PORT HADLOCK — Northwest mystery writer Aaron Elkins will discuss his writing process and his series of books featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver at the Jefferson County Library today.
The free talk is set for 6:30 p.m. at the library, 620 Cedar Ave.
Elkins, a Sequim resident, has been writing award-winning mysteries and thrillers since 1982.
Reviews of his books have appeared in the Denver Post and The New York Times.
Visit part of program
Elkins is visiting the library as part of its first Adult Summer Reading Program, Groundbreaking Reads.
In addition to programs, adult readers can fill out entry forms for each book they read this summer and be entered into an end-of-summer drawing for dinner for two provided by the Ajax Cafe.
Elkins has won an Edgar award for Old Bones, as well as a subsequent Agatha award with his wife, Charlotte, and a Nero Wolfe Award.
His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, “the skeleton detective.”
A second series features art curator-sleuth Chris Norgren, and Elkins and Charlotte have collaborated on five mysteries with female golfer Lee Ofsted.
In addition, Aaron Elkins is the author of Loot, a novel dealing with modern-day consequences of Nazi art plunder in World War II, and Turncoat, which explores a similar subject.
Has written for magazines
He speaks often at professional conferences, is a frequent contributor to The New York Times’ travel magazine, has written for Smithsonian magazine and is the author of several short stories and numerous articles on mystery-writing.
The Gideon Oliver books have been loosely translated into a major ABC TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series. Elkins’ work has been published in more than a dozen languages.
Learn more about Aaron Elkins at www.aaronelkins.com.
For more information, phone 360-385-6544 or visit www.jclibrary.info.
