Murder In A Small Town

The vision of small-town America has been popular in fiction from Sherwood Anderson to Sinclair Lewis. The vision of peace, tranquility, cozy quirkiness, and knowing all your neighbors. Knowing each other a little too well? Maybe enough to want to kill each other? Listen to authors Allen Eskens and Michael Prelee as they discuss the pleasures and perils of small-town crime novels. Hear their thoughts about the benefits of setting their novels and characters in fictional small towns and their writing process. Presented by the CPL’s Edgewater Branch Library, and hosted by Branch Manager, Joanna Hazelden, in partnership with Friends of the Edgewater Library.

Allen Eskens is the bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, The Heavens May Fall, The Deep Dark Descending, The Shadows We Hide, Nothing More Dangerous, and The Stolen Hours. He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Minnesota Book Award, Rosebud Award (Left Coast Crime), and Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar® Award, Thriller Award, and an Anthony Award. His books have been translated into 26 languages.

Michael Prelee is a crime and science-fiction author who grew up in rural Northeast Ohio and graduated from Youngstown State University. He is the author of the small-town Tim Abernathy Mystery Series, published by North Star Press. The first entry in the series is Murder in the Heart of It All. Lost Little Sister is the sequel and winner of the Midwest Book Award for Mystery/Thriller. He is also the author of the Milky Way Repo sci-fi crime series published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The books are available on the CPL website.