Join the Maynard Public Library and The Silver Unicorn Bookstore for an evening with bestselling author Julie Berry, where she will talk about her newest book, If Looks Could Kill, "a true-crime-nail-biter-turned-mythic-odyssey pitting Jack the Ripper against Medusa. A defiant love song to sisterhood, a survivors’ battle cry, and a romantic literary tour de force laced with humor."

Julie Berry is the New York Times bestselling author of the 2020 NCTE Walden Award and SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Lovely War, the 2017 Printz Honor and LA Times Book Prize-shortlisted The Passion of Dolssa, the Carnegie and Edgar-shortlisted All the Truth That’s in Me, the Odyssey Honor The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, and the Wishes and Wellingtons trilogy. Her picture books include The Night Frolic, Happy Right Now, and Cranky Right Now. Her new YA novel, If Looks Could Kill, releases September 2025. Julie holds a BS from Rensselaer in communication and an MFA from Vermont College. Julie owns Author’s Note, an independent bookstore in Medina, New York.

Copies of If Looks Could Kill will be available from The Silver Unicorn Bookstore at the event for purchase and signing.