The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

Tina Kashian writes the best-selling Kebab Kitchen Mediterranean mystery series, and her first book, "Hummus and Homicide," spent six weeks on the B&N bestseller list. Tina is an attorney and a mechanical engineer whose love of reading for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. Tina spent her childhood summers at the Jersey shore building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and r...

Elle Marr is a #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of thrillers. Her latest book THE FAMILY BONES earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called it a "mesmerizing psychological thriller." Originally from Sacramento, Elle graduated from UC San Diego before moving to France, where she earned a master’s degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She now lives and writes in Or...

SJ Rozan's eighteen novels and eighty-plus short stories have won multiple awards, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity, and also the Japanese Maltese Falcon. She's been honored with Life Achievement Awards from both the Private Eye Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Many of her stories have appeared in various "Best Of" collections, and s...

Winnie M Li is an author and activist. Her latest novel Complicit draws from her earlier career in the film industry. It was a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice, and listed among the Best Crime Novels of 2022 by CrimeReads and The Irish Times. A Harvard graduate, she previously wrote for travel guide books, produced independent feature films, and programmed for film festivals. Her debut Dark Chapter...

Kim Keeline, when not running a 1907 Steam Locomotive or lecturing on Shakespeare, is active in the mystery community, including organizing Bouchercon 2023: San Diego. Her first published story was a 2021 Derringer finalist. Check www.kimkeeline.com for her short stories, novel in progress and freelance work for authors in marketing & web designing. Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/kimke...

Crime, mystery, fantasy, and sci-fi author Claire A Murray has more than a dozen short stories published. One story earned Honorable Mention and two took third place in competitions, and she’s compiling a collection for a fall 2023 release. She is finishing a suspense-fantasy novel, has a trilogy in progress, and needs to edit a completed amateur sleuth novel. A former educator, manager, and advoc...

Cheryl A. Head writes the Anthony, and Lambda Literary Award nominated; and Goldie and IPPY Award winning, Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries. The most recent book in the series, Warn Me When It’s Time , was dubbed “chilling and prescient” by The New York Times. Cheryl’s latest book, Time’s Undoing , a crime novel based on her family’s personal tragedy, was an Indie Next pick, an Amazon Best Book of Ma...

John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning (Pegasus), 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 (Pegasus), won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery and was a finalist for Left Coast Crime’s Best Historical Mystery. He cohosts on th...

Catherine Maiorisi is the author of the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker. Two tough women fighting each other while standing against the blue wall and solving high profile crimes. The four books in the series are: A Matter of Blood, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Blood Runs Cold, a GCLS Goldie finalist and a Lamb...

​​Martha M. Geaney is the author of the amateur sleuth Star O'Brien mystery series which begins with "Death on Clare Island." The series is set County Mayo, Ireland. Martha currently serves as the President of Citrus Crime Writers in Central Florida. She has been a member of SinC since 2017. Martha earned her Ph. D. in Interdisciplinary Studies, and before turning to the mystery life,...

Rhys is the NYT bestselling author of the Royal Spyness novels as well as the Molly Murphy mysteries she now writes with her daughter Clare Broyles. In addition Rhys writes internationally bestselling stand alone historical novels, mostly set in WWII. She has received three Edgar nominations and won twenty awards to date, as well as being published in over thirty languages. Rhys was born and educa...

With over 21 million copies of her books in print over a career spanning four decades, New York Times bestselling author J.A. JANCE is the author of the Ali Reynolds series (with COLLATERAL DAMAGE being the most recent), the J.P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, a series of Southwestern thrillers featuring the Walker family, a volume of poetry, and more. Born in South Dakota and brought u...

Susanna Calkins writes award-winning historical fiction, including the Lucy Campion mysteries set in 17th century London and the Speakeasy Murders set in 1920s Chicago. Her books have been nominated for the Agatha, Mary Higgins Clark, Anthony, Macavity, and Lefty (best historical). She holds a PhD in early modern English history and is currently a university administrator. She grew up in Philadelp...

We celebrated our 100th episode with two of the people responsible for this project, former SinC presidents Lori Rader-Day and Sandra SG Wong. Join us as we celebrate 100 episodes and catch up with these fabulous people. Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across genres, including the cross-genre Lola Starke novels, Crescent City short stories, and the bestselling standalone suspense novel, IN...

Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is awar...

Son of a mechanic and a librarian with roots in the Texas Hill Country and the Mississippi Delta, Gary Phillips must keep writing to forestall his appointment at the crossroads. He is the editor of South Central Noir and the Anthony winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir . The Washington Post and Booklist selected his most recent novel One-Shot Harry as one of the best m...

Linda L. Richards is the award-winning author of 16 books. The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a contributing editor to the crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, Canada and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona. Linda will have two books published in 2023: The noir thriller DEAD...

LynDee Walker is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines. Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was a finalist for the Agatha Award, and her Texas Ranger Faith McClellan novel LEAVE NO STONE was named a Thriller Award finalist. Reviews have praised her work as "well-crafted, compelling, and fast-paced," and "an...

Misty Simon always wanted to be a storyteller…preferably behind a Muppet. Animal was number one, followed closely by Sherlock Hemlock… Since that dream didn’t come true, she began writing stories to share her world with readers, one laugh at a time. Touching people’s hearts and funny bones are two of her favorite things, and she hopes everyone at least snickers in the right places when reading her...

Anne Laughlin is the author of seven novels published by Bold Strokes Books. Her work has won four Goldie Awards and been short listed three times for a Lammy Award. In addition to writing novels, Anne reviews books for The Gay & Lesbian Review and the Lambda Literary Review. She is a board member of Mystery Writers of America/Midwest and a member of MWA's Queer Advisory Board. She has att...

Wendy H. Jones is the award-winning, best-selling Scottish author of the Detective Inspector Shona McKenzie Mysteries, Cass Claymore Investigates Mysteries, Fergus and Flora Mysteries, Bertie the Buffalo Picture Book Series, and the Writing Matters Series of non-fiction books for writers. She is also the President of the Scottish Association of Writers, an international public speaker. When not wr...

Kellye Garrett is the author of Like A Sister about a black woman in New York City looking into the mysterious overdose of her estranged reality star sister. In addition to being featured on the TODAY show, the suspense novel was a Book of the Month April 2022 selection, the Oxygen channel’s July Book Club pick, an Edgar award finalist for Best Novel and Lefty award nominee for Best Mystery. The c...

Sujata Massey is the author of fifteen novels, most of them mysteries. Starting with The Widows of Malabar Hill, the three books in this historical feminist series set in 1920s India have won the Agatha, Macavity, Lefty, and Mary Higgins Clark awards, and been finalists for the Shamus and Harper Lee Legal Fiction awards. Her earlier mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Rei Shimura is set in mod...

Tracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PI Cassandra Raines. A multi-nominated Anthony, Lefty, Edgar, Macavity, and Shamus Award finalist, Tracy is also the 2020 and 2022 winner of the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award and the 2022 Sara Paretsky Award, which honors crime writers from the Midwest. Tracy was also n...

Mia P. Manansala (MAH-nahn-sah-lah) (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. Her debut novel, ARSENIC AND ADOBO, came out May 4, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Myste...