Schedule:

Friday 3,2024

Announcing the 3rd Annual Ashland Book Festival
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"I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story."

So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective-fever.”

"You and I might even solve an old mystery or two."

Twenty years earlier—on New Year’s Eve 1999—Sebastian’s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past?


"Life is hard. After all, it kills you".

As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian’s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting.

Saturday 4,2024

‍Senator Tim Kaine has served people throughout his life as a teacher, civil rights lawyer, and elected official. He is one of only thirty people in American history to be a mayor, governor, and U.S. Senator.  In 2019 Kaine commemorated both his sixtieth birthday and his twenty-fifth year in public office by undertaking a three-part journey across the Virginia landscape as he hiked, cycled, and canoed across the state. His chronicle of the journey became an organic reflection of the extraordinary events occurring across America during that time, including impeachment trials, a global pandemic, growing racial protests, the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and more.
In his memoir “Walk Ride Paddle: A Life Outside,” Senator Tim Kaine shares his epic 1,228-mile journey into the faraway nearby. On a quest to find the best in himself and in all of us, Kaine hiked 559 miles on the Appalachian Trail, cycled 321 miles through the Blue Ridge Mountains, and paddled 348 miles on the James River—creating the Virginia Nature Triathlon is in the process. “Walk Ride Paddle: A Life Outside” is a field guide for the soul and a moving testament to the optimistic spirit of America.
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The Senator will be joined by Jon Lugbill, Executive Director of Sports Backers.
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Date: May 3-4,2024

Location: The Ashland Theatre,205 England Street,Ashland, VA 23005

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