S. A. Cosby

Award-winning and bestselling author S. A. Cosby joins us to discuss his newest thriller, King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. From bookseller Bill, "Reading S.A. Cosby's new thriller, King of Ashes, is like discovering a long-lost Chester Himes/Elmore Leonard hybrid! Yes, it is that good! Roman Carruthers thought he had left his family and their crematorium business behind, but when his father is run off the road and lapses into a coma, he is forced back to his small town roots and forced to confront family secrets, both old and new. How far into the depths would you sink to protect your family? And can you ever escape that quagmire of immorality once you've lapsed into it?"

Tickets for this event are bundled with a copy of King of Ashes, which the author will sign at the event. Guests are welcome to bring up to two additional books from home for S. A. Cosby to sign.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger.

Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he’s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills.

Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.

Because everything burns.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
S. A. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeastern Virginia. He is the author of All the Sinners Bleed, which was on more than forty Best of the Year lists, including Barack Obama’s, as well as Edgar Award finalist Razorblade Tears and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Blacktop Wasteland. He has also won the Anthony Award, ITW Thriller Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award, BCALA Award, and Audie Award and has been longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.