Coffee with Author Pete Gallagher

Have Coffeehouse on Main coffee with an author who is starting out a serious career with our history! Highly recommended by readers and also recommended by the MN Book Award list of reading in 2024. Buy the book ahead or simply delve into the mind of an author on Saturday!

There’s some kinkiness and lots of colorful characters in this novel set in and around St. Paul’s Seventh Street. The twisty plot is so complicated that it’s hard to know who is “playing” whom and why. The main characters are Dion Drury and his bisexual sister, who never learned why their father was killed and why their mother disappeared 20 years earlier. Dion works as a civilian employee of the St. Paul police impound lot at night, and his sister is a bartender at one of two restaurants that are important meeting places in the story. What happened to the siblings’ parents is being investigated by Kady L’Orient, a young cop drawn to Dion while trying to make a name for herself, as well as a police lieutenant with a damaged eye who’s the right-hand man and fixer for “the walrus,” a ward politician who talks like the encyclopedia and is not exactly ethical in his dealings. Add a corpse in the St. Paul sewer system, the sultry owner of one of the restaurants who’s married to the councilman, a big young tow truck driver whose dad was a house painter, and the piano-playing uncle with whom the siblings lived after their parents were gone, and you’ve got a juicy story of corruption, deal-making and secrets set in familiar places St. Paul readers will enjoy visiting:

” ‘What can I say?’ Evan told her. ‘This is West Seventh Street. The truth takes a little while sometimes.’ ”

You may also like the following events from Sweet Reads:

• This Wednesday, 28th January, 03:30 pm, Author Jess Lourey Meet and Greet in Austin
• This Thursday, 29th January, 05:30 pm, Strong Ground Book Talk! in Austin
• Next month, 14th February, 10:00 am, Word Creation Party with Bre Strobel in Austin

Also check out other Arts events in Austin, Literary Art events in Austin, Meetups in Austin.