Meet local authors this weekend

Dr. Robert West, the former longtime Kootenai County coroner, will be at the Well-Read Moose book store, 2048 N. Main St. in Riverstone, tonight to discuss his book "It Can (and Does) Happen Here."

West, who served as a physician-coroner from 1970 to 2011, will be at the book store from 6 to 7:30 p.m. West published the book last year. In it, he looks at some of his most challenging cases.

Matt Prescott, of Coeur d'Alene, will be signing copies of his first novel, "Temperance," on Feb. 28 from 1-4 p.m. at Hastings, 101 Best Ave., Coeur d'Alene.

The author describes the novel as "a fast-paced Western that takes place in the Coeur d'Alene mountains north of Wallace in 1885."