Join New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson for a book talk and signing at the Pickens County Hampton Memorial Library (304 Biltmore Road, Easley, SC 29640) on Wednesday, June 5th, at 7pm. Craig will discuss his new book, First Frost, take questions from the audience, and will be available afterwards for a book signing.

This event is FREE and open to the public, or you can purchase a $32.10 book ticket that admits one to the event and includes a copy of First Frost. We will have additional books for sale at the event as supplies last, but purchase now to guarantee your copy.

If you are unable to attend, signed and personalized copies of First Frost can be purchased on our website.

Book tickets can be purchased online through Wednesday, June 5th at 5pm. Free tickets can be reserved online until Wednesday, June 5th at 7pm. Additional tickets may be purchased at the door if still available, but buy ahead to guarantee your spot. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff.

Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of characters from Abaroska county tasked with solving a crime even more challenging than the last.

Walt Longmire returns in this twentieth installment of the award-winning and bestselling series that has been a hit on both the page and the screen. Set in the unspoiled countryside of Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire has to navigate his own increasingly complicated personal life with the ever-changing and often violent underworld that encroaches on what was once referred to as the Old West. This time, he is up against a sinister plot that could hurt the people closest to him and forever change the way he sees his beloved Wyoming.

About the Author:

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction, the Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir, and the Prix SNCF du Polar. His novella Spirit of Steamboatwas the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.

Refund Policy:

Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff.

Join award-winning author Mindy Friddle in conversation with Caroline Cleveland for a book your lunch event at City Range on Tuesday, June 11th at Noon. They will talk about their books, Her Best Self and When Cicadas Cry, and will be available afterwards to sign.

Your $55 ticket admits one to the event, and includes lunch, as well as a copy of either Her Best Self or When Cicadas Cry.

If you’re unable to attend the event, signed books can be purchased on our website.

Tickets can be purchased through Tuesday, June 11th, at 12pm. Refunds can be requested through Friday, June 7th, at 12pm. (You can send someone else in your place after the cutoff, but be sure to give that person your ticket.)

Your menu options (to be selected on the order form) will be:

BBQ Burnt Ends & Grits

Brisket over cheese grits, bourbon onions, BBQ sauce, scallions

Bourbon Pecan Chicken

Crispy pecan coated chicken breast, bourbon cream sauce, mashed potatoes, blistered brussels.

Cookies will be provided for dessert.

Beverage options include iced tea, water, and coffee.

Like a Southern Succession, award-winning novelist Mindy Friddle’s “fast paced, clever, and wickedly compelling” (Michel Stone) Her Best Self begins with a car wreck, and lets off the brake into: swingers and wife swaps; swindlers and woo-woo scams; senatorial elections and campaign strategy; secrets and manipulated information; incest and inheritance; a wedding like a game of Stratego; and ambition as more motive than goal.

Janelle “Before”–choreographer of the Wolf family and their enterprises–went over the bridge with her car, in the wreck that ruined Janelle’s reputation and upended her public life. Lucky for her, Lana O’Shield adores lonely people. Coaxing Janelle to remember the circumstances of her accident, her revelations unravel the fragile veil over the Wolfs’ smalltown life. As the Wolf family’s public return–the cold-footed wedding of their only daughter–approaches, HER BEST SELF is part thriller, part drama, following women clawing at independence, no longer pawns in a man’s game.

About the author:

Mindy Friddle is author of the novel, Secret Keepers, (winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction). The Garden Angel, her first novel and SIBA bestseller, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship, and she has twice won the state’s Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and lives on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

A young white woman has been bludgeoned to death in a rural church on Cicada Road, just outside the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina—a state that has been roiling with racial tenson since the shooting of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer. Sam Jenkins, who is Black, was found covered in blood and kneeling over her. Zach Stander, a down-and-out lawyer, is convinced to take Sam’s case by his detective girlfriend, Addie, while the local solicitor prosecuting the case wields the power of an influential family. And then there’s the mysterious cold-case of teen girls murdered on a nearby beach—is there a connection, and will Addie and Zach put the pieces together in time?

About the author:

Caroline Cleveland: A native South Carolinian, Caroline Cleveland grew up in the small town of Walterboro, and she credits her love of reading to its quieter way of life. Her love of the written word eventually led her to law school, and later to establish the law firm Cleveland & Conley, LLC, in Charleston, South Carolina, where she represents public employers, including local governments and law enforcement. Caroline writes stories from a Southern perspective, featuring deceptively peaceful small towns and strong, complex characters who rely on their Southern sense of values. Her debut novel is WHEN CICADAS CRY, published by Union Square & Co. Visit her website at www.CarolineClevelandAuthor.com.

Join author Liz Crowe for an in-store signing at Fiction Addiction on Friday, June 14th from 3-5pm to celebrate her new book, Cul-de-Sac.

This event is free and open to the public, or you can purchase an $15.89 book add-on. Additional books can be ordered on our website or purchased at the event while supplies last.

If you’re unable to attend, signed copies of the author’s book can be purchased on our website.

Tickets can be purchased online through Thursday, June 13th at 2pm. Refunds can be requested up until the ticket cutoff. At-the-door tickets and books will be available as space allows.

Can the residents of an exclusive community keep their secrets buried, or will the deadly truth expose them all?

Welcome to Connelly Court. A secluded, old money neighborhood, harboring a web of desires and deceit behind pristine facades and manicured lawns, where the lives of a group of neighbors, bound by their shared secrets and unconventional lifestyle, are about to unravel.

Michael and Amelia Ross move into their dream home, and get drawn into the seductive allure. But their house once belonged to a family whose lives were seemingly ruined by their participation, which leads Amelia to question everything about her new-found friends. Suspicions run rampant as the close-knit group turns on each other. Lies, betrayals, and hidden agendas are revealed, ripping apart the fabric that once bound the group together.

Cul-de-Sac is a dark tale of marriage, friendship, desire, and betrayal, where nothing is as it seems, and the truth may be more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Discover the twisted secrets of Connelly Court in this chilling domestic suspense novel that will leave you questioning just how well you truly know—or should know—your neighbors.

About the Author:

Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville living in South Carolina. She’s spent her time as a three-continent expat trailing spouse, mom of three, real estate agent, brewery owner and bar manager, and is currently a digital marketing and fundraising consultant, in addition to being an award-winning author.

The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight and linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.

Her favorite things to do when she’s not scrolling social media for cute animal videos is walk her dogs, cuddle her cats, and watch her favorite sports teams while scrolling social media for cute animal videos.