(Apple Valley) - Over the years, the Apple Valley Barnes & Noble Booksellers store, located at 14880 Florence Trail, has earned a reputation for being very supporting of local authors. The store has regularly hosted signings and workshops led by local authors, and stocked their books on the shelves.

So, when store manager Renee Waclaw learned Barnes & Noble’s Apple Valley location would be closing for good on Dec. 31, 2014, she decided the final author event at the store should be one featuring local authors. “I have so enjoyed supporting the local community and will miss hosting the wonderful events that have been so enjoyable for us here at the store,” said Waclaw.

An event titled, “A Mystery Authors’ Extravaganza” will be held at the store on Sat., Nov. 29, beginning at 1 p.m. The event will feature local mystery authors, sitting at tables throughout the store and signing copies of their books.

Participating authors include Marilyn Jax of Minnetonka. Her latest book, Never in Ink, was just released in October. She is also the author of Sapphire Trails, Road to Omalos and The Find. All four novels feature the same two private investigators.

Deb Jensen of Bemidji is the author of Beyond Escape, a mystery that follows the main character as she pursues a trail of drugs, murder and secret love affairs that were meant to stay buried.

Redmond Herring of Shoreview will be signing copies of Escape From Freedom, a mystery-suspense novel that takes the warped world of fanatical religion and mixes in murder, theft, arson, mental illness, gender inequalities and those in-laws you just never could learn to like.