The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

Nancy G. West writes mystery/suspense/thrillers about ordinary people who face dangerous situations and struggle to save themselves or the people they love. A former UT-Austin business major, she switched to English literature and found that writing fiction is a lot more fun than accounting. Her recent Young Adult mystery/thriller, RISKY PURSUIT, features 18-year-old Decker Savage. Convinced that...

International bestseller Sarah Smith’s books are published in 15 languages. She’s won the Agatha for best teenage mystery, the Massachusetts Book Award for best teenage novel, and numerous other honors, including NY Times Notables and Best Book of the Year lists. She lives near Boston and has just finished a Big Fat Fantasy set in 19C Brazil. (Pirates! Bombs! Sex! Poetry! Giant eagles who speak La...

Audrey Lee’s debut novel, The Mechanics of Memory , was nominated for the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel, the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Silver Falchion Award for Best Thriller, and the Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery. The audiobook won the IPPY Gold Medal for Best Mystery/Thriller and will be available in Japan from Shinchosha Press beginning April 2026. Her sophomore suspense...

Heather Haven wound up in Manhattan for a time. There she wrote ad copy and commercials for No Soap Radio during the day while working the Broadway theater in the Wardrobe Department at night. In those youthful days of holding down two jobs, she also wrote comedy acts and had one-act plays produced at the famed Playwrights Horizon. Once, she even ghostwrote a book on how to run an employment agenc...

Carmela Dutra is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area who loves food trucks, family, and cozy mysteries. She is the author of the Food Truck Mysteries, including A Murder Most Fowl and Hot Wings and Homicide . Her series has been praised by Kirkus Reviews, which called her debut “a serious set of crimes leavened by plenty of amusing moments,” and by Library Journal, which noted that Hot Wings...

Susan Santangelo is the author of the best-selling Baby Boomer mystery series. The humorous cozies follow the adventures of a typical boomer couple, Carol and Jim Andrews, as they navigate life's rocky road in their post-fifty years and beyond. In addition to being a proud member of Sisters Crime, Susan is also a member of International Thriller Writers and the Cape Cod Writers Center, She div...

Elise Scott writes from their lived experiences of queerness, disability, neurodivergence, fat-positivity, and petting three cats with two hands. Their life has been an adventure, from facilitating equine therapy for trauma survivors to counseling at-risk youth with the aid of an inordinately large sub-woofer and beyond. They earned their BA from Mount Holyoke and their MS from Capella University....

J. L. Brown (also writing as Julie L. Brown) writes gripping political thrillers featuring FBI Agent Jade Harrington and powerful historical fiction exploring perseverance, freedom, and legacy. She is the award-winning author of the Jade Harrington series, which include the novels, The Paine Society , The Divide , Rule of Law , and Don’t Speak , and the short story, “Few Are Chosen.” She is also t...

When Kate B Jackson (K.B. Jackson) isn't writing about Sasquatch, secrets, and murder she enjoys traveling with her trophy husband and their four grown children. She's a 2-time Agatha Award winner, 3-time Anthony Award finalist, and 2-time Silver Falchion Award nominated author of mysteries for kids and grownups.  Website: https://KBJackson.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KBJac...

Joanna Schaffhausen is the author of the award-winning Ellery Hathaway series and the Annalisa Vega mystery series, which has been twice nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award at the Edgars, and won in 2026. She has a PhD in psychology and previously worked at ABC News, writing for programs such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She is the current president of the New E...

Sara Rosett is the USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty mysteries. Her nonfiction books for writers are How to Outline a Cozy Mystery , How to Write a Series , and The Trope Thesaurus: Mystery and Thriller . Sara also co-hosts the Wish I'd Known Then podcast for writers.  When she’s not writing or podcasting, Sara can be found curled up with a Golden Age mystery, binge-watching Kor...

Julie Mulhern is the USA Today bestselling author of The Country Club Murders, the Poppy Fields Adventures, and the Freddie Archer Mysteries She is a Kansas City native who grew up on a steady diet of Agatha Christie. She spends her spare time whipping up gourmet meals for her family, working out at the gym and finding new ways to keep her house spotlessly clean--and she's got an active imagin...

