

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: True Crime Book Club: The Sinners All Bow
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for a True Crime Book Discussion on Wednesday, Jan. 21 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library. The May book selection is The Sinners All Bow by Kate Winkler Dawson. Copies are available for checkout.

Book Summary: On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter—but the reverend was not convicted, and questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell’s death. Until now.

In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to nineteenth-century small-town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—including “forensic knot analysis” and criminal profiling (which was invented fifty-five years later with Jack the Ripper)—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams’s research to find the truth and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given.

About the Author: Kate Winkler Dawson joined the University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism as an associate professor of practice in 2009. Before then, she was on the faculty of Fordham University's Marymount College for two years. A seasoned documentary producer, news writer and TV news producer, her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, United Press International in London, WCBS News, ABC News Radio, Fox News Channel, “PBS NewsHour” and “Nightline.” She's on the board of the Texas Center for Actual Innocence and lives in Austin, Texas with her family. Her debut book was Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City."
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Howard City
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 117 Williams St, Howard City, MI, United States, Michigan 49329
- **lat**: 43.39779
- **long**: -85.46969
- **full address**: 117 Williams St, Howard City, MI, United States, Michigan 49329

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library (https://allevents.in/org/timothy-c-hauenstein-reynolds-township-library/24306283)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 20 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 117 Williams St, Howard City, MI, United States, Michigan 49329
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, nonprofit
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