Zoe B. Wallbrook
About Zoe
Zoe B. Wallbrook is a professor by day, mystery writer by — actually, she writes mysteries during the day, too, come to think of it. Her first novel, History Lessons, came out in 2025 with Soho Crime and is an Edgar, ITW, and NAACP Image Award nominee, as well as a New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year. Zoe and her husband live with their stalker, a black lab/pittie mix named Sophie.
History Lessons
​Debuted July 2025
Zoe's first novel in the Daphne Ouverture mystery series, History Lessons, was published July 2025. Purchase it wherever books are sold.
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Toni Morrison
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'”
“The mood will pass, sir.”
P. G. Wodehouse
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Contact
Please address all inquiries to my publisher, Soho Press.
@soho_press