Durham
BILL BENNERS
REGULATOR BOOKSHOPNew Bern author Bill Benners will sign copies and read excerpts from his debut novel, My Sister’s Keeper. Benners’ mystery thriller is set in Wilmington, and features a Raleigh News & Observer reporter as heroine. The plot gets rolling when Richard, a New York photographer, heads to the N.C. coast after his reporter-sister Martha is brutally attacked. The investigation takes him to a midnight encounter with a starlet, andperhaps in homage to Raymond Chandler’s excavations of Los AngelesBenners’ novel soon moves into seamy territory, including a pornography ring that implicates the high and mighty of Wilmington. The action utilizes some of the traditionally favored locations for suspenseincluding the Cape Fear River, the setting for a climactic chase scene. For more information, call 286-2700 or visit www.regbook.com. Ashley Roberts
