Join us at Book Love for an evening with Christopher Mirabile in conversation with Laurie Witt. Come enjoy a lively chat about his book and the stories behind it, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Meet the Main Character from the Seaside Mystery Thriller Series:
Silas Lopez probably should’ve stayed on the open range of New Mexico and Colorado. Life was simpler on horseback, where trouble showed in a bull’s eye and could be settled with strong, steady hands. But staying was never in the cards for this fifteenth-generation rancher.
He traded cattle drives for city streets, spending years as a cop in Salt Lake City—until the corruption got too thick to breathe and his temper made staying impossible. So he and his cattle dog, Bandit, sold near everything they owned, climbed into their Jeep, and headed east to see what else the world held.
Fate dropped them in Provincetown, a windswept village at the far tip of Cape Cod—twenty-five miles out to sea from the polished chaos of the East Coast. Somehow Silas found himself wearing a badge again, this time as Chief—and, to his own surprise, falling under the spell of Wren Bradford, a debutante-turned-photographer and social worker with roots as deep as the dunes. He doesn’t talk much, but when he does, people listen. His compass never wavers, his work ethic could shame an ox, and his smarts were forged the only way that counts—by surviving.
About Christopher:
Christopher Mirabile was born to books. The middle child of a small-town librarian, by the time he was an honors English major at Colgate University, he was certain he would write fiction. Life had other plans. A career in business and law, years spent mentoring and co-founding startups, and several nonfiction books written along the way all came first, while the novels he always intended to write waited patiently in the background.
It took a pandemic, some turbulent times, and a few years of van life—camping across the United States and Canada with his wife and dogs—to finally clear the headspace and bring that long-delayed ambition into focus. Somewhere out in open country, Silas Lopez came into being: a plainspoken former ranch hand who washes up as a police chief at the far tip of Cape Cod. The Silas Lopez Mysteries are Christopher's way of writing about belonging, justice, and the particular magic of Provincetown, the town he now calls home year-round.
And now that the series is underway, Christopher can’t imagine leaving Silas and Wren behind—he suspects Silas still has plenty of stories left to tell. When he isn't writing, he's out in the dunes with his wife, hiking with his dogs (one of whom may recognize himself in these pages), or behind a camera somewhere along the Outer Cape.