Schoharie County Arts hosts Chris Keefer at Sundays Authors Hour

SCHOHARIE - Local author Chris Keefer, who pens the popular Carrie Lisbon Historical Mysteries, will speak and give a PowerPoint presentation as part of Schoharie County Arts’ continuing “Author’s Hour” series. 

The event begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at NYPA Visitors Center, located at 1378 State Route 30 in North Blenheim. Light refreshments will be served.

In 2022, Level Best Books published Keefer’s first installment in the Carrie Lisbon historical mystery series, “No Comfort for the Undertaker.” The sequel, “Tragedy’s Twin” followed in 2023, and the third book in the series, “Find Your Way to My Grave” will be available in hard copy and e-book editions later this year.

Complete with historical details about Upstate New York, Keefer weaves together dark, intriguing mysteries solved by an accomplished but flawed female undertaker.

Keefer began her writing career as a newspaper columnist with “Birding Trips and Trivia” for The Daily Gazette of Schenectady. Her work has also been published in Coping Magazine, Kaatskill Life, The Conservationist, and Catskill Tri-County Historical Views.

The digital magazine Liquid Imagination recently published Keefer’s short fiction piece, titled “House Hunting.” She has indie-published “The Battle in the Bathroom,” a chapbook of humorous essays, and won the Cobleskill Community Library’s Short Fiction Contest with the story “Six Kittens.”

Keefer is a member of the Historical Novel Society, Mavens of Mayhem Upper Hudson Chapter of Sisters in Crime, and Schoharie Writers Club. She enjoys town historian duties, gardening, birding, metal detecting, bicycling and rockhounding, as well as her two grandchildren.

The “Author’s Hour” event is one of many sponsored by Schoharie County Arts, a nonprofit that promotes cultural and arts-related activities, advances individual artists and organizations, and contributes to the county’s cultural and economic growth.

“Author’s Hour” is funded in part by Poets & Writers, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

For information, go to https://www.schohariecountyarts.org or https://www.authorchriskeefer.com.