Connecticut Author to Sign Copies of Latest Gothic Mystery

Connecticut author Jackson Kuhl will be signing copies of his new novel, The Island of Small Misfortunes, at Bank Square Books on Saturday, October 4.

The Island of Small Misfortunes is set among Branford’s Thimble Islands. In the summer of 1898, Sequoia Owen accepts an invitation from his estranged uncle to visit his family’s summer home on Todeket, a private island off the Connecticut coast.

Yet the house, constructed by Sequoia's unstable grandfather and the site of his cousin's mysterious death, is a strange place. None of his odd relatives, who seem to have sinister agendas of their own, can agree upon the origin of the house, nor do they all believe the sightings of a ghost that haunts its halls, said to appear before tragedy strikes.

Trapped on the island by a storm, Sequoia must unravel the enigma of Todeket before the next life lost is his own.

Jackson Kuhl is also the author of the gothic mystery A Season of Whispers as well as the Revolutionary War biography Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer. He has worked as an editor, journalist, ghostwriter, and freelance writer. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Kuhl teaches writing at Mitchell College and lives in coastal Connecticut.

Kuhl will discuss the history of the Thimble Islands and sign copies of The Island of Small Misfortunes at Bank Square Books on Saturday, October 4 at 5pm. Bank Square Books is located at 80 Stonington Road in Mystic, and you can RSVP for the event at banksquarebooks.com.