The four speakers for 2022 are:
Kristin Harmel, author of the “The Book of Lost Names” and the upcoming “The Forest of Vanishing Stars”;
Susan Wiggs, whose latest, “The Lost and Found Bookshop,” is a love letter to independent bookstores;
Brad Taylor, a retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel and author of “American Traitor” and “End of Days”;
Scott Turow, the master of legal thrillers from “Presumed Innocent” to “The Last Trial.”
“We are pleased to be able to offer such highly recognized, accomplished and entertaining authors,” said Trish Benisch, chairperson of the Nick Linn Series.
“The pandemic changed our game plan for 2021, but our shift to online-only lectures was very successful and allowed us to continue our important work on behalf of the Collier library system,” Benisch said. “Now, we’re looking forward to resuming in-person events, as well as continuing to offer the lectures online for subscribers who want to watch from home
In a lush garden in Seattle, near her snoozing dachshunds, sits a grandmother who’s plotting murder. But, as with any good mystery, all is not as it seems. She’s J.A. Jance, and she’s sold more than 21 million books about life’s darker side.
Beginning in 1985 with her first novel, “Until Proven Guilty,” up through this year’s “Missing and Endangered,” Jance has published more than 70 books featuring her three series protagonists: old-school Seattle Police Detective J.P. Beaumont, widowed Arizona Sheriff Joanna Brady and L.A. newscaster-turned-crime-investigator Ali Reynolds.
Jance is the final speaker, on Monday, March 22, in this year’s virtual Nick Linn Lecture Series, sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Collier County.
Naples Daily News: Did you ever worry that Winston Churchill had been written about too much? You’ve mentioned how the smaller window of time the year of the Blitz offered a chance to explore aspects of Churchill that other writers hadn’t.
Erik Larson: I worried constantly about that, thank you. But, I also knew that the question I wanted to answer was one no one had asked before, at least not in the same way: How exactly did Churchill and his family and close advisers ever manage to endure that first, year-long German air campaign? With that as my lens, suddenly Churchill’s history seemed quite fresh for example, the fact that 10 Downing Street ordered 78 pounds of Brown Windsor soap, or that the Churchills had to keep careful track of the booze they served to guests, lest they run afoul of rules set by the Government Hospital Fund, established so that official functions could still be held despite wartime rationing. Just teeny details, but two of the many in the book t