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Meet Author Brandy Schillace

in conversation with Lance Parkin

Join us when authors Brandy Schillace and Lance Parkin visit to discuss Schillace's new novel, The Framed Women of Ardemore House.

About the author:

Brandy Schillace is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher and Death’s Summer Coat: What Death and Dying Teach Us About Life and Living. She is the creator of the Peculiar Bookclub, bringing best-selling authors together with their readers. A former professor of English and gothic literature, she has an abiding love of mystery. She writes about gender politics and history, medical mystery, and neurodiversity for outlets such as Scientific American, Wired, CrimeReads, and Medium.  Brandy is also autistic, though has not (to her knowledge) been a suspect in a murder investigation.

In The Framed Women of Ardemore House, Jo Jones has always had a little trouble fitting in. As a neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor and divorced New Yorker transplanted into the English countryside, Jo doesn’t know what stands out more: her Americanisms or her autism.

After losing her job, her mother, and her marriage all in one year, she couldn’t be happier to take possession of a possibly haunted (and clearly unwanted) family estate in North Yorkshire. But when the body of the moody town groundskeeper turns up on her rug with three bullets in his back, Jo finds herself in potential danger—and she’s also a potential suspect. At the same time, a peculiar family portrait vanishes from a secret room in the manor, bearing a strange connection to both the dead body and Jo’s mysterious family history.

With the aid of a Welsh antiques dealer, the morose local detective, and the Irish innkeeper’s wife, Jo embarks on a mission to clear herself of blame and find the missing painting, unearthing a slew of secrets about the town—and herself—along the way. And she’ll have to do it all before the killer strikes again.

Brandy Schillace will be in conversation with Lance Parkin, a British author, biographer, and essayist. Best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who (and spin-offs including the Virgin New Adventures, Bernice Summerfield and Faction Paradox), over a twenty-year career, Lance has written for publications including TV Zone, Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and the New Statesman, has produced nonfiction guidebooks to the Doctor Who and Star Trek universes, and worked on the Emmerdale television series as a storyline writer. 

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.