The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

James M. (Jim) Jackson authors the Seamus McCree series, which explores financial crimes, family relationships, and what happens when they mix. The series includes 8 novels, 2 novellas, and several short stories. He’s currently working on a new series featuring Niki, an undercover FBI agent. Jim is a life member of Sisters in Crime and a past president of the Guppy Chapter. He enjoys teaching and...

Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier’s stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, Stone’s Throw, Smoking Pen Press, The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, and The Caribbean Writer. Originally from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Ashley-Ruth is a writer of contemporary Caribbean mysteries. Ashley-Ruth currently lives in Apex, NC with her husband and 4 children, where she tea...

Vicki Berger Erwin worked in a number of jobs in the “book biz,” including writing over 30 books ranging from middle grade to adult nonfiction, but mystery is her favorite. Facebook Page www.facebook.com/VickiBergerErwin Instagram www.instagram.com/VickiBergerErwin Threads Handle: VickiBergerErwin Website Www. Vickibergererwin.com From the podcast: Neal Shusterman COURAGE TO DREAM, Tales of Hope i...

Margot Douaihy, PhD, is the author of three books of poetry and the queer hardboiled mysteries Blessed Water (2024) and Scorched Grace (2023), both published with Gillian Flynn Books/Zando. Scorched Grace was a USA Today National Bestseller, an Indie Next pick, named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, The Guardian, and CrimeReads, and the winner of the Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction for b...

Nikki Dolson is the author of the novel All Things Violent and the story collection Love and Other Criminal Behavior . Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Southwest Review, Best American Mystery and Suspense, Vautrin, TriQuarterly, Tough, and other publications. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkidolson Blue Sky Handle: https://bsky.app/profile/nikkidolson.bsky.social Website: w...

Julia Dahl is the author of The Missing Hours, Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, and has been translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU. Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/JuliaDahlAuthor Instagra...

Jessie Chandler is the author of nine novels, including the slapstick Shay O’Hanlon Caper Series. Her crime fiction has garnered an Independent Publisher Book Award, three Golden Crown Literary Awards, three USA Book Awards, and an American Book Award. The fifth book in her Shay O’Hanlon Series was a Lambda Literary finalist. Jessie is a past board member of the Midwest Chapter of Mystery Writers...

Amy C. Condra serves as Member at Large on the national board of Sisters in Crime. She is an aspiring mystery writer who currently serves as a public affairs lead for the Department of Justice. Prior to joining government service, Amy worked as a journalist. She won several Virginia Press Association awards and is the author of Countries of the World: Vietnam ( Gareth Stevens Publishing). Facebook...

Susan Hammerman, a former rare book librarian, writes crime and neo-noir short stories. Her stories have appeared in Mystery Magazine, Dark City Mystery Magazine, Blood and Bourbon, Suspense Magazine, Retreats From Oblivion, Mondays are Murder, and the Stories (Within) anthology. She has served on the national board since 2021 and has been a member of Sisters in Crime since 2015. Website https://w...

Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago a long time ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. She soon began writing historical fiction as well. Eighteen novels and twenty-five short stories later, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime...

Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than fifty books: clever cozies to Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is currently writing the Tea by the Sea mysteries, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year-Round Christmas mysteries, and t...

JD Allen writes the Shamus Award-nominated Sin City investigation series. She is president of the Florida chapter of MWA, the current Sleuthfest Chair, a former chapter president of Sisters in Crime in North Carolina and Former Chair of the Bouchercon National Board. In the romance world, JD also published 11 books and novellas. She’s an Ohio State Univ. Alum with a degree in forensic anthropology...

Alan Orloff has published eleven novels and fifty short stories. His work has won an Anthony, an Agatha, a Derringer, and two Thriller Awards. He’s also been a finalist for the Shamus Award and has had a story selected for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthology. Alan’s latest suspense novel is SANCTUARY MOTEL, from Level Best Books. He lives and writes in South Florida, where the examples of...

