Book Signing with P.J. Nelson

About this event

About the Author:

P. J. NELSON is the pseudonym of an award-winning actor, dramatist, professor, and novelist (among other many other professions) who has done just about everything except run a bookstore. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.

About The Book:

The Old Juniper Bookstore is the scene for an unexpected mystery when a late night visitor confesses to a long-ago unsolved murder, then turns up dead by morning.

Madeline Brimley is still getting used to running The Old Juniper Bookstore in Enigma, Georgia. When she inherited it from her aunt, it came at an opportune time. Madeline's acting career had slowed down to the point that it was exhibiting no signs of life so returning home to the small Georgia college town of Enigma actually sounded like a good idea. And, except for a murder, arson, and a long-dead body found in the front garden, it's actually turned out well. But when an old man, claiming to be a distant relative named Trilby, shows up in the middle of the night, then confesses to an unremembered murder that happened in the Victorian house that is now The Old Juniper Bookstore, Madeline is...to put it mildly...poleaxed. Given the inclement weather and time of night, Madeline puts him up for the night, hoping to turn him over to the local police in the morning. A plan that goes wrong when, next morning, Trilby is found to have died overnight. And not of natural causes - he was poisoned. Now the bookstore is a crime scene and Madeline a possible suspect.

Now Madeline has both an old and a new mystery to solve if she is to clear her own name before she finds herself taking the fall for this unusual and unexpected death.

Cynthia Blakeley

Born and raised in a fishing village on Cape Cod, Cynthia Blakeley is a first-generation college

graduate who now lives and gardens in Decatur, GA, where she writes creative nonfiction, works

as a freelance editor, and teaches courses at Emory University on memory and memoir. She has

been interviewed on public radio and in the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal, and her

creative nonfiction has appeared in Cape Cod Voice, HerStry, and Dreamers Magazine. Her

recent memoir, The Innermost House, won the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year Finalist Award.

Learn more at cynthiablakeley.com.