Meet The Author with Delia Pitts

Meet the Author with Delia Pitts

Please join us on Tuesday, July 8th from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. PT as Delia talks about her newest book, DEATH OF AN EX.

Small Town. Big Case.

Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and tiny when you want privacy. For Vandy Myrick, that’s both a blessing and a curse. Now that Vandy’s back in “Q-Town,” her services as her hometown’s only Black woman private investigator have earned her more celebrity—or notoriety—than she figured.

Keeping busy with work helps Vandy deal with the grief of losing her daughter, stitching the seams, cementing the gaps. The memories will always remain, and they come crashing back to the surface when her ex-husband, Phil Bolden, walks back into her life. Promising everything, returning home, restoring family. Until she answers her door to the news that Phil has been murdered. And Vandy decides Phil is now her client.

Delia Pitts worked as a journalist before earning a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Chicago. After careers as a U.S. diplomat and university administrator, she left academia to write fiction. Delia is the author of the Vandy Myrick mysteries, featuring a Black private investigator in New Jersey. The first book in the series, Trouble in Queenstown, was published by Minotaur Books in 2024. The second entry, Death of an Ex, also published by Minotaur, will be released on July 15, 2025. Delia is a member of the national board of Sisters in Crime. She is also active in Mystery Writers of America and Crime Writers of Color.

Learn more about Delia at www.deliapitts.com