Where to Find Me

 As you can see this blog is largely defunct. But if you'd like to find me, I have plenty of other places to visit.

My main web page is Vicki Delany – Canadian Author of Mystery Novels and Suspense Novels

My Lighthouse Library series page is The Lighthouse Library Mysteies - Home (lighthouselibrarymysteries.com)

Facebook's the best place to get news of book and to join contests. Vicki Delany & Eva Gates | Facebook

I'm on Twitter @vickidelany and @evagatesauthor

Instragram: @vicki.delany

Most of my books can be purchased by following this link: Vicki Delany | Penguin Random House

or this one: Eva Gates | Penguin Random House

or this one: Search Results - Kensington Books Publishing

To sign up for my newsletter go here: Vicki Delany – Canadian Author of Mystery Novels and Suspense Novels » Contact

Contest Time

With The Cat of the Baskervilles being released on February 13th, I want to introduce the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series to anyone who hasn't discovered it yet.

So I'm running a contest for an ARC of Elementary, She Read, the first in the series.

The contest is on Facebook, and I'd love you to "like' my Facebook author page (www.facebook.com/evagatesauthor) because that's where I regularly post book news, tour information, and have contests. But if you are not a fan of Facebook, you can still enter the contest. Just leave a comment below.

Contest open to US and Canada residents. Contest closes Monday AM.

A Busy Year Ahead in 2018

Happy New Year to All!

2017 was a pretty good year for me, and I've got a jam packed 2018 already scheduled.

So you can get your reading list ready, here's my production schedule.

January 9, 2018.  Paperback release of BODY ON BAKER STREET

February 13: Release of THE CAT OF THE BASKERVILLES, the third Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery

June 12: release of THE SPOOK IN THE STACKS, the fourth Lighthouse Library mystery by Eva Gates

October 9: paperback release of THE CAT OF THE BASKERVILLES

October: release of BLUE WATER HUES, the second Ashley Grant Mystery (this is a Rapid Reads novella) 

November 14: release of A Scandal in the Bookshop (tentative title) the fourth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery

Projects to complete in 2018:

The fourth Year Round Christmas mystery for Penguin Random House

The fifth Lighthouse Library mystery for Crooked Lane

The fifth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery for Crooked Lane

Essay "Sherlock Holmes is Like..." for Christopher Redmond's anthology on Sherlock and popular culture

Essay: "Women as People in the Sherlock Holmes Canon" for Villains, Victims, and Violets from the Studious Scarlets Society

Travels:

February 11, Speech to Muskoka Writers Association, Bracebridge, Ontario

April 27: Malice Domestic Conference in Bethesda, Maryland

May 9: Cozy Con in Scottsdale Arizona

August 31/Sept 1. Women Killing It Festival in Prince Edward County, Ontario

Bouchercon 2017

Bouchercon, the international crime writing and reading conference, is being held in Toronto this year. How could I pass up the chance to go!

I'll be there for the entire conference, staying in the conference hotel at the Sheridan Centre near all the action. I'd love to meet as many readers as possible.  Here's where I'll be

Wednesday evening. INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH CROMBIE. A pre-Bouchercon event at the Whitby Public Library at which I'll be interviewing Deborah. (Event is sold out! Sorry)

Friday 9:30. TEAM LEADER AT CWC PUB QUIZ.  Attendees can register in advance for the team they'd like to join!

Saturday 9:30. MEET ME AT THE CWC HOSPITALITY LOUNGE where I'll be chatting to readers and signing books for an hour

Saturday 11:40 SHERLOCK AND ME. A 20-20 session at which I'll talk about the inspiration behind the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series and anything else you might want to know.

Saturday 2:30. MEET ME AT THE CWC HOSPITALITY LOUNGE where I'll be chatting to readers and signing books for an hour

Sunday. 9:30 Panel discussion. THE BOOKSHELF DID IT: Mysteries involving books. Also on the panel are Kate Carlile and Mary Jane Maffini. Bound to be a riot!

Elementary,She Read

Once again, it seems as though it's been a while since I posted to this blog.

I'm delighted to share the news of what I've been up to over the last year. I've been working on the news Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, which will be published by Crooked Lane.

The first book in the series is titled Elementary, She Read, and will be released on March 14, and is now available for pre-order in ebook and hardcover formats.

The discovery of a rare and valuable magazine in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium takes the highly perceptive Gemma Doyle and her ever-confused friend Jayne Wilson deep into the world of Sherlockania.

Transplanted Englishwoman Gemma Doyle owns the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium in the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod, specializing in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and the adjoining Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room. When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne Wilson set off to find the owner. What they find is a dead woman and Gemma’s house ransacked.

The highly perceptive Gemma is the police’s first suspect, so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books expert, the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their inheritance. But when Gemma and Jayne accidentally place themselves at a second murder scene, it's a race to uncover the truth before the detectives lock them up for good.

Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight in the sleuthing duo of Gemma and Jayne in Elementary, She Read, the clever and captivating series debut by nationally bestselling author Vicki Delany. 

If you’d like a sneak peek at the first chapter, I’ve posted it on my web page. www.vickidelany.com

What's new and LCC

Good heavens, but it's been a long time since I posted anything on this blog.


Things have been running along just fine.  There are two
Lighthouse Library books out now, with the third scheduled for April 5, the first Year Round Christmas mystery is out, and the second will be released November 1st.  I have been offered a contract by Crooked Lane Books for the Sherlock Holmes Emporium series, and the first of those should be on the shelves sometime in Spring of 2017.

And, to round things off, the 8th Constable Molly Smith book, was released in February. It's titled Unreasonable Doubt. 



The reason I came over to the blog, was to ask if you're going to be at Left Coast Crime, and if you are, I hope we can beet up because I have a lot of things going on.

The night before the conference opens, Wednesday Feb. 24, I'll be at Poisoned Pen Bookstore at 7:00 as part of their International Writers Night.

The big event for me at LCC itself is the Crime Writers of Canada Friday evening reception. 5:30 - 6:30.  We'll have lots of authors, a fun quiz, prizes, nibbles and a cash bar. I'll be there in my role as president of the CWC as well as one of the authors.

I'll be busy all weekend with two panels, Writing Two Series on Thursday, and Murder in the Great Outdoors on Sunday, the speed-dating for authors event, and the Poisoned Pen Press breakfast on Saturday.

It's going to be a heck of a lot of fun!

Haitian Graves

I have been sorely neglecting this blog of late.  As an excuse, I do have rather a lot going on. And it's summer, so when I haven't been writing or doing any of the other varied chores associated with the writer's life, I've been outside.

But now, it's time for a new book announcement.  Haitian Graves, my new novella for the Rapid Reads line of Orca Books will be released on August 25th.

This is the second Ray Robertson book.  The first, 2014's Juba Good, saw Sergeant Ray Robertson of the RCMP working with the UN in South Sudan. If you recall I was lucky enough to spend some time in South Sudan in 2011 and 2013, and while I was there I met with some RCMP officers.

Since then the security situation in South Sudan has deteriorated and when Orca wanted another Ray Robertson book, I didn't think I could set one there.  But I just happened to be going to Haiti, so I took Ray along.

Here's some pictures of my trip that inspired some of the scenes in the book.

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