Chat with local author Gigi Pandian

Join us for a discussion with local author Gigi Pandian about her latest release The Library Game, the fourth book in her Secret Staircase series, releasing March 18. The discussion will be hosted by local author Ellie Alexander, author of the Secret Bookcase mysteries.

The event is free. You don't need to register to attend. If you would like to order a copy of the book for purchase at the event or any of the books in the series, please click on the "Reserve a book" button.

Please note that our Mysteries and Mocktails book club will be reading Under Lock and Skeleton Key, the first book in the series, on March 18. For more information, check out the .

Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning mystery author, breast cancer survivor, and locked-room mystery enthusiast. The child of academics from New Mexico and the southern tip of India, she spent her childhood being dragged around the world on research trips, which inspired her fiction. She now lives in northern California with her husband and a gargoyle who watches over the garden. Gigi writes the Secret Staircase mysteries, Accidental Alchemist mysteries, Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, and locked-room mystery short stories. Her debut novel, Artifact, was awarded a Malice Domestic Grant and named a “Best of 2012” Debut Novel by Suspense Magazine, and her fiction has received Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Derringer Awards, and been a finalist for the Edgar Award. Along with Kellye Garrett and Walter Mosley, she’s one of the co-founders of Crime Writers of Color.

Gigi’s latest Accidental Alchemist novel, The Alchemist of Brushstrokes and Brimstone, was published in October 2024. Her first Secret Staircase mystery, , was published by Minotaur Books in March 2022, garnering multiple starred reviews and called “wildly entertaining” by the New York Times Book Review. Her 2025 releases are the forth Secret Staircase Mystery, The Library Game (March 2025), and the ninth Accidental Alchemist Mystery, A Gargoyle’s Guide to M**der (October 2025).

Links:

Website: https://www.gigipandian.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GigiPandian
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gigipandian/
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