Join local author S. Lee Manning for a reading from her newest book Nerve Attack followed by a discussion of writing thrillers: why thrillers - what makes them so appealing, how they differ from mysteries, the writing and publication process.

S. LEE MANNING spent two years as the managing editor of Law Enforcement Communications before realizing that lawyers make a lot more money. A subsequent career as an attorney spanned from a first- tier New York law firm—Cravath, Swaine & Moore—to working for the State of New Jersey, to solo practice. In 2001, Manning agreed to chair New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP), writing articles on the risk of wrongful execution, and arguing against the death penalty on radio and television in the years leading up to its abolition in the state in 2007.