Author Event with Nancy Means Wright

Event Venue:
Brown Dog Books and Gifts, Hinesburg, VT

Event Date & Time:
16 July, 2010 - 31 December, 2010
07:00 PM to 08:00 PM

Author Event at Brown Dog Books & Gifts!

Nancy Means Wright

Reads from her new book

Midnight Fires: A Mary Wollstonecraft Mystery

At the start of this captivating historical set in 1786, Mary Wollstonecraft is on her way to Ireland to become a governess, "that most humiliating of occupations." At Mitchelstown Castle in County Cork, headstrong Mary, the future mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and future women's rights advocate, is determined to pen a novel and remain above the fray of castle politics while schooling Lord and Lady Kingsboroughs' daughters. Three suspicious deaths, however, compel Mary to seek justice for a poor young sailor, the family's troubled former governess, and even an aristocrat. It appears everyone from poet George Ogle, Lady K's new flirt, to a land tenant or two has a motive in one or more of these tangled deaths. As Mary snoops around in search of the culprit, she is bound not to lose herself to the mystery, her job, or the charms of any man. Wright (Mad Season and four other Ruth Willmarth mysteries) deftly illuminates 18th-century class tensions.
                —Publishers Weekly, February 15, 2010

This event is free and open to the public.

If you can’t make it, we would be happy to have a book signed for you.

For more information please call 802-482-5189.