Please note: Due to a family emergency, this event has been cancelled.

From shopping at Hen House, dining in Brookside or hightailing it from the West Bottoms to Olathe, reading a mystery in our own backyard makes the action even more spine tingling.

Come to the Leawood Pioneer Library on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009; 2 p.m. to for a thrilling afternoon with Kansas City author Joel Goldman as he discusses his newest mystery The Dead Man.

Ex-FBI agent, now PI, Jack Davis is both cocky and lovable in a story that is fast-paced  and full of murder. When the subjects of a scientific dream study are turning up dead – just the way they dreamt they would die – Jack is called in to find a serial killer who is working right in the midst of a research facililty.

Praised by  Michael Connelly,  John Lescroart and  Linda Fairstein, Joel Goldman weaves a gripping tale with a great dialogue that is sharp, funny and keeps the mystery to the end! - Chris F.