Name: An Evening with M. L. Rio, author of 'If We Were Villains'
Start: 2024-11-04T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-04T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Ps and Gs Church, 46 York Place, EH1 3HP

An Evening with M. L. Rio, author of 'If We Were Villains'

Join us for an evening with M. L. Rio, beloved author of If We Were Villains, to talk about her latest endeavour Graveyard Shift. Atmospheric and eerie, with a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in Rio's inimitable style.
Graveyard Shift
Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn't there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks--and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
About M. L. Rio
M. L. Rio is the author of international bestseller and BookTok sensation If We Were Villains. She holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe and a PhD in early modern English literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores representations of madness and mood disorder on the early modern stage. She lives in Washington, D. C. with too many books, too many records, and a mutt called Marlowe.