Tombolo Books is kicking off our 2023 event lineup in an exciting way! We are thrilled to welcome back local author and friend of the bookstore Sterling Watson for his latest heart-pounding mystery, Night Letter!

In Night Letter, Watson delivers a taut thriller set in Florida's desolate panhandle that is part coming-of-age story and all hard-boiled noir!

The first 30 people to pre-order a copy of Night Letter will receive a $10 gift card to Tombolo Books!

Sterling Watson is the author of nine novels, including Deadly Sweet, Sweet Dream Baby, Fighting in the Shade, Suitcase City, and The Committee. Watson's short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, the Georgia Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Southern Review. He was director of the creative writing program at Eckerd College for twenty years and now teaches at Lasell University in Newton, Massachusetts. Of his sixth novel, Suitcase City, Tom Franklin said, "If this taut literary crime novel doesn't center Sterling Watson on the map, we should change maps." Watson lives in Gulfport, Florida.