Reviews
“Ingenious . . . A promising series debut that will have cozy lovers and occult fans begging for more”
Kirkus Reviews
“Valuable lessons about love, friendship, tolerance, belonging, redemption, and finding your place in the world”
Booklist
“Creepy, suspenseful, and dark, this gothic thriller will appeal to fans of Guillermo del Toro, Sarah Perry, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia”
Booklist on Hollow Bones
“An incredibly rich work of literature”
Nashville Scene on Hollow Bones
“The action builds to a thoroughly satisfying and exciting finale. Wright provides it all: clean prose, captivating characters, a gripping mystery, and a wry look at Hollywood glamour and decay”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Famous in Cedarville
“Wright successfully combines small-town sensibility with the money and glitz of twentieth-century Hollywood in a suspenseful mystery populated with winning characters”
Booklist on Famous in Cedarville
“A clever little whodunnit”
The New York Times on Famous in Cedarville
“A twisty and engrossing thriller, one of those rare page-turners that you have to force yourself to slow down and savor the lyrical prose and atmospheric scenes . . . It’s the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve read it”
Daniela Petrova, author of Her Daughter's Mother, on Famous in Cedarville
“Fascinating and fully developed characters . . . Wright's vividly told tale is studded with wry wit”
Publishers Weekly on The Blue Kingfisher
“Tense undercover scenes paired with Stone's struggle to rebuild her life after her stint with the NYPD create a gripping addition to the recent trend in crime fiction of portraying the dangers facing America's immigrants”
Booklist on The Blue Kingfisher
“Readers will want to see more”
Publishers Weekly on The Red Chameleon
“Aficionados of humorous mysteries like the Stephanie Plum series and the Lucky O'Toole series by Deborah Coonts will want to add this to their reading lists”
Booklist on The Red Chameleon
“Wright's debut novel offers a promising start to a hard-boiled series featuring an idiosyncratic female PI whose quirkiness will appeal to fans of Linda Barnes or Karen Kijewski”
Library Journal on The Red Chameleon
“[A] fast-paced, quirky debut”
Kirkus Reviews on The Red Chameleon
“Erica Wright's The Red Chameleon is a gift to devotees of classical private-eye novels as well as contemporary crime fiction”
Jim Fusilli, author of Billboard Man, on The Red Chameleon
“Erica Wright is such a wonderful writer, you'll be burning through the pages faster than a chameleon changes colors”
Chris Grabenstein, Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author of the John Ceepak Mysteries, on The Red Chameleon
“A fast and funny private eye novel featuring Kathleen Stone, a kick-ass disguise artist who's a hoot under any name in any wig”
Parnell Hall, author of the Stanley Hastings Mysteries, on The Red Chameleon
Erica Wright
Erica Wright is the author of eight books, including the essay collection Snake and the crime novels Famous in Cedarville and Hollow Bones. For more than a decade, she was the Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine and currently teaches at Bellevue University. She holds degrees from New York University and Columbia University. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.
Editions
The Museum of Unusual Occurrence by Erica Wright is available in the following formats
| Hardback | 9781448320233 | 144 X 222mm | 240 | $39.99 | |
| Hardback | 9781448320233 | 144 X 222mm | 240 | £21.99 | |
| Ebook | 9781448320240 | 7th April 2026 | N/A | 240 | £12.99 |
| Paperback | 9781448320257 | 22nd October 2026 | 129 X 198mm | 240 | $18.99 |
| Paperback | 9781448320257 | 22nd October 2026 | 129 X 198mm | 240 | £9.99 |
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