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Reading: Warren C. Easley: Fatal Flaw
April 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeAnnie Bloom’s welcomes back Oregon author Warren C. Easley for an in-store reading from his latest Cal Claxton mystery novel, Fatal Flaw.
Signed and personalized copies are available for order! Please, please, please include the name for personalization in the order notes; all orders without a name specified in the order notes will be signed only.
About Fatal Flaw:
It’s winter in the Oregon wine country, and small-town lawyer Cal Claxton deserves a respite after his last grueling case. But just as the world learns about a threatening new virus variant, a woman named Willow Daniels shows up at his office, asking Cal to represent her in the settlement of her uncle’s estate. The uncle’s death was ruled a suicide, but Willow isn’t buying it. Getting involved is against Cal’s better judgment, but how can he resist this single mother who tows her young daughter in a trailer behind her bike, takes gorgeous photos of Portland’s bridges, and serves delicious French cuisine from her Portland food cart? Cal soon learns that the uncle, a brilliant scientist, recently came up with an innovative device to detect viruses. The expected payoff is huge, and the list of those who stand to gain from his death gets longer and longer. Cal finds himself immersed in one of the most complex and dangerous cases he’s ever investigated. When a key witness is brutally murdered, and the woman Cal loves falls ill, he realizes he’s up against two killers––a ruthless murderer and a deadly virus.
Warren C. Easley, formerly a research scientist and international business executive, received a Kay Snow Award for fiction in 2012 and was named the Northwest’s Up and Coming Author in 2017, both honors bestowed by Willamette Writers. His fifth Cal Claxton book, Blood for Wine, was shortlisted for a Nero Award in 2018, and the eighth, No Witness, earned him the 2022 Spotted Owl Award from Friends of Mystery for the best mystery novel by a Pacific Northwest author. Warren lives in Oregon with his wife Marge, and his love for the state is evident in his Cal Claxton Mystery Series. He’s an avid hiker, skier, and fly fisherman, but his main exercise involves keeping up with his Australian shepherd, Archie––namesake to Cal Claxton’s beloved companion in the series.