Lina Chern, author of TRICKS OF FORTUNE- an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Lina Chern, author of Tricks of Fortune: A Play the Fool Mystery. She will be joined in conversation by Mary Thorson.

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Katie True has gotten her crap together. . . sort of. Now that the sinister events of the past year have wound down, Katie has finally made her dream come true and opened her own tarot reading room. It’s a good start, but her momentum grinds to a halt when the M**der of beloved veteran police officer, Matthew Peterson, shakes her and her small community to the core. Even worse, her closest friend Gina—who knows Katie better than she knows herself—is the primary suspect. All Katie knows is that following her intuition has gotten her this far. But will her trusty tarot deck help her when the truth about the people she loves is too terrible to face?

“A delicious blend of suspense and madcap humor.”—Library Journal, starred review of Play the Fool

Lina Chern’s debut mystery novel, Play the Fool, won the 2024 Mary Higgins Clark Award and was nominated for the 2024 Lefty and Anthony Awards. Her shorter work has appeared in Mystery Weekly, The Marlboro Review, and The Bellingham Review, among others.

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