125 N Maple Ave
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
USA
The Ridgewood Public Library is excited to announce that NY Times Bestselling author, Amy Stewart, will be visiting the library on Wednesday, 7 September, to talk about hew new novel, Lady Cop Makes Trouble.
Lady Cop Makes Trouble is the second in the series of novels based on the real-lives of Bergen and Passaic County detectives, the Kopp sisters. These remarkable women broke boundaries in law enforcement and the business world, leaving a rich, fascinating story set in early twentieth century Bergen and Passaic Counties!
In 1914, after a run-in with a wealthy Paterson businessman, the Kopp sisters found themselves on the wrong end of an intimidation scheme which included bricks through the window of their Wyckoff farm, shots fired at the farmhouse, and a kidnapping plot against them. Bergen County Sheriff, Robert Heath, taught the sisters how to defend themselves and shoot a gun—starting a lifelong passion for law enforcement among the sisters. Constance would go on to become a Bergen County Sheriff and the sisters would eventually form their own detective agency in the 1920s.
Stewart will be at the Ridgewood Public Library—the first stop on her East Coast tour (she lives in California) to discuss this latest installment in the series, answer questions, and sign books. Copies of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble available for sale and signing. Special appearance from audiobook narrator, and Ridgewood native, Christina Moore.
Reserve your book(s) through Bookends at 201-445-0746 (after 10 August).
(Our own GSBC Trustee Emeritus, Ree Hopper, CG, assisted Stewart with research for her book, providing her with local records and newspaper clippings from around Bergen County and the Bergen County Courthouse. A review of the first book, Girl Waits with Gun, and a discussion on historical fiction and genealogy appeared in the November 2015 issue of the GSBC's The Archivist.)
Event Flyer:
RPL Amy Stewart Visit Sept 2016
“Some women prefer to stay at home and take care of the house. Let them. There are plenty who like that kind of work enough to do it. Others want something to do that will take them out among people and affairs. A woman should have the right to do any sort of work she wants to, provided she can do it.” —Constance Amelie Kopp
For more information about the books, and Amy Stewart, see the following:
http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/09/01/the-kopp-sisters-a-crime-fighting-trio-uncovered-on-ancestry/
NorthJersey.com
http://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/books/author-unearths-once-famous-bergen-county-sisters-in-new-book-1.1400889
National Public Radio (Audio Interview and Transcript):
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/31/436229319/novelist-amy-stewart-turns-1914-traffic-accident-into-girl-waits-with-gun
UK Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/fearless-miss-kopp-literatures-new-crime-fighter-was-a-real-pers/
