Meet #1 New York Times bestselling author RILEY SAGER, in conversation with AVERY BISHOP
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Cafe is delighted to welcome Riley Sager on Tuesday evening, August 11th, at 7 pm, to celebrate the release of his jaw-dropping new thriller, The Unknown. He will be in conversation with USA Today bestselling author Avery Bishop. After the book talk and audience Q&A, the author will be available for photos with attendees.
Each ticket includes a Deluxe, Signed First Edition hardcover copy of The Unknown.
Advance-purchase tickets are required for entry. Each General Admission ticket includes one DELUXE, PRE-SIGNED First Edition of The Unknown.
Doors open at 6:00pm. Pre-signed books will be distributed on entry. The authors' conversation will begin at 7:00pm. Seating is limited and available first-come, first-served. Early arrival is encouraged!
After the event, Riley Sager will be available to meet and greet attendees, with a photo opportunity. Riley Sager will not be signing books in line. Booksellers will assist with taking photos.
Additional DELUXE, PRE-SIGNED First Edition copies of The Unknown and pre-signed copies of Riley Sager's earlier books will also be available for purchase at the event.
About the Book:
In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one-hundred years later, it’s happening again.
Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.
Because New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums—until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one.
Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island's previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin, Ronan, and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again.
Is it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island’s alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon—and how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.
About the Speakers:
Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, most recently With a Vengeance, Middle of the Night and The Only One Left. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Avery Bishop is the pseudonym for a USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author of over a dozen novels.
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