Books to Die For Mystery Con

Tickets - $12.00 

Tickets are available through A Likely Story Bookstore. The ticket price includes a voucher for $10.00 to purchase a book at the event.

Presented by A Likely Story Bookstore and Carroll County Public Library.

Join us for our Books To Die For Mystery Con! Featured authors include Danielle Valentine (Delicate Condition) and Ashley Winstead (Midnight is the Darkest Hour). Also in attendance will be Michael Falco (Murder in an Italian Village), Libby Klein (Mischief Nights Are Murder), and Maya Corrigan (A Parfait Crime). This event will include a panel talk, book signing, giveaways, trivia, and more. No outside books are allowed. 

DANIELLE VALENTINE is a pseudonym for the young adult novelist Danielle Vega. Her work, including The Merciless series, has been optioned for film and television by Lionsgate and Warner Bros. and translated into dozens of languages worldwide. Danielle lives outside New York City with her husband, daughter, and two ornery cats. Delicate Condition is her first adult novel. 

ASHLEY WINSTEAD is an academic turned novelist with a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature. She lives in Houston with her husband, two cats, and beloved wine fridge. She is the author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and The Last Housewife. You can find her at www.ashleywinstead.com 

MICHAEL FALCO is a graduate of New York University and has studied at Playwrights Horizons and Gotham Writers Workshop. He currently lives in Secaucus, NJ, where he is working on the next Bria Bartolucci Mystery.

LIBBY KLEIN graduated from Lower Cape May Regional High School sometime in the '80s. Her classes revolved mostly around the culinary sciences and theater, with the occasional nap in chemistry. She has worked as a stay-at-home mom, climbing the ladder up the ranks to the coveted position of grandma. She also dabbles as vice president of a technology company, mainly bossing others around, making spreadsheets, and taking out the trash. She writes from her Northern Virginia office while trying to keep her cat Figaro off her keyboard. Her hobbies revolve around eating, traveling, and eating while traveling.

MAYA CORRIGAN is the author of the Five-Ingredient Mystery series, featuring a café manager and her kooky grandfather with five suspects, five clues, and five ingredient recipes in each installment. Corrigan lives near Washington, DC, close to the setting for her series, Maryland's Eastern Shore. A winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, she has published essays on drama and short stories and taught courses in writing, detective fiction, and American literature at Georgetown University and NOVA Community College.