Gigi Pandian

Mar 21, 2024 | crimereads.com | Gigi Pandian

What’s a puzzle plot mystery? In a “fair play” puzzle plot mystery, the author provides the reader with all the clues, allowing the reader to match wits with the detective. All the pieces of the puzzle are hidden in plain sight. The genre was at its height in the Golden Age of detective fiction in the 1920s and ‘30s, and continued in popularity for decades.

Jan 31, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Katrina Carrasco |Andrey Kurkov |Steve Cavanagh |Gigi Pandian

Katrina Carrasco. MCD, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-27268-5Carrasco’s outstanding sequel to The Best Bad Things delivers even more grit, queerness, and 19th-century swashbuckling than its predecessor. High society smuggler Delphine Beaumond has shifted her opium trade operations from Port Townsend to the emerging city of Tacoma, Wash., in 1888.

Oct 23, 2023 | crimereads.com | Katharine Schellman |Mia Manansala |Gigi Pandian |Ragnar Jonasson

It’s a rare crime fiction reader who doesn’t love curling up with a mystery during the winter months, especially if that mystery is one of the many Christmas-themed puzzles that the genre is famous for. The tradition goes back to the Golden Age of detective fiction, that period after World War II when authors like Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, and (of course) Agatha Christie were writing some of their most famous titles.

Mar 24, 2023 | crimereads.com | Gigi Pandian

Locked-room mysteries are the type of mystery in which a crime looks impossible. (Not to be confused with a “closed circle” mystery, in which the characters are stranded in an isolated setting.) Why are these mysteries appealing to so many readers? I’ve been a fan of locked-room mysteries for decades, and more recently I’ve become an author in the genre. Here are the three reasons why it’s such an enticing type of mystery. First, you know you’re getting a “fair play” puzzle.

Mar 21, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Gigi Pandian

English1250805015Multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian is one of the best locked room mystery writers working today. Her newest heroine, Tempest Raj, returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more sinister than the Secret Staircase Construction crew ever imagined. One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake séance hides a very real crime.