I'm Celeste Connally and I'm the author of both the USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-nominated Lady Petra Inquires mysteries set in Regency-era England, as well as the Agatha Award-nominated Ancestry Detective series, all from Minotaur Books.
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord and All's Fair in Love and Treachery, books one and two in my Lady Petra Inquires series, are available everywhere books are sold, as well as in both e-book and audiobook formats. And Revenge, Served Royal, book three, is available now for pre-order and hits shelves, your e-reader, and your audiobook library on Nov. 11, 2025!
Thank you so much for visiting, and for reading!
News!
I'm delighted to announce that All's Fair in Love and Treachery is a USA Today bestseller! I'm sending out my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has preordered, purchased, read, reviewed, enjoyed, and talked about my books, because you helped make this happen. Thank you so much!
Audiobook News
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord and All's Fair in Love and Treachery are both narrated by the outstanding Eilidh Beaton, and both are books available from Audible, Libro.fm, and all your favorite places to listen to audiobooks!
Book Club Reading Guide is Here
I love book clubs! And if yours is reading All's Fair in Love and Treachery, I have a handy PDF of discussion questions to download. A guide for Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord will be available soon as well. Thank you for bringing Lady Petra into your book club, and enjoy!
Two more Lady Petra Inquires books are in the works!
I'm thrilled and grateful to announce that two more of my Lady Petra Inquires mysteries are forthcoming from Minotaur Books! Thank you so much to all of you readers for helping this to happen. And sign up for my newsletter and follow me on social media at @celesteconnallyauthor for more news!
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord has been named one of Amazon's Top 20 Best Mysteries for 2023!
Read an excerpt
Criminal Element -- a wonderful website to find your next crime-fiction read -- has an excerpt from the beginning of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord. Just click on the button below to read!
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