Mini Kensington Cozy Con with Ellery Adams and Kelly Mullen
Schedule
Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1307 E Cary St, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219 | Richmond, VA
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There are few things we love more than a cozy con, so we jumped at the chance to host Ellery and Kelly in store!About the Books:
It was a dark, rainy night at Nora Pennington’s Miracle Books when a mysterious death brings the Secret, Book, and Scone Society into the Halloween season on the trail of a murderer . . .
As the residents of Miracle Springs, North Carolina, select their costumes, plan parties, and get excited for a night of tricks or treats, Nora joins in on the festivities by hosting medium memoirist Lara Luz at the bookstore. Charismatic and compelling, Lara mesmerizes the audience with her life story. Struck by a bolt of lightning as a child, she was pronounced dead only to be resurrected with the ability to connect with those on the other side.
Lara performs a reading for a select group of bookstore patrons when the encroaching storm knocks out the power. In the sudden darkness, howling cold winds intensify, and Lara clutches her heart, collapsing dead without warning. But Nora doesn’t believe she died of natural causes. Not one member of the psychic’s reading group—which includes the town’s widower pharmacist, an urgent care nurse, a mystery author, and even truculent Deputy Hollowell—were admirers of Lara.
Nora confirms this when she stumbles upon Lara’s journal in the aftermath of her death. For within its leathery bound pages are the medium and her clients’ deepest and darkest secrets, written in code. Now, Nora and the Secret, Book, and Scone Society must sift through the suspects and their motives to uncover which one of them is a killer before he or she is tempted to strike again . . .
A nail-biting murder mystery, THIS IS NOT A GAME by debut author Kelly Mullen follows a video game designer and her grandmother, whose strained relationship is put to the test when they are snowed in at a lavish mansion party and the host is murdered. Everyone is a suspect—and when a second body turns up, the sleuthing pair realizes someone else is playing a deadly game and they might not survive the night.
About the Authors:
Ellery Adams is the USA Today & New York Times Bestselling author of over forty mystery novels. Ellery grew up on a beach near the Long Island Sound but now writes from her home in central North Carolina. She considers herself “baked in the North and buttered in the South.” She loves rescue animals, jigsaw puzzles, coffee, black licorice, college football, reading on rainy days, wood-burning fires, and porch swings.
Kelly Mullen has worked as a producer in Hollywood and as a marketing executive in New York and London. This Is Not a Game is her first novel and was inspired by a two-week stay at her grandmother’s house. As an executive producer, her credits include Academy Award-nominated Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren, and AppleTV+’s Dads, produced with Ron Howard. Her creative work for brands has won more than 50 awards, including Cannes Lions and Clios. Born and raised in Iowa, Kelly is now a dual citizen of the US and UK. She lives in London
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Where is it happening?
1307 E Cary St, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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