Thursday, May 5, Lynn Chandler Willis to speak at the Upstate SC Chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Lynn’s forthcoming novel, Nobody’s Baby, is the first in the three-book Ava Logan Mystery Series published by Henery Press. Nobody’s Baby is expected to be released early 2017. Her novel, Wink of an Eye: A Gypsy Moran Mystery, was a Shamus Award finalist and winner of the St. Martin’s Press/PWA Best 1st P.I. Novel competition. She is also the author of The Rising, a Grace Award top winner for Excellence in faith-based fiction, and the best-selling true crime,Unholy Covenant. More about Lynn can be found at the end of this email or at her website, http://lynnchandlerwillis.com .

The monthly Sisters in Crime meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 5, at The Runway Café, 21 Airport Rd, Greenville, S.C. Be there at 6:15 p.m. to meet Lilly and enjoy the chapter fellowship. Supper should be served at 6:30. Ms. Chandler-Willis’s presentation will begin at 7 p.m. Both the dinner and the meeting are open to the public.

In order for the Runway Café to speed service, dinner orders must be emailed to Ellis Vidler, evidler@att.net ,by noon the day of the meeting. Please ensure that you email Ellis before noon. If you can't dine with us, we would still like to know you plan to attend so we can be sure you have a seat. To see the special menu for our group, please visit our website—  www.sincupstatesc.blogspot.com  — and click on the Advance Order Menu tab at right.  If you place an order and do not attend or fail to cancel by noon, you will be charged for the meal. And like always, we'll enjoy it.

Ms. Chandler-Willis has worked in the corporate world (hated it!), the television news business (fun job) and the newspaper industry (not a fan of the word “apparently” and phrase “according to”). She keeps coming back to fiction because she likes making stuff up and you just can’t do that in the newspaper or television news business.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and the Randolph Writers. She lives in the heart of North Carolina with her shelter dog, Finn, a happy border collie/aussie mix and babysits eight of her nine grandkids on a daily basis. They give her a lot of material to write about.