Thu, Feb 13
|Stone Soup Books
Spend Galentine's Day with Books and Friends!!!!!
Bring your girlfriends for a fun and festive Galentine's evening as Stone Soup Books host the paperback launch of Lace Widow by Mollie Ann Cox!
Time & Location
Feb 13, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Stone Soup Books, 150 Race Ave, Waynesboro, VA 22980, USA
About
Have a Girls Night out with author Mollie Ann Cox and help celebrate the launch of her paperback edition of Lace Widow!
About the Book:
Could Alexander Hamilton be at the center of a vast murder plot engulfing Old New York? As his widow, Eliza, pieces together the puzzle, she unearths a heartbreaking secret that threatens to tear her family apart.
New York, 1804. America’s beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton’s eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father’s duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead.
Eliza searches for ways to clear her son’s name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband’s papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state. Hamilton was accused of stealing that money, and it was a scandal that almost broke the family—but is Eliza now holding proof of Alexander’s innocence?
Deep in debt and despair, with eight children to support, Eliza turns to selling her handmade lace—and is drawn into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who are intimately connected to New York’s high-society families. They know their dead husbands’ secrets—and soon, Eliza begins to piece together the truth.
About the Author:
Mollie Cox Bryan writes cozy mysteries with edge and traditional mysteries with heart. She’s the author of several bestselling mystery series, also writing under the pen name Maggie Blackburn. She’s recently released her first historical mystery, The Lace Widow, as Mollie Ann Cox. Her books have been selected as finalists for an Agatha Award and a Daphne du Maurier Award and as a Top 10 Beach Reads by Woman’s World. She has also been short-listed for the Virginia Library People’s Choice Award. She’s also penned a historical fiction: MEMORY OF LIGHT: AN AFTERMATH OF GETTYSBURG. She makes her home at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Shenandoah Valley, Va.
She was honored with an Agatha Award nomination for her first novel, SCRAPBOOK OF SECRETS.
Website/blog: Http://www.molliecoxbryan.com