Author Michael Almond at Hudson Library

When lifelong “voracious” reader Michael Almond, who was also a career international business attorney, decided to retire, it was not just to become a fixture on a golf course or a sofa.

He had begun contemplating the storyline for a historical fiction book 14 years ago, and years of research resulted in his debut legal-thriller novel, The Tannery (Koehler Books), launched this month. Almond is scheduled to share his book and to speak at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Library at a community event hosted by The Friends of the Library on October 22 at 3:00 P.M. He will also speak at a Books and Bites public event at the Highlands Hudson Library on October 23 at 12:30 P.M.