Scott Charlton Paul

Join us for our First Friday event of October with Lethbridge author Scott Charlton Paul, who you may remember from a First Friday event of his debut novel The Sunbeam Room in 2024. Scott is back, this time with a murder mystery, “A Murder of Prose.”

Samuel Rigondeaux, a meticulous reference librarian, joins five aspiring writers at the Lethbridge Library each week to fulfil his dream of writing a novel. What could be the harm? A bruised ego? But when novelists start turning up dead at the hands of a twisted serial killer, a black crow feather left at each murder scene, and the police investigation falters, Samuel is compelled to act. He recruits Flagstaff, an ex-RCMP detective suffering PTSD and living on the streets, to investigate the gruesome killings before another author is brutally silenced. Can the librarian’s mad research skills and Flagstaff’s streetwise savvy reveal the killer’s identity, or will Samuel be added to the growing body count? And why are crows maintaining a not-so-silent vigil at the library? ​Dive into this gripping murder mystery where the pursuit of literary dreams turns into a final, fatal chapter, proving that some stories are better left unwritten.