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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 16, 2026

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park

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Mystery/Thriller

Amy L. Bernstein

Featured Title: The Potrero Complex
Genre: mystery-thriller
Author: Amy L. Bernstein
The Potrero Complex

Journalist Rags Goldner is battle-scarred and heartbroken after covering a devastating pandemic that rages in Baltimore for five years. She leaves the city with her partner in search of a simpler life in small-town Maryland—only to discover nothing in Canary is simple. A teenager is missing, and it falls to Rags to fight the forces of apathy, paranoia, and creeping fascism to learn the shocking truth about Effie Rutter’s fate—and the fate of thousands like her.

About Amy L. Bernstein

Amy L. Bernstein writes stories that let readers feel while making them think. Her novels include “The Potrero Complex,” the award-winning “The Nighthawkers,” “Dreams of Song Times” and “Fran, The Second Time Around.” Amy’s poetry has appeared in Yellow Arrow Journal, Loch Raven Review, Lost Boys Press, Parliament Literary Journal, Passaic-Voluspa, She is Kindred and elsewhere, including an anthology chapbook, “Baltimore, I (want to) Love You.” She is an award-winning journalist, speechwriter, playwright and certified non-fiction book coach. Amy loves listening to jazz and classical music, drinking wine with friends, and exploring Baltimore’s glorious neighborhoods, which inspire her fiction.

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Instagram: @amylbernstein

Twitter: @amylbernstein

Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Dashiell Hammett Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

10:15 am

Presentation End Time:

11:05 am

Signing Time:

11:15 am

Presentation Authors:

Amy L. Bernstein

Author Website:

https://amywrites.live/