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Disturbing the Bones

What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?
Author Jeff Biggers, long-time author in Appalachia and Ohio River region, with new thriller coauthored by celebrated filmmaker Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, Holes, Perfect Murder et al) based in southern Illinois and Chicago, with starred PW review and blurbs from Michael Mann, Sara Paretsky, Susan Straight, Ron Stallworth, Luis Urrea. Along with his US of Appalachia book, Biggers also has a new book on IN SARDINIA and Italy.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761646/disturbing-the-bones-by-andrew-davis/9781685891459/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720861/in-sardinia-by-jeff-biggers/9781685890261/

Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?
Three books: Thriller, mystery, suspense, Southern, and Italy/travel, and Appalachia.

Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?
Debut novel by The Fugitive filmmaker Andrew Davis, with film in production.

Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before –what was your favorite experience at the Festival?
Meeting old friends.

About the Author

With work appearing in in The New York Times, The Guardian, and on NPR, Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of many works of investigative journalism, history, and theatre, and winner of the Delta Prize for Literature and the Brower Award for Environmental Reporting. Written with the acclaimed director of The Fugitive, Andrew Davis, Disturbing the Bones is a propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis.

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