The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast

Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won two Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty Awards for Best Humorous Mystery. Bayou Book Thief will be the first book in her new Vintage Cookbook Mysteries. She also writes the Catering Hall Mystery series under the name Maria DiRico. Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like Wings , Just Sho...

Leslie Karst is the author of the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari culinary mystery series. The daughter of a law professor and a potter, she waited tables and sang in a new wave rock band before deciding she was ready for a “real” job and ending up at Stanford Law School. It was during her career as a research and appellate attorney in Santa Cruz, California, that Leslie rediscovered her youthf...

Dean James is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the "Cat in the Stacks" mysteries under the name Miranda James. By day he is a mild-mannered medical librarian; by night and on weekends, he's a serial killer who gleefully dispatches obnoxious characters so his sleuths, Charlie Harris and Diesel, can have fun solving murders. Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/d...

Hilary Davidson is the bestselling author of seven crime novels, including the standalones Her Last Breath and Blood Always Tells, the Lily Moore series ( The Damage Done , The Next One to Fall , and Evil in All Its Disguises ), and the Shadows of New York series ( One Small Sacrifice and Don’t Look Down ). Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards and a Derringer Award, and her short stories have ap...

Kate Moretti is the New York Times Bestselling author of seven novels and a novella, including her latest, The Spires (T&M, 2021). Her first novel THOUGHT I KNEW YOU, was a New York Times bestseller. THE VANISHING YEAR was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards Mystery/Thriller category for 2016 and was called "chillingly satisfying." (Publisher's Weekly) with "superb" cl...

Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s most recent thriller, THEY’RE GONE, was published in 2020 to rave reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus (starred), and was named one of the best books of 2020 by the South Florida Sun Sentinel. His next novel, NO HOME FOR KILLERS, is coming out in 2023 by Thomas and Mercer. His column, “Decisions and Revisions,” appears monthly in the Washington Independent Revi...

National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes smart, funny, and fashionable character-based mysteries. After two decades working for a top luxury retailer, she traded fashion accessories for accessories to murder. A past president of Sisters in Crime, Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since. Facebook Page  https://w...

Robyn Gigl (pronounced guy gull) is the author of SURVIVOR'S GUILT (January 2022) and BY WAY OF SORROW (March 2021), published by Kensington Books. Both books feature transgender, criminal defense attorney, Erin McCabe, and her law partner, Duane Swisher. Robyn is a member of Sisters in Crime, national and the NJ Chapter. In addition to her writing, Robyn is an attorney and activist who has be...

Cheryl Head (she/her) writes the award-winning, Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries whose female PI protagonist is queer and black. Head is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, and winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Ann Bannon Popular Choice award. Her books have been shortlisted for the Next Generation Indie Book Award, and are listed in the Detroit Public Library’s African American Bo...

Brenda Buchanan brings experience as a lawyer and journalist to her crime fiction. The three books in her Joe Gale series— Quick Pivot , Cover Story and Truth Beat —feature a newspaper reporter who covers the Maine crime and courts beat. Her short story, “Means, Motive, and Opportunity” is included in Bloodroot: Best New England Crime Stories 2021 . She's just finished a new novel featuring th...

Brad Shreve is the author of the Mitch O’Reilly Mystery series. When younger he focused on visual arts. Inspired by Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury, he developed a comic strip certain a syndicate would distribute it globally. In the process he found he enjoyed writing over sketching and changed his goal. Authors such as Lawrence Block, and Gregory McDonald fueled his passion for mysteries, but it took h...

Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is the editor of Agora Books, an award-winning imprint focusing on socially and culturally unique crime fiction and horror from publisher Polis Books. Since its founding in 2019, Agora titles have won three International Latino Book Award medals, been nominated for Edgar, Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, Strand Critics, Macavity and Lefty awards, and been featured in NPR, T...

Jess Lourey writes about secrets. She's the Amazon Charts bestselling Edgar, Agatha, ITW Thriller, and Lefty-nominated, Anthony-winning author of crime fiction, nonfiction, children's books, YA adventure, and magical realism. She is a retired professor of creative writing and sociology, a recipient of The Loft's Excellence in Teaching fellowship, a Psychology Today blogger, and a TEDx...

Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise , winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He won the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story for "English 398: Fiction Workshop," originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and he has wo...

Tori Eldridge is the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong series, THE NINJA DAUGHTER, THE NINJA'S BLADE, and THE NINJA BETRAYED—winner of the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year, 2019 Authors on the Air Award for Best Thriller Book of the Year, and Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards finalist for Best First Novel. Her shorter works have been published in horror, dystopi...

Jennifer Hillier is author of seven psychological thrillers, including the bestselling Little Secrets , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anthony Award, and Jar of Hearts , which won the ITW Thriller Award and was shortlisted for the Anthony and Macavity Awards. She was born in Toronto, but spent eight years in the Seattle area, which is where she first got publishe...

Kimberly MacLean (she/her) has been at the forefront of thought leadership about how to combine the best practices of teaching with the benefits of interactive inquiry-based learning, agile thinking, diversity equity inclusion, belonging, and communication for over 20 years. Using her M.Ed. she has impacted the culture at some of the world's most innovative companies around the world & sup...

K.D. Richards was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs just outside of Washington, D.C. A writer since a young age, after college Kia earned a law degree and worked as an attorney and legal instructor for fifteen years but never stopped writing fiction. She currently splits her time between Toronto and Maryland with her husband and two sons. Facebook Page www.facebook.com/kdrichardsauthor Insta...

Charlaine Harris just celebrated her fortieth year as a published writer. Her career has been full of ups and downs, but she's in a happy place. An avid reader, Charlaine lives in Texas and has a husband, three adult children, two grandchildren, and two rescue dogs. Facebook Page: Charlaine Harris Twitter: @realcharlaine Instagram: @realcharlaine Website: www.charlaineharris.com **************...

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...

Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the Country Store Mysteries and Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. A past president of Sisters in Crime New England, she’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime. A fourth-generation Californian, Maxwell l...

Amina Akhtar is a former fashion writer and editor. Her satirical first novel, #FashionVictim , drew rave reviews and acclaim and was covered in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, Entertainment Weekly, Fashionista, Book Riot, CrimeReads, and more. Akhtar’s new book Kismet takes on the world of wellness and all the crystals that go with it. This #OwnVoices novel is set in Sedon...

USA Today bestselling novelist Karen Odden earned her PhD in English at NYU, writing her dissertation on the discursive origins of trauma and PTSD in Victorian railway disasters in novels, medical treatises, and legal texts. She taught English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has written introductions for novels for the Barnes and Noble Classics Series, and edited for the acade...

Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning mystery author, breast cancer