A Body in the Bookshop

Every mystery reader has a type. Maybe you want the corpse discovered by page ten and the killer unmasked in a drawing room. Maybe you want a small-town amateur sleuth, a suspicious casserole, and a cat with opinions. Maybe you want the kind of book that makes you check the locks twice.

Good news: we've got all three.

For one October evening, Book Society is handing the room over to three Bay Area mystery authors who write very different flavors of crime. Gigi Pandian writes locked-room mysteries the New York Times called "wildly entertaining," plus a cozy fantasy series featuring an actual gargoyle. Carmela Dutra writes food truck cozies steeped in family, farmers' markets, and the pursuit of the perfect chicken wing. M.M. Chouinard writes bestselling thrillers, including The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco series — and holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, which is either reassuring or not, depending on how you…