Crime Fiction Authors in Conversation

Join us for an evening with local author EDWIN HILL, who will be discussing his debut mystery Little Comfort with award-winning investigative journalist and mystery writer HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, whose latest novel Trust Me was published in August.

Little Comfort
Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need 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. 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…

Trust Me
An accused killer insists she’s innocent of a heinous murder.
A grieving journalist surfaces from the wreckage of her shattered life.
Their unlikely alliance leads to a dangerous cat and mouse game that will leave you breathless.
Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself?

Edwin Hill has written for the LA Review of Books, The Life Sentence, Publishers Weekly, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He is the vice president and editorial director for Bedford/St. Martin’s, a division of Macmillan. He received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Emerson College. He lives in Boston with his partner, Michael, and their dog, Edith Ann.

Hank Phillippi Ryan is the award-winning author of Trust Me and the Jane Ryland series (The Other Woman, The Wrong Girl, Truth be Told, Say No More and What You See). Along with her 34 Emmys and14 Edward R. Murrow awards, Hank has received dozens of other honors for her ground-breaking journalism. She lives in Boston with her husband, a nationally renowned civil rights and criminal defense attorney.