7/26 After Hours Thriller Author Panel RSVP

Sunday 7/26 4pm - 5:30pm Location: 3214 Riverside Blvd, Sacramento, CA

We are staying open late Sunday afternoon for a very special event and shopping experience. We are hosting three incredible California thriller authors for a moderated panel all about thriller fiction. 

RSVP to be entered to win a free signed copy of one of the author’s books and a gift certificate to Bloodstone Books. The winner will be able to choose which book they would like. You must be present at the event to claim the giveaway prize. 

Meet the authors:

Rachel Ertassi https://www.instagram.com/rlertassiauthor/ 

Newest novel: Turn of the Tide. Thriller story set in Bodega Bay. 

This is a story about death. After the devastating loss of her mother, Gia inherits a house in Bodega Bay that she has not visited in years. She and a small group of lifelong friends head up there to spend an extended weekend together and support Gia. Silent jabs, sexual tension, and secret truths begin to emerge as the weekend unfolds creating unease and volatility in the house. One catalytic event changes everything for the worst and the group begins to turn on each other one by one in this bloody thriller.

Matt Abraham https://www.instagram.com/stocktonauthor/ 

Newest novel: Old Debts. Thriller story set in Stockton. 

After ten long years as a private detective, Stockton native Jake Carter is finally closing his LA agency. In just a few days he’ll put the missing teens and cheating spouses behind him and join the city's corporate world full of cushy jobs and hefty paychecks. But when his former partner is found dead in a Stockton homeless camp, murdered by a ruthless serial killer who’s targeting the city’s most vulnerable population, Carter will put his dreams on hold and return to his hometown to find the madman responsible before he strikes again.

But solving this case won’t be so easy. Standing in Carter’s way is the police force he once betrayed, a vicious gang out for revenge, and a local government official with an insatiable hunger for expansion. It’s a dangerous task indeed, and his only help will come from a brilliant professor at Delta College whose mysterious past shrouds her true motivations.

Mark Steensland  https://www.instagram.com/marksteensland/ 

Newest novel: Black Magic Murders. Fictional true crime story set in San Francisco. 

In 1967, San Francisco was known the world over as home to the Summer of Love. Three years later, the city was paralyzed by fear as the Zodiac taunted the police with a series of threatening letters and brutal slayings. When prominent citizen Malcolm Dorrance is murdered, homicide inspectors Will Michalson and Frank Paducci eliminate the Zodiac as a suspect and narrow their focus to one man: self-professed devil-worshipper Ian Cuthgert. But instead of denying involvement, Cuthgert confesses, telling the cops he used witchcraft to murder Dorrance and he intends to kill again. Michalson dismisses this explanation as drug-induced delusion, but Paducci, a devout Catholic, is convinced Cuthgert is telling the truth. After the autopsy confirms an inexplicable cause of death, the partners race to prevent the next murder even as the conflict between their beliefs threatens to derail the entire investigation. Long overshadowed by the more prominent hunt for the Zodiac, the complete account of what would come to be known as the “Black Magic Murders” is told here for the first time by those who lived through it.