It's a Mystery: Five Authors on the Perfect Whodunit

Program

6:00: Reception with the authors
6:30: Program starts
7:30: Book signing and close
If you love to cozy up with a good mystery then look no further! We are delighted to welcome five masters of mystery fiction to the stage to reveal their latest titles; where they get their inspiration; and how they decide which clues to divulge and which to keep hidden until you turn to the very last page.

Your ticket includes a drink and light snacks, as well as the opportunity to mingle with the authors at a casual reception. Plus, our booksellers will wrap up some mystery mysteries for purchase sight unseen. Has a blind date with a book ever been this intriguing?

About the Speakers

Cara Black is the author of twenty-one books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series as well as the WWII thrillers Three Hours in Paris and Night Flight to Paris. She has won the Médaille de la Ville de Paris and the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel and received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards; her books have been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.

M.M. Chouinard is the Mary Higgins Clark Award–nominated, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and San Francisco Chronicle bestselling author of The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco series, the Detective Jo Fournier thriller series, and the standalone psychological thriller The Vacation. She has a PhD in developmental psychology from Stanford University and was one of the founding faculty members of UC Merced. She enjoys amateur genealogy, crafting, baking, and Halloween. She’s owned by three cats and a dog, and is held together by caffeine and dry shampoo.

Carmela Dutra is a writer from the Bay Area who loves food trucks, family, and cozy mysteries. Her debut, A M**der Most Fowl, has been praised by Kirkus Reviews for its “serious set of crimes leavened by plenty of amusing moments,” by Criminal Element for the “juicy reasoning behind the sabotage that was almost as shocking as the M**der itself,” and described as “the perfect escapist read, brimming with banter and an extra helping of fun” by New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams. She has also been featured in CrimeReads Magazine.

Laurie R. King is the award-winning bestselling author of eighteen previous Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a series featuring SFPD cold-case Inspector Raquel Laing, the contemporary Kate Martinelli series, the historical Stuyvesant & Grey stories, and five acclaimed standalone novels. She lives in Northern California, where she is at work on her next Raquel Laing mystery.

Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling author and locked-room mystery enthusiast who’s been awarded Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Derringer awards, and been a finalist for the Edgar. The child of anthropologists 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. Gigi writes the Secret Staircase mysteries (locked-room mysteries called “wildly entertaining” by the New York Times), the Accidental Alchemist mysteries (humorous mysteries with a touch of magic), and the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries (lighthearted adventures steeped in history). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and a gargoyle who watches over the backyard garden. For bookish fun plus a free short story, sign up for her email newsletter at www.gigipandian.com

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