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Short Bio

Charlotte Morganti is the award-winning mystery author of the Gabrieli Mysteries. Her novel Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead won the inaugural Toby Award for Best Mystery by a Canadian indie author. Her novel, The End Game, was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Escellence for Best First Crime Novel. She writes character-driven crime fiction set in small towns, where sharp humour, buried secrets, and emotionally complex sleuths collide.

Long Bio

Charlotte Morganti is the award-winning mystery author of the Gabrieli Mysteries. Her novel Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead won the inaugural Toby Award for Best Mystery by a Canadian indie author. Her novel, The End Game, was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Escellence for Best First Crime Novel.

Charlotte is a former corporate finance lawyer and holds an MFA in creative writing. She writes character-driven crime fiction set in small towns, where sharp humour, buried secrets, and emotionally complex sleuths collide.

In addition to writing crime fiction, Charlotte is a speaker on the craft and business of writing crime fiction, and coaches new and emerging authors who want to establish their author platform and gain visibility with their ideal readers.

Charlotte and her husband live in a small town on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.

Awards and Accolades

• Winner of the inaugural Toby Award for Best Mystery by a Canadian indie author, for Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead
• Winner of the Sunshine Coast Writers & Editors Society’s Best Book award (Sunshine Coast Voices) for Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead
• Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best First Crime Novel, for The End Game
• Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Short Story, for All My Darlings (published in Die Laughing: An Anthology of Humorous Mysteries

Featured Interviews & Podcast Appearances

• Featured Books: The End Game (Book 1 of The Gabrieli Mysteries) and Breaking News: Local Heiress Dead (Book 1 of the Breaking News Mysteries).
• Key Topics Discussed: Writing a debut crime novel, transitioning into a new mystery series, and how trilogies and story arcs naturally form within a larger series framework.

• Featured Book: The End Game (Book 1 of The Gabrieli Mysteries).
• Key Topics Discussed: Utilizing the “stranger comes to town” literary device to frame a setting, the unique craft challenges and tight writing required for short stories, and techniques for planting early narrative clues that keep mystery readers turning pages.

• Featured Work: “All My Darlings” (published in Die Laughing: An Anthology of Humorous Mysteries).
• Key Topics Discussed: The structural art of crafting award-nominated short crime fiction, balancing laugh-out-loud comedy with traditional mystery plots, and engaging a reader instantly within a limited word count.

• Featured Focus: Shifting careers from a corporate finance and mining lawyer to a Canadian mystery novelist.
• Key Topics Discussed: Crafting mystery plots within the vast landscapes of Western Canada, creating small-town dynamics, and managing the business side of independent authorship.