The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

For decades Sarah Bewley worked as a playwright and freelance writer. She won several awards, including being the first woman to win the McLaren Comedy Prize, a comedy playwriting award. Her first book, EDEN BURNING, was released in April 2023. Frozen Eden, book 2 of the Eden County Mysteries, will be released in the spring of 2024. Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/sarah.bewley.50/ Instagram...

Elise Hart Kipness is a television sports reporter turned crime fiction writer. LIGHTS OUT is based on Elise’s experience in the high-pressure, adrenaline-pumping world of live TV. Like her protagonist, she chased marquee athletes through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden and stood before glaring lights reporting to national audiences. (At five feet, she often stood on a milk crate to interview...

Barbara Howard is the author of two cozy mystery series; Finding Home and The Clover City Files. Her stories feature a female amateur sleuth, diverse characters, and a dash of romance. She is a first generation tech geek turned master gardener. She returned to her Midwestern hometown after an extensive career as a Department of Defense Project Manager at the Pentagon and spends most of her time tr...

Victoria Thompson is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Edgar ® and Agatha Award nominated Gaslight Mystery series set in turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and police detective Frank Malloy. She also writes the Sue Grafton Memorial Award nominated Counterfeit Lady Series, featuring a female con artist and an honest attorney. In her spare time, she is an inst...

Robin Henry is an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach with an MLS (Library Science) and MA in Humanities. She has previously served on book award committees and as a writing contest judge for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She is a fan of the Oxford comma, hot beverages, and historical fiction—she can’t wait to read your story! Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/readerlyb Instagr...

Stephanie Argy (she/her) is an editor, writer, designer, and all-around storytelling professional. She is currently on staff at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), where she oversees books that help educators use edtech to transform learning. She also freelances for other publishers and organizations, and she currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Editorial Fre...

Michelle is a senior agent at Fuse Literary representing leaders in the crime fiction community, award-winners, and debut authors. She joined the agency after eight years in editorial at St. Martin’s Press, where she worked on fiction and nonfiction with high-profile personalities, New York Times bestsellers, and debuts. She has built her career finding underserved clients with major talent and he...

Linda Landrigan has had a longtime love affair with mystery. Earning her undergraduate degree from New College in Florida and her Master’s degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Linda held a variety of jobs before landing a position as associate editor of Hitchcock under the magazine’s previous editor, Cathleen Jordan, with whom she had the privilege of working for five years. Assuming th...

Barb Goffman is the author of the short story “Beauty and the Beyotch,” which won this year’s Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She’s been a finalist for national crime short story awards forty times and has won three Agatha Awards, two Macavitys, and one Anthony, Silver Falchion, and Ellery Queen Readers Award. Her next story will be “Real Courage,” coming soon in issue 14 of Black Cat Myster...

G.M. Malliet’s first DCI St. Just mystery won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. The series was later nominated for Anthony, Macavity, and Left Coast Crime awards. Her award-nominated Max Tudor series will continue in 2023 from Little, Brown. Three of her short stories recently placed in EQMM’s Readers Choice Award and her novella, "A Murder at Morehead Mews," was nominated for a Derri...

Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries featuring South Florida hairstylist Marla Vail. Her books have been named Best Cozy Mystery by Suspense Magazine, won the Readers’ Favorite and FAPA President’s Book Awards, the RONE Award, the Royal Palm Literary Award, and IAN Book of the Year. She’s placed first in the Chanticleer International Book Awards and third in the Arizona Literary Awards...

Ellen Hart is the author of thirty five crime novels. She has won numerous awards, including the Lambda Literary award for Best Lesbian Mystery and the GCLS Trailblazer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of lesbian literature. She taught writing for 17 years through the Loft Literary Center, the largest independent writing community in the nation. In 2017, Ellen was named a Grand Master b...

Glen Erik Hamilton writes crime thrillers. His novels have been called “outstanding” (Publishers Weekly), “perfect mix of serious crime and caper movie” (Criminal Element), and “a must-read series” (Mystery Scene Magazine). Hamilton’s debut novel Past Crimes won the Anthony, Macavity, and Strand Magazine Critics Awards, and was also nominated for the Edgar®, Barry, and Nero Awards. Kirkus called P...

