About this Event
Join us for the launch of Laura Bensick's debut thriller novel, A Mother Would Never!
Laura will be joined by author Amy Tintera (Listen for the Lie) for a conversation, Q&A, and book signing.
About the participants:
Laura Bensick writes thrillers about women who refuse to give up. She received an MFA in Writing for Screen & Television from USC and has sold shows to 20th Television, Fox, Netflix, Sony, and Warner Brothers. Originally from Austin, Texas, she now lives in Los Angeles where she is constantly searching for a good Frito pie. A Mother Would Never is her first novel.
Amy Tintera is the New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie, as well as several novels for teens. Listen for the Lie, her first novel for adults, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick, the winner of the Audie Award for Best Mystery Audiobook, and a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the ITW Best Audiobook Award, Book of the Month's Book of the Year Award, and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Mystery/Thriller and Best Audiobook. Listen for the Lie has been translated into 29 languages. Before becoming an author, Amy worked as a talent agency assistant in Hollywood. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas A&M and a master’s degree in media arts/screenwriting from Emerson College. Raised in Austin, Texas, she frequently sets her novels in the Lone Star state, but now lives in Los Angeles, where there's far less humidity, but not nearly enough Tex-Mex.
About the book:
Thirteen years ago, Rebecca was convicted of murdering her daughter during a devastating episode of postpartum psychosis. Now, she’s finally being released from the psychiatric hospital and returning to the small Texas town she once called home.
But Rebecca has a secret.
She is convinced her daughter is still alive. No one will believe her without proof -- not the town, not her ex-husband, not her younger daughter who has spent her whole life thinking her mom killed her big sister.
As Rebecca desperately digs through fractured memories and long-buried family secrets in search of what really happened that night, she begins to question what she actually remembers -- and what she doesn't. Then another child vanishes and all eyes are on Rebecca.
Is her mother’s intuition correct or is she the monster everyone thinks she is?
Event venue & nearby stays
Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, United States
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