The Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon will host a book talk and signing with author Eleanor Kuhns at the New Lebanon Library on Thursday, September 20, at 7 pm.
Kuhns’ novel, A Simple Murder, focuses on William Rees’ attempts to reconcile with his son, who has run away to join a Shaker community. But when a young Shaker woman is brutally murdered shortly after Rees’ arrival, Rees finds himself launched into a complicated investigation where the bodies keep multiplying, a tangled web of family connections casts suspicion on everyone and the beautiful woman on the edge of the Shaker community might be hiding troubling ties to the victims. It quickly becomes clear that in solving Sister Chastity’s murder, Rees may well expose some of the Shaker community’s darkest secrets, not to mention endanger his own life.
Kuhns is the winner of the Mystery Writers of American/Minotaur First Crime Novel competition for 2011. A lifelong librarian, she is the Assistant Director of the Goshen Public Library and Historical Society in Goshen, NY. A Simple Murder is her first novel.
The public is welcome at this free event. Refreshments will be served. For directions, please call the Library at 518-794-8844. The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20/22.
To learn more about the Museum, its activities and opportunities for support, please visit www.shakerml.org or contact Becky Codner at 518.794.9100 or codner@shakerml.org.