Marlee Bush Book Launch
Join us at Little Professor Homewood for a conversation and book signing for the launch of Whispers of Dead Girls by Marlee Bush. A dark, twisted, and gripping thriller with a main character who is as complicated and compelling as any heroine you've ever wondered if you can really trust.
Marlee will be in conversation with Elise Burke Brown, author of the forthcoming Chase Harlem (on sale 6/17).
Thriller fans, this is an event you don't want to miss!
- Wednesday, May 28 at 6:00pm
- Homewood location
- Ticket only and tickets including the book are available. Books will also be available for purchase at the event!
About the Book
Ten years have passed, and Ren Taylor is back at square one, having accepted a job at her old high school. She'd hoped to make peace with the past but now she's thrust back into it: her murdered teenage sister is still immortalized in town, and Ren can't stop seeing her wherever she goes. She's dogged by the scandal that ruined her childhood and killed her sister.
Then Ren meets physics teacher Bryson Lewis. Handsome and charismatic, all the other teachers and students seem to fall at his feet. But Ren knows men like him - she knows they can't be trusted.
The more Ren watches him, the more suspicious she becomes. And when she notices his close relationship with a girl in one of his classes - a girl just like her sister - she worries history is about to repeat itself. This time, she won't sit back and watch another girl be taken before her time.
This time, Ren will do what she must to save her, even if it means revealing her own darkest secrets.
About the Author
With degrees in Criminology and English, she’s obsessed with true crime and documentaries. Her favorite stories to tell are the kind that make you double check the locks on your door at night.
About the Moderator
Elise Burke Brown comes from a family of detectives, including a grandfather who filled her childhood with true crime stories she learned not to repeat at daycare. Her novel, Chase Harlem, won the grand prize for the Monroe-Walton Center for the Arts New Writers Contest 2021 as well as the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Unpublished Investigator Novel. After winning, Rising Action Publishing acquired the novel and its sequel, which was a Top Pick for the 2024 Claymore Award. Elise has had stories and poetry published in Sojourn Literary Magazine, Dewpoint Literary Magazine, The Moonlit Road, and Southern Quill. She's also sold stories to the podcast, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. She teaches composition at the University of Alabama and runs the book blog, https://coupleofbeesread.com/. She is represented by Rachel Beck of Liza Dawson Associates, and her thriller, High Tides and Homicides, is currently on submission.