Richard Cass at the OLLI/USM Creator's Fair
Thu, Nov 19
|University of Southern Maine
Richard Cass will be selling and signing his new mystery novel, the second in the Ardmore Theberge series, HARD AS A HEADSTONE is about an ex army CID investigator who returns to Maine for routine and stability, instead, he discovers a murdered woman in a rural Maine township full of secrets.
Time & Location
Nov 19, 2026, 10:00 AM
University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth St, Portland, ME 04103, USA
About the book
The dead don’t lie. The living do.
Former Army CID investigator Ardmore Theberge just wanted to complete his assignment: a routine land survey. But when he discovers a young woman murdered in a historic Maine graveyard—her skull crushed by blunt-force trauma—routine goes out the window.
The victim, Janey Nightingale, was part of an activist group fighting to stop a bottled water company from relocating the cemetery. The authorities seem in no hurry to solve the case. But when Ardmore's friend Millicent Feathernight implores him to look into what appears to be a crime against a fellow Native American woman, he can’t say no.