Lou Berney, author of The Long and Faraway Gone will appear on Tuesday, April 7 in the W. T. Bland Public Library at 6:30 p.m. and in the Leesburg Public Library on Wednesday, April 8 at 2 p.m. Released in February, the book has already received starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and is an Amazon Best Book for February, in the categories of both Mystery/Thriller/Suspense AND Literature/Fiction..

“A mystery with a deep, wounded heart. Read it.” Kirkus Reviews

“A genuinely memorable novel of ideas.” Booklist Review

In August of 1986, six employees of a movie theater in Oklahoma City were brutally murdered during an armed robbery. A month later, a teenage girl vanished from the Oklahoma State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved.

A quarter of century later, the tragedies continue to echo through the lives of two survivors. Wyatt, a private investigator in Las Vegas, takes a case that unexpectedly brings him back to a hometown, and a past, he's tried to escape – and drags him deeper into the mystery of the robbery that left all his friends dead.

Like Wyatt, Julianna struggles with the past – with the day her beautiful older sister disappeared without a trace. When Julianna discovers that one of the original suspects has re-surfaced, she'll stop at nothing to find answers. http://www.louberney.com/

Join library staff in welcoming Mr. Berney! The programs are free, sponsored in part by HarperCollins Publishers, the Lake County Library System, the Leesburg Friends of the Library and the Mount Dora Library Association.