Everyone is warmly invited to join us for Lone Star Lit at Malvern Books. This friendly, informal book club will focus on books by Texas writers (and with a bit of luck the authors themselves might sometimes be able to join us too!)
This meeting will take place virtually via Zoom. If you’d like to join in the online chat, PLEASE RSVP becky@malvernbooks.com with “lone star lit” in the subject line. The book can be purchased via our online store or call us on 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up or to make an appointment to visit the store.
For our September meeting, we’ll be discussing Crossing Lines by Pamela Ellen Ferguson.
In this fast-paced thriller, Austin based architect “Buzzy” McBride is thrown into a sleuth role when her converted rail-yard home on the banks of Lady Bird Lake becomes a crime scene after a grisly murder. Fearing an unknown youth was butchered in a case of mistaken identity as revenge for an investigative report her late brother produced about the Mexican cartels, she races to locate her nephew Rory who is missing. The murder leads Buzzy across Austin and the Border to unravel a web of family secrets in a West Texas/Mexico land inheritance dispute rooted in the Spanish colonial era. Tech-savvy Buzzy quickly applies her creative, forensic, and land-use policy know-how to peel away her brother’s polyamorous past to resolve the crime. She is helped by an eccentric cast of characters—Grace Colvin, her sharp-witted African-American lawyer; Sister Colleen, a tough Irish nun who runs Border sanctuaries for undocumented youth; Isabel Ramirez, a Del Rio cafe owner with eyes on both sides of the Border; and Austin PD homicide detective, the poetic Eddie Zuniga.
Crossing Lines is Pam’s 11th book. She’s a global author, who calls Austin home after living and working in a dozen world capitals. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, she is dual national American and British. She’s published both fiction and non-fiction, including textbooks in Asian Medicine, her second career.
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