Author Event: Elle Cosimano, in Conversation with Olivia Blacke

Join us on Saturday, June 7 at 4:00 PM in the Yorktown Library Meeting Room for an exciting author event featuring bestselling author Elle Cosimano! Elle will discuss all things Finlay Donovan, her writing process, and more with mystery author Olivia Blacke. There will be an audience Q&A period and a book signing line. Paperbacks Ink--All Booked Up will be onsite with books for sale.

This is a free event. Registration is required. Questions? Please call 757-890-5207 or 757-890-5120.

Author Bios: 

Elle Cosimano is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Award winner, a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and an Edgar® Award nominee. Her acclaimed young adult novels include Nearly Gone, Holding Smoke, The Suffering Tree, and Seasons of the Storm. Elle’s debut novel for adults, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, kicked off a witty, fast-paced contemporary mystery series, which was a PEOPLE Magazine Pick and was named one of New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2021. To this date, there are five books in the Finlay Donovan series, the latest being Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave (2025). In addition to writing novels for teens and adults, her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Time. Elle lives with her husband and two sons in Virginia.

Olivia Blacke (she/her) had her first ghost encounter when she was only five years old, but her first involvement with an active crime scene wasn’t until decades later, when she accidentally stepped into a chalk outline on a Manhattan sidewalk. Armed with a Criminology and Criminal Justice degree, she channels her quirks into writing darkly humorous supernatural mysteries. She is also the author of the cozy Record Shop Mysteries and the Brooklyn Murder Mysteries. She wants to be a unicorn when she grows up.