Former Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter Dale Kueter has written a murder mystery that takes place in 1950s Cedar Rapids. It’s based on an actual place, the Motel Sepia, which was run by local civil rights pioneer Cecil Reed. In Dale’s story, the Chicago mob shatters the Motel’s attempt to peacefully integrate whites and blacks in the years before the Civil Rights act.
Dale has a reading Oct. 27th at the Marion library, and Nov. 3 at the Hiawatha library.
More information at www.motelsepia.com.