Friends of PPLD Annual Meeting: Mysteries Around the World and Across Time

In this panel, we’ll discuss how writers capture unique time periods and bring them to life for the modern reader. Thanks to the imagination of our illustrious panel of local mystery writers, we’ll travel with their heroes and villains to Kyoto, Japan, Revolutionary War America, Tudor-era England, and the Bronze Age of Crete without leaving the library. 

Jodé Millman — Moderator

Multi-award-winning author of the true-crime inspired mystery series, Queen City Crimes. She’s an attorney, a reviewer for booktrib.com, and creator of The Writer’s Law School. 

Tina deBellegarde – Agatha Award-nominated author of the Batavia-on-Hudson mystery series set in New York’s Hudson Valley, while her most recent installment, Autumn Embers, is set in Kyoto, Japan. 

Mally Becker – Agatha Award-nominated author of a Revolutionary War mystery series, beginning with The Turncoat’s Widow, set in New York City and Morristown, and continuing most recently with The Paris Mistress, featuring 18th century Paris and Versailles.

Nancy Bilyeau – Author of seven historical novels of suspense, beginning with The Crown, set in Tudor England, and most recently, The Orchid Hour, set in Prohibition-era New York City.

Eleanor Kuhns – winner of the 2011 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition for The Simple Murder. Her new series is set in Bronze Age Crete.