History Book Festival to host online talk with Ed Ruggero Nov. 12
Author Ed Ruggero will join a live online discussion at 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, of his mystery novel, “Blame the Dead,” presented by the History Book Festival.
The first book in a planned World War II series, “Blame the Dead” is set in a U.S. Army field hospital in Sicily in 1943. Military Police Lt. Eddie Harkins, a former Philadelphia cop, is called to investigate the brutal murder of a doctor. Harkins and nurse Kathleen Donnelly, a childhood friend who may be something more, struggle to find the killer as the battle lines push forward.
A Lewes and History Book Festival volunteer, Ruggero is a West Point graduate and former Army officer who has written 11 books – fiction, military history and titles on leadership – and built a business running leadership retreats for business executives to Normandy and Gettysburg.
While visiting Sicily to research his nonfiction book “Combat Jump,” about the 1943 Allied invasion, Ruggero became intrigued by the question, “What happens after the fighting moves on?” That musing led him to create “Blame the Dead.”
This Zoom event is free but registration is required. To register, go to historybookfestival.org and click on 2020 Events.
The 2020 Virtual History Book Festival is presented in cooperation with the Lewes Public Library, and sponsored by Delaware Humanities and the Lee Ann Wilkinson Group.
Copies of “Blame the Dead” with signed archival bookplates are available from the festival’s official bookseller, Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. Biblion in Lewes also has copies. The book also may be borrowed from the Lewes Public Library. To arrange for pickup, call 302-645-2733 or email lewes.library@gmail.com.
