7th Annual Thriller and Mystery Author Luncheon

650 South Main Street,Corona CA 92882

15 October, 2022

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Our 7th Annual Thriller, Mystery and Crime Author Luncheon is back, and we cannot be more thrilled! We are so excited about our 2022 panel of authors and can't wait for you to meet them! Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novels, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award and the critically acclaimed, The World Played Chess; as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He has also been a finalist for many other awards including the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Lee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels, including True Fiction, Lost Hills, 15 Monk mysteries, five Fox & O'Hare adventures (co-written with Janet Evanovich), and the new thriller Movieland. He's written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk, The Glades, and co-created the hit Hallmark series Mystery 101. He's also the co-founder of Brash Books, which has published over 100 crime novels & thrillers. www.leegoldberg.com Ellen Byron is a USA Today bestselling author. Her Cajun Country Mysteries have won the Agatha award for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty awards for Best Humorous Mystery. Bayou Book Thief, the first book in her Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, launches in June 2022. She writes the Catering Hall Mystery series, under the name Maria DiRico. Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like WINGS, JUST SHOOT ME, and FAIRLY ODD PARENTS. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. She blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, and will be the 2023 Left Coast Crime Toastmaster. Moderator and panelist Christopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of The Take, Numbered Account, Rules of Deception, Rules of Vengeance, Rules of Betrayal, and many other thrillers. His novel The Patriots Club won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Novel in 2006. His newest international spy thriller features Simon Riske: one part James Bond, one part Jack Reacher. In this third installment of a series lauded for its "nonstop action," an international spy must face a ring of ruthless masterminds and foil a plot with global implications as he becomes the world's most wanted man (Booklist). Your ticket includes a delicious hot lunch: Chicken Marsala, Roasted red potatoes, Fresh vegetable medley , Green salad, Fruit salad, Fresh baked French bread/butter and Carrot Cake. This is the PERFECT book club adventure too! Note: You must be a current FOL member to receive the lower ticket price. A member cannot purchase multiple tickets for friends or family at the member price if they are not members. Please do not hesitate to purchase your ticket(s) as we know this event will sell out!