Best-Selling Mystery Author Joanne Dobson to Lead White Plains Public Library "Murder They Wrote" Book Discussion Finale

The White Plains Public Library will conclude its popular "Murder They Wrote" Book Discussion series with an appearance by Joanne Dobson, English Professor at Fordham University, who will discuss her best-selling Karen Pelletier series on Wednesday, December 5th at 2pm and at 7pm. Participants are asked to read her mystery novel, Quieter Than Sleep, for this session. For information, call Program Librarian Barbara Wenglin at 914-422-1486 or e-mail at bwenglin@wppl.lib.ny.us.

Joanne Dobson is the author of four Karen Pelletier mysteries, Cold and Pure and Very Dead, The Raven and the Nightingale, The Northbury Papers and Quieter Than Sleep, for which she was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Mystery. Blending the worlds of mystery and New England academia, Dobson has created Karen Pelletier, a savvy English professor whose literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson.

For ten years, Joanne Dobson was the editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, which she helped found. She was also one of the general editors of the American Women Writers reprint series from Rutgers University, and is the author of Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence: The Woman Writer in the Nineteenth Century.

"Murder They Wrote" is presented with the support of The Friends of the White Plains Public Library.