sheared off at twenty thousand feet. Air marshal Seth Walker is called to the mountains of Appalachia to investigate. But what he stumbles into is a ground war as unpredictable and combustible as a mason jar full of nitroglycerin. Before he can even start searching for what might have downed the plane, Walker finds himself caught in the confounding—and deadly—cross fire between drone-deploying eco-terrorists, unstable frackers, ruthless drug smugglers, and armed miners pushed to the breaking point. The escalating mystery takes a personal turn as Seth gets closer to the truth about the money, power, and politics motivating everyone involved—including those Seth believed he could trust. Can he dodge the danger lurking in every hill and holler long enough to discover what may be the biggest threat of all?
Joseph Reid chased great white sharks as a marine biologist before becoming a patent lawyer who litigates multi-million-dollar cases for high-tech companies. He has flown millions of miles on commercial aircraft and has spent countless hours in airports around the world. These travel experiences spawn the backdrops for his novels, which he writes each morning before dawn breaks and the real world intrudes. His thrillers—Takeoff and False Horizon—feature federal air marshal Seth Walker, a former electrical engineer whose investigative cases force him to confront the dark past he left behind. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame Law School, Reid lives in San Diego with his wife and children.
“With a plot that moves at a breathless pace and a heroine with a history of her own issues, Gardiner’s gripping nail-biter will please fans of Alex Kava, Tami Hoag and even Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lechter novels. Be ready for requests.” –Booklist
Inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, Into the Black Nowhere is an exhilarating thriller in which FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killer.
Edgar-winning novelist Meg Gardiner writes thrillers. Fast-paced and full of twists, her books have been called “Hitchcockian” (USA Today) and “nailbiting and moving” (Guardian). They have been bestsellers in the U.S. and internationally and have been translated into more than 20 languages. Publishers Weekly calls Into the Black Nowhere, her current title, “excellent.” The first novel in the series, UNSUB, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller, and is in development as a television series by CBS. Meg was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from Stanford University, where she earned a B.A. in Economics. She went on to graduate from Stanford Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles and taught in the Writing Program at the University of California Santa Barbara. Later she moved with her husband and three young children to London, where she began writing suspense novels. She hasn’t stopped. In addition to her fourteen novels, Meg has published short stories in American and British magazines and the anthology Echoes of Sherlock Holmes. She’s contributed essays to Now, Write! Mysteries, The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook, and the Anthony Award winning Books to Die For. Beyond writing, Meg is a three-time Jeopardy! champion and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She lives in Austin, Texas.