Authors on Tap: Margot Douaihy and Gillian Flynn

Name: Authors on Tap: Margot Douaihy and Gillian Flynn
Start: 2026-01-16T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-01-16T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Exile in Bookville

Schedule

Fri Jan 16 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Exile in Bookville | Chicago, IL

Authors on Tap: Margot Douaihy and Gillian Flynn
About this Event

Please join us in store on Friday, January 16h at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Margot Douaihy's new novel, Divine Ruin. Margot will be in conversation with her publisher, Gillian Flynn!

About Divine Ruin:

It’s a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is finishing her music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in her journey of faith. But when one of her favorite students is found dead of a fentanyl overdose, Sister Holiday and her partner-in-PI, Magnolia Riveaux, are determined to track down the drug dealers. As students continue to fall prey tothis sinister drug, Sister Holiday becomes more desperate to stop the epidemic—while facing her own past with addiction, a demon that is never too far.

With Douaihy’s signature mix of grit, heart, and faith, Divine Ruin tests the limits of Sister Holiday’s devotion in her darkest and most shocking case yet.

About the authors:

Margot Douaihy lives in Northampton, MA, and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. She is the author of the award-winning, nationally bestselling Sister Holiday series, in addition to the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. Her debut mystery, Scorched Grace, won The Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction and was named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by the New York Times, Guardian, and others.

Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe–nominated screenplay; the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects; and a novella, The Grownup. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.

About this event:

This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the link below to register for free! Margot and Gillian will be happy to sign/personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available in store and online with national shipping.