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UP Notable Book event Thursday

CRYSTAL FALLS — The Crystal Falls Community District Library, in partnership with the U.P. Publishers and Authors Association, has scheduled a series of author events with selections to the UP Notable Book List.

The fifth event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier, whose Jack Handler thriller series has brought the modern action and adventure genre to the U.P.

The event will be at 7 p.m. Eastern time Thursday on the Zoom platform and is open to all U.P. residents free of charge. They’ll start with “Murder on Sugar Island,” the first installment of the series.

Those planning to participate should contact Evelyn Gathu in advance by email at egathu@uproc.lib.mi.us, or 906-875-3344. They recommend borrowing a copy of each UP Notable Book from the local library or buying from a local bookseller in advance to get the most out of these events.

Carrier has published 14 books of fiction, all centered on his main character, Jack Handler, a retired Chicago homicide detective. His books have been featured throughout the Midwest, mainly centering in the U.P.

Carrier never had a doubt he would become a fiction writer. As a journalism student in college, when his professor asked what he would like to do with his life, he said when he turned age 50 he would begin writing fiction. The professor was not pleased that Carrier wanted to delay his career, so challenged the rationale. Carrier simply told him that he would not start writing novels until he had accumulated an appropriate inventory of life experiences. However, his professor, who happened to be the editor of a national weekly magazine, gave Carrier a job writing for him.

At various times in his life, he has driven truck throughout the U.S., hustled pool and gambled poker from Texas to Montana, traveled the country hitchhiking, spent five years in New York’s East Greenwich Village, delivered diamonds for a New York wholesaler (he disguised himself as a down-and-outer), tended bar at a New York nightclub, climbed dozens of water towers throughout the U.S., panned for gold, skydived and worked for nearly three decades in private security.

More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, U.P. Book Review, and UPPAA can be found at www.UPNotable.com.

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