About Charlotte Morganti

I’m Charlotte Morganti, the award-winning mystery author of the Gabrieli Mysteries. My novel Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead won the inaugural Toby Award for Best Mystery by a Canadian Indie author. I’m a former corporate finance lawyer with an MFA in creative writing and write character-driven crime fiction set in small towns, where sharp humour, buried secrets, and emotionally complex sleuths collide.

As a lawyer, I powered my days with caffeine and good intentions. After twenty-five years of long hours and late nights at a computer, I decided it was finally time to write fiction.

These days, the caffeine habit remains, and so do the long hours at the computer. Now, though, they’re spent in the company of fictional private investigators and amateur sleuths who insist on getting themselves into trouble and make me sort it out.

I can tell you with complete confidence: this is much more fun than practising law.

My husband and I live in a small town on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. It’s often sunny… except when it’s not. He adores grey skies and foggy days. I was born and raised in Alberta, the land of wide blue winter skies, so when the fog rolls in, you’ll often find me under a quilt, waiting it out.

When I’m not grousing about our local “liquid sunshine,” I’m probably listening to Bob Dylan, Ian Tyson, Queen, Willie Nelson, or ZZ Top. I might also be watching curling (a prairie upbringing requirement) or cheering on the Blue Jays.

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