Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| When a Stranger Comes to Town | 2021 | Buy |
Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Winter Witness | 2020 | Buy |
| Dead Man’s Leap | 2022 | Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Good Judge of Character | 2023 | Buy |
Tina deBellegarde lives and writes in Catskill, New York. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a library clerk, a paralegal, an exporter, and spent eighteen years as a middle school language teacher. Her debut novel Winter Witness introduced the fictional village of Batavia-on-Hudson, a lakeside community in the Catskill Mountains where amateur sleuth Bianca St. Denis gets drawn into local murder investigations. The book earned an Agatha Award nomination for Best First Novel.
Her second novel, Dead Man’s Leap, picked up another Agatha nomination for Best Contemporary Novel. The third book in the series, Autumn Embers, takes Bianca to Kyoto, Japan, where she travels to return an ancient artifact and ends up caught in a murder case that threatens her son. Reviewers have called deBellegarde “the Louise Penny of the Catskills” for her attention to small-town atmosphere and character-driven storytelling.
Outside the novels, deBellegarde contributed the story “Tokyo Stranger” to the Mystery Writers of America anthology When a Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta. That story earned a Derringer Award nomination. She also co-chairs the Murderous March virtual writers conference, reviews Japanese fiction for Books on Asia, and is a member of Writers in Kyoto.