An Evening with David Adams Richards

7:00 PM 
Wilmot Church 

From one of Canada's most celebrated and controversial novelists comes a tale of dark aspirations, betrayal and murder.

Westminster Bookmark is thrilled to celebrate the launch award-winning, bestselling Maritime author David Adams Richards' new novel, Songs of Love on a December Night.

This free event takes place Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 PM at Wilmot United Church (473 King St.) and will include a reading, Q&A, and signing. We hope you'll join us!

About the Book

When Colonel Musselman is found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a rumour soon surfaces that he was murdered by his own teenage son, Jamie. As weeks, months and years pass, Jamie—shy and withdrawn but brilliant—continues to maintain his innocence. Yet few others, besides his fiancée, Gertie, believe him. Suspected, harassed and questioned, Jamie is finally tried and convicted of the crime. But nothing is as it seems. Before the murder, unlikely alliances between a self-styled revolutionary recently expelled from university, a young man claiming Indigenous heritage, and Gertie’s own hapless father had long ago set the stage for intrigue and bloodletting. As the aftermath of this crime threatens to destroy both the innocent and the guilty, it is left to a few citizens who have been dismissed and overlooked to solve what the others, blinded by their arrogance and personal vanity, refuse to admit.
Richly conceived and utterly fearless in its examination of morality, justice, prejudice and corruption, Songs of Love on a December Night is an epic exploration of the self-betrayal that we are capable of, and of the redemption we so often aspire to.

DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS is one of Canada's pre-eminent writers. His recent novels include Darkness, Mary Cyr and Principles to Live By, as well as Crimes Against My Brother and Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul, both of which were longlisted for the Giller Prize. Among his other novels, The Lost Highway was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Giller Prize; The Friends of Meager Fortune won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; Mercy Among the Children won the Giller Prize. In 2017, David Adams Richards was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.