Kardos launches new mystery novel with April 4 reading at ̫ӳ
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A faculty member in ̫ӳ’s Department of English is celebrating the launch of his new mystery novel with a Wednesday [April 4] public reading.
Free to all, Michael Kardos’s presentation of “Bluff” takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Colvard Student Union’s third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium.
Hailed by Literary Hub as one of this year’s most anticipated crime, mystery and thriller titles, “Bluff” will be released April 3 by Mysterious Press. Independent literary publisher Grove Atlantic also praised Kardos’s book for taking the reader “deep inside the fraught and fascinating world of a modern magician who becomes obsessed with magic’s dark twin—the underworld of the card cheat.”
Signed copies of “Bluff” are available for pre-order at The Book Mart and Café in Starkville.
Originally from the Jersey Shore, Kardos is in his 11th year as an associate professor of English and co-director of ̫ӳ’s creative writing program. He is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of “The Three-Day Affair,” an Esquire Best Book of 2012, as well as the novel “Before He Finds Her.” His story collection “One Last Good Time” is a winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction. For more biographical information, visit .
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