Wednesday, January 8 • Porter Memorial Library • 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
The Porter Memorial Library kicks off its 2020 Meet the Author Series with beloved Capitola author, Kathryn Gualtieri.
Gualtieri’s first novel in her Nora Finnegan mystery series appeared in print in 2011.
Kathryn Gualtieri
Murder in the Pines has been followed by 6 additional historical mysteries, each set in the bohemian village of Carmel-by-the-Sea between 1921 and 1935.
Kathryn will discuss the two latest books in her Nora Finnegan series, The Red Scare and Murder By Candlelight.
The Red Scare opens during a period of economic uncertainty. A nation wide depression threatens California’s well-being. Wealthy newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, is angered over a longshoreman’s strike supported by the Communist Party.
Mr. Hearst asks Nora Finnegan to investigate who is supporting the Red cause.
In Murder By Candlelight, Nora encounters outspoken neighbors holding differing views over the library’s circulation of the James Joyce novel, Ulysses. For years the book had been censored due to its obscene passages and a local activist protesting the book’s banning is brutally murdered. Nora Finnegan investigates the connection between the murder and a arson attack at the local theater.
These programs are informal coffee hours where local authors discuss their works, answer questions and autograph their books. They are free of charge and open to the public. Coffee will be provided by The Ugly Mug.
For more information call 475-3326 or visit the library’s website: www.porterml.org
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Porter Memorial Library: 3050 Porter Street, Soquel. Parking is available behind the library. Enter from Soquel Drive into the Bagelry parking lot and drive through to the left.
- February 12: Stanley Stevens, educator and historian
- March 11: Nikki Silva, co-author of Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes; More from NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
- April 8: Carolyn Burke, author, Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury