Gigi Pandian

A vanished body. A deadly bookshop. A country house party full of suspects. Can a living gargoyle and an alchemist decipher the clues before poisoned pages claim another victim?

Murder in a conservatory of carnivorous plants. Bewitching topiary terrors. A sabotaged tea shop. The seventh installment in the Accidental Alchemist Mystery series finds Zoe and Dorian battling carnivorous plants and a killer hiding in the wicked weeds of this closed circle whodunit....

Alchemist Zoe Faust and her impish gargoyle sidekick Dorian Robert-Houdin travel to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to investigate a mysterious discovery found in the wreckage of the tragic fire: a long-lost gargoyle illustration drawn by Victor Hugo himself....

Unpacking her belongings in her new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed alchemist Zoe Faust can't help but notice she's picked up a stowaway....

Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave listeners enchanted....

Centuries-old alchemist Zoe Faust is tired of running from her past. She's finally got her life on track in Portland, gardening and cooking in her house with her best friend. It seems like the perfect life for Zoe, until she discovers that her mentor Nicolas Flamel has been imprisoned....

Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company’s craftsmanship....

Deciphering an ancient alchemy book is more difficult than Zoe Faust bargained for. She'd much rather be gardening and exploring her new hometown of Portland, Oregon....

The Raven Thief: A Secret Staircase Mystery by Gigi Pandian is a forthcoming title from Minotaur Books....

When Jaya's old professor dies under eerie circumstances shortly after discovering manuscripts that point to a treasure, Jaya and her brother pick up the trail....

Tempest Raj and Secret Staircase Construction are renovating a classic detective fiction library that just got its first real-life mystery.

Dorian Robert-Houdin, the three-and-a-half-foot gargoyle chef who fancies himself a modern-day Poirot, is slowly turning into stone....

Historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package and discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend. But she's not the only one on the trail....

When Jaya travels to Japan with her stage magician friend Sanjay for his Japanese debut, she jumps at the chance to pursue her own research that could solve a tantalizing centuries-old mystery....

A blackmailer obsessed with gold. A boyfriend who’s more than he seems. And a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast....

Sixteen years ago, high school student Ridley Price discovered a secret she planned to reveal through a party game—but someone killed her first. The baffling crime was never solved....

A stolen masterpiece. A brilliant woman written out of history. And a recipe for a lost color worth killing for. In the spellbinding eighth installment of the Accidental Alchemist Mysteries, centuries-old alchemist Zoe Faust and living gargoyle Dorian Robert-Houdin face their most colorful case yet!

When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving's owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime....

Three unsolved murders spanning 70 years have befallen the same French family, each taking place two nights before Christmas at their Paris mansion - and blamed on the family ghost....

Shortly before the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Pirate Vishnu strikes the San Francisco Bay. An ancestor of Jaya's who came to the US from India draws a treasure map....