Newtown author, artist, and librarian Andrea Zimmermann will be the guest speaker at the “Meet the Author” luncheon on Saturday, April 9, at noon, at Newtown Country Club, 2 Country Club Road.

The event, sponsored by Newtown Woman’s Club, is the latest in a series of programs that introduces the community to the work of local authors.

Tickets are $25 per person, and reservations are requested by April 4. Contact Marie Sturdevant 203-740-2733 or Marg Studley 203-426-3651 to make one.

Zimmermann will discuss her latest book, released in October, A Legacy of Lies: A Rock Ridge Mystery, a novel set in a small Connecticut town. She is currently working on another book in the Rock Ridge series.

Zimmermann also has published The Great Danbury State Fair (published in 2015), a look at the spectacle held every fall from 1869 until 1981; The Case Files of Detective Laszlo Briscoe: True Crime in Newtown 1889-1933 (2008), which chronicles 63 crimes perpetrated in town during the title’s era, presented by the fictional detective Laszlo Briscoe; and Eleanor Mayer’s History of Cherry Grove Farm (2005), the history of a celebrated three-generation family farm in Newtown. She has also participated as an interviewer and editor in the development of other books.

Zimmermann is well-known in the Newtown area. She was a feature writer and reporter for The Newtown Bee, a freelance feature writer for The New York Times Connecticut Weekly section and other regional publications. She was also a reference librarian, grant writer, and archivist at C.H. Booth Library for 14 years. She is currently a volunteer archivist for Newtown.