In Store Author event with Ron Currie

Watermark Books & Café is excited to welcome Ron Currie to celebrate his new novel, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne.

Perfect for readers of Liz Moore and S.A. Cosby, as well as fans of Fargo and Mare of Easttown, THE SAVAGE, NOBLE DEATH OF BABS DIONNE centers on a matriarchal crime family in Waterville, Maine helmed by Babs Dionne, a steely aging widow and proud Franco-American whose cast-iron grip over Little Canada’s drug syndicate is put in jeopardy when her youngest daughter is found dead. Gritty, epic, and often darkly funny, Currie’s first entrée into crime – and the first in a planned series exploring the generations of Dionne women in Waterville – has all the qualities of a dynamic, suspenseful page-turner and everything Currie’s longtime fans have loved about his work: acerbic, gorgeously written, genre-blurring, and in the end, somehow life-affirming. The result is at once an ambitious crime epic and a poignant drama about identity, retribution, intergenerational struggle, and above all, family: a literary thriller with love and community thrumming at the center of its bruised, beating heart. We’ve already received incredible early praise from Richard Russo, Chris Pavone, and Ivy Pochoda and are positioning this one of Putnam’s tentpole titles of spring 2025.