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Author Joins WPL’s Upcoming Book Discussion
Join WPL for a special Author Event with Edwin Hill, author of Little Comfort, WPL's Coffee & Crime Book Club selection for April.  On Wed, April 29th at 2pm, Mr. Hill will be joining readers in WPL’s Zoom book discussion, talking about Little Comfort and answering questions about his books and career.  All are welcome - sign up and find out how to download Little Comfort for free through WPL by visiting wpl.org.  Anyone attending the discussion will automatically be entered to win a gift card for College Hill Coffee.
Edwin Hill is the author of the critically-acclaimed Hester Thursby mystery series, the first of which, Little Comfort, was an Agatha Award finalist, a selection of the Mysterious Press First Mystery Club and a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selection. The second book in the series, The Missing Ones, is nominated for an Agatha Award and the Sue Grafton Memorial Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Formerly the vice president and editorial director for Bedford/St. Martin's (Macmillan), he now teaches at Emerson College and has written for the LA Review of Books, The Life Sentence, Publisher's Weekly, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts with his partner Michael and their lab, Edith Ann. Visit him online at Edwin-Hill.com .
In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston’s elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby-and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder.
"Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still ned help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she’s hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children and birth parents. Her new case is finding the handsome and charismatic Sam Blaine.
Sam has no desire to be found. As a teenager, he fled his small New Hampshire town with his friend, Gabe, after a haunting incident. For a dozen years, Sam and Gabe have traveled the country, reinventing themselves as they move from one mark to another. Sam has learned how trusting wealthy people can be-especially the lonely ones-as he expertly manipulates his way into their lives and homes.  In Wendy Richards, the beautiful, fabulously rich daughter of one of Boston’s most influential families, he’s found the perfect way to infiltrate the milieu in which he knows he belongs-a world of Brooks Brothers suits, Nantucket summers, and effortless glamour.
As Hester’s investigation closes in on their brutal truth, the bond between Sam and Gabe is tested and Hester unknowingly jeopardizes her own safety. While Gabe has pinned all his desperate hopes of a normal life on Hester, Sam wants her out of the way for good. And Gabe has always done what Sam asks . . ."