January 21, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kevin McFadden
434-924-6890
kmcfadden@virginia.edu
VABook! 2005 Announces Crime Wave Events
(Charlottesville, VA) — The eleventh annual Virginia Festival of the Book (VABook!) is pleased to announce that novelist Linda Fairstein will be the speaker for this year’s Crime Wave luncheon on Saturday, March 19 at Noon at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel. Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, introduced the tough but tender prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Fairstein’s seventh Alexandra Cooper story, Entombed, is available this month.
Fairstein, a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law, earned a reputation as a formidable prosecutor when she was bureau chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Her work earned her several “Woman of the Year” awards and inspired her Virginia Law classmates to establish a scholarship in her name to support students who wish to pursue legal careers in the public sector.
On Friday, March 18, Fairstein will appear in a free, public event at the Culbreth Theatre at 8 p.m. with Virginia author David Baldacci, whose new novel Hour Game debuted in October.
Crime Wave is an entire day of free mystery and suspense events at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel, including authors Rhys Bowen, creator of Molly Murphy and Constable Evans and author of For the Love of Mike; Stephen White whose next installment in the Dr. Alan Gregory series Missing Persons hits stores in March 2005; Laura Lippman author of the Tess Monaghan series and By a Spider’s Thread; Andy Straka winner of the 2004 Shamus Award for the third book in his Frank Pavlicek series, Cold Quarry; and dozens more.
The Crime Wave luncheon with Fairstein is among the few paid events of the free five-day literary festival (luncheon tickets are $40). Ticket availability for this event is limited, so those wishing to attend are encouraged to reserve immediately. To order, call (434) 924-6890 and please have a credit card ready.
The eleventh annual Virginia Festival of the Book, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, will be held March 16-20, 2005 in venues throughout Charlottesville.
For more information on VABook!, visit the festival website www.vabook.org.
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