Brandy Schillace

BRANDY SCHILLACE is an autistic author, historian, mystery novelist, true crime writer and editor. Having grown up in an underground house (next to a graveyard, in abandoned coal lands, with a pet raccoon) she spent her childhood reading about diseases and going to a lot of funerals. This led to an abiding interest in dead stuff, a PhD, and a career in science history–a likely thing to happen when one spends their formative years in a cemetery. Brandy writes at the intersections of history, mystery, and the weird.

THE FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE features Jo Jones, a neurodivergent book editor who inherits a crumbling estate, a mysterious painting, and a dead body all in the same week. (By Wednesday, actually. Jo likes to be precise). It has dual POV with the hallmarks of classic mysteries and cozies with an art history twist. Harper Collins.

THE DEAD COME TO STAY is another Jo Jones novel, though they need not be read in order. This stand alone continues with a double mystery unfolding on two timelines—art theft, artifacts black market trade, and disappearing youth in Newcastle. LGBTQ and neurodivergent representation, also with Harper Collins press.

Want nonfiction instead? MR. HUMBLE AND DR. BUTCHER–described by the New York Times as a “macabre delight”–gives you the true story of America’s first head transplant. THE INTERMEDIARIES (2025), tells the forgotten history of the interwar Institute of Sexology in Berlin: trans activists, gender affirming surgeries, and the fight against Nazis. The nonfiction audible series THESE SIX THINGS CAN KILL YOU–is, well, pretty self-explanatory.

Brandy is represented by Jessica Papin of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC.

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