Joanna Giangardella, author of The Girl from the Tower and Barry Crowther, author of Missing: A Matt Speare mystery will be at Mathom House Books to sign their books. Please come join us on Friday, November 11, from 5 pm – 7 pm. Both books will be on sale at the event. Mathom House Books is located at 83 Via Pico Plaza, San Clemente, 92672 right between Staples and 99¢ Only. Ph: 949-361-1633 About Barry Crowther and his novel, Missing: Crowther, originally from Manchester, England, is currently a San Clemente resident who works as an Internet marketing consultant by day, moonlights as a mystery writer, and is a devoted student of jiu jitsu. His recent book is the story of a debt collector who is tasked to find the missing niece of a gangster. The series of events that follow takes him down blind alleys, into dark, evil places and uncovers parts of his life that he had thought were long forgotten. The book constantly surprises its reader and finishes with a rather unique twist at the end. About Joanna Giangardella and her memoir, The Girl from the Tower: Only ten years old and caught in the aftermath of the Greek Civil War, Joanna is placed into a special UN adoption program supported by Queen Frederica. For a child living on the barefoot island of Pergos, it seems to be a dream come true. America is the land of chocolate and walking dolls, after all, and she leaves her childhood behind to embark on a journey that changes her life forever. Her new American parents, a Russian-born monarch and a Bulgarian of high society, forbid her to speak Greek, force her to eat intolerable food, and confine her to her room. Joanna’s life becomes a nightmare as she longs for home but fears she has been abandoned and forgotten.