The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Emma C. Wells

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Emma C. Wells loves antiheroes, dark humor, witty banter, and ride-or-die friendships. Twisty relationships are her kryptonite (or catnip – depending on how you look at it) and her favorite characters are often called unlikable (but at least they're never boring). Wells enjoys camping, yoga, researching spooky folklore, and collecting copies of Wuthering Heights from used bookstores. Listen to Wells and co-host EJ Wenstrom on SFF+Girls Podcast (a pod for geeking while female) or Troped Out (a fun exploration of genre fiction.) For more information, check out TypoProductions.com. 


Schedule

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F

Deadlier than the Male: Women Solving Mysteries

with Jess Armstrong, Katharine Schellman, Emma C. Wells, Ashley Winstead, and moderator Robert Gwaltney

 

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

This Girl's a Killer: A Novel

For readers of Finlay Donovan is Killing It and The Bandit Queens comes a bright and biting thriller following Cordelia Black, a best friend, a businesswoman, and, in her spare time, a killer of bad men.

Ask Cordelia Black why she did it. The answer will always be: He had it coming.

Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: Her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip), and killing bad men.

By day she's an ambitious pharma rep with a flawless reputation and designer wardrobe. By night, she culls South Louisiana of unscrupulous men―monsters who think they've evaded justice, until they meet her. Sure, the evening news may have started throwing around phrases like "serial killer," but Cordelia knows that's absurd. She's not a killer, she is simply karma. And being karma requires complete and utter control.

But when Cordelia discovers a flaw in her perfectly designed system for eliminating monsters, pressure heightens. And it only intensifies when her best friend starts dating a man Cordelia isn't sure is a good person. Someone who might just unravel everything she has worked for.

Soon enough Cordelia has to come face to face with the choices she's made. The good, the bad, and the murderous. Both her family, and her freedom, depend on it.