author of Before He Finds Her
3:00 PM on Friday, October 23
Michael Kardos is associate professor of English and co-director of creative writing at Mississippi State University, and has published two previous books of fiction, One Last Good Time and The Three-Day Affair. In his latest novel, Kardos crafts a gripping literary thriller that explores the tangled past and an uncertain future of Melanie Dennison, who has grown up in hiding in West Virginia, but returns to her birthplace of Silver Bay, New Jersey, to try to discover the truth about the disappearance of her father, who is suspected of murdering her mother and attempting to kill Melanie when she was only three.