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Inglenook Book Club News

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The Inglenook Book Club met in June at Lakeside Senior Living with Juanita Finley and Carolyn Goodwin as hostesses, assisted by Peggy Chappell and Elaine Williams. After everyone enjoyed delicious lemon icebox pie made by Lakeside’s splendid chef and kitchen manager, Roberta Taylor, the business meeting was held.
Vice President Sally Sutton introduced our speaker, Mary Newman, whose subject of her program was Harlan Coben, an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past and murders or fatal accidents that have multiple twists.
Harlan Coben was born in 1962 in Newark, New Jersey and now lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife, Ann Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, and their four children. Coben studied political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts, after which he worked in the travel industry for a company owned by his grandfather.
As a senior in college, he realized he wanted to write, and his first book was accepted for publication when he was 26.   His thriller, Play Dead, was published in 1990, followed by Miracle Cure in 1991. He then began writing a series of thrillers featuring a former basketball player turned sports agent, Myron Bolitar, who often finds himself investigating murders involving his clients.
Now with over 70 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times author of 31 novels, including Run Away, Fool Me Once, Tell No One, No Second Chance, and the renowned Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in 43 languages around the globe.
Tell No One, his first stand-alone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series, was published in 2001 and is his best-selling novel to date.   He followed it with nine more stand-alone novels. Hold Tight, released in 2008, was his first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. His most recent Myron Bolitar novel, Home, was published in 2016.   In March, 2019, his new book, Run Away, reached #2 on the New York Times Best Seller List during its first week on the list.
In addition to his Myron Bolitar series, he has written a series aimed at young adults featuring Myron’s nephew, Mickey Bolitar, a spin-off series about his 15-year-old nephew.
Coben is an international best-selling author and his books have been #1 best sellers in more than a dozen countries. He is the first writer to receive the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and an Anthony Award. The Edgar Award is named for Edgar Allan Poe and presented yearly by the Mystery Writers of America.   The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories. The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented yearly at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention and are named for Anthony Boucher, one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America.
Coben is the creator and executive producer for the Netflix television drama “Safe,” a crime drama series, “The Five,” and is currently filming “The Stranger” based on his novel for Netflix.
To summarize his books, there are 11 in the Myron Bolitar series, also known as those crime paperbacks you buy in the airport and devour in a day; three books of the Mickey Bolitar series written from 2011 through 2014; and stand-alone novels which span from 1990 to 2019 and include 17 books.
Shirley Martin announced that the Carroll Arts sponsored Arts & Crafts Exhibit was rescheduled to June 22nd due to inclement weather on the originally scheduled date. Carroll Arts is sponsoring the play “Frankenstein” at Bethel University this coming weekend.
The next meeting is in July at Lakeside with Geneva Johnson and Shelia Rogers as hostesses. Jean McKinnie has the program.
Members present were Victoria Ard, Peggy Chappell, Juanita Finley, Linda Edge, Carolyn Goodwin, Suzanne Howell, Geneva Johnson, Shirley Martin, Jean McKinnie, Sandi McMahen, Carolyn Moore, Mary Newman, Pedie Pedersen, Carolyn Potts, Marilynn Putman, Debbie Riley, Shelia Rogers, Gaye Rowan, Sally Sutton, and Elaine Williams.

Inglenook, June, 2019