Welcome to Charlotte Morganti’s website. If you enjoy mysteries set in small towns featuring dastardly and sometimes inept villains, a laidback private detective who talks to his truck and can make a mean Irish Coffee, a feisty female reporter who lives by Calamity Jane’s mantra “if you want to be a legend, go out and be one,” or a woman of a certain age who solves crime in her home town, you are in the right place!

NEWS

My novel, The End Game, was nominated for the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada’s Best Crime First Novel award of excellence!

And, my novel Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead, won first prize in the Sunshine Coast Voices category of the Sunshine Coast Writers & Editors Society 2024 Book Awards for BC Authors!

Find out more about both books below.

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Did local reporter Olivia Mercier kill her former best friend Shauna Wylie, stuff her into a concrete-filled barrel, and then dump her in the middle of Donner Lake?

The cops think so. Olivia has two weeks to prove them wrong.

Learn more, watch a trailer, read an Extract!

Find the book at these retailers!

Or buy the ebook on my Store!

2024 Finalist for

Best Crime First Novel!

One deadly explosion. One burned body. One teenaged suspect. One week-long race for Gabrieli to save his kid brother’s neck.

“The End Game is just the beginning to an addictive new series.” Robert Dugoni, New York Times best selling author of The Tracy Crosswhite Series.

“It just doesn’t get much better than this. Sharp and pitch perfect, The End Game is by turns heart thumping, heartbreaking, deeply human, and wryly funny.” Linda L. Richards, award-winning author of Endings and Exit Strategy.

More about The End Game, including an extract, in Books – Gabrieli Mysteries.

Available for purchase in the Store and from these Retailers.

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Welcome to Blossom City, the home of amateur sleuth Persimmon Branch Worthing.

Persimmon Worthing Short Mysteries, Volume One is a collection of seven short cozy mysteries, involving four murders, a series of attempted homicides, a theft of a prize dessert, and an attempted duck-icide.

These stories are designed to entertain readers who enjoy lighter, humorous mysteries.

The digital version of this collection is available in the Store

Both the paperback and digital versions are also available at these Retailers.

Charlotte Morganti is the Canadian author of the Gabe Gabrieli Mysteries, a gritty private investigator series of full-length novels, the Breaking News Mysteries, full-length novels featuring a feisty and snarky investigative reporter, and the Persimmon Worthing Mysteries, a humorous cozy series of short fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for several awards, including the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.