Mark Okrant Featured in the New Hampshire Union Leader

By John Koziol, Union Leader Correspondent Feb. 9, 2020 Updated Feb. 14, 2020

LOUDON — Kary Turnell, the peripatetic, crime-solving “man in the fedora,” is poised for a big year in 2020. The detective has been penned into cases throughout New Hampshire, including Concord, Wolfeboro, Manchester and the Seacoast and Monadnock regions, too.

Turnell is the creation of Mark Okrant, who in 1979 at the then-Plymouth State College created the first academic tourism program in the Granite State. Before and since his retirement in January 2016, Okrant has combined his love of writing, tourism and New Hampshire in murder mysteries.

Most recently, Okrant has embarked on a series of six novellas, issued by Concord-based Plaidswede Publishing. The series began late last year with “One Track Mind,” which had Turnell investigating a murder on the Mount Washington Cog Railway.

Last month, Okrant released “A Thief in the House,” which has Turnell pursuing the bad guys at the Beaver Meadow Golf Course, State House and McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center.

On or about April 1, Okrant expects to release “Long Walk, Short Deck,” most of which takes place aboard the MS Mount Washington excursion ship that plies Lake Winnipesaukee.

“I decided to write this series for two reasons,” Okrant said during an interview at his home. The first is to give Kary Turnell fans “more to read about their favorite investigator,” while, more broadly, the second is to offer visitors and residents alike “a chance to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with some of New Hampshire’s favorite places.”

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