T.C. Boyle: 'When the Killing's Done'

Published: March 22, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

T.C. Boyle read from "When the Killing's Done" on March 1, 2011 at The Seattle Public Library. In Boyle's latest novel, California's Galapagos, the wild Northern Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, become the setting for a dramatic showdown between two factions of environmentalists, each utterly convinced of their beliefs in preserving the islands and the natural world. T.C. Boyle is the author of 12 novels including most recently, "The Women," a New York Times bestseller, and nine collections of short stories.