Author Gillian French will read from her new novel, Restless Bones, the second in her adult mystery series, featuring Shaw Connolly. Gillian is well known to Castine having worked at Witherle Memorial Library in the mid 2010’s.

Her other novels include The Door to January (Islandport Press; Bram Stoker Award Finalist), The Lies They Tell (HarperTeen; 2018 Junior Library Guild Selection, 2019 International Thriller Writers Thriller Award Finalist, 2019 Maine Literary Award Winner), The Missing Season (HarperTeen; 2019 Junior Library Guild Selection, starred review from Booklist), Sugaring Off (Algonquin Young Readers; 2023 North Star YA Award Nominee, 2023 ITW Thriller Award Finalist, Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist), and her adult mystery debut, Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell (2025). Her short fiction has placed in Writer’s Digest and Zoetrope: All Story contests, as well as appearing in such publications as Mystery Tribune and Weirdbook.

Her new book will be on sale during the event courtesy of Compass Rose Books.

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Fingerprint analyst Shaw Connolly grapples with both a new case and the lingering presence of her sister’s killer in Gillian French’s second compelling Maine thriller.

When a missing woman’s body is discovered in a submerged car one year after her disappearance, Shaw Connolly is called to process the scene. She finds a single print belonging to a long-dead female ex-con; could it be the key to identifying the murderer? As usual, Shaw won’t stop looking until she’s dredged up more than a few hidden crimes.