Dan Schorr
By Dan Murphy
Former Westchester Prosecutor and Yonkers Inspector General Dan Schorr is celebrating the release of his second novel, Open Bar, with a reading and signing event on Thursday, August 14 at 7PM at Bellefair Community Room (18 Bellefair Blvd, Rye Brook, NY 10573).
Open Bar is a collision of campus, corporate, and local politics when a high-profile sexual misconduct scandal rocks a prominent university.
When the longtime abuse by a university’s softball coach of teenagers in its youth summer softball program—and the university’s strategic cover-up of those crimes—comes to light, a community is turned
upside down in this drama-filled thriller perfect for fans of Kate Elizabeth Russell and Allison Leotta. Campus, corporate, and local politics collide when a high-profile sexual misconduct scandal rocks a prominent university.
Serena Stanfield, Mountain Hill University’s human resources director, has just learned that the school’s softball coach has been molesting teenagers in its youth summer softball program for years, and that the university has covered it up from both her and the public. Troy Abernathy, a junior associate at an international investigations firm, is navigating a turbulent, toxic workplace as the company aims to be retained by the university to investigate these sexual assault allegations.
Megan Black, a new member of the Mountain Hill City Council, is thrust into the fallout from the national scandal while she simultaneously focuses on securing a presidential commutation for her childhood friend, who is unfairly facing decades in prison after stabbing her abusive husband to death in selfdefense.
As additional disturbing details of the coach’s actions are uncovered, Serena, Troy, Megan, and other prominent community figures confront competing interests and unique obstacles while they each pursue different paths toward obtaining justice for the softball program’s sexual abuse survivors—and offer conflicting understandings of what justice would even mean.
“Dan Schorr taps his years of real-world experience investigating sexual misconduct allegations to deliver a suspenseful, propulsive, and heart-wrenching novel – Open Bar.”
—Gretchen Carlson, Journalist, co-founder Lift Our Voices, Female Empowerment Advocate, Author
“Open Bar is a gripping page-turner that follows the chaotic fallout from a top university’s alarming sex abuse scandal. With fast-paced storytelling and compelling, memorable characters, Dan Schorr delivers a moving novel full of gritty realism, perceptive insights, and unexpected twists.”
—Tara Rosenblum, Emmy-winning Senior Political & Investigative Reporter, News12 Network
Dan Schorr is a sexual misconduct investigator at his firm, Dan Schorr, LLC, and an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School. Previously, he served as a New York sex crimes prosecutor, the Inspector General for the City of Yonkers, and an adjunct law professor with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He has been a television legal analyst for Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News Channel, Law & Crime network, and elsewhere.
His first novel, Final Table, was published by SparkPress in 2021. Schorr lives in Rye Brook, New York with his wife and two children.
The reading and signing event took place on Thursday, August 14 at 7PM at Bellefair Community Room in Rye Brook.