The Only Murders In the Bookstore

Get ready for Halloween with The Only Murders in the Bookstore – an evening of murders, mayhem, and fun! Join three authors with tales of murder and horror for a spooky evening with treats, drinks and games. Featured are Lisa Perrin, author/illustrator of “The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women,” Lee Kelly, author of the novel “With Regrets,” and Jennifer Green, author of “The Dark History of Penn’s Woods II: Unusual Deaths, Crimes, and Hauntings in Southeastern Pennsylvania.” The event will be hosted by Jackie Robins and Kirsten Baritz of Beyond the Bookends.

Tickets are $15, purchased through Eventbrite, and include snacks, drinks, and a $10 coupon toward the purchase of any of the event books.

Bring a friend for a night of spooky fun. Start dreaming up your own fantasy crime and enter to win the game “This Event is My Alibi.”

Lisa Perrin/The League of Lady Poisoners

Lisa Perrin is an award-winning illustrator, designer, entrepreneur, and educator. She is a professor in the Illustration department at MICA, and her work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, 3X3 Magazine, and Print Magazine. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. A feast for the senses, her sumptuously illustrated book will introduce you to some of the most infamous women throughout world history, united by their shared taste for poison. Welcome to the League of Lady Poisoners!

Lee Kelly / With Regrets

Lee Kelly is the author of City of Savages, A Criminal Magic, and The Antiquity Affair (co-authored with Jennifer Thorne). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Gingerbread House, Orca, and Tor.com, among other publications, and she is an MFA candidate at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. “With Regrets” is the story of recent NYC-transplant Liz Brinkley and her husband, trapped in a dinner party with an insufferable influencer when a “red alert” comes through their phones, and every channel on the television tells the same story: strange atmospheric masses, reported to look like “glimmering clouds,” have been spreading through major U.S. cities and killing anyone they touch. Authorities have just one clear directive: Find shelter. Immediately.

Jennifer Green / The Dark History of Penn’s Woods

Jennifer L. Green graduated from University of Delaware with majors in anthropology and history, and earned her Master’s degree in American History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. “The Dark History of Penn’s Woods” brings true tales of the region’s disasters, deaths and tragedies. Learn about the catastrophic fire that took the lives of nine ballerinas, investigate gruesome cases of murder for life insurance, and ponder the possibility that a Pennsylvania businessman appeared in ghostly form on a busy street the day before he died. Finally, one of the most puzzling cold cases in Pennsylvania history is finally solved after more than sixty years using forensic genealogy, while another unidentified little girl still waits for her own justice.