Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Julia Keller Discusses Her Latest Mystery “Last Ragged Breath”

When

Tuesday September 29, 2015: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Pittsfield Branch: Program Room

Description

Julia Keller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of Last Ragged Breath, the fourth in her critically acclaimed series of crime novels set in a small West Virginia town. It is the story and a history of the mountains and the rivers, and people of Raythune County, West Virginia, where prosecutor Belfa Elkins has staked her claim. Sometimes, though, history can be deadly. When a fancy resort is planned for the rugged territory surrounding Acker's Gap, some residents are less than pleased. And when an executive with the company building the resort is found murdered, Bell finds herself torn between the past and the future, and between an ideal of justice — and the gritty reality of conditions on the ground. At the center of the case is Royce Dillard, an odd recluse who lost his parents in the real-life Buffalo Creek flood when he was two years old. Did he kill — or was he framed?

Julia, longtime chief book critic for the Chicago Tribune, where she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, was born and raised in West Virginia. She earned a doctoral degree in English Literature at Ohio State University. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University. She has also taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. She regularly contributes essays and book reviews to NPR’s All Things Considered and The NewsHour on PBS.

This event, cosponsored by Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookshop, will include a book signing. Books will be for sale courtesy and there will also be ample opportunity for audience questions.