Author and photographer Jim Fraiser will be signing copies of his book, “Vanished Mississippi Gulf Coast,” beginning at 2:30 Saturday at Turning Pages Books & More located at 520 Franklin St. in Natchez.

Months prior to Hurricane Katrina, photographers Rick Guy and Jim Fraiser began cataloging the historical structures on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast for a photographic history to be published by Pelican Publishing Company.

Little did they know that their last pictures of the historic structures would be taken on the eve of the devastating storm.

Following the storm it seemed appropriate to include pictures of the destruction.

The book, “Vanished Mississippi Gulf Coast” preserved the history, culture and architecture of the Gulf Coast dating back to 1699 when the French first landed in Ocean Springs through August 2005.

“We offer this book as a reminder to the world of what the vanished Mississippi coast was before August 29, 2005, and, considering the unyielding spirit of her people, what it will surely be once again,” Fraiser said.

The book includes 142 color photographs of what existed before and after Katrina. Jim Fraiser is a practicing attorney in Jackson. He is also author of “Mississippi River Country Tales,” “The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast,” and “The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta.”

From 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, mother-daughter writing team Anita Havens and Wendy Daughdrill will be guests of Turning Pages to sign their hilarious murder mystery “Chickenbone Church Reunion.”

Murder can be funny. At least it can be when it involves a bumbling deputy, a pair of car-stealing little old ladies, and a very strange case of poison ivy. That is what Mississippi native Havens and her daughter set out to prove in their debut novel, “Chickenbone Church Reunion.”

The book, which is set in Mississippi, was largely inspired by stories that Havens’ grandfather used to tell about the Prohibition era.

In this mystery book, a serial killer is stalking the residents of a small, rural community.

All victims are elderly men, all murdered in the same gruesome manner, but the only evidence linking them is a mysterious black and white photograph found on each of the bodies.

“Chickenbone stands out from your everyday mysteries and thrillers in the way it gravitates between past and present,” Havens said. “At a certain point, the reader knows who is next, which makes it more intense.”

Havens received her degree in education from Mississippi College, and has taught fifth-grade language arts in Oxford for the past seven years.

She resides on the family farm outside Water Valley, where part of the book is set. Daughdrill graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in Spanish and journalism.

She teaches high school Spanish.

They are currently working on their second novel.

For more information or to reserve books for these two events call 601-442-2299.