Author Spotlight: Juliet Grames

Meet Author Juliet Grames, who will discuss her latest book, The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia, a whodunit set in a small village in Southern Italy, where a young American woman turned amateur detective arrives to start a nursery school only to be drawn into the mystery of the identity of a corpse uncovered by a flood.

Juliet Grames is also the author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, a national and international bestseller. This debut was shortlisted for the New England Book Award and the Connecticut Book Award, and received Italy’s Cetraro Prize for Southern Italian literature. It has been translated into nine languages. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Best American Mystery & Suspense, Real Simple, Parade, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The Boston Globe, among other publications.

Grames was born in Hartford and raised in the Farmington Valley, attending Canton public schools before graduating from Simsbury High School. She collected a bachelor's degree in history from Columbia before embarking on a career in book publishing. Since 2010 she has worked at Soho Press, where she is Editorial Director. In 2022, she was the recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Ellery Queen Award for her editorial work in the crime fiction genre. She lives in Rhode Island.