Hosted by the Belleville Public Library, Cressy Lakeside authors will be joining other authors from the Bay of Quinte region!

Entry is free. CLB books will be available for purchase.

Join us Saturday, September 20, 2025 at the Belleville Public Library

254 Pinnacle Street
Belleville, Ontario

Welcome to Deep County. In 1967, fifteen-year-old Chapman Currie was a junior member of a four-man salvage crew. Their mission was to raise a one-eight scale of the Avro Arrow from Lake Ontario. It rested in shallow water, just offshore from a tiny island – Deep County. The men who led the expedition disputed ownership of the spoils, and one hid the rocket from the other. Those men are now gone, but their descendants won’t let go of their old quarrel. The locals believe the priceless relic is squirrelled away, somewhere on the island…

Join the author, Peter Blendell, at Blizzmax Gallery 3071 County Rd 13, Sunday June 1, starting at 2pm, for the launch of Deep County and author talk!

Everyone is aware of Directorate K, but nobody knows much about it. How does it operate? Does it have a purpose? Where did it come from and where is it going? An obscure but intriguing conjecture might help answer these questions. It speculates that if you eavesdrop on the thoughts of a sample group, then you’ll come to know what the larger collective has in common.

Join the author, Peter Blendell, at Blizzmax Gallery 3071 County Rd 13, Sunday June 25 from 2 to 4 pm, for the launch of your next summer read!

Cressy Lakeside Books and the Prince Edward County Library system have joined forces to install a ‘little library’ at the Milford branch of the PEC library. Our shared goal is to promote reading and to make the enjoyment of books easy and convenient for visitors and County residents alike.

The little library is open 24-7, and everybody is welcome to avail themselves of its contents. The books are free, and don’t need to be returned. You don’t need a library card – but we do encourage people to show their support and get a library card with the Prince Edward County Library system. There’s no charge, and it allows you to take advantage of all the books, periodicals, and DVD’s the library offers.

We’ll be adding a second library at the Ameliasburgh branch later this summer. These two are a pilot project: we hope to expand it next year, based on comments we get about how to improve the idea.

If you have books that you’d like to donate books to this project, please give them to PEC Library staff. They’ll store them and restock the libraries as needed.

Laurie Scott’s new mystery A Murder of Crowes is here and early reviews are glowing!

“This novel held my complete attention. I didn’t want to put it down,” says Jaime G.

The new work follows Lilly Mullaly to the Adirondacks where her seclusion is broken by the mystery surrounding the estate of Albert Crowe and his family’s deadly contest for inheritance. Read more…

A Murder of Crowes is “Clever,” says Shelley T., and has “plot twists I couldn’t imagine. I highly recommend!” says Carol C.

Find Laurie Scott’s A Murder of Crowes at bookstores and online.

Stay tuned and watch for copies of Laurie Scott’s Murder of Crowes this October. This novel is the sequel In Like a Lion, following writer Lily Mullaly to the Adirondacks where she uncovers a series of mysterious deaths and family secrets in the Crowe family.

This is the second sequel released from Cressy Lakeside Books. Also released this year is J.D. Carpenter’s Lake Pirates in which Joe Horn’s seemingly bucolic house sitting gig on Little Hat Island takes an unexpected turn and the reporter must delve into an unsolved murder, risking his own life.