Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Vera Kurian, Ashley Winstead (w/Allison Leotta):
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Mystery/Thriller
Dashiell Hammett Pavilion
Murder, mystery and psychological intrigue are at the heart of these college campus thrillers by Vera Kurian and Ashley Winstead.
Moderated by Allison Leotta
Mystery/Thriller
Vera Kurian
Latest Title: Never Saw Me Coming
Vera Kurian is a writer and scientist based in Washington, D.C. Her debut novel, “Never Saw Me Coming,” was published by Park Row Books (US) and Harvill Secker, Vintage (UK) in September 2021. Her short fiction has been published in magazines, such as Glimmer Train, Day One and The Pinch. She has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, where she studied intergroup relations, ideology and quantitative methods.
Mystery/Thriller
Ashley Winstead
Latest Title: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
Ashley Winstead is the author of “In My Dreams I Hold a Knife,” “Fool Me Once” and the forthcoming thriller, “The Last Housewife.” A graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. in English from Southern Methodist University, she has lived the itinerant millennial life, working in academia, the music industry, the entertainment industry and philanthropy. She currently lives in Houston with her husband.
Fiction
Allison Leotta
Latest Title: The Last Good Girl
Allison Leotta is a novelist, former sex-crimes prosecutor and TV critic who focuses on what TV crime dramas get right and wrong. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., before turning to fiction. Her best-selling Anna Curtis series features — surprise! — a fictional D.C. sex-crimes prosecutor. USA Today says Allison’s novels are “as real as it gets.” She has been dubbed “the female John Grisham,” but her goal is for Grisham to be dubbed “the male Allison Leotta.” A graduate of Harvard Law School and Michigan State University, Allison lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband, Michael Leotta, and their two sons.
Allison will be moderating the panel of Vera Kurian (“Never Saw Me Coming”) and Ashley Winstead (“In My Dreams I Hold a Knife”); and interviewing M. Chris Fabricant about “Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System.”
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