Fall In Love with Blackstone: a Virtual Book Bingo featuring NYT and bestselling authors Jon Bassoff, Erin Bledsoe, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Charles B. Fancher, Brian Freeman, and James Wade
About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:
“A good mystery is like falling in love—you never know where it will lead, but you can’t stop turning the pages.” — Unknown
And that’s exactly how you’ll feel about our next virtual Book Bingo Adventure—a mystery-themed celebration you’ll want to stay until the very end to experience!
If you’ve joined our popular Adventures by the Book® virtual series before, you already know the thrill of discovering new stories and remarkable authors. This February, we’re showing some love to Blackstone Publishing by featuring six gripping books from six incredible authors to add to your spring reading list: Jon Bassoff, Erin Bledsoe, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Charles B. Fancher, Brian Freeman, and James Wade.
Come for the stories, stay for the suspense! Enjoy engaging author presentations, play an interactive round of virtual Book Bingo, and compete for fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in?) for this unforgettable literary adventure.
While this event is free, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors. Can’t choose just one? Purchase all 6 and receive a special $30 discount on the bundle!
Your Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo, Q&A, prizes, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information.
About the Authors
Jon Bassoff is the author of ten novels. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, has been translated in French and German and was nominated for the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, France’s biggest crime fiction award. His psycho-noir novel, The Disassembled Man, has been adapted for the big screen with a filming date set to begin within the next hundred years. He also wrote the screenplay for Bizarre Love Triangle, which was named semi-finalist at the New York Cinematography Awards and a finalist at the Seattle Film Festival for best short film.
The Memory Ward is a haunting Russian doll of a novel about one man’s attempt to discover what’s real and what isn’t …They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages.
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Erin Bledsoe is a historical novelist who writes books about women who break boundaries. Her book, The Forty Elephants, is best described as a gender-bent Peaky Blinders meets Ocean’s 8 tale of London’s first female gang—a group of high-stakes shoplifters who robbed the city’s classiest department stores in the 1920s—and the woman who comes to rule it: the notorious Alice Diamond.
Her most recent book, Mob Queen, is set in the 1930s, and follows one woman’s rapid rise through the Mafia as she searches for the truth about what happened to her friend and navigates a perilous relationship with the infamous Bugsy Siegel.
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In Jennifer Graeser Dornbush’s work as a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist, she seeks to shed light and hope into the dark places of the human experience. The television or movie screen is the closest most people will ever come to witnessing the forensic world. But she actually lived it. As a daughter of a medical examiner whose office was in their home, she investigated her first fatality, an airplane crash, when she was 8 years old.
In her new novel, What Darkness Does, part of her wildly popular The Coroner’s Daughter series, Dr. Emily Hartford finds herself dredging the depths of Lake Isabella–and her own past relationship.
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Charles B. Fancher is a writer and editor, and a former senior corporate communications executive for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He has also been a journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Detroit Free Press, and a publicist for the ABC Television Network.
Red Clay is an astounding multigenerational saga, that chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.
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Brian Freeman is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirty novels that have been sold around the world and translated into 23 languages. His novel Spilled Blood won the award for Best Hardcover Novel in the annual Thriller Awards, and his novel The Burying Place was a finalist for the same award. His novel The Deep Deep Snow was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and his debut Immoral was an Edgar finalist for Best First Novel. In 2019, he was selected by Putnam and the Robert Ludlum estate as the official author to continue Ludlum’s famous Jason Bourne franchise.
His newest novel, Photograph, is an emotional cold case mystery of hidden identities and startling twists—perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Mary Kubica, and Freida McFadden.
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James Wade is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. His debut novel, All Things Left Wild, was listed as one of the most influential westerns of the 21st century by True West Magazine and included in the Los Angeles Times’s 1,001 Novels: A Library of America. His Southern Gothic mystery, Beasts of the Earth, was named a Best Book of 2022 by both Deep South Magazine and The Southern Review of Books. James is a four-time finalist for the Austin Chronicle’s Best Writer in Austin award.
In his gripping coming-of-age odyssey, Narrow the Road, a young man’s quest to reunite his family takes him on a life-altering journey through the wilds of 1930s East Texas, where both danger and opportunity grow as thick as the pines.
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