An Evening with Katharine Schellman
Fri, Oct 13
|Birch Tree Books
Join Birch Tree Bookstore to welcome back author Katharine Schellman as she features her newest Lily Alder mystery, A Murder at Midnight.
Time & Location
Oct 13, 2023, 6:30 PM – Oct 14, 2023, 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Books , 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
You might recognize Katharine Schellman from the last time she visited us at Birch Tree featuring Last Call at the Nightingale. We are thrilled to dig into her Lily Adler mysteries set in 19th century England.
About the book
Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to a quiet Christmastide away from the schemes and secrets she witnessed daily in London. Not only will she be visiting the family of her late husband; she will be reunited with Captain Jack Hartley, her friend and confidante, finally returned after a long voyage at sea.
But secrets aren’t only found in London. Jack’s younger sister, Amelia, is the center of neighborhood scandal and gossip. She refuses to tell anyone what really happened, even when an unexpected snowstorm strands the neighborhood families together after a Christmas ball. Stuck until the snow stops, the Adlers, Hartleys, and their neighbors settle in for the night, only to be awakened in the morning by the scream of a maid who has just discovered a dead body.
The victim was the well-to-do son of a local gentleman—the same man whose name has become so scandalously linked to Amelia’s.
With the snow still falling and no way to come or go, it’s clear that someone in the house was responsible for the young man’s death. When suspicion instantly falls on Jack’s sister, he and Lily must unmask the true culprit before Amelia is convicted of a crime she didn’t commit.
About the author
Katharine Schellman is a former actor, one-time political consultant, and currently the author of the Lily Adler Mysteries. A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Katharine currently lives and writes in the mountains of Virginia in the company of her family and the many houseplants she keeps accidentally murdering.
About the moderator
Raised in the Detroit suburbs, Eliza Nellums now lives with her cat in Washington DC. She is a member of Bethesda Writer's Center as well as the Metro Wriders, a weekly critique group that meets in Dupont Circle. All That's Bright and Gone is her debut novel.