Storyteller will host a meet-the-author event for Shop Small Saturday.

Author Maria Kelson, who recently moved to Thermopolis, will be on hand to sign her debut novel, Not The Killing Kind, a mystery/thriller published in September 2024 by Crooked Lane Books and distributed by Penguin Random House.

The Novel won the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime, and is about how far a mother will go to protect her son. Praised as a "stirring debut novel" loaded with "satisfying twists" by Publisher's Weekly, the novel will appeal to crime fiction readers who like strong female characters and novels that engage contemporary issues.