Marco Carocari originally hails from Switzerland and now lives in the Californian desert with his exceptionally sweet and supportive -aka patient- husband. His debut novel, Blackout , was nominated for a Lefty and won TheNYCBigBookAward and Independent Press Award for Best LGBTQ Novel. His short stories appeared in Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical (All In The Planning) and the Saints &a...

Like her Ground Rules Mystery series, Emmeline Duncan is based in Portland, Oregon. Her series includes 2021's Fresh Brewed Murder , Double Shot Death , and Flat White Fatality , plus more to come. Emmeline also writes for teens as Kelly Garrett. Her debut YA novel, The Last To Die , was an Oregon Book Awards finalist. She was also a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellow. When not writing, she spends he...

Rob Osler writes mysteries featuring LGBTQ+ main characters. Book one of his “Hayden & Friends” series, Devil’s Chew Toy, was a best first novel finalist for the 2023 Anthony, Macavity, Agatha, and Lefty Awards. Book two, Cirque du Slay, arrives early next year. Rob’s first-ever publication, Analogue (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), won the 2022 Robert L Fish Award at the MWA Edgar Awards. Oth...

Judge Debra H. Goldstein writes Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series. She is also the author of two standalones: Maze in Blue and Should Have Played Poker: a Carrie Martin and the Mah Jongg Players Mystery . Her novels and short stories have been named Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, Claymore ( The Night for Sinners ) and Silver Falchion finalists and received Silver Falchion, IPPY, AWC, and BWR aw...

Despite completing a Fine Arts degree, all Betty Hechtman ever wanted to be was a writer. She wrote a weekly column in her college newspaper and later wrote magazine and newspaper pieces along with short stories and a prize-winning screenplay before turning to novels. She has had over twenty-five books published across three mystery series, all of which include yarn craft. She lives with her famil...

Andrea J. Johnson is the author of the Victoria Justice Mysteries about a trial stenographer turned amateur sleuth (think Murder, She Wrote meets The Pelican Brief ). She holds an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and a copyediting certification from UC San Diego. She currently teaches creative writing and African American literature at the University of Maryland Eastern...

Bonnar Spring writes eclectic international thrillers. A nomad at heart, she hitchhiked across Europe at sixteen and joined the Peace Corps after college. After living and teaching overseas, Bonnar returned to the US where she earned an Ed. M. from Harvard and taught ESL for many years. Bonnar recently trekked to Macchu Picchu for a significant birthday. Her award-winning debut, TOWARD THE LIGHT,...

Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor with a doctorate in Medieval Literature. Her Maxx Maxwell mysteries, Sweet Man Is Gone (2008) and Got No Friend Anyhow (2011), were published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage and feature a blues-singer sleuth. Peggy is currently writing the Knit & Nibble mysteries for Kensington. Her amateur sleuth, Pamela Paterson, is the founder and mainstay of the Arborv...

Leigh Perry/Toni L.P. Kelner is two authors in one. As Leigh, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries, featuring adjunct English professor Georgia Thackery and her skeletal pal Sid. The sixth, The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking , was published in 2019. As Toni, she’s written eleven mystery novels and co-edited urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris. And under both names, she writes short fic...

Carola Dunn was born and grew up in England. Almost all of her books are set there (with forays to Russia, Istanbul, Costa Rica et al), though she has lived in the US for most of her life. The author of 27 mysteries, the Daisy Dalrymple series set in the 1920s, and the Cornish mysteries set around 1960, she has also written over 32 Regencies. She lives in Oregon with her Border heeler Callie (with...

During her career in television news, Myra created Emmy Award winning special reports and investigations and told stories of true crime. But her love of traditional and cozy mysteries motivated her to write the Sarah Doucette Jean-Louis Mystery series. The stories are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and give a nod to Myra’s childhood, growing up in the progressive Berkeley, California with con...

Before he became a mystery writer and reviewer, Brookins was a freelance photographer, a Public Television program director, a Cable TV administrator, and a counselor and faculty member at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has reviewed mystery fiction for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and for Mystery Scene Magazine. His reviews appear at Barnes & Noble and Amazon Intern...