Join Us on the

Bounding Main May 13

with Swashbucklin'

Dewey Lambdin

Charter Member Dewey Lambdin will regale us with tales about high jinks on the high seas at the May 13 meeting as he talks about his Alan Lewrie series, of which book fourteen, Troubled Waters, came out in January. What do the reviewers say about Dewey? “The brilliantly stylish American master of salty-tongued British naval tales,” Kirkus Reviews calls him. “The best naval adventure series since C. S. Forester," says Library Journal.

Here's how Publisher's Weekly described Troubled Waters:

"During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Capt. Alan Lewrie (Sea of Grey) finds that he has been sentenced to death in absentia by a Jamaican kangaroo court for stealing slaves, and is pursued to England by enemies trying to carry out that sentence. As the famously byzantine British legal system grinds on, Lewrie becomes a cause célèbre among William Wilberforce's abolitionists, who hire a hotshot barrister to defend Lewrie. While waiting for his case to come up, Lewrie (released until then because of his social standing) returns to H.M.S. Savage, now on blockade duty off southwest France. He quickly turns a dull assignment on its ears by organizing an amphibious raid against fortifications on the French coast while dealing with an old rival with a grudge and a secret. Lambdin manages to make the Bleak House–like British legal system of the era comprehensible to the layman, while his mastery of period naval warfare gives his battles real punch."

You've heard Dewey auction books at our Post Holiday Blues Parties. Come hear him talk about himself and his books.
 

See the Meetings page for a schedule of future programs.

Coming Events

The chapter will provide a panel of authors for the Ohio River Valley Chapter of Sisters in Crime on Saturday, May 10 in Louisville, KY.

Chapter Executive Committee

President - Chester Campbell

Vice President - Beth Terrell

Secretary-Treasurer - Michael Salisbury

Newsletter Editor - J.B. Thompson

  Membership Chair - Barbara Jernigan

Executive Committee At-Large Member - Mark Orr

Since our printer (J.B.) exhausted her toner with the cookbook project, this highly-successful volume is temporarily out of print. However, if you wish to order more books, contact J.B. and let her know. If she gets enough orders to make cranking up the press profitable, the cookbook could be back in print.

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