ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT: THRILLERS - San Antonio Book Festival
April 12, 2025

ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT: THRILLERS

  • 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
  •    |   Location of Session: Latino Collection Resource Center
  • Adult Sessions
  • Start of Signing: 2:30 pm
  •    |   Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

About the Event

In May Cobb’s The Hollywood Assistant, Cassidy lands a cushy job with a famous Hollywood couple. But when one movie star ends up dead, she becomes the suspect. In Ashley Winstead’s This Book Will Bury Me, a grieving college student longs for distraction and becomes obsessed with solving the most famous crime in modern history. A conversation that will keep you on the edge of your seat! 

About the Author

May Cobb - The San Antonio Book Festival Photo Credit: Jeska Forsyth

May Cobb

May Cobb is an award-winning author of The Hunting Wives, My Summer Darlings, A Likeable Woman, and Big Woods. Her books have received attention from Book of the Month, the Today show, and Oprah Daily and have been optioned for film and TV. She has an MA from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in the Washington Post and Good Housekeeping. She currently lives in Austin with her family. Her novel is The Hollywood Assistant. 

Ashley Winstead - The San Antonio Book Festival Photo Credit: Luis Noble

Ashley Winstead

Ashley Winstead is the national bestselling author of This Book Will Bury Me, Midnight is the Darkest Hour, The Last Housewife, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, The Boyfriend Candidate, and Fool Me Once. Her books have been LibraryReads picks, included on Best of Amazon and Best of Apple Books lists, and have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, and Library Journal.

Her work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, CrimeReads, Parade, Cosmopolitan, Good Morning America, Good Housekeeping, Seattle Times, and Southern Review of Fiction, among other outlets. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide and optioned for television. Ashley holds a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature and lives in Houston.

Moderator

Brian Contine

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