Mystery night with Julia Spencer-Fleming & Paula Munier

An evening of mystery with Julia Spencer-Fleming & Paula Munier! Both authors will be celebrating their new mystery novels! At Midnight Comes the Cry: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery In New York Times Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest novel, as Christmas approaches, these five people will discover their suspicions hang on a single twisting thread, leading to the forbidding High Peaks of the Adirondacks. As the December days shorten and the nights grow long, a disparate group of would-be heroes need to unwind a murderous plot before time runs out. The Snow Lies Deep: A Mercy Carr Mystery is the seventh book in Paula Munier's Mercy Carr mystery series, a holiday-themed thriller set in Northshire, Vermont, where a man playing Santa Claus is found murdered during the town's Solstice Soirée, leading Mercy, her game warden husband Troy, and her bomb-sniffing dog Elvis to investigate a series of Yuletide-themed killings. JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING is the New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier, and an Agatha, Anthony, Dilys, Barry, Macavity, and Gumshoe Award winner. She studied acting and history at Ithaca College and received her J.D. at the University of Maine School of Law. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Nero Wolfe, and Romantic Times RC awards. Julia lives in a 190-year-old farmhouse in southern Maine.? PAULA MUNIER is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. Home at Night was named Library Journal’s Mystery Pick of the Month. THE NIGHT WOODS received great reviews, including a starred Library Journal review. THE SNOW LIES DEEP—hailed as “captivating” by PW—was The Poisoned Pen’s Cozy Pick of the Month and made Lesa Holstine’s 2025 Top Ten. ONE KILLING FROST debuts later this year.