Join SSB & author Araminta Hall to celebrate the publication of One of the Good Guys. Araminta will be in discussion with Melissa Scholes Young.

Please reserve a copy of the book & a seat on Eventbrite here.

This event will be at the H St. location of Solid State Books.

Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem.

Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She’s living a short walk from Cole’s seaside cottage, preparing for her latest art exhibition. Though Cole still can’t figure out what went wrong with his marriage, and Leonora is having trouble acclimating to the hostile landscape, the pair forges a connection on the eroding bluff they call home.

Then, two young women activists raising awareness about gendered violence disappear while passing through. Cole and Leonora find themselves in the middle of a police investigation and the resulting media firestorm when the world learns of what happened. And as the tension escalates alongside the search for the missing women, they quickly realize that they don’t know each other that well after all.

From the critically acclaimed author of Our Kind of Cruelty and Imperfect Women, comes an urgent psychological thriller about gender, power, and how both are captured in our contemporary media environment. Unexpected and twisty from its first page to its last, One of the Good Guys asks: If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night?

Araminta Hall is the author of Everything and Nothing, Our Kind of Cruelty, and Imperfect Women. She has an MA in creative writing and authorship from the University of Sussex and teaches creative writing in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and three children

Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the award-winning novels Flood and The Hive. She is Editor of the Grace & Gravity anthology project, which publishes women writers in the D.C. region, and a Professor in the Literature Department of American University where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program. Melissa teaches every summer at the Tennants Cove Writers Workshop in New Brunswick, Canada.

This event will be in-person, and there will be a chance for autographed copies afterwards. There will not be a streaming, or video presentation during or after this reading. Thank you for your understanding.