Mary Beth Pfeiffer, author of “Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change,” will speak at Scoville Memorial Library, in Salisbury, CT, at 4 pm October 27.

Since 2012, Pfeiffer has emerged as the nation’s leading investigative reporter on Lyme disease, attracting national and international attention and garnering seven awards for her groundbreaking articles on this tick-borne scourge.

Reviewers have called her book “superbly written and researched”; “a powerful wake-up call”; and “a work of breadth and depth, impressively documented and elegant.”