In conversation with Francesca Serritella, 3:40 – 4:30 pm, Church of the Redeemer
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of thirty-seven novels, including her new psychological thriller, The Unraveling of Julia. Lisa is President of Mystery Writers of America and has been named 2026 Thriller Master by International Thriller Writers. She has also co-authored a nine-book humorous memoir series with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. Lisa has thirty million copies of her books in print and is published in over thirty-five countries. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from its law school, where she taught a course she created titled Justice & Fiction. She lives on a farm in Pennsylvania.
MFOB featured book: The Unraveling of Julia
The Unraveling of Julia is a riveting psychological thriller in which Julia, a troubled young widow, inherits a mysterious Tuscan estate, from an unknown benefactor. Being adopted, Julia suspects this could connect her to her biological family, but the house and her family history is shrouded in secrets. Can she unravel the mystery before it unravels her?


