The English Department is excited to announce that author Laura McHugh will read from her work at the C. Minor Recital Hall in Ellis Hall.

About Laura McHugh

Laura McHugh is the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of novels The Weight of Blood, Arrowood, The Wolf Wants In, and What’s Done in Darkness. The Weight of Blood won the International Thriller Writers Award and the Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel and the Missouri Author Award for Fiction. Arrowood was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, and The Wolf Wants In was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal.

What’s Done in Darkness was featured on the Today Show, where author Harlan Coben called it the best thriller read of the summer. McHugh’s work has also been nominated for an American Library Association Alex Award, a Barry Award, a GoodReads Choice Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and her novels have been translated into multiple languages and optioned for film. McHugh lives in Columbia, Missouri with her family. You can learn more on her website.

We hope you join us on Wednesday, April 6, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the C. Minor Recital Hall in Ellis Hall. The event will be free, but we ask that you register if you plan to attend. You can register by emailing English@missouristate.edu.