Coming Events
Upcoming appearances:
Malice Domestic Conference, Bethesda, MD, April 24-27
Malice-Go-Round, Friday, April 25th, 10:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Ballroom D
Panel: Including Real Characters and Events in Historical Mysteries
Moderator: Mally Becker, with authors S.J. Bennett, Amanda Flower, and Mariah Fredericks
Saturday, April 26, 2:00 – 2:50 pm, Ballroom B
Author signing: Saturday, April 26, 3:00, Bookroom
Kew & Willow Books Historical Mystery Panel, May 10, 7 p.m.
With Radha Vatsal, Mariah Fredericks and Laura Joh Rowland
81-63 Lefferts Blvd., Kew Gardens, NY
CrimeCONN2025, May 17, Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT, 10 a.m.
Panel: From Briefs To Books: Lawyers turned crime writers tell us how they got there.
With Mally Becker, Jodé Millman and Wendy Walker
Guest Essay in Donis Casey’s “Write Errant” website. Read it
here.
AN EXCELLENT THING IN A WOMAN, Sparks and Bainbridge #7, is out from Severn House!
A riveting, fast-paced mystery full of wartime secrets, romance, and psychological trauma. Kirkus
Montclair seamlessly blends fair-play detection, immersive period detail, and dashes of humor in her latest historical featuring matchmakers Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge … Montclair’s light, comic touch and gift for well-placed clues are on full display. It’s another solid entry in a dependable series. Publishers Weekly
My essay “An American Lost in London” is in the Winter, 2024
Mystery Readers Journal, talking about my Sparks and Bainbridge series.
MURDER AT THE WHITE PALACE was voted Favorite Mystery of 2024 by DorothyL! Also made the Best Mystery Lists for Deadly Pleasures, CrimeSpree, and readingreality.net.
The series got a great review on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour! You can read the transcript here. (It’s toward the end.)
I have added demos for three new shows: “At The Grave Of The Great Detective,” a one-act with composer Madeline Stone; “Doreen,” a one-act with composer Dave Hall; and “Gilgamesh,” for which I did the book and Lawrence Rush wrote the score. Check out the Musical Theater Page!