Please join Friends and fellow book lovers at the June Literary Lions Book Club featuring author Elizabeth Randall.  The author of this month’s book club selection, Murder in St. Augustine, Randall is a widely published freelance writer and a high school English teacher. She has written four books including her most recent, a book about history and folklore titled Women in White: The Haunting of Northeast Florida.

The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her white mansion on Marine Street in St. Augustine. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities. Bemis was later murdered on her nightly walk. Police arrested only one suspect for Lindsley’s murder, which remains unsolved to this day. Author Elizabeth Randall puts the rumors to rest through research culled from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county documentation and interviews.

The Literary Lions Book Club Author Visit will take place in the large meeting room of the Main Library at the address listed. For additional information, contact Book Club Facilitator, Toni Siriani, at toni825@hotmail.com for more information.