The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

Rachel Howzell Hall is the critically acclaimed author of the Amazon Charts bestseller These Toxic Things and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated And Now She’s Gone , which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry-, Shamus- and Anthony Awards. Also author of the Audible Originals bestseller How It Ends , Rachel is a New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister with James Patterson,...

Wanda M. Morris is an alumna of the Yale Writers’ Workshop and Robert McKee’s Story Seminar. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and Crime Writers of Color. As a corporate attorney, she has worked in the legal departments of several Fortune 100 companies. An accomplished presenter and leader, Morris has previously served as president of the Georgia chapter of the Associ...

Alexia Gordon is the award-winning author of the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, paranormal cozies set in Ireland. She is also a physician, a blogger with the Missdemeanors —and since June 2019, host of The Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon , a biweekly podcast that features interviews with authors of traditional and cozy mysteries. Her short story, "Love's Labor," in the most recent Boucherc...

Robert Justice is a Denver native. They Can't Take Your Name is his debut novel and was named a runner up for the 2020 Sister's in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award. He's also the host of the Crime Writers of Color podcast. Mentioned in the episode: John Truby’s The Anatomy of a Story: https://truby.com/the-anatomy-of-story/ Crime Writers of Color podcast: https://www.crimewritersofcolo...

Hallie Ephron is a NY Times bestselling author of suspense novels reviewers have called “deliciously creepy.” Her latest, Careful What You Wish For , is about a professional organizer married to a man who can’t pass a yard sale without stopping. It’s a mash-up of Antiques Roadshow and Strangers on a Train . A five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, her Writing and Selling Your Mystery...

P. J. Vernon was born in South Carolina. Called a "rising star thriller writer" by Library Journal, Vernon's debut, When You Find Me, was both an Audible Plus #1 Listen and an Associated Press Top Ten U.S. Audiobook. His latest novel, Bath Haus, pitched as "Gone Girl with gays and Grindr" has been praised as “a nightmarish white-knuckler” by O, The Oprah Magazine and called &#3...

Frankie Y. Bailey is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany (SUNY). Her areas of research are crime history, and crime and mass media, popular culture, and material culture. Her books include Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction and African American Mystery Writers . She is a Macavity award-winner and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony nominee for n...

Sara Paretsky transformed the mystery world in 1982 with the introduction of private eye V I Warshawski in Indemnity Only. She and V I —tough, credible, street-smart and feminine—challenged the stereotypes of women in fiction as victims or vamps. They made it possible for a new generation of crime writers and fighters to thrive, a generation she continues to support as one of the founders of Siste...

Maggie King is the author of the Hazel Rose Book Group mysteries, including Murder at the Book Group , Murder at the Moonshine Inn , and the recently-released Laughing Can Kill You . Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet , Deadly Southern Charm , Murder by the Glass , and Death by Cupcake . Maggie is a member of James River Writers, International T...

Jess Montgomery is the author of the Kinship Historical Mysteries, set in 1920s Appalachian Ohio and inspired by Ohio’s true first female sheriff. Under her given name, she writes the “Level Up Your (Writing) Life” column for Writer’s Digest. She also hosts the “Tea with Jess: Chatting with Authors & Artists” podcast in which creatives share their journeys and insights. She was formerly a news...

Kathleen Marple Kalb grew up in front of a microphone and a keyboard. Now a weekend morning anchor at 1010 WINS New York, she started as a teenage DJ in Brookville, Pennsylvania. She worked her way up through newsrooms in Pittsburgh, Vermont and Connecticut, developing her skills and a deep and abiding distaste for snow. While she wrote her first (thankfully unpublished) historical novel at age si...

A retired Air Force intelligence officer, Laura DiSilverio is the national bestselling and award-winning author of 21 mystery, suspense and young adult sci-fi novels. Her series include the Swift Investigations PI series (Minotaur), Ballroom Dance Mysteries (writing as Ella Barrick), Southern Beauty Shop Mysteries (writing as Lila Dare), Mall Cop Mysteries and Book Club Mysteries (Berkley Prime Cr...

