From staff reports
Hank Phillippi Ryan is the next author in the USC Beaufort Center For The Arts’ Lunch With Authors series. He’ll discuss his newest work, One Wrong Word, at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the Belfair Clubhouse in Bluffton.
Tickets are $60. Make reservations at https://bit.ly/3urRwdl. Sunday, Feb. 11 is the final day to register.
Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 14 psychological thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMY awards and dozens more journalism honors.
National book critics call her “a superb and gifted storyteller.” She’s the only author to win the Agatha in four categories: Best First, Best Novel, Best Short Story and Best Non-Fiction.
“Ryan is one of my favorite authors,” bestselling author Lisa Scottoline said.
About One Wrong Word
Greed. Gossip. Revenge. Words have the power to change lives, and no one knows that better than crisis management expert Arden Ward. But she’s in big trouble — she’s accused of having an affair with a client. It’s not true. She would never do such a thing. But she gets the blame — and now she’s about to be fired.
Ward is granted two weeks to save her career and her reputation. And then she meets Cordelia Bannister.
Bannister needs help for her husband, Ned, a powerful Boston real estate mogul. Though he was recently acquitted in a fatal drunk driving accident, his reputation was utterly ruined, and the fallout is devastating not only to the Bannisters, but to their two pre-teen children.
Ward devotes her final days on the job to helping this shattered family, but soon, revelations about what really happened the night of the accident begin to emerge. And then another tragic car crash throws Ned back into the spotlight.
This case is Ward’s last chance to protect her own future and clear her name – and the Bannister kids may be in danger. But as she tries to untangle the truth, a disturbing question haunts her — what if she’s protecting a murderer?
