Local authors set for book signing

Local authors set for book signing

EAST LIVERPOOL

Local authors Darlene Torday of Berlin Center, Cathy Seckman of Calcutta and Debbie Schukert of Edinburg, Pa., will participate in a book signing from noon to 2 p.m. Feb. 2 at Java Jo House, 514 E. Fifth St.

They will sign copies of their indie-published murder mystery, “Bad Moon Rising.” The book is also available at www.amazon.com as an e-book or paperback.

Peace, love and murder are the conflicting themes that emerge when college students return to Kent State University after the summer of Woodstock.

The fictional story is set amid the tumultuous events of 1969-70, when both the country and its young people were irrevocably changed.

Seckman is also the author of “Weirdo World,” a time-travel fantasy published in 2011 by Cool Well Press, and is available at www.coolwellpress.com, www.amazon.com and at Java Jo, the Coffee Buzz in Brighton Township, Pa., and Cafe Kolache in Beaver, Pa.

New Dan Brown novel is coming in May

NEW YORK

A new Dan Brown novel is coming in May, and the subject is Dante.

Doubleday has announced that Brown’s book is called “Inferno,” named for Dante’s epic journey in verse. Brown again will feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, the protagonist for his blockbuster “The Da Vinci Code” and for the million-selling follow-up “The Lost Symbol.” The book might seem familiar in other ways, as Brown again takes on a masterpiece of Western civilization: “The Da Vinci Code” centered on an iconic painting, the Mona Lisa.

Brown may be returning to the religious controversies of “The Da Vinci Code,” when he infuriated some Catholics by suggesting that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had children. Dante himself was a Catholic who was critical of church leaders.

“Inferno” comes out May 14.

Vindicator staff/wire reports