J. D. Carpenter

I first visited the County in 1980, bought land here in 1988, and became a permanent resident in 2002.

I am the author of the Campbell Young series of murder mysteries (McClelland & Stewart, the Dundurn Group), as well as four books of poetry.

My 2016 stand-alone novel, The County Murders, is set in Prince Edward County and begins with the suspicious death of a local winemaker. It was the initial release of Cressy Lakeside Books, a publishing cooperative.

The Local Store also carries my novel Twelve Trees and my CD Jazz Suite, which consists of jazz poetry accompanied by John McKinney on bass guitar.