BOOK LAUNCH: Sara Herchenroether’s The Night Flowers

Please join us in celebrating the release of Sara Herchenroether’s debut novel, The Night Flowers!

Sara will read from and discuss her new novel, then be joined in conversation by Margot Singer.

About The Night Flowers: In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there?

Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases for the Sierra County police force even as her family begs her to retire. With only fragments from dusty case files and a witness who doesn’t want to remember, this unlikely duo is determined–no matter the cost–to uncover the truth behind the murders. And with their help, the woman in the woods is finally able to tell her story on her own terms and summon the power to be found.

The Night Flowers–a haunting debut thriller written with pulse-pounding precision and a deep understanding of the psychology of violence and the tenacity of those who combat it–announces the arrival of Sara Herchenroether as an exciting new voice.

Sara Herchenroether lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband, four young children, one old dog, and two rescue kittens. Sara is a breast cancer survivor.

Margot Singer is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (Melville House) and a short story collection, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press). With Nicole Walker, she is the co-editor of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (Bloomsbury Academic). She is a professor of English at Denison University, where she directs the creative writing program and the division of the Fine Arts. She lives in Granville, OH