Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Katharine Schellman!
Writes:
Katharine Schellman writes mysteries with puzzling plots and determined sleuths. She likes to focus on the stories of women and queer folks in historical settings. And she can’t resist adding in things like swoony love triangles, found families, and clues hidden in plain sight that you’ll be determined to spot before the characters do.
About:
I’m Katharine Schellman, an award-winning author of historical crime fiction. My novels, which reviewers have called “worthy of Rex Stout or Agatha Christie,” have been named one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year, a Library Journal Best Crime Fiction of the Year, and a New York Times editor’s pick. My work has been nominated for the Silver Falchion award and won the Zibby Media National Book Award for Best Book for the History Lover.
Weird past jobs: Political consultant, professional actor, lingerie salesperson
Not good at: Keeping houseplants alive, buying a reasonable number of books
Loves: Libraries, beaches, champagne, naps.
Currently lives: In the mountains of Virginia with one husband (excellent cook) and two children (sweet but semi-feral)
LAST DANCE BEFORE DAWN isn’t for every reader, but you might be a perfect match if you love:
- Suspenseful, twisty plots
- Speakeasies, bootleggers, and 1920s glamour
- Friends who are like family
- Secrets from the past catching up with you
- Queer relationships between imperfect people
- Dramatic confrontations
- Danger lurking around every corner
- Knowing who you can count on, even in the worst possible situations
What to expect if we’re compatible:
If we’re compatible, you’ll want to check out my backlist of historical mysteries set in 1920s New York and Regency England. (If you like Bridgerton but ever thought it needs less marriage and more murder, those ones are for you.) You’ll also want to sign up for my mailing list to get your hands on fun things like book giveaways, sneak peeks, and a free short mystery!
The Nightingale #4
Last Dance before Dawn is the final book in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York.
Vivian Kelly has finally created a home and a family at the glamorous speakeasy known as The Nightingale, where no one cares who you are in the daytime. After all, in the underground world of 1920s New York City, everyone has a secret to keep, and they’re on the Nightingale's dance floor to leave those secrets behind. But sometimes it takes more than a dance to escape your past.
When a stranger from Chicago shows up at The Nightingale looking to settle old scores, Vivian and the Nightingale's owner, the mysterious and alluring Honor Huxley, send him packing. They soon discover, though, that the stranger was just a warning. Slowly, the people who have made The Nightingale their home realize that someone is following them. Hunting them. And that someone won’t stop until they unravel a mystery that’s been cold for years: a missing girl, a boy out for revenge, and a truck full of cash that disappeared in a job gone horribly wrong.
Vivian just wants to protect the people she loves, and she's willing to dig into the dirt of the past to make it happen. But some questions are safer left unanswered, and now that Vivian has built a family for herself, she has more to lose than ever before.
Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Historical [St. Martin's Press, On Sale: June 17, 2025, Hardcover / e-Book , ISBN: 9781250325822 / ]
Katharine Schellman studied theatre and history at the College of William & Mary, after which she went on to dance professionally, work in political consulting, and collect addresses up and down the east coast of the United States. Her nonfiction and essays have been published on The Huffington Post, Mother Magazine, A Practical Wedding, and more.
Katharine's debut historical mystery, The Body in the Garden, was published in April 2020 and led to her being named one of BookPage's 16 Women to Watch in 2020. Katharine currently lives and writes in the mountains of Virginia with her husband, preschooler, and the many houseplants she keeps accidentally murdering.
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