A Book Launch for Kit Frick in Conversation with Mallika Narayanan

Join us to celebrate the launch of Kit Frick's next book, Friends and Liars! She will be in conversation with fellow local author and mystery writer, Mallika Narayanan. Following the talk, there will be time for Q&A with the audience and book signing. We hope to see you there!

Want to pre-order your copy of the book? You can do so here.

About the book:

From “edge-of-your-seat suspense” (Booklist) author Kit Frick comes an insidious thriller about four estranged friends trapped in a powerful family’s deadly games at a luxe estate in the Italian countryside.

It’s been five years since heiress Clare Monroe tragically died on New Year’s Eve at her family’s opulent Italian palazzo. Since that time, her college friends have harbored a dark secret—their lies and betrayals led to Clare’s untimely death.

What happened that fateful night was a horrible accident, but Luca, Harper, Sirina, and David are guilty, nonetheless. And their desperate decision to conceal the truth destroyed their once-close bond.

Now, the estranged friends are each the recipient of an invitation from the Monroes to return to the lakeside palazzo for a long-overdue memorial for Clare. Accepting the Monroes’ invitation means playing with fire, but they can hardly refuse.

Luca, Harper, Sirina, and David have barely settled into their idyllic accommodations on Lake Como before someone at the memorial party begins targeting them. Haunted by little “gifts” left in their rooms, taunting notes, and the unshakable sense of being watched, it soon becomes clear that someone on the guest list knows the whole truth about the night Clare died—and the secrets her friends have been keeping. Nothing is as it seems at the palazzo on the lake, and under their tormentor’s vengeful gaze, their secrets—and their lives—are in danger.

About the author:

Kit Frick is a MacDowell Fellow and International Thriller Writers Award finalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of the adult suspense novels The Split and Friends and Liars, the young adult thrillers Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us, I Killed Zoe Spanos, Very Bad People, and The Reunion, and the poetry collection A Small Rising Up in the Lungs. Kit loves a good mystery but has only ever killed her characters. Honest. Visit Kit online at KitFrick.com and on Instagram @KitFrick.

About the conversation partner:

Reading and writing have always been Mallika’s great passions. After years in web design and managing content, she decided to write long fiction. In a way, she says, she has always been telling stories, or at least, that’s how she’s looked at her job, as creating stories. Through her writing, Mallika explores her fascination with what drives us, what makes us tick, and other facets of our psyche. When she’s not plotting her next dark thriller or killer twist you can find her perusing bookstores or reading. In her down time she loves to cook and bake.

Mallika's short stories and flash fiction have appeared in various literary magazines & print anthologies, and have been longlisted and shortlisted for several awards including the Retreat West, Best Flash Fiction Prize, the Fractured Lit Best Micro-Fiction Prize, The Strands International 2022 Prize, and the Bath Flash FictionAward. Most recently, her flash fiction, Briefly, We Saw Each Other was the runner-up in the Retreat West Quarterly Flash fiction.