- Street:
- Crystal Ballroom, Leopold Retirement Residence
- Additional:
- 1224 Cornwall Ave.
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
The Chuckanut Radio Hour is Village Books' monthly radio variety show which is recorded live and features live music, the poetry corner, author interviews, and an episode of "The Bellingham Bean." Guest authors have included Sherman Alexie, Garrison Keillor, JA Jance, and Rick Bass, among many others . Music begins at 6:30pm and we ask that everyone be seated by 6:45pm for the 7pm recording. Co-sponsored by the Leopold Residence. Tickets for the show are $5 each and are available at Village Books (one free with purchase of the book, at the store, prior to the show) and online at Brown Paper Tickets.
Our guest for this pre-holiday show is legendary true crime author, Ann Rule, who will be accompanied by Barb Thomson, Mother of Ronda Reynolds, the victim Ann writes about in her latest book. Music will be by the Honeybees, Mike McQuaide—sitting in for Alan Rhodes—will return to the show with one of his essay, our fabulous resident poet Kevin Murphy will be on handin the Poets' Corner, and we'll see what kind of holiday trouble the Beans have gotten themselves entangled in.
In her latest book, Ann Rule delves into the unsettling case of a woman, Ronda Reynolds, whose untimely death was ignored and covered up, and the mother who’d stop at nothing to bring peace to her daughter’s memory. The book was written with the full cooperation of Ronda’s mother Barb, and investigators who worked pro bono to solve Ronda's murder. Here, Ann Rule lays out her thoughts of what happened to Ronda, who was involved with her death, and how the police mishandled the case. With her knack for research and in-depth interviewing and character profiling, Ann Rule offers a gripping and terrifying tale of a woman who died a violent death that was ignored for too many years. Rule hopes to bring justice to a woman who was falsely accused of taking her own life, and presents a haunting and absorbing tale that will keep readers wanting to find out more.
In addition to bringing light to the case through the book, there have been auctions, donations, and fund-raisers, that make possible a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of one or more person or persons who carried out a plan to murder Ronda Reynolds. At this point, the reward is over $30,000.
Ann Rule has researched and studied some of the most intriguing and chilling crimes of our time. The author of 30 New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print, she has become one of the world’s best known crime writer. The Stranger Beside Me, her classic true-crime book about working side-by-side on a crisis line with serial killer Ted Bundy, was made into a TV movie, as have Everything She Ever Wanted, Too Late to Say Goodbye, Dead by Sunset, And Never Let Her Go, and Small Sacrifices-- which won a Peabody Award. A full-time true crime writer since 1969, Ann Rule is a former Seattle police officer and a certified instructor for police training seminars, and lectures frequently to law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and forensic science organizations, including the FBI. She has testified before U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittees on serial murder and victims’ rights, and has been a powerful advocate for victims of violent crimes and their survivors for more than three decades. She also worked on the U.S. Justice Department Task Force to set up VI-CAP, the Violent Criminals Apprehension Program.
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
