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3rd Annual MAYHEM Weekend at BookHampton

MAYHEM at BOOKHAMPTON


NELSON DeMILLE NANCY DREW LINDA FAIRSTEIN
ALFRED HITCHCOCK ADAM ROSS
HOUSEWIVES' KELLY KILLOREN BENSIMON


SATURDAY MAY 14th & SUNDAY MAY 15th

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BookHampton, is celebrating Spring with MAYHEM, a weekend
festival of mysteries and mystery writers. This year in keeping with the year’s theme: Great Books to Great Kids BookHampton we’ve added two very special young reader events.


SATURDAY MAY 14th
10am BookHampton (East Hampton) is celebrating the intrepid and ever wonderful NANCY DREW Kelly Killoren Bensimon (whose Housewives fame should not overshadow her own accomplishments as a writer) will be the host as young readers are
invited to participate in a marathon read-through of Nancy Drew’s “The Secret of the Old Clock.” All readers (under 16 years, please) are invited to come join in, step-up and read a few paragraphs; the event will be taped for future broadcast. Nancy Drew might
need little introduction: she is a literary heroine who continues to inspire. Smart, fearless, gracious,and intrepid she has been noted as a role model by everyone from Hillary Clinton to Laura Bush, Supreme Court Justices to Rock Stars.

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2pm (East Hampton) LINDA FAIRSTEIN, whose reputation as an intrepid Asst District Attorney was highlighted when she became Chief of NYC’s world-acclaimed Sex Crimes Unit, is now the author of The NY Times Best-selling series which features that ever wonderful prosecutor, Alexandra Cooper. Fairstein, whose most recent bestseller is SILENT MERCY places each of her novels in a NYC landmark; ‘The City as Character’ will be the topic when she is the Guest Author at Saturday’s Mayhem Conversation With.


2pm at Southampton (it is a festival, so alas one has to make choices) Junior Detectives and Younger Readers are invited to join Kelly again as she explores and tapes the great beginners classics: Nate The Great, Cam Jansen and Encyclopedia Brown. Everyone under 10 years old is invited to read a chapter or even a few
sentences; and in this instance an older sib, or mom or dad step in to help a little if necessary.

3pm Sag Harbor For those who like like to see a little more fictive blood spilled, BookHampton Sag Harbor will have a table of Tough Guys ‘Talk the Talk and Write the Walk; the How-To of a Thriller’ will have Lorenzo Carcaterra, along with Ken Wishnia, and Justin Evans, Wallace Stroby, Reed Coleman, and  Michael Atkinson.


4pm East Hampton The tables turn slightly at 4pm, as Linda Fairstein introduces three new mystery writers she wants everyone to know: Karen Bergreen FOLLOWING POLLY, Hilary Davidson THE DAMAGE DONE and Cara Hoffman SO MUCH PRETTY will join the conversation and read some.


8pm Guild Hall ALFRED HITCHCOCK, the proclaimed Master of Suspense, has found his place in MAYHEM as well. ADAM ROSS, whose brilliant book MR PEANUT was a chilling sleeper-success, is an expert on all things Hitchcock (nb: read the book!) He will be discussing The Master and Screening (free) of the classic, REAR
WINDOW, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, 158 Main Street East Hampton.


SUNDAY MAY 15th


NELSON DeMILLE Day at BookHampton and the madly-loved mystery maven will be on hand for an interview celebrating the publication of his new book THE RICH AND THE DEAD DeMille, who is a champion of independent bookstores, will answer questions and, of course, sign copies of his books. Nelson DeMille fans should be at BookHampton Sag Harbor at 1pm.


For more information aboutMAYHEM at BookHampton or other upcoming events and readings please go to bookhampton@bookhampton.com Telephone (631) 324-4939

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