From @ArvidaBookCo

🗣️ Join us THIS Saturday, May 18th, from 5 PM to 6 PM on our patio for an exclusive author talk with Linda Moore, hosted by the fellow thriller author Adam Sikes. Dive into intrigue and adventure in a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Join us to gain insights into Linda’s creative process, and explore the backdrop of Bogotá that sets the stage for this compelling thriller.

📍 Location: Arvida Book Co. 
📅 Date: Saturday, May 18th
⏰ Time: 5 PM to 6 PM

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to celebrate local talent. Bring your questions, share your thoughts, and immerse yourself in the art and suspense of Five Days in Bogotá

📢 Spread the word, bring friends, and let’s make this a celebration to remember! 🥳

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Desperate to save her gallery and her family from bankruptcy, Allison Blake travels to Bogotá to an art fair to meet wealthy collectors. She discovers paintings worth millions were added to her crates in scheme to launder money. Caught between warring cartels, U.S. mercenaries, and shady characters from her past, she fights to save her gallery and protect her children.

“Love thrillers? Me, too, and Linda Moore’s whip smart Five Days in Bogotá adds extra ammunition to the genre, with a feisty art . . . heroine on the verge of bankruptcy who has to thwart art fraud, nefarious ex-boyfriend, and even drug lords, in order to keep her family safe. A hold-your-breath read about what we do for love—of family and of art.”
—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You

Gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in the 1990s. She needs wealthy collectors to boost her gallery's sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When her art crates are tampered with and she discovers an ex-boyfriend and colleague from her State Department days in Santiago has involved her in a money laundering scheme, she devises a strategy to thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family’s future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Linda Moore is an author, traveler, and recovering gallery owner. Her gallery featured contemporary artists from Latin American, Spain, and the United States and she has exhibited at numerous art fairs, including in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Madrid. Attribution, her debut novel was an IBPA finalist in Ben Franklin Awards for General Fiction, Eric Hoffer honorable mention winner in General Fiction, on the 2022 Sarton Book Awards Short List in Contemporary Fiction, winner of Somerset Award in Literary and Contemporary Fiction and a 2022 International Book Awards Finalist in Best New Fiction, among other distinctions. She has published award-winning exhibition catalogs and her writing has appeared in art journals and anthologies. She resides with her book-collecting husband in San Diego and is working hard on her next novel in their vacation cottage on Kauai.