For Immediate Release: October 18, 2017

Contact: Taggart Boyle, Quincy College, 610-608-9913, [email protected] Katy Spencer Johnson, Quincy College, 617-984-1759, [email protected]

Quincy College to Host 'Meet the Author Night' at Thomas Crane Public Library, featuring Author of Maximum Harm

Best-selling criminal author and emmy nominated investigative producer, Michelle McPhee to lead November 1st Author Talk in Quincy

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Quincy, MA (10/18/2017) - Quincy College Quincy Campus in collaboration with Thomas Crane Public Library to host free, open to the community "Meet the Author Night" event at Thomas Crane Library located at 40 Washington St, Quincy, MA 02169. Best-selling criminal author and emmy-nominated producer, Michelle McPhee will speak about her latest publication: Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, The FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing on Wednesday, November 1st starting at 7pm. This event is free and open to the public.

In Maximum Harm, veteran investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee unravels the complex story behind the public facts of the . Maximum Harm is a compelling examination of the Tsarnaev brothers' movements in the days leading up to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, the subsequent investigation, and the manhunt in which the authorities finally captured Dzhokhar, hiding in a Watertown backyard. McPhee untangles the many threads of circumstance, coincidence, collusion, motive, and opportunity that resulted in the deadliest attack on the city of Boston to date.

Michele McPhee is a bestselling true crime author; three-time Emmy-nominated television investigative producer working with the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Unit; award-winning magazine writer; newspaper reporter and columnist. She has written five true crime books: A Professor's Rage; A Date With Death; Heartless - The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Baby; When Evil Rules; and A Mob Story.

She has covered high-profile crime cases across the country and has been a commentator on breaking news for national programs on ABC World News Tonight, NBC Dateline, CNN; MSNBC; and the Fox News Network.

Quincy College's "Meet the Author Night" has brought notable authors to Quincy each Fall and Spring and have included such talent as Rick Beyer, author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, Don Hussey, author of Ticket to Ride, Stephen Puleo, author of Due to Enemy Action, and Casey Sherman, Author of .

A question and answer session and author signing will follow the Quincy College Meet the Author reading.

For more information about Quincy College's Meet the Author Night, please visit: http://www.eventkeeper.com/cham/ch_popevent.cfm?chamOrg=TCPL&EventID=5267084.

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Founded in 1958, Quincy College is a two-year, municipally affiliated community college serving approximately 4,500 students at campuses located in Quincy and Plymouth, Massachusetts. Quincy College is an open access institution that encourages academic achievement and excellence, diversity, economic opportunity, community involvement, and lifelong learning. The College facilitates valuable learning relationships that inspire students to realize their educational and professional futures. The college offers 37 associate degree programs and 25 certificate programs in a variety of disciplines, including those within Professional Programs, Liberal Arts, Natural & Health Sciences and Nursing. The college is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and is licensed by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to grant the degrees of Associate in Arts and Associate in Science.

As the "College of the South Shore", Quincy College draws a diversity of students from the greater metro Boston area, South Shore, Cape and the Islands, as well as 121 countries around the world. For additional information, visit www.quincycollege.edu