Contemporary Suspense and Hardboiled Fiction: A Panel with Chris Chambers and KT Nguyen, moderated by Sujata Massey

Join us at Bird in Hand for a panel conversation with 3 of today’s most exciting mystery writers– Chris Chambers, KT Nguyen, and Sujata Massey– who will weave the questions of the Contemporary Suspense genre in with the questions of their books.

In Christopher Chambers’ latest detective mystery, underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president.

In KT Nguyen’s heart-pounding debut thriller, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present as she is investigated for the disappearance of a prominent art patron, and her carefully curated life begins to unravel.

Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry series features Bombay’s only female solicitor as she reckons with the racism and sexism of her time.

There’s much to discuss, and we hope you’ll be a part of it! Come have a drink and an evening out while finding your next page-turner.

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Order STREETWHYS: A DICKIE CORNISH DETECTIVE MYSTERY here

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Christopher Chambers is a Shamus and Anthony, and PEN/Malamud-nominated crime fiction and graphic novel writer. He’s lawyer and affordable student housing developer, a native of Washington DC yet proud graduate of McDonogh School in Baltimore. Random House published his hardcover thrillers Sympathy for the Devil and A Prayer for Deliverance. His short stories appeared in major anthologies including the Anthony award-winning The Obama Inheritance; he’s a contributor to Marvel’s The Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and Sam Wilson: The Shield of Captain America. Three Rooms Press published his DC hardboiled noir trilogy Scavenger, Standalone and Streetwhys. He’s on the board of the Bouchercon World Mystery Conference and is president of Mystery Writers of America’s Middle Atlantic Chapter. Publisher’s Weekly calls Chris “No holds barred,” and The Strand Magazine calls Chris the “modern heir to Chandler, Woolrich and Cain.”

K.T. Nguyen is a former Glamour magazine editor. Her Agatha Award-winning psychological thriller YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID is currently nominated for both the Macavity Award and the Anthony for Best First Novel. It was named a People Magazine Best Book of April 2024 and a Best Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 by Elle, Parade, and Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. K.T. enjoys practicing Krav Maga, rooting for the Mets, and playing with her Jack Russell Terrier Alice. A graduate of Brown University, she lives just outside of Washington, D.C. with her family.

Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time novelist. The first Perveen Mistry novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill, was an international bestseller and won the Agatha, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. Visit her website at sujatamassey.com.