Local author Berchman Richard will be signing and selling his new book Death on the Atchafalaya at the Westside Regional Library on Thursday, July 10, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

This story weaves together three plotlines: the quest for an ancient treasure chest filled with stolen gold, hidden in the Louisiana swamps, and the men who search and die for it; two older men embarking on a final adventure aboard a small cabin cruiser, traveling through Texas and Louisiana’s waterways, heading toward the Atchafalaya swamp; and the convergence of these two stories as men in the swamp fiercely guard the secret of the buried gold from those who seek to steal it.