Meet Tana French TONIGHT!
Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—April 15, 2026
Tune in at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!
Join us Wednesday, April 15th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcome iconic NYT-bestselling crime writer Tana French to discuss the third and final book in her million-copy-bestselling Cal Hooper trilogy, The Keeper, which just debuted at #4 on the NYT bestseller list upon its release.
Tana French is the New York Times bestselling author of nine previous books, including In the Woods, The Searcher, and The Hunter. Her novels have sold more than eight million copies worldwide and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She joins us from her home in Dublin to discuss her highly anticipated new mystery, The Keeper, a masterwork of atmospheric suspense that brings the story of one of her most beloved characters to a spellbinding conclusion.
Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 4/15 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 4/17.
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Latest News from the Fab Four!
MARY KAY ANDREWS spent “spring break” at their vacation home on Tybee Island, where the wind was blowing 30 mph and the temps hardly got above 65 degrees which ruled out beach time. So instead she and Mr. MKA worked on spiffing up Ebbtide for an upcoming Homeworthy shoot. She “might” have scored some great stuff at a Savannah estate sale. And she definitely enjoyed a night with a live event with comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short, two very funny wild and crazy guys.
KRISTIN HARMEL is off to Los Angeles this weekend for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, where she’s looking forward to hanging out with Friends & Fiction faves Jo Piazza, Paula McLain and Shelby Van Pelt (among others) and to seeing people like Sarah Jessica Parker (squee!), Margaret Atwood, David Duchovny, Mark Harmon, Tom Selleck, and many more speak at the festival. If you’re in Southern California, drop by and see Kristin speak on a historical fiction panel with Paula (and author Milo Todd, moderated by Meredith Maran) on Sunday afternoon at 1pm. Tickets available here. (They’re only $7.50!)
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had an amazing week in the Bahamas with her family celebrating her dad’s birthday—and cannot believe SUMMER STATE OF MIND releases in less than three weeks! She has been busy, busy, busy signing books for both the Friends & Fiction subscription box and the Nantucket Books exclusive preorder. (There are a few of each left it you want one!) She cannot wait to see so many of you on tour. Check out her full schedule HERE.
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY has been from SC to NC and back again with a series of work and family events. She celebrated her parents’ 88 and 89th birthdays with them, and then spent a few days in the mountains where her 2027 book is set before returning to the Lowcountry for a writing weekend with some writer pals, kayaking the May River, and taking long walks in this gorgeous spring weather. And then onto NC again for a gorgeous sold out event for the Union County Library Spring Tea. Now it’s time to hunker down at home!
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Upcoming Events
Kristy will be touring in May for her forthcoming book, Summer State of Mind. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.
MKA will be touring in June for her forthcoming book, Road Trip. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.
Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.
See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.
Want to know what our F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!
In Case You Missed It
On our most recent new episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Kristin, Patti & MKA gathered to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Authors, #1 NYT-bestselling novelist V.E. Schwab and screenwriter and YA author Cat Clarke to discuss their new locked-room thriller (co-written as Evelyn Clarke), The Ending Writes Itself, our April 2026 Pick of the Month, which Stephen King has proclaimed as “in the running for best mystery of 2026!”
You can WATCH that episode on Facebook or YouTube, or LISTEN to it on our podcast.
Coming Up on The Friends & Fiction Show
All shows can be watched on Facebook & YouTube each Wednesday evening at 7pm ET, and listened to on our podcast each Friday, all year long.
Already aired: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
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Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
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SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN
Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN
Tana French, The Keeper
Watch: 4/15 | Listen: 4/17
Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
Watch: 4/22 | Listen: 4/24
Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
Watch LIVE: 4/29 | Listen: 5/1
Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
Watch: 5/6 | Listen: 5/8
Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
Watch: 5/13 | Listen: 5/15
Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
Watch LIVE: 5/27 | Listen: 5/29
Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
Watch: 6/3 | Listen: 6/5
Ann Patchett, Whistler
Watch: 6/10 | Listen: 6/12
Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19
Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26
F&F 2026 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange
The 2026 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.
This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MAY 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s forthcoming book SUMMER STATE OF MIND!
2. JUNE 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of ROAD TRIP by Mary Kay Andrews!
3. AUGUST 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of MEET ME IN PARIS by Kristin Harmel!
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F&F Merch Store
We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We also have other items like wine tumblers, reading journals, and our original white v-neck logo tees available through Oxford Exchange.
Tees in New Colors!
We’ve added two fun, new colors (hot pink & turquoise!) to our Bonfire merch store in our signature Name List apparel line!
F&F Official Book Club & 2025 Reading Challenge
Join Brenda Gardner & Lisa Harrison for monthly book club picks and live online author chats on the Facebook page for the F&F Official Book Club with Brenda & Lisa, where they’ve amassed nearly 40,000 of their own members. You can also follow the Book Club on Instagram and subscribe to their YouTube channel where you can catch past discussions, including their most recent chat with Heather Webber about her new novel, The Forget-Me-Not Library. Mark your calendars for April 20th for their next author guest, Sarah Fox, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Definitely Maybe Not a Detective. The Book Club is also hosting the 2026 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The March prompt is to read a book from an indie or small press and for April it’s to read a book recommended by a favorite librarian.
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