I can finally share the exciting news I hinted at earlier this summer: I sold my novel The Vanishing Act of Tempest Raj, at auction, to an editor and publisher that I'm so incredibly happy to be working with!

Here’s announcement from Publishers Marketplace:

“Agatha Award winner Gigi Pandian’s The Vanishing Act of Tempest Raj, a locked-room mystery and first in a new Secret Staircase Construction series, in which a woman returns to her childhood home to help her family's business but instead wonders if the Raj family curse has followed her home, to Madeline Houpt at Minotaur, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Jill Marsal at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.”

This is the book I began writing on my 40th birthday writing retreat, but it took me a while to figure out how to tell Tempest’s story.

Minotaur Books is a mystery imprint of St. Martin’s Press. They publish so many of my favorite mysteries, and my editor really gets me and my style of mystery fiction. I’m excited for this next step!