Speaking Volumes

Heads up! Join us on Tuesday, August 11th as we host Jessica Speart, as part of The Connecticut Author Trail. Ms. Speart is the author of the award winning mystery series featuring US Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Rachel Porter. Speart is an investigative journalist whose focus is on wildlife law enforcement, endangered species issues, and the environment which makes the series a natural for her.

Consider this...

"When a creature is endangered , it's usually for a helluva good reason. If something isn't smart enough to adapt and service, then it deserves to become extinct," Trepler lectured, building up a head of steam. "I don't believe in this do-gooder Endangered Species Act nonsense that's got every frog, gnat, and fish on a must-save list, no matter the cost Not if it means that a person can't do whatever he wants on his own damn land."
 

These are the words of one of the characters in Jessica Speart's mystery novel, Blue Twilight. US Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Rachel Porter's assignment this go round, finds her in northern California, trying to locate a biologist who has gone missing while searching for a rare blue butterfly that is possibly extinct. Makes you think. Speart offers up a tantalizing mystery of greed and corruption while painting a vivid picture of San Fransisco, butterfly collecting, and writes well developed characters. What you'll learn about butterflies alone is worth the read. Agent Porter refers to these beautiful creatures as bugs, which technically they are, but when you see a butterfly in all its splendor,"bug" is not the word that comes to mind. 

    Blue Twilight is just one of the Rachel Porter mysteries. Beginning with Gator Aide, published in 1997, to the most recent, Unsafe Harbor, Speart has a winning series.  

Speart has lots of stories to tell. She might talk about her career as a soap opera star and then, later as a writer. Perhaps she'll even tell us a bit about the novel she's researching that recently found her in Japan.

Hope you can make this special event. It's free but registration is appreciated @228-0350 or ckubala@columbiactlibrary.org Jessica Speart will sign purchased books ($6.99) after the talk.