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Lantern & Quill Bookshop #2
The Portrait in the Locked House
242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2026
About the author
K.J. McGillick
48 books176 followersK. J. McGillick writes legal and psychological thrillers shaped by nearly three decades inside the courtroom and a background in nursing. Her stories are built the way real cases are built — on forensic detail, procedural reality, and the pressure of a system where truth and verdict don't always align.
Art history runs through everything she writes. A lifelong fascination
with forgery, provenance, and the crimes hidden in beautiful objects
threads through her work, alongside a deep interest in Tudor England and the women history tends to misplace or rewrite. Her cozy mystery series range from a Vermont bookshop to a Northumberland village to the windswept Yorkshire coast — each one grounded in place, character, and the particular satisfaction of a puzzle solved.
She is the author of more than thirty independently published works — novels, novellas, and short fiction — spanning legal thrillers, cozy mysteries, and historical fiction. Across all of them, one idea holds: the truth is rarely where people expect to find it.
Originally from New York, she now lives in metro Atlanta — usually with a cup of coffee nearby and a notebook within reach.
Check out her books at https://kjmcgillick.com/
Art history runs through everything she writes. A lifelong fascination
with forgery, provenance, and the crimes hidden in beautiful objects
threads through her work, alongside a deep interest in Tudor England and the women history tends to misplace or rewrite. Her cozy mystery series range from a Vermont bookshop to a Northumberland village to the windswept Yorkshire coast — each one grounded in place, character, and the particular satisfaction of a puzzle solved.
She is the author of more than thirty independently published works — novels, novellas, and short fiction — spanning legal thrillers, cozy mysteries, and historical fiction. Across all of them, one idea holds: the truth is rarely where people expect to find it.
Originally from New York, she now lives in metro Atlanta — usually with a cup of coffee nearby and a notebook within reach.
Check out her books at https://kjmcgillick.com/
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