Nov14
Reading and signing
Saturday, 2 PM · Tidewater Books, Exchange Street, Portland
Low Tide at Gull Rock in paperback. Free, no ticket. Signed copies of every book on the table.
Events and the Fog Letter
Readings on the coast, a talk you can watch from your sofa, and one letter a month.
Coming up
Free, no ticket
Dec3
How a closed-circle mystery works
Thursday, 7 PM Eastern · Online, on Zoom
Forty-five minutes on The Ferry Hour: forty-one passengers, one boat, every clue on the page. Then questions.
Jan23
Winter book club morning
Saturday, 10:30 AM · Harbor Hall, Rockland
Coffee, the first chapter of book four read aloud, and an hour of questions. Thirty seats.
Mar9
Launch night: A Lantern for the Drowned
Tuesday, 6:30 PM · Tidewater Books, Portland
The book is out at midnight. Mara reads the first chapter, signs until the line runs out, and preorders are waiting for you.
Mar13
Launch weekend in Camden
Saturday, 3 PM · The Grange Room, Camden
A short reading and a long signing, two hours up the coast.
The Fog Letter
First Sunday of the month, about a five-minute read: what Mara is writing, one Maine place from the books, one book by somebody else worth your time, and preorder news before it goes anywhere else.
Recent letters
- October 2026The house on Ocean Avenue that became the Gannet Inn
- September 2026Why book four moved to March
- August 2026How to read a tide table, and why Nell can
- July 2026Six summer mysteries by other people
The early reader team
Read A Lantern for the Drowned six weeks early, as an ebook, in January. In return we ask for an honest review, wherever you like, with a line saying your copy was free.
You will never be asked for a good review. Critical ones are welcome, and you stay on the team whatever you write.
Apply for a copyBook clubs
Every book has a free discussion guide. Mara joins clubs by video for thirty minutes on Thursday evenings, and in person within ninety minutes of Portland, four clubs a winter.
Ask for a visitWhere the books happen
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