Lisa Black, Author of Takeover

The Lake County Library System announces Authors @ The Library, a new initiative to encourage the love of reading! Starting this September, one of our 13 libraries will present an author on tour with a new book each month.

The Lake County Library System presents the first in the Authors @ The Library series, HarperCollins author Lisa Black with her debut novel Takeover a tight, riveting thriller. In the tradition of Kathy Reichs and Jeffery Deaver, this talented novelist introduces a gutsy forensic investigator caught inthe middle of an explosive crisis. Lisa will appear on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 2 p.m. at the W.T. Bland Public Library in Mount Dora Florida and at 7 p.m. at the Leesburg Public Library in Leesburg, Florida.

Ms. Black spent the happiest five years of her life in a morgue. Strange, perhaps, but true. In her job as a forensic scientist at the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office, she analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now she works as a latent print examiner for the city of Cape Coral, Florida, police department, working mostly with fingerprints, photography and crime scenes.