COZY MYSTERIES!

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
| Location of Session: Copper Kitchen
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 4:30 PM
| Signing Location: Adult Signing Tent

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About the Event

In The Best Little Motel in Texas by Lyla Lane, Cordelia West inherits a motel—that turns out to be a brothel with a surprisingly sunny local reputation. But when a death occurs at the motel, Cordelia steps up to uncover small-town secrets, investigate suspects, and maybe even make some new friends. In Celeste Connally’s Regency-era whodunit, Revenge, Served Royal: A Mystery, Lady Petra and the ton attend a week of celebrations at Windsor Castle. When a guest of honor is found strangled, Lady Petra must find the killer! These two cozy-mystery authors will discuss their own twists on the genre, writing memorable murders, and strong female characters.

About the Authors

Photo Credit: Annie Hewitt Photography

Celeste Connally

Celeste Connally is the USA Today bestselling author of the Lady Petra Inquires series, an Agatha Award nominee, and a former freelance writer and editor. Her mysteries are set in Regency-era England and feature a headstrong heroine and as many equestrian scenes as her plots and editor will allow. She delights in giving her mysteries a good dose of romance, too, and a few research facts she hopes you’ll find as interesting as she does. Passionate about history and slightly obsessed with period dramas, Celeste most loves reading and writing about women who don’t always do as they are told.

Her latest book is Revenge, Served Royal: A Mystery.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Author

Lyla Lane

Lyla Lane is a pen name for Sonia Hartl, author of the rom-coms Rent to Be and Heartbreak for Hire, which has been optioned for television, as well as the young-adult novels Not Your #Lovestory, Have a Little Faith in Me, and The Lost Girls, also optioned for television. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband and two daughters.

Lyla joins the Book Festival to discuss her new novel, The Best Little Motel in Texas.

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