Mystery and Crime Fiction writer Dennis Lehane… Live!

Doors open at 6 p.m. with live music by the Tim Johnson Jazz Group, book sales, and beer and wine sales in the theater lobby. General Admission ($20) or students with valid I.D. ($12). Tickets are available at Frauenthal Theater Box Office, 1 (800) 585-3737 or the Muskegon Community College English Department (Room 154) between 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. (231) 777-0371. The event is made possible by a grant from George and Betty Hilt.

A Boston native, Dennis Lehane won the Shamus Award for his first novel, A Drink Before the War. Since then, he has published 12 more novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and have become international bestsellers:

• Darkness
• Take My Hand
• Scared
• Gone, Baby, Gone
• Prayers for Rain
• Mystic River
• Shutter Island
• The Given Day
• Moonlight Mile
• The Drop, and
• Live by Night

Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and a writer-producer on the fourth season of HBO’sBoardwalk Empire. He currently has three dramatic series in development at HBO, Showtime, and WGN America.

“[Lehane] deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category . . .”Washington Post Book World