Thursday, April 1st, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library
 New York Times bestselling author, Alan Bradley, will discuss and sign his new Flavia de Luce mystery, The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag, during this Authors @ the Teague event.
This highly anticipated sequel to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie stars Flavia de Luce, a British child genius and amateur chemist with a disturbing “passion for poisons.” With the help of a decrepit Victorian laboratory in the equally decrepit country manor Flavia calls home, she’s determined to solve both the murder of puppeteer Rupert Porson and a linked death from years before.
This series charms readers with its vivid 1950s setting, an eccentric cast of characters, and the wickedly funny, wildly precocious, and oddly poignant Flavia herself. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie was one of the NYT Notable Crime Books of 2009, one of Amazon’s Top 10 Mysteries and Thrillers and one of the Best 100 Books of 2009, and won the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award. “Brilliant, irresistible and incorrigible, Flavia has a long future ahead of her. Bradley’s mystery debut is a standout.” (“Kirkus,” starred review)
The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439.
Wednesday, April 7th, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library
 Join Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author as she discusses and signs her seventh Maisie Dobbs mystery, The Mapping of Love and Death, during this Authors @ the Teague event.
It’s 1932, and the corpse of a WWI soldier is found in a field in France – but he was no casualty of war. London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs must solve the murder and track down the mysterious nurse whose love letters were found with the body. As she copes with the memories of her own lost love – and begins to discover a new one – she finds that this cold case could destroy both the soldier’s family and herself.
The cases of Maisie Dobbs are praised for bringing post-WWI London to vivid life. Agatha and Macavity Award-winning author Winspear has created an "outstanding historical series . . . deeply empathetic." (The New York Times Book Review)
The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439.
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