Blackwell carries on Still Waters suspense series
On the upcoming busy Florida Seafood Festival weekend, be sure to carve out time for a special author event at Apalachicola’s Downtown Books.
Axel Blackwell will be there at 11 a.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 2, to sign copies of the books he co-wrote with the late Dawn Lee McKenna.
He and Dawn’s daughter Kat will share their plans to keep the stories going that Blackwell and McKenna expertly crafted.
McKenna’s original Forgotten Coast Suspense novels, set in Apalachicola and St. George Island, follow Lt. Maggie Redmond’s efforts to juggle law enforcement and complicated relationships with half the inhabitants of Franklin County.
In Blackwell’s spin-off Still Waters series set in Port St. Joe, Lt. Evan Caldwell lives aboard his boat, tends to his comatose wife, and tackles the crimes that crop up with surprising regularity in the sleepy Panhandle town.
All of the books feature sharply-drawn characters, rich Gulf Coast atmosphere, wry humor, and trademark cliff-hanger endings. They, and Blackwell’s Detective McDaniel thrillers, will be available for purchase on Saturday, but longtime fans are also encouraged to bring in their personal copies to be inscribed by Axel and Kat.
Downtown Books is at 67 Commerce Street in Apalachicola. For more information call (850) 653-1290 or email downtownbooks@fairpoint.net.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.