Author Reading Saturday, October 4

Three New York-based mystery authors will read aloud from what they’ve written from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, October 4, at the 58th Street branch of the New York Public Library.

Dawn M. Barclay writes psychological/domestic/romantic suspense as D.M. Barr and nonfiction under her own name. In 2025, Level Best Books released her latest domestic thriller, Deadly When Disturbed, and the first of her true crime travel guides, Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover’s Travel Guide to New England. She will read a short story titled “I’m Still Here” that will be appearing in an upcoming anthology: Ya Got Trouble: Crime Fiction Inspired by Broadway Show Tunes.  Contact her at dawnbarclayauthor@gmail.com.

Born and raised in Chicago, Delia Pitts graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor’s degree in history. After working as a journalist, she earned a PhD in African history from the University of Chicago. She is a former university administrator and US diplomat. Her contemporary noir mystery, Trouble in Queenstown, won the Shamus award for best hardback PI novel of 2024. The follow-up book in the series, Death of an Ex, was published by Minotaur Books in 2025. Delia is also the author of the Ross Agency Mysteries, a series set in Harlem, and several acclaimed short stories. Delia will read a brief excerpt from Death of an Ex. Check her out at www.deliapitts.com.

Gary Cahill’s first crime short story, “That Kind Of Guy,” a modern-day homage to the 1920s and ’30s hard-edged, rough-and-tumble Black Mask magazine, ran in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Subsequent short work, including “Corner of River and Rain,” “The Damnedest Things,” “Fathers, Sons, Ghosts, Guns,” “The Way To A Man’s Heart,” “Sirens,” and “On A Two-Way Street,” have appeared in print, online, e-book, and audio versions with The First Line Literary Journal, Pulp Magazine, Mystery Magazine (formerly Mystery Weekly), Plan B Magazineand on the podcast Shotgun Honey. Gary will read from an as-yet unpublished look at the Irish and Irish American zeitgeist in 1980s Hell’s Kitchen. Contact him at garycahill66nj@yahoo.com.

The library is at 127 East 58th Street., between Park and Lexington Aves. The 4, 5, N, and R trains stop at 59th/Lex, the E train at 53rd/Lex. Buses run north on Third Avenue and South on Lex. The M57 and M31 buses run crosstown on 57th Street. The room for the Authors’ Readings is up one flight of stairs; there is no elevator.

For more information email the New York chapter of Mystery Writers of America: info@mwany.org