Hybrid Event: Socially-Oriented Suspense Panel

East City Bookshop welcomes Kate Broad, Lacey N. Dunham, K.T. Nguyen, and Charlene Wang to discuss writing socially-oriented suspense.

Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the author during audience Q&A.

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Kate Broad is the author of the novel GREENWICH (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), which was named one of People Magazine's Best New Books, a Vanity Fair Summer Read, and an Amazon Editor's Pick for Best New Literature and Fiction. She is a Bronx Council on the Arts award winner for fiction and her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, No Tokens, Electric Literature, LitHub, and elsewhere. Kate holds a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. Originally from Massachusetts, she lives in the Bronx.

Lacey N. Dunham’s novel THE BELLES (2025, S&S/Atria) was named a Best Book of 2025 by Library Journal and Crime Reads. A Poets & Writers Magazine 2025 Writer to Watch, Dunham has received writing fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and Catapult. Her forthcoming novel FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (2027, S&S/Atria) is a sapphic southern gothic Grey Gardens set against an early-90s backdrop of moral panics. She lives in Washington, DC with too many books, but only two cats. Find her at laceyndunham.com.

K.T. Nguyen is a former editor at Glamour magazine. Her psychological thriller YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID received the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery.In a starred review, Booklist described Nguyen’s novel as “a twisty horror-filled thriller” and an “incredibly compelling debut.” YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID was selected as a People Magazine Best Book of April 2024 and named a Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 by Elle magazine, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, BookBub, and Parade. When she’s not writing, you’ll find K.T. practicing Krav Maga, watching the Mets, or playing with her terrier Alice. A graduate of Brown University, K.T. lives just outside Washington, D.C. K.T. is a proud member of Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.

Charlene Wang was born in Beijing and, after immigrating to the US when she was three, has lived in seven different cities.  Graduating with a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law, she worked as a litigator for six years before quitting to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an author.  Her debut novel, I’ll Follow You, was selected by Mindy Kaling to be published under Mindy’s Book Studio, and has been featured in Town & Country, Bustle, CrimeReads and more.  She now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.

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