Left Bank Books presents author Kevin Killeen, who will sign and discuss his third novel, Snow Globes and Hand Grenades (Blank Slate Press, November 2015), at a special Launch Party event on Tuesday, November 17, 7pm, at Left Bank Books (399 N. Euclid).

Mimi Maloney, an average student who never gets in trouble, shows her genius in love and crime in Snow Globes and Hand Grenades, a tale of 1970s Catholic school kids enduring the last two weeks of eighth grade. Police and church investigators conspire to learn who put the stolen snow globe paperweight in the hand of Mary on the church roof, and suspicion falls on Mimi’s classmates, Patrick Cantwell and his best friend Tony. In this suspenseful, laugh-filled sequel to Never Hug a Nun and Try to Kiss a Girl, award-winning author Kevin Killeen gives us a caper plot of flawed heroes and lovable villains that illustrates childish daydreams all too often have adult, real-life consequences.

Of Kevin Killeen, Bill McClellan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says, “How often does a radio guy make you think of Mark Twain? Kevin remembers what it was like to be a kid.” David Carkeet, author of The Full Catastrophe, claims, “Blessed with a genuine comic gift, Killeen manages to write with both hilarity and humanity.”

A comic novelist who writes about family life, growing up and Catholic schools, Kevin Killeen has won awards for humor in his first two books, Never Hug a Nun and Try to Kiss a Girl. By day Killeen has worked since 1995 as a reporter for CBS Radio in St. Louis, covering crime, politics and human interest features. He has also written and directed some twenty humorous, full-length radio plays for the KMOX Holiday Radio Show. In his third novel, Snow Globes and Hand Grenades, Killeen for the first time puts the boys in the background and tells a story whose main character is a girl.