Nicole Asselin graduated from Curry College in Milton Mass with a degree in English/Creative Writing, minoring in Dance in 2004. She also attended George Mason University and received a Master’s in Arts Management. She currently lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her three cats Madeline, The Captain, and Cooper Maye She is the current President of Sisters in Crime New England and on th...

Mystery writing lets Peg Cochran indulge her curiosity under the guise of "work" (aka research). She put pen to paper at age seven when she wrote plays and forced her cousins to perform them at Christmas dinner. She switched to mysteries when she discovered the perfect hiding place for a body down the street from her house. When she's not writing, she spends her time reading, cooking,...

Karen A. Phillips lives in northern California and writes humorous, fun, action-packed mysteries. She has many short stories published in various anthologies. Her characters are engaging and fearless. The Rocky Nelson Boxing mystery series features an amateur sleuth who boxes. Karen is a past president of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento chapter of Sisters In Crime, and is a member of many other wri...

A former language teacher and business owner, Carol Pouliot writes the acclaimed Blackwell and Watson Time-Travel Mysteries, traditional police procedurals with a time-travel twist and a seemingly impossible relationship between Depression-era cop Steven Blackwell and 21st-century journalist Olivia Watson. With their fast pace and unexpected twists and turns, the books are known for their attentio...

Darlene Dziomba combined her passion for the written word and animals into the Lily Dreyfus series. The books are written based on her experience as a volunteer at the Animal Welfare Association, a no-kill animal shelter in Voorhees, New Jersey. Darlene had a thirty-five-year career in Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, which aids her in crafting quirky characters. She is a member of Siste...

Teresa Inge is an award-winning author of southern, coastal mysteries. She is known for engaging readers with her unique storytelling. Her work appears in First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder , Coastal Crimes, Virginia is for Mysteries , Mutt Mysteries and Murder by the Glass . She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Virginia Writer’s Club, and contributes to Sand in...

Susan Van Kirk, an Illinois author, was educated at Knox College and the University of Illinois. She is the author of six Endurance Mysteries beginning with Three May Keep a Secret . Her standalone mystery, A Death at Tippitt Pond , was followed by the Art Center Mysteries: Death in a Pale Hue, Death in a Bygone Hue, and Death in a Ghostly Hue from Level Best Books. The third book of the trilogy w...

Award-winning author Becky Clark has been writing humorous books for both kids and adults since 2001. Even her nonfiction EIGHT WEEKS TO A COMPLETE NOVEL receives kudos for being funny and accessible. Over the years she has developed many tricks and tips to speed up her writing because the key to a professional writing career is to consistently produce books. Becky is a hybrid author, with feet pl...

Lori Robbins is the Amazon bestselling author of the On Pointe and Master Class mystery series and a contributor to The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers Cookbook . She is the recipient of three Silver Falchions, the Indie Award for Best Mystery, and a silver medal in the Daphne du Maurier Award for Mystery and Suspense. Short stories include “Leading Ladies,” which received Honorable Mention i...

Tara Lush is the Florida-based author of the Crescent Moon Mystery series, where the bodies are fictional, but the weird Florida vibes are very real. She’s a RITA finalist, Amtrak writing fellow, and George C. Polk Award winner who once covered crime, hurricanes, and alligators for the Associated Press. These days, she conjures up mysteries from her home near the Gulf of Mexico, where she lives wi...

Mally Becker is the award-winning author of the Revolutionary War mysteries, which offer a glimpse into a time as divided as her own. The three books in her series have each been nominated for an Agatha Award and the most recent—The Paris Mistress—was awarded the 2025 IPPY "best mystery" Gold Medal. Mally is still astonished and grateful to be writing full-time. A former attorney and volun...

Tenesha L. Curtis has been a lover of the dark, disturbing, and deviant since childhood. In her kindergarten and elementary school years, her favorite movies included classics like "Child's Play," "Problem Child," "Candyman," and "Adventures in Babysitting." As she learned to read, she finally broke away from Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys (at the behest of a middle...

M. A. Monnin is the author of the Intrepid Traveler Mystery series, including Agatha Best First Novel finalist DEATH IN THE AEGEAN. Her latest in the series is DEATH IN ST. GEORGE'S. Like her heroine Stefanie Adams, Mary loves the adventure of foreign travel. If there’s the chance to check out an archaeological site, so much the better for this avocational archaeologist and Air Force veteran....