Kate Alice Marshall (THE GIRLS BEFORE), in conversation with Susan J. Morris (STRANGE BEASTS)!
Schedule
Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Brick & Mortar Books | Redmond, WA
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Join us to celebrate the launch of THE GIRLS BEFORE, a new thriller about a search & rescue expert, a kidnapped woman, and the lost girls who haunt them both by local author Kate Alice Marshall, in conversation with fellow local author Susan J. Morris (STRANGE BEASTS)! ABOUT THE BOOKS:
THE GIRLS BEFORE
There is a girl in a basement.
The door has stopped opening.
The light is gone.
Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive?
Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.
PREORDER LINK:
https://www.brickandmortarbooks.com/item/MWp_c1qAP1yl_bP2t9fIXA
STRANGE BEASTS
At the dawn of the twentieth century in Paris, Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula’s killer, works as a researcher for the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. But no one realizes how abnormal she is. Sam is a channel into the minds of monsters: a power that could help her solve the gruesome deaths plaguing turn-of-the-century Paris—or have her thrown into an asylum.
Sam finds herself assigned to a case with Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the criminal mastermind and famed nemesis of Sherlock Holmes and a notorious detective whom no one wants to work with on account of her previous partners’ mysterious murders. Ranging from the elite clubs of Paris to the dark underbelly of the catacombs, their investigation sweeps them into a race to stop a Beast from its killing rampage, as Hel and Sam are pitted against men, monsters, and even each other. But beneath their tenuous trust, an unmistakable attraction brews. Is trusting Hel the key to solving the murder, or is Sam yet another pawn in Hel’s game?
ORDER LINK: https://www.brickandmortarbooks.com/item/C359UPitc4WfL_z4wF_L1w
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kate Alice Marshall is the USA Today bestselling author of WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS, NO ONE CAN KNOW, A KILLING COLD, and multiple novels for younger readers. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
Susan J. Morris is a fantasy author and editor best known for a writing-advice column featured on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog (which TIME magazine online once called “clever,” and which she hence forth has never let anyone forget), and her work editing Forgotten Realms novels. Susan delights in running workshops for Clarion West and in moderating panels for writing symposiums. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner; her cats, Adora and Kitava; and entirely too many plants.
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Brick & Mortar Books, 16400 NE 74th St, Redmond, WA 98052-7802, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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