Book Talk: Magical Mushrooms

By Kris Neri

Join us Monday November 13 at 3:00 PM as author Kris Neri reads from her book Magical Mushrooms, and talks about the Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery series. She’ll be happy to answer any writing-related questions, and will be selling and signing copies of her books. Magical Mushrooms is the third adventure in the award-winning, humorous Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery series, featuring a quirky, confused psychic who teams up with a contemporary Celtic goddess hidden within the FBI.

With the worldwide Great Disappearance, magic has come out of the closet. In the blink of an eye, iconic structures around the world have vanished. As for all the people who had been in those buildings at the time — goners, all of them. But the dynamic duo are on the case again: Special Agent Annabelle Haggerty, a genuine Celtic goddess hidden within the FBI, and her flakey sidekick, confused psychic Samantha Brennan. Too bad neither of them are at their best. While Annabelle struggles with an inexplicable dimming of her powers and Samantha now possesses genuine psychic gifts that she can’t control. Will they be able to save the world?

Kris Neri’s novels have been honored by such prestigious awards as the: Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Lefty, International Book Award, and New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her novels have been honored with three Lefty Award nominations for humor. She is a four-time New Mexico-Arizona Book Award winner for her own novels, and books to which she’s contributed.  

Her novels include the Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggarty Magical Mystery series, the Tracy Eaton mysteries, women’s fiction, and thrillers. She teaches writing online for the prestigious Writers’ Program of the UCLA Extension School and other organizations. Kris lives in Silver City with her musician husband Joe Neri and two pushy terriers. She is a member of the steering committee of the Southwest Word Fiesta.