Molly Weston has reviewed mysteries for more than 30 years and lectured about the genre for most of that time. For many years she organized and hosted mini tours of authors and moderated panels at conventions across the US. In 2015 the Mystery Writers of America awarded her the Raven Award outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing. She holds a BA Degree in...

Jennifer J. Chow is the Lefty Award-nominated author of the Sassy Cat Mysteries and the forthcoming L.A. Night Market Mysteries (Berkley/Penguin Random House). The first in the Sassy Cat series, Mimi Lee Gets A Clue, was selected as an Overdrive Recommended Read; a PopSugar Best Summer Beach Read; staff picks for Changing Hands Bookstore, Escondido Library, and Richland Library; and one of BuzzFee...

Sherry Harris is the Agatha Award nominated author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mystery series and the Chloe Jackson Sea Glass Saloon mystery series set in the panhandle of Florida. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of America. Sherry loves books, beaches, bars, garage sales, and Westies — not necessarily in that order. Sherry is also a patent holding...

Judy is the author of the Anthony- and Agatha-nominated Stella Crown series and YA thriller Tag, You're Dead (as J.C. Lane). She also writes the Grim Reaper mysteries and published the stand-alone Lost Sons. Her most recent book (2020) is a non-fiction middle-grade book entitled, Making Waves: Fifty Stories about Sharing Love and Changing the World. Judy recently received her master's degr...

Hank Phillippi Ryan is USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers, winning five Agathas and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. As a television investigative reporter in Boston, she has also won 37 EMMY awards. Her legal thriller The Murder List won the 2019 Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Year. Her 2020 novel is the psychological standalone The First to Lie , which is now a nominee for th...

Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DONE GONE and seventeen previous novels featuring Maryland sleuth, Hannah Ives. She is editor/author of two collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT. Her short stories appear in more than a dozen collections. Marcia is past-president of Sisters in Crime, Inc. and currently serves as president of the Mi...

New Jersey born Lucy Burdette aka Roberta Isleib is the author of 19 mysteries, including A SCONE OF CONTENTION, the latest in the Key West series featuring food critic Hayley Snow (coming August 10, 2021 from Crooked Lane Books.) Bronze medal-winning THE KEY LIME CRIME is the tenth book in her Key West food critic mystery series. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, a...

Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop mysteries set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village mysteries, set in NW Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody suspense, and made her debut with Bitterroot Lake in April 2021. A three-time Agatha-Award winner (2011, Best Nonfiction; 2013, Best Fir...

Cathy Pickens, author of the Southern Fried mysteries (St. Martins/Minotaur), served as Sisters in Crime president and on the boards of Mystery Writers of America and Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program. She taught law in a graduate business school, entrepreneurship in the jail, and offers workshops on developing creativity. Her latest books are Charlotte True Crime Stories (History Press 2019),...

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony Award- and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She co-chairs the mystery conference Murder and Mayhem in Chicago and is the immediate past national president of Sisters in Crime. Her next book, Death at Greenway, is based on a little-known moment...

Kristen Lepionka is the author of the Roxane Weary mystery series. Her debut, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. novel and was also nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards. The second book in the series, What You Want to See, won Shamus and Goldie Awards. She is a cofounder of the feminist podcast Unlikeable Female Characters and currently serves as Chapter Preside...

John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony, Strand Critics, Barry, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. His second novel, The Savage Kind, will be published in October 2021. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio...

Delia C. Pitts is the author of the Ross Agency Mysteries, a contemporary noir series including Lost and Found in Harlem and Pauper and Prince in Harlem. Murder My Past is the fifth novel in the series. Her short story, “The Killer,” was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. Another story, “ Midnight Confidential,” will be published in the crime fiction anthology,...