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Author Hour in Massachusetts: Bestselling Author Matt Goldman (Virtual)

Author Hour in Massachusetts: Bestselling Author Matt Goldman (Virtual) In-Person

Thayer Public Library, in partnership with Tewksbury Public Library, virtually present...

Bestselling author Matt Goldman will discuss his new thriller, The Murder Show, in conversation with author Lori Roy, author of The Final Episode, in this installment of "Author Hour in Massachusetts."

Register for the Matt Goldman event on Zoom here.

 

Date:
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Other
Campus:
Events at the Library
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Education & Community Interest  

About Matt: Matt Goldman is a New York Times Bestselling author and Emmy Award winning television writer. He has been nominated for the Shamus Award and Nero Award. Matt's television writing credits include SeinfeldEllenThe New Adventures of Old Christine, and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

About The Murder Show: Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can’t. But after his pitch for the fourth season is rejected by the network, he returns home to Minnesota looking for inspiration. His timing is fortunate — his former classmate Ro Greeman is now a local police officer, and she's uncovered new information about the devastating hit and run that killed their mutual friend Ricky the summer after high school. She asks Ethan to help her investigate and thinks that if he portrays the killing on The Murder Show, the publicity may bring Ricky's killer to justice. Ethan is skeptical that Ricky's death was anything but a horrible accident, but with the clock running out on his career, he's willing to try anything. It doesn't take long for them to realize they've dug up more than they bargained for. Someone is dead set on stopping Ethan and Ro from looking too closely into Ricky’s death — even if keeping them quiet means killing again...

About Lori: Lori Roy is the author of six novels of suspense. Her debut, Bent Road, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. She went on to receive the 2016 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel, making Lori the first woman to receive an Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel, and she is the third person to have done so. Her critically acclaimed work has been named a New York Times Editors' Choice, twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book, featured in People Magazine as Book of the Week and excerpted in Oprah Magazine. Lori's work has been widely reviewed and has been included on numerous Best Of lists and summer reading lists. 

About The Final Episode: When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself. Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the “second sight” foretold by family legend and fulfill her destiny. Instead, the swamp serves up dangers greater than the gators lurking on Halfway Creek. Little Francie Farrow vanishes―and Jennifer’s father goes to prison. Twenty years later, Jennifer has almost shed the label of Paul Jones’s daughter when her past comes barreling back. Inspired by True Events, a TV series that solves the unsolvable, is recreating that fateful summer. As the series plays out, Jennifer wonders: Did the show finally find Francie Farrow? And is Jennifer’s father truly guilty? Someone else wants answers even more than Jennifer does, and they won’t let her forget it. As the series nears its finale and the long-awaited truth, Jennifer must come to terms with who her family is…and what that makes her.

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