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B.A. SHAPIRO AND TIM JOHNSTON IN CONVERSATION WITH ALISON LAW, THE COLLECTOR’S APPRENTICE AND THE CURRENT

Wednesday February 27, 2019 07:00 PM EST
Cost: Free - $10

From the venue:

Join us in Midtown for an evening with fast paced thriller authors B.A. Shapiro and Tim Johnston as they talk about their craft and how they keep their readers guessing until the very last chapter. B.A. and Tim will be interviewed onstage by Alison Law, host of the podcast Literary Atlanta.  

About The Collector’s Apprentice:  It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens  finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father’s art collection, prove her innocence—and exact revenge on George.   B. A. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. In The Collector’s Apprentice, she gives us an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.


About The Current:  In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scenehalf frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community’s memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them.  

Tim Johnston, a native of Iowa City, is the author of the bestselling Descent, as well as a young adult novel, Never So Green, and the story collection Irish Girl, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. 


Admission for all lectures is $10 for general public, $5 for members, and free to AHC Insiders unless otherwise noted.

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