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Katherine Fast is an award-winning author of over 25 short and flash fiction stories. She was a former contributing editor and compositor for six anthologies of New England crime stories. The Drinking Gourd is her debut novel.

In her prior corporate career, she worked with M.I.T. spin-off consulting companies, with an international training firm, and as a professional handwriting analyst.
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She and her husband live in Massachusetts.

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The Drinking Gourd (2022)
Church Street Under (2023)



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For The Drinking Gourd
​“A confident and compelling debut by an author to watch! Timely and thought-provoking, The Drinking Gourd combines a solid mystery with a riveting and brave look at the tensions of history, and the way the past haunts us--until we face it.  Main character Casey Cavendish is tough and wonderful—and we root for her all the way. Do not miss this!” — Hank Phillippi Ryan.  USA Today Bestselling Author of Her Perfect Life

"The Drinking Gourd resonates with vivid characters ensnared in a web of love, betrayal, and greed that roils just below the surface of a sleepy college town. Wrongly sent to prison for dealing cocaine, Casey, the hero-rebel-victim, fights to clear her name before she’s framed a second time, this time for murder. Fast, a fresh new voice in the crime fiction world, offers a twist on the damaged heroine and a powerful sense of place with echoes from the Underground Railroad.” — Kate Flora, award-winning author of the Joe Burgess series

“Two compelling characters, one an ex-con, the other a cop, take you on a wild ride as they untangle the mysteries that haunt the past, shatter the present, and threaten the future. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.” — Barbara Ross, Author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries and the Jane Darrowfield Mysteries

For Church Street Under
“Fans of traditional mystery will love Church Street Under. A colorful cast of characters, a fearless heroine, and a superbly plotted story. Katherine Fast has done it again!” — Bruce Robert Coffin, Award-winning author of the Detective Byron mysteries

​"Kat Fast writes with deft agility and a refreshing narrative style. Church Street Under plumbs the murky depths of a wealthy New England family’s dark past with a well-paced, focused directness that engages the reader from page one and never lets go." — Gerald Elias, author of the award-winning Daniel Jacobus mystery series 


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