Thomas H. Cook and Daphne Kalotay will discuss their new novels with audience members, moderator Julie Allen Hamilton.

This is a benefit for Cape Rep operations, co-sponsored by The Brewster Bookstore, which will provide books for post-program signing.

Cook, an Alabama native, has published more than 24 books including two works of true crime. Six of his novels have been nominated for awards, and THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR, set on Cape Cod, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best mystery novel in 1996. His book just published, THE QUEST FOR ANNA KLEIN, deals with an anti-Hitler conspiracy in 1940’s Germany and the disappearance of a woman beloved and mysterious. The punch line of its Kirkus review: “A knight errant, a labyrinth of deceit, a sure bestseller!”

Daphne Kalotay’s RUSSIAN WINTER, set in Stalinist-era Moscow and contemporary Boston, concerns a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi living in bitter retirement in America, whose offering of her historic jewels at auction conjures memories of loves lost to the Soviet oppression of artists—and unravels lifelong mysteries for the three main characters. A reviewer wrote, “Kalotay unfurls the plot exquisitely…she keeps the dead and the living on each page.” The New York Journal of Books called RUSSIAN WINTER “suspenseful, thoughtful, and engrossing.” It was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel competition and received a starred review from Kirkus.