You might be surprised to find a gothic mystery set in sunny Miami, but Florida-born author Chanel Cleeton serves it up with a full menu of glitz and glamour, adultery, betrayal and murder in her latest bestseller, “The House on Biscayne Bay.”
On Thursday, Nov. 7, Cleeton’s talk and book signing in Naples will kick off the 2024-25 Author Spotlight Events for the Friends of the Library of Collier County, the nonprofit that raises hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Collier’s public libraries.
Although tickets are already sold out for Cleeton’s lecture at The Norris Center, the Friends of the Library is keeping a waiting list. (See info box for details about the series and how to get tickets to upcoming events.)
The second writer to speak in the Author Spotlight Events will be another book club favorite — historical novelist Stephanie Dray — on Thursday, April 3. Dray’s latest, “Becoming Madam Secretary,” explores the life of Frances Perkins, who was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s secretary of labor and the architect of Social Security and other economic benefits during the Great Depression.