The Friends of the CU Libraries will host Michael McGarrity, acclaimed mystery writer, on Thursday, June 19, at 7 p.m. at the Wolf Law Building on the CU-Boulder campus. He will talk about his newly released historical fiction Backlands, the second installment of his sweeping, raw American West trilogy set in the New Mexico during the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and World War II. Mr. McGarrity is the New York Times bestselling author of Hard Country and 11 other bestselling Kevin Kerney crime novels.