The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

P.M. Raymond is an award-winning author from New Orleans who knows a thing or two about good gumbo, grits, and café au lait. She is a 2025 Killer Shorts Screenplay and Horror2Comic Semifinalist, the Sisters in Crime 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Winner, and 2024 Claymore Award and Killer Shorts Screenplay Finalist. She was named to the 160 Black Women in Horror in 2023. Her inter­connected short...

Author of the critically acclaimed Marjorie McClelland Mysteries, Vermont Country Living Mysteries, and Tish Tarragon Mysteries, Amy Patricia Meade is a native of Long Island, NY, where she cut her teeth on classic films and books featuring Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown. After serving as a technical writer for a management coaching firm and composing catalog copy for the Vermont Country Store,...

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She writes the award-winning Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries, and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. MacRae’s short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. She’s a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers...

Catherine Linka is the past president and current treasurer of the Puget Sound chapter of Sisters in Crime. The author of three traditionally published YA novels, her first adult suspense is currently making the rounds of publishers. Elle Cosimano called Catherine’s last novel What I Want You to See “a stunning portrait of deception.” As a book buyer for an indie bookstore, Catherine learned every...

Barbara Nickless is the WSJ and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of eight novels, with her first series optioned for television. A teacher and activist, she uses the healing power of writing to support combat veterans and civilians in the U.S. and Ukraine. She’s a member of MWA, SinC, the FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association, and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Barbara’s mos...

Cody Sisco is an author of cautionary utopias in alternate history settings. His LGBTQ+ science fiction series, Resonant Earth , explores fractured realities where truth is contested and survival is a form of resistance. He is also an editor, publisher, and literary culture producer.  Website: https://www.codysisco.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/codysiscowrites/ Instagram: https://www...

Lynda Allen is the author of the Liv Wilde Mysteries in which menopause is a superpower! Since she had to put up with hot flashes every day, she figured she might as well make them useful. Lynda proudly infuses her writing with her Jersey Girl sensibilities and aims to create stories imbued with heart and humor. She lives in Fredericksburg, VA, where her mysteries are set, with her husband, their...

Curtis Ippolito is an Anthony Award-winning, and Macavity Award and Derringer Award-nominated writer. He is the author of the crime novel Burying the Newspaper Man . His short stories have appeared in numerous prominent publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dark Yonder, Tough, Vautrin Magazine, and more, as well as being featured in several anthologies including The One Percent: T...

Marcie R. Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation, is the best-selling author of Where They Last Saw Her , and acclaimed author of the Cash Blackbear crime series, the most recent is Broken Fields . Rendon's poetry, Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millennium , was released in 2024; and Stitches of Tradition, a picture book, Oct 2024. Mni Giizhik Theater is producing Rendon’s scripts Say Their...

Nina Wachsman studied book illustration under Maurice Sendak at Parsons School of Design and lives in New York City. Her mystery novels and stories are mostly historical, and many feature artists or artwork. She is a founding member of Curators of Crime, a website/blog of four authors who focus on art and crime. Website: ninawachsmanauthor.com , curatorsofcrime.com , venicebeauties.com Facebook: h...

Ellen Butler is the international bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series, praised by Publishers Weekly as “intelligent escapism.” Drawing on her real-life experience working on Capitol Hill and with a medical association in Washington, D.C., Butler infuses her fast-paced mystery-action novels with authenticity and intrigue. In addition to her contemporary thrillers, Butler writes...

Libby Klein writes ridiculously funny murder mysteries from her Northern Virginia office with a very naughty calico Persian named Miss Eliza Doolittle, and a sweet black Lab named Vader. She can name that tune for 70s and 80s rock in the first few notes, and she's translated her love of classic rock into her Layla Virtue Mysteries. Libby was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that prevents h...

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of three award-winning novels. The River Where Blood is Born won the American Library Association Black Cau cus Award. Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him was an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. Debut mystery novel, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes won the Malice Minotaur Award for First Mystery. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and d...

Raquel V. Reyes writes Latina protagonists. Her Cuban-American heritage, Miami, and Spanglish feature prominently in her work. Mango, Mambo, and Murde r, the first in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, won a LEFTY for Best Humorous Mystery. It is in production to become the TV series "Miami Spice." Her work has been nominated for Agatha and Anthony Awards and has won an International La...

Tracee de Hahn is a writer, lecturer, and educator. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she grew up in Kentucky. She currently lives in Virginia. A member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers, she served as president on the Worldwide Board of Sisters in Crime from 2024-2025. Prior to writing fiction she began her career in the practice of architecture, using the need to s...

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries. Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Cha...

Kaye George is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. She writes cozy and traditional mysteries, a prehistory series, and one suspense novel, which is her seventeenth book. Over fifty short stories have been published, mostly in anthologies and magazines. A horror story will come out in 2026. With family scattered all over the globe, she makes her home in Knoxville TN. You can find out...

Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels and the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers. She podcast, writes, speaks, and consults on the writing craft and the publishing voyage as The Indy Author, and she serves as the Campaigns Manager for the Alliance of Independent Authors. Website: https://www.mattydalrymple.com / and https://www.theindyauthor.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook...

Mariah Fredericks was born, raised, and still lives in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in history. She is the author of the Jane Prescott mystery series, which has twice been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Lindbergh Nanny , her first standalone novel, was nominated for the Agatha and Anthony Awards. The Wharton Plot was named one of Library Journal&#...

Mary Lee Ashford is a lifelong bibliophile, an avid reader, and supporter of public libraries. In addition to writing the Sugar & Spice mystery series, she also writes as half of the writing team of Sparkle Abbey. She is the founding president of Sisters in Crime-Iowa and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America Midwest. She teaches a university level class on creativity and loves e...

Agatha award nominee Jessica Estevao loves fountain pens, red convertibles and throwing parties. She lives in northern New England with her dark and mysterious husband, exuberant children and a precocious poodle named Sam. When away from her desk, she obsessively knits wool socks and enthusiastically speaks Portuguese with a shocking disregard for the rules of grammar. As Jessica Ellicott she indu...

Mark Bergin spent four years as a newspaper reporter before joining the Alexandria, Virginia, Police Department in 1986. Twice named Police Officer of the Year for narcotics and robbery investigations, he served in most of the posts described in APPREHENSION, his debut novel. which will be republished in 2026 as part of a four-book contract with Level Best Books. Kirkus Reviews calls APPREHENSION...

With her Nut Cracker Investigations series, Katherine Ramsland injects her expertise in forensic psychology into her fiction. She consults for coroners, trains homicide investigators, and has appeared as an expert on more than 250 crime documentaries. She was an executive producer on Murder House Flip , A&E’s Confession of a Serial Killer: BTK , and ID’s The Serial Killer’s Apprentice. The aut...

Clay Stafford is an American bestselling and award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, and playwright; film and television producer, director, showrunner, actor; book, film, and stage reviewer as well as public speaker. He has sold nearly four million copies of his books overall and has had his work distributed in sixteen languages. He is founder and CEO of the annual Killer Nashville Internationa...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson writes page-turning suspense novels that revolve around timely women’s issues, raising questions about justice, motherhood, career, class, and the thorny mechanics of redemption. She previously penned eight works of Southern fiction, all of which have a murder mystery or thriller lurking inside the family drama. Her critically acclai...