Gilbar Gets all Ghastly and Grisly

Montecito’s lawyer turned prolific author-about-town Steven Gilbar, who has written some 20 “shamelessly non-commercial” volumes in and about Santa Barbara since 1979, has spent the last several years more micro-focused on Montecito. Gilbar penned The Little Book of Montecito Writers in 2022 and followed it up a year later with a similarly casual treatise about Montecito’s actors. Now the founder of Santa Barbara’s dearly departed Speaking of Stories series has turned his gaze to crime in his own backyard with Montecito Noir: True Tales of Murder & Mayhem in Paradise. Gilbar will talk about and sign copies of the book that takes a chronological look at the seamy side of our seaside slice of heaven at Chaucer’s Books on Wednesday, May 8.