Red Flags - An Evening with Lisa Black and Linda Hurtado Bond

Red Flags - An Evening with Lisa Black and Linda Hurtado Bond 

June 6, 2022 [St. Petersburg, FL] - In highly realistic new forensic thriller series informed by her career in crime scene analysis, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black pits two female scientists - a CSI and a Pathologist - against Washington DC's political underbelly! 

Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome Florida author Lisa Black to the bookstore to tell us all about her exciting new Locard Institute Thrillers! Red Flags kicks off the series and introduces us to our new favorite crime duo, crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Carr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies! 

Black will be in conversation with local author and Emmy-award winning journalist Linda Hurtado Bond! 

• When: Wednesday, August 3, 2022, from 7:00pm-8:00 pm
• Where: Tombolo Books – 2153 1st Ave South, St. Petersburg, FL 33712. Parking for the event is
  available on Central Avenue.
• Light refreshments will be served, and masks are required. To RSVP, visit: https://tombolobooks.com/?q=h.calevent&eid=18108
  When D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Carr is called to investigate the heartrending case of a missing baby, she’s shocked to discover that the child’s mother is her own cousin. Close during their impoverished childhoods, Ellie and Rebecca eventually drifted apart. Rebecca is now half of a Washington power couple, and she and her wealthy lobbyist husband, Hunter, have been living a charmed life in an opulent mansion—until their infant son is taken.
  “Every contact leaves a trace.” That’s the basic principle of forensic science followed by pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies. A reluctant Ellie is teamed with Rachael, employed by Hunter to help with the investigation. Rachael is assistant dean at the prestigious Locard Forensic Institute, named in honor of the French criminologist who inspired the profession. But in this case, discovering where
  those traces lead quickly becomes a dangerous journey through a web of greed and deadly ambition.
  At first antagonists, then allies, Ellie and Rachael race to find the baby alive and bring the kidnappers to justice. What seemed like a simple ransom grab reveals links to a lobbying effort to loosen regulations on a billion-dollar gaming empire. Unless they can piece together the evidence before the Senate hearing, Rebecca’s son—and others like him—will face an unthinkable fate...
  Lisa Black is the New York Times bestselling author of the Gardiner and Renner Novels and the Locard Institute Thrillers featuring Dr. Ellie Carr and Dr. Rachael Davies. As a forensic scientist at the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office, she analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now she is a latent print examiner and certified crime analyst for the Cape Coral Police Department in Florida. She is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the International Association for Identification, and the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts, and has testified in court as an expert witness over 65 times. Her books have been translated into six languages and she was named finalist for the prestigious Sue Grafton Memorial Award for Perish. She lives near Fort Myers, Florida.
  For more information about this event and other Tombolo please contact: Kelsey Jagneaux
  Events Coordinator
  events@tombolobooks.com