C.S. Harris and Michael Allen Zell discuss their latest novels Wednesday at the East Bank Regional Library

Mystery writers Candice Proctor and Michael Allen Zell will discuss their latest novels at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

Candice Proctor, “Who Slays the Wicked” (Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Book 14)

When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street Magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of his longtime friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But Sebastian was never able to prove Ashworth's complicity. Nor was he able to prevent his troubled, headstrong young niece Stephanie from entering into a disastrous marriage with the dangerous nobleman.

Candice Proctor worked as an archaeologist and earned a doctoral degree in European history. She writes the Sebastian St. Cyr historical mystery series as C.S. Harris and historical novels under her own name, Candice Proctor. Married to retired Army Colonel Steve Harris, she lives in New Orleans.

Michael Allen Zell, “City Krystal Soulman”

Musician Rodney "Soulman" Mercadel sets up a pyramid scheme with three pastors to sell seats on a non-existent ark for hurricane season. Vonetta (nicknamed Krystal), the sister of Ellis Smith, Bobby Delery's girlfriend, has gone missing. And New Orleans is a character in its own right. From the Ninth Ward to New Orleans East, from the French Quarter to Frenchmen Street, Delery figures out how it all fits together.

Michael Allen Zell is a New Orleans-based novelist, essayist, and playwright. Zell's work has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Booksand elsewhere. "Errata," his first novel, was named a Top 10 Book of 2012 by The New Orleans Times-Picayune. His first play, "What Do You Say To A Shadow?," was named a Top 10 Play of the Year in 2013 by The New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.