Southwest Branch

Southwest Author Series: Featuring Tess Gerritsen

Join us for the 19th Annual Southwest Author Series featuring Tess Gerritsen. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Book sale and signing to follow. Presented in partnership with the Rotary Club of Dr. Phillips.

This event is free and registration is required, as seating will be limited. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and light refreshments will be served. Author presentation begins at 7 p.m. with book signing to follow. Select book titles will be available for sale sponsored by the Friends of the Orange County Library System.

More about Tess Gerritsen:

Trained as a medical doctor, Tess Gerritsen built a second career as an internationally bestselling novelist. Her 32 novels include The Summer Guests, The Spy Coast, Gravity, and The Surgeon. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon). Time Magazine named The Surgeon one of the best mystery/thrillers ever written. Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TNT television series “Rizzoli & Isles.” Her novels are translated into 40 languages and more than 40 million copies have been sold around the world. She lives in Maine.

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