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Selected Upcoming Events & News
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The Phantom of Forest Lawn - New!
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Special merchandise and product collaborations
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Podcast, radio and television interviews - February
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Hosted author events and presentations
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Virtual book clubs - spots open
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Blog tours February - April
Avenging Angel Detective Agency
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Special merchandise and product collaborations
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Current of Darkness, A Murder in Ashwood, and The Unsealing — the third novel in the Avenging Angel Detective Agency Mystery series read in any order — available everywhere
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Join Robert Brighton's Newsletter, The Ashwood Social Club, to be the first to get special offers, know all the news, new blog entries, and giveaways
Current of Darkness
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Radio and television interviews
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Hosted author events and presentations - February - June 2025
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Virtual book clubs - spots open in February
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Podcast tour January
The Buffalo Butcher
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Virtual author events January - February 2025
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Television, podcast and radio interviews - February
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Virtual Book Clubs - limited spots available beginning in February
A Murder in Ashwood
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Virtual speaking tour Early 2025
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Virtual Book Clubs - limited spots available for December and on
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Blitz, podcast, press February 2025
The Unsealing
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Audiobook wide distribution! Robert Brighton, author and narrator - check Instagram @robertbrightonauthor and this site for updates and behind-the-scenes photos and snippets
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Virtual Book Clubs - limited spots available
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Podcast and press tour speaking about the true crime - February 2025
Media and Press Resources
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In the News - Sampling of Coverage
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WGRZ Channel 2 News
Coverage of The Phantom of Forest Lawn premiere at Forest Lawn's Fall in the Forest
Big Weck, In Our Community
Judge Penny Wolfgang, host of In Our Community, discusses The Phantom of Forest Lawn, love and resurrectionists, history, and what’s next
Authority Magazine, Medium
Robert Brighton On The 5 Things You Need to Know to Become a Great Author
Buffalo Rising
Avenging Angels: Author and Buffalo Native Robert Brighton Weaves Local Lore Through Gilded Age Fiction (Podcast Included)
WIVB's Daytime Buffalo Interview ... host Chelsea Lovel and author Robert Brighton discuss CURRENT OF DARKNESS, promoting Buffalo and how he has become known as "Buffalo's Favorite Author" and more.
In Our Community with Judge Penny Wolfgang on the BIG WECK discussing CURRENT OF DARKNESS
Buffalo's own Judge Wolfgang discusses topics of interest to Western New York, and with Robert Brighton, discusses CURRENT OF DARKNESS, history, and present.
On Target Audacy Discussing CURRENT OF DARKNESS
Western New York's podcast and radio show featuring author Robert Brighton and discussing CURRENT OF DARKNESS.
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Official Theatrical Trailer for The Unsealing
Avenging Angel Detective Agency Mysteries Trailer
The Trailer for A Murder in Ashwood!
Women Detectives in the Gilded Age with Judge Penny Wolfgang and Robert Brighton
The Unsealing Discussion at the Mark Twain House with Dr. Cecelia Tichi and Robert Brighton










Inspired by “the true crime of the century” in 1901 in Buffalo, New York - a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lake, The Electric City, where the money that builds Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests. “Written with grace and power, capturing the moment that electricity lit up the world.” Contains three original interior scratchboard illustrations.

As the remains of the great Pan-American Exposition are swept away, the sensational murder of a prominent businessman, and the city's stronghold on covering it up, leads us along with new detective Sarah Payne into a storm of courtroom drama and sheer resolve to uncover the skeletons best kept hidden away. “This has the feel of a great cocktail party…a polished, rewarding page-turner.” Contains three original scratchboard illustrations.

1901. Not quite thirteen years have passed since Jack the Ripper terrorized Whitechapel, London. And now, in the very shadow of the great Pan-American Exposition, has Jack the Ripper returned? An important novel “with narration celebrating our shared humanity” in which the working girls themselves must stand together to stop the carnage and reclaim their humanity.

A tale of industrial espionage, love, and betrayal set against the backdrop of the glittering Gilded Age. A secret meeting lures beautiful detective Sarah Payne undercover, behind the bright façade of the honeymoon playground of Niagara Falls and into the strange and perilous underworld of the booming electric power industry. "Writing that is on par with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” Contains three original scratchboard illustrations.

Love and be loved in this “achingly beautiful” tale with intertwining love stories, mysteries, and resurrectionists with “every lavish scene cinematically described.” Opening with “perhaps the most beautiful writing ever,” the prologue is set in “one summer long ago,” and progresses with “adventure and curiosity” in this “life-changing story.”
