Join us to hear from New York Times Bestselling author Alyssa Cole about her recent thrillers, When No One is Watching and One of Us Knows. Following her presentation, Alyssa will be joined in conversation by k. kennedy Whiters, RA, whose initiative Black in Historic Preservation is co-host for this event.
When No One is Watching is set in a historic Brooklyn neighborhood, where gentrification is a truly ominous force. The book asks the question, "Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out?" One of Us Knows is set at a fictional historic estate on a Hudson River Island. Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Dealing with issues of historical trauma, One of Us Knows forces the reader to consider the sinister histories underlying the places that have traditionally been deemed worthy of preservation. Alyssa Cole is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of romance and thrillers. Her debut thriller When No One Is Watching was the winner of the 2021 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Paperback Original and the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut. Her books have received critical acclaim from the New York Times, Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, Booklist, Jezebel, Shondaland, Vulture, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and various other outlets. When she’s not working, she can usually be found watching anime or wrangling her pets.
This author talk is presented as part of the Preservation League of NYS's Preservation Book Club. Thank you to our sponsor, the Peggy N. & Roger G. Gerry Charitable Trust.