Book Launch: Elise Hart Kipness, Close Call

Join us for a great conversation about thrillers, as TV sports reporter-turned-author Elise Hart Kipness talks with bestselling Huntsville author Robert Bailey about her newest sports thriller, Close Call. Set at the US Open with tennis as the backdrop, this is the third book in the best-selling Kate Green series, though it makes a good standalone read if you're new to Kipness's books.

The event is free, but reservations are required.

Or choose one of the "Book with Ticket" options to get either Elise Hart Kipness's newest book or all three in the series.

Books will also be available for purchase at the event.

The event is hosted by The Snail on the Wall at The Snail on the Wall bookstore, 816 Wellman Avenue, Huntsville, on Tuesday, August 19, at 6 pm.

About Close Call: When TV reporter Kate Green spotlights two female tennis stars, the sunny up-and-comer and the brash veteran, the project goes sideways after one turns up missing. One player receives a sinister text with a disturbing photo of the other woman, bound and gagged. Kate calls on her estranged father, an NYPD detective, for help in launching a search, which leads to the victim’s hometown. Tangled up in a deadly web of deceit, Kate races to connect the dots and find the missing player before it’s too late.

About Elise Hart Kipness: Elise Hart Kipness is a national TV sports reporter turned bestselling author of the Kate Green series, which has been optioned by a major network for TV. The Kate Green series is based on Elise’s experience in the high-pressure, adrenaline-pumping world of live TV. Like her protagonist, she chased marquee athletes through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden and stood before glaring lights reporting to national audiences. She is a graduate of Brown University and an instructor at the Westport Writers’ Workshop.

About Robert Bailey: Huntsville's own Robert Bailey is the bestselling author of the McMurtrie and Drake legal thriller series which includes The Professor, the Jason Rich series beginning with Rich Blood, and the new conspiracy thriller Boomerang.

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