OVERFLOW: Shari Lapena with Hank Phillippi Ryan

PLEASE NOTE: Our main event space has sold out, but overflow tickets are now available! With this option, guests will view a livestream of the event from our third floor studio. Following the event, overflow guests will be brought down to meet Shari and get their books signed.

Join us for a thrilling event with Shari Lapena! Shari will discuss her newest novel, She Didn't See It Coming. When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?

Shari will be in conversation with Hank Phillippi Ryan. Following their discussion, Shari will answer audience questions and sign books.

Ticket options for this event include:

• General Admission + Book: $31.88, admits one guest. This option comes with a copy of She Didn't See It Coming to be signed at the event.
• General Admission + Coupon: $5, admits one guest. This ticket option may be redeemed towards any of Shari's books on the night of the event.

Tickets are required for this event. We hope to see you there!

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ABOUT THE BOOK:“Stunning. Fiendishly plotted with whiplash twist and turns — Shari Lapena is at the very top of her game here. [She Didn't See It Coming] might be my favorite yet!” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris ApartmentThe new gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorBryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple.Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden – working from home that day – has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall.Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out.How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all?With every minute that passes – and as questions swirl around their community – Bryden and Sam’s past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbors and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of eight thrillers, including The Couple Next Door, which have all been New York Times, Sunday Times, and Globe and Mail bestsellers. Lapena’s books have been sold in forty territories around the world. She lives on a farm outside Toronto. She Didn’t See It Coming, her ninth thriller, is forthcoming.

Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 16 psychological thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also the on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, and has won 37 EMMY awards as well as dozens more journalism honors for her groundbreaking journalism and true crime stories. National book critics call her “a superb and gifted storyteller” and "a master of creating suspenseful mysteries." Her current novel is the cat-and-mouse standalone One Wrong Word, a twisty story of gaslighting, manipulation, and murder. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, a nationally renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Her upcoming novel is All This Could Be Yours, publishing in September 2025 from Minotaur Books.