The murder of Kerri Ann Brown in October 1986 here in Thompson remains unsolved.

But Kerri Ann is not forgotten.

Next Tuesday, former Thompson resident and author Kathy Ricard will share her soon-to-be released novel titled “The Deafening Sound of Sorrow” at the Thompson Public Library.

It’s a story Ricard, as one of Kerri Ann’s friends, attempted to write years ago but didn’t because the crime hadn’t been solved and in her mind, had no ending.

She explains how the book came to be this time.

“So I ended up taking out that old banker’s box in my closet and re-looking at the story I had written in my twenties and decided to refocus the whole book on Kerri herself and the friends that she surrounded herself with who ended up being a testament to who she was.”

Ricard said she became friends with Kerri Ann in the summer before her death and wanted to remember her from that time, rather than as the victim of one of Manitoba’s oldest cold cases.

Ricard will be at the Library this Tuesday from 5 to 7 pm.

Catch the interview with Ricard this afternoon at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon on Thompson Today.