What is the title of your latest release?
LADY DARLING INQUIRES AFTER A KILLER
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Lady Bridgerton meets The Thursday Murder Club
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I thought a Victorian-set mystery series with an older protagonist (she’s FIFTY! Quelle horreur!) would be super fun because that was the time when Sherlock Holmes was first being published.
Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Absolutely.
What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Bold, eccentric, and beyond giving a care what people think
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
That women “of a certain age” are fun to write!
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I write, and end up with one draft that is the only and final version.
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
A really good Margarita pizza….or crab legs
Describe your writing space/office!
My office is a loft in our upper floor. It has huge windows on two walls and floor to ceiling bookshelves on the other two. I use a treadmill desk when I write most of the time.
Who is an author you admire?
Nora Roberts/JD Robb
Is there a book that changed your life?
Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters. I re-read it at least once a year.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Historical mystery
What’s your favorite movie?
When Harry Met Sally…. Or A Fish Called Wanda
What is your favorite season?
Autumn
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Going out somewhere good to eat with my husband and closest friends
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Professor T
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Italian. Mexican.
What do you do when you have free time?
Read. Soak in a hot bath. Ride on my lake on a small pontoon. Garden. Cook.
What can readers expect from you next?
The next book in my series writing as Colleen Cambridge: TWO TRUTHS AND A MURDER.
Lady Darling Mysteries #1
Lady Bridgerton meets The Thursday Murder Club in the first of a charming, Victorian-set mystery series from bestselling author Colleen Gleason.
Lady Darling is a woman “of a certain age.” Fifty, to be specific—which, in the eyes of London society, makes her uninteresting, eccentric, and a little intimidating.
She’s a widow.
An empty-nester (all of her children very successfully married-off).
She’s titled, influential…and very, very rich.
Now she just wants to be left alone to enjoy her pets and her gardens and her books.
Until someone turns up dead at a dinner party, and Lady Darling is on the scene.
What’s a smart, responsible, capable woman to do?
Find the killer, of course!
A thrilling, witty romp of a mystery series, the Lady Darling books will find fans with readers of historical cozies, Bridgerton, and The Thursday Murder Club.
Mystery Historical | Mystery Amateur Sleuth [Oliver-Heber Books, On Sale: September 16, 2025, e-Book, / ]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jane Austen!
Colleen Gleason writes the Gardella Vampire Chronicles, a series about a female vampire hunter in Regency England, often described as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jane Austen." She lives in Michigan with her husband and children. She has an English degree and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Before writing full-time, she worked in the sales and marketing side of health care and insurance products. She has managed large sales forces, worked in start-up companies, and owned her own business. In her spare time, Colleen loves to cook, garden, watch movies, and of course read.
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