The August Author Talk Series of The Whitefield Library will host Geoffrey Bates for a reading and discussion of his debut crime novel “Bitter Passage: An Allegheny Beckham Novel” at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation.
Author Geoffrey Bates, who lives and writes on the coast of Maine. (Courtesy of Norumbega Press)
The Kennebec Journal’s Bill Bushnell calls the book a “gritty cop-drama/murder-mystery set in a cold Maine winter.” Bates thinks like a cop, “creating a suspenseful tale of a savvy female deputy up to her gun belt in crime, deadly intrigue, and professional treachery. Bates has a well-crafted, tense crime drama … And Beckham? Well, she’s not done yet, and the ending will surprise you.”
A patchwork of moves beginning and ending in his native New England has provided Bates with a rich palette of experience from which he shapes his narratives. After finding a professional niche in arts administration, he settled and raised a family near Chicago. He now lives and writes year-round in South Bristol.
“Bitter Passage” is available for purchase at Fiction: A Novel Bookshop in Wiscasset, Sherman’s Booksellers throughout Maine, Left Bank Books in Belfast, BookStacks in Bucksport and via Amazon in print and Kindle formats.
The Whitefield Library is located at 1 Arlington Lane.
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