MARY ANNA EVANS: THE DARK LIBRARY

Name: MARY ANNA EVANS: THE DARK LIBRARY
Start: 2025-08-14T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117

Schedule

Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117 | Memphis, TN

Join us as we welcome MARY ANNA EVANS on THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new novel THE DARK LIBRARY.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
"A fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author for The Physicists' Daughter
Can a family's dark history repeat itself?
Estella Ecker has returned to Rockfall House, the last place on earth she wants to be. Years after she ran away from her overbearing father, she has been forced back home to walk in his footsteps, teaching at the college he dominated and living in the fabulous home where he entertained artists and scholars for decades--and perhaps she owns it now, because her mercurial mother has disappeared. At the center of everything--the whispers, the rumors, the secrets--is her father's library of rare books, which she had been forbidden to touch while he was alive to stop her.
Everyone in town is watching Estella, with her dead father's name on their lips, and no one seems to care about her missing mother. Who were her parents, really, and is the answer hidden somewhere in the depths of Rockfall House? And who will Estella be, if she gathers enough courage to find that answer? What she discovers is that no one can escape the secrets hidden in this dark library.
Suspenseful and unsettling but ultimately triumphant, The Dark Library by acclaimed author Mary Anna Evans is a compelling tale of mystery, family secrets, and the quest for truth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mary Anna Evans is the award-winning author of the Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries, which received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Mississippi Author Award, and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals. She recently retired from her role as associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she taught fiction and nonfiction writing. She is a two-time Oklahoma Book Award, Will Rogers Medallion Award, and 2018 Sisters in Crime (SinC) Academic Research Grant winner.