Plot Twists and Page-Turners
In this session, we will learn how May Cobb, Julie Clark and Christina Estes, writers at the top of their game, keep their readers guessing.
| Where: | Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Mystery / Thrillers |
| Moderator: | Alissa Lee |
Panelists
Julie ClarkJulie Clark is The New York Times bestselling author of "The Lies I Tell," "The Ones We Choose," and "The Last Flight," which were also international bestsellers and have been translated into more than 25 languages....
May CobbMay Cobb is the bestselling author of "All The Little Houses," released in January, "The Hollywood Assistant," and "My Summer Darlings," Her thriller, "The Hunting Wives," was adapted into a No.1 Netflix hit show, and her books have received attention from Book of The Month, the Today Show, and O, the Oprah magazine....
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Christina EstesChristina Estes is an Emmy award-winning reporter who draws on two decades of experience for her mysteries. Inspired by her reporting in Phoenix, Estes' newest novel, "The Story That Wouldn't Die," opens with a real-life elevator mishap at City Hall and propels fictional reporter Jolene Garcia to uncover a web of betrayal and murder tied to powerful people....
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Books:
All the Little Houses
A Novel
May Cobb
Mystery / Thrillers
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2026
ISBN 9781464245794
480 pages
Buy nowIt's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene.
She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself… well, that's what her mother is for. Because Charleigh Andersen, blond, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning, remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. When she was coming of age on the poor side of East Texas, she was a loser, an outcast, humiliated, and shunned by the in-crowd, whose approval she'd so desperately thirsted for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh's entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble.
Who will be left standing when the dust settles? More/less
The Story That Wouldn't Die
A Mystery
Christina Estes
Mystery / Thrillers
St. Martin's Publishing Group
August 2025
ISBN 9781250364135
320 pages
Buy nowEmmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her twenty-year career for inspiration for her mysteries.
In The Story That Wouldn’t Die, Jolene Garcia refuses to stop investigating, but someone is determined to kill the story—and maybe her.
Phoenix, Arizona TV reporter Jolene Garcia is fresh off winning her first Emmy and committed to covering stories that matter to her community. But Jolene’s managers want stories that grab immediate attention and generate clicks, not ones that take time to develop.
When a beloved small business owner dies in a car crash, Jolene isn’t convinced it was an accident. He’d been raising questions about who keeps getting lucrative deals at city hall—questions that powerful people don’t want answered. The deeper Jolene digs, the more suspicious things she uncovers.
Exposing greed, ambition, and deception could become the biggest story of Jolene’s career. Her bosses tell her to drop it. But there’s a story here, and Jolene’s going to find it. More/less
The Ghostwriter
A Novel
Julie Clark
Mystery / Thrillers
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2025
ISBN 9781464221286
368 pages
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