The Blue Hill Public Library and Blue Hill Books are cosponsoring an author event with author and summer resident Thomas E. Ricks as he reads from his latest book Everyone Knows But You at the library on Tuesday, August 20th at 7pm in the Adelaide Pearson Room.

After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, FBI agent Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coastal trades: hard drugs and rare fish. Many of the locals are happy to see that particular fisherman dead. What’s more, they are not shy about noting that Ryan must have screwed up pretty badly to be posted to such a remote location as Bangor, Maine.

In his riveting crime debut, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks turns his literary talents to land he knows deeply, from working in the Maine woods and trapping lobsters year-round. Everyone Knows But You is a rich and dynamic crime novel that brings a unique part of America to vivid, thrilling life.

Thomas E. Ricks is a writer and the military history columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years. He reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for a series of articles on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new demands of the 21st century. He is the author of nine books.

Born in Massachusetts in 1955, he grew up in New York and Afghanistan and graduated from Yale in 1977. He is married to Mary Catherine Ricks, author of Escape on the Pearl, a history of one of the biggest escapes by enslaved people in American history. They have two grown children. For recreation he enjoys kayaking, sailing, hiking, biking, and reading military history.

This program is free and open to all, and will be held in the library's Pearson Room. For more information, please call the library at 374-5515, or email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas[at]bhpl.net. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Blue Hill Books.