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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Moderator

E.A. Aymar

Latest Title: When She Left
When She Left
When She Left by E.A. Aymar

A young couple fleeing a criminal family confronts a reluctant assassin in this heart-pounding thriller from E.A. Aymar.

When Melissa Cruz falls hard for a dreamy-eyed photographer named Jake, she can’t resist the urge to run away with him. The problem is that she already has a boyfriend, a rising star in his family’s crime organization. Betrayed and humiliated, Chris isn’t going to just let her go.

To find Melissa, Chris turns to Lucky Wilson, one of his family’s professional assassins. But Lucky has his own problems. After years of lying about his day job, his marriage is in shambles and he suffers from relentless panic attacks. He’ll do this job if Chris will let him out of the killing life.

Lucky knows this is his best chance at salvaging the home life he always craved. But Melissa and Jake aren’t going to abandon their chance at something real—something they’ve both been lacking in their lives. But they aren’t the only ones desperate to survive, and a powerful criminal family isn’t the only danger.

And soon, it’s clear that an unlikely partnership might be the only way for any of them to make it out alive…

About E.A. Aymar

Booklist wrote of multiple Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s most recent thriller, “When She Left,” “This would appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard…with high-stakes violence tempered by humor and disarmingly sympathetic antiheroes.” His previous thriller, “No Home for Killers,” received praise from The New York Times, Kirkus, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and was an instant Amazon Best-seller. A frequent contributor to The Washington Post, E.A. is a former member of the national board of the International Thriller Writers and an active member of Crime Writers of Color and Sisters in Crime. He was born in Panama and now lives and writes in the DC/MD/VA triangle.

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Moderator Schedule:

Venue(s):

Dashiell Hammett Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

12:15 pm

Presentation End Time:

1:05 pm

Signing Time:

1:15 pm

Author Website:

http://eaymar.com/