Meet Kat
From her childhood in the Baltimore waterfront neighborhood of Fells Point until now, Kat LaGue has had two great loves: reading and food. A fondness for fragrance came later. These days, she draws on her experience as a food writer and perfume fanatic and adds a dash of humor to write cozy mysteries set in her hometown. Why cozies? Because she loves stories about women who'd rather solve the problem than wait for someone else to.
Her debut novel, Killer Sillage, follows perfume-shop owner Clare Buchowski as she tries to figure out who killed a handsome and somewhat unlikeable perfumer. Book two, Savage Gourmand, pulls Clare into the bakeries of Fells Point, where another death leads to another investigation. Her latest, A Bitter Accord, takes her into Baltimore's classical music scene—where, naturally, someone else winds up dead.
Outside of writing, Kat enjoys drinking coffee, fussing over dogs, and cooking. You might occasionally catch her sniffing her forearm as she tests a new fragrance obsession.
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Praise for Killer Sillage
"The perfect blend of mystery, intrigue, and suspense!! Kat hits all the right notes with her debut cozy mystery!"
-- Meg Muldoon, Bestselling Cozy Mystery Author
"Set in the historic and charming waterfront neighborhood of Fells Point in Baltimore, Kat LaGue's debut is an assured, delightful page-turner. With its memorable perfume shop, Good Scents, and equally memorable characters in Clare and Ivy--LaGue has created the perfect base note for her cozy mystery series."
-- Jen Michalski, author of All This Can Be True
Kat Speaks!
Interview with Jen Michalski in the JMWW Journal
Kat and Jen discuss reading, writing, and indie perfume. "I never really dreamed of becoming a novelist, but I thought, maybe I can try a cozy mystery. I’d read a lot of cozies by then, starting with a BookBub pick from Meg Muldoon’s Christmas River series, and I felt like I understood the genre well enough to give it a go. To my great surprise, I truly enjoyed the writing process, and as soon as I finished my first draft, I immediately started imagining plots for the next several books in the series."
"I’ve taken a few creative liberties, like setting my main location, a perfume shop called Good Scents, in a real part of town but inside a completely fictional building. As for community, when I was growing up, Fells Point had a strong Polish presence, with two Polish Catholic churches and lots of Polish-speaking residents. That’s changed over the years, but I wanted to preserve that sense of cultural pride and heritage through my main characters."