Gigi Pandian

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....

Historian Jaya Jones finds herself on the wrong side of the law during an art heist at the Louvre. To redeem herself, she follows clues from an illuminated manuscript....

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?

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....

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....

"Nankani executes a lovely Scottish lilt and makes each voice easily distinguishable in conversation"—AudioFile on Under Lock and Skeleton Key In heroine Tempest Raj, modern-day queen of the locked room mystery Gigi Pandian has created a brilliant homage to the greats of classic detective...

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....

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....

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....

Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave...

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....

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....

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....

This program includes three recipes. Multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian is one of the best locked room mystery writers working today. Her newest heroine, Tempest Raj, returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more...

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....

In The Library Game, Tempest Raj and Secret Staircase Construction are renovating a classic detective fiction library that just got its first real-life mystery. "Nankani executes a lovely Scottish lilt and makes each voice easily distinguishable in conversation." —AudioFile on Under Lock &...

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!

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....

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....