True Crime Book Club
Wed, May 20
|TCH Reynolds Twp. Library
Time & Location
May 20, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
TCH Reynolds Twp. Library, 117 W Williams St, Howard City, MI 49329, USA
About the Event
Join us for a True Crime Book Discussion on Wednesday, Jan. 21 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library. The May book selection is The Sinners All Bow by Kate Winkler Dawson. Copies are available for checkout.
Book Summary
On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter—but the reverend was not…