Upcoming COST TALKS and Activities
1/12/26: Portland Stage Company Performing an Excerpt 7:30 PM
from "Mainely Mayhem". Portland, ME.
2/17/26: Illume Bookshop Book Club Talk, Newburyport, MA. 7:00 PM
4/15/26: Noir at the Library, Rockport, ME 6:00 PM
Lights. Camera. Murder.
In Celluloid Crimes, the silver screen casts long, dangerous shadows. This gripping anthology of short stories pays homage to the spirit of the razor-sharp wit and smoky intrigue of classic noir-think The Thin Man with a fresh twist of lemon and blood.
Stories by: Gabriel Valjan - Robert Lopresti - Peter W.J. Hayes - P.A. De Voe - J.J. White - Deborah Lacy - Jeff Tanner - Nina Wachsman - Nicky Nielsen - C. C. Guthrie - Greg Herren - Wendy Harrison - M.E. Proctor - Devon Ellington - Kerry Hammond - Matt Cost - Colin Campbell
The Clay Wolfe/Port Essex series follows the highly lauded Mainely Mystery series by Cost. Acclaimed author Gerry Boyle selected the first in that series, Mainely Power, to be the Maine Humanities Council Read ME fiction book of the year. “I settled in with the colorful cast of this midcoast tale and felt that pang that good crime fiction gives you—you bear down on the resolution with the reservation that part of you doesn’t want the story to end.”—Gerry BoyleNew Paragraph
Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries.
Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. Four dogs round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.
