Marshall Highet & Bird Jones- The Washashore

Name: Marshall Highet & Bird Jones- The Washashore
Start: 2025-09-14T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 8 Broadway, Newport, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02840

Schedule

Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

8 Broadway, Newport, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02840 | Newport, RI

Join us for an event with local authors Marshal Highet and Bird Jones to discuss their new book THE WASHASHORE, a cozy Prohibition-era mystery set on Martha's Vineyard.
This event is free and open to all, we kindly ask you to RSVP and share with your friends.
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Martha’s Vineyard, 1929. Prohibition is in full swing, and Emily, a Midwest transplant, has never met her wealthy Aunt Isabel. That is until, after her mother’s death, the courts declare Isabel her guardian. Their first meeting is a disaster. Emily’s clumsy curtsy earns her only a frosty glare, and she quickly realizes she’s in for a crash course in East Coast high society. But manners take a back seat to mystery when Isabel’s dear friend, an accomplished sailor, vanishes at sea. Convinced it’s murder, Isabel recruits her niece to catch the killer, pointing the finger at two dangerous men: a ruthless Mob boss and the fastest rumrunner in the harbor. While Emily crosses paths with gangsters on the island, she may just find home on its miles of coastline and among its quirky inhabitants—her stoic Aunt Isabel included.
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BIRD JONES is an emerita of Elon University and an ethnographer by training. Her love of stories and story collecting has taken her from Appalachia to Central Asia. She has published widely in academic journals and presented at conferences. Her book And That's the Way of It: Life in a Maine Village became a popular read in Down East Magazine, was a best-book pick by independent bookstores along the coast, and was featured on Maine Public Radio. Together, Bird and Marshall wrote Hold Fast, a historical novel. Blue-Eyed Slave is their second collaboration.
MARSHALL HIGHET has previously published several novels and a short story: Spare Parts, a YA science-fiction novel based on real science; Modified, chapters of which were serially published in Realm, a science-fiction and fantasy literature magazine; and "Fetch," a short story that will appear in Skelos, a science-fiction and dark fantasy fiction publication. Marshall also wrote the foreword to the republished novels of Helen MacInnes, an espionage writer of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.