Meet the Author: Michael Malone
Join us on Friday December 16 when we welcome Michael Malone to the Chapel Hill Public Library. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm; the program begins at 4:00.
Michael Malone is a novelist as well as the author of short stories, works of nonfiction, several plays, and daytime television drama. Born in Durham and currently residing in Hillsborough, his distinctive Southern voice permeates his books, which he describes as "centered in the comedy of the shared communion among very diverse groups of people who are bound together by place and the past." Malone's writing has been compared to Miguel De Cervantes, Charles Dickens and Henry Fielding. He is the recipient of The O. Henry Award for "Fast Love," the Edgar for "Red Clay" and an Emmy as head writer of ABC-TV's One Life to Live.
His most recent book is "The Killing Club," in which murder gets personal for Jamie Ferrara, a New Jersey police detective, when an old friend from high school is killed. In short succession, several other friends follow, all of whom were members of the Killing Club, a high-school group that planned the murders of people who bugged them. Is the killer someone who supposedly committed suicide years ago? The only person Jamie can rule out is herself. The twists twist well, the characters have just the right amount of depth, and Malone's splendid use of detail enables him to create a fascinating, multidimensional community.