My sister Kate has been very active in SIC, most recently appearing at the Maine Library Conference with Tess Gerritson and Kathy Lynn Emerson to discuss how authors create mysteries and how plots are researched and polished. As the sibling of a mystery writer, I get requests for information on the most interesting subjects. In the past month, I wrote a murder scenario utilizing a shotgun wielded by someone approximately the size of my younger daughter, passed on the current gun laws for Maine and located the specifics of the Maine turkey hunt. It's fun to see these bits of information appear in print months later. All in all, Maine is blessed with a number of talented and interesting mystery authors including Gerry Boyle, J.S. Borthwick and Janwillem Van de Wetering.
Maine is also a hotbed of local cookbooks.
To celebrate these, we will have a display of those in our collection for the next couple of weeks. Look for them on the rack just to the left of the front door as you come in. If meals have become boring, try some of the recipes created and collected by Maniacs from all over. I think the Boothbay Harbor staff are generally pretty good about following this. If you catch us forgetting good customer service, tell us so we can get back on track.