Cathy Ace’s Cait Morgan Mysteries feature a criminal psychologist sleuth encountering traditional whodunits around the world (optioned for TV by Free@LastTV - Agatha Raisin); her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature a quartet of soft poached female PIs solving cozy cases from a Welsh stately home. Her Welsh suspense novel, The Wrong Boy, has also been optioned for TV. Shortlisted for Canada’s B...

A writer of faith by day and mystery by night, Patricia Raybon is a Christy Award-winning author and essayist whose novels and books explore the daring intersection of faith and race. Her Annalee Spain Mysteries feature a young Black theologian—a fan of Sherlock Holmes—who solves crimes during Colorado’s dangerous 1920s Klan years. Her essays have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazi...

Bruce Robert Coffin is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. A retired detective sergeant, Bruce is the author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, co-author of the Turner and Mosley Files with LynDee Walker, and author of the forthcoming Detective Justice Mysteries. Winner of Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Awards for Best Procedural, and Best Investigator, and the Maine Literary Awar...

Bestselling author Carol J. Perry, Salem Massachusetts born, and now happily living in Florida with husband Dan, uses the scariest parts of each home state in her two cozy mystery series--the Witch City Mysteries and the Haunted Haven Mysteries--both published by Kensington. www.caroljperry.com ***************** About SinC Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancem...

Connie Berry is the author of the Amazon and USA Today best-selling Kate Hamilton Mysteries, set in the UK and featuring an American antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes. Like her protagonist, Connie was raised by antiques dealers who instilled in her a passion for history, fine art, and travel. In 2019 Connie won the IPPY Gold Medal for Mystery and was a finalist for the Agatha Award’s...

Sarah M. Chen is a children’s author and award-winning short story writer based in Los Angeles. Her noir novella, Cleaning Up Finn , was an Anthony finalist and IPPY Award winner. She's the co-editor for several anthologies, including Avenging Angelenos from Sisters in Crime / Los Angeles, and her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hapa Mag/Mixed Asian Media, among oth...

Katherine Hall Page was born and grew up in New Jersey, graduating from Livingston High School. Her father was the Executive Director of The Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and her mother was an artist. Page has an older brother and a younger sister. Early on the family developed a love of the Maine coast, spending summer vacations on Deer Isle. She received her BA from Wellesley College, maj...

Michelle Falkoff is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Law School, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of HOW TO PACK FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (2020), as well as PLAYLIST FOR THE DEAD (an NPR Great Read of 2015), PUSHING PERFECT (2016), and QUESTIONS I WANT TO ASK YOU (2018). She lives in Chicago. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/mfalkoff...

Mallika Narayanan is a writer, singer, and digital artist based in Pennsylvania. Her short fiction is featured in Ellipsis Zine, Bath Flash Fiction, Noctivagant Press, and elsewhere. She was a runner-up in the Retreat West 2022 Flash Fiction Prize and has been longlisted and shortlisted for various other prizes, including the Bath Flash Fiction Prize 2022 and the Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize...

The Miami Music Mystery series’ main backdrop, the amazing city of Miami, Florida, is beloved and well-known to Zaida Alfaro. She was born and raised in Miami, and like the novel’s main character Vy, she is a singer/songwriter, Grammy considered, independent artist. All things relating to music or literature are her passion. Many years ago, she became an avid reader of cozy mysteries. The story li...

Harini Nagendra is a professor of ecology at Azim Premji University, who features in the Stanford University list of 2% top-cited world scientists. She has written multiple award-winning non-fiction books on ecology, but mystery is closest to her heart. She also writes The Bangalore Detectives Club series, historical cozy crime books set in 1920s colonial India, featuring young feminist detective...

George Cramer, an enrolled descendant of the Karuk Tribe of California, enjoyed a forty-year investigative career in law enforcement and private and corporate investigations. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, earning his MFA in creative writing. As a corporate and private Investigator, George conducted thousands of investigations throughout the Americas and Asia. He kept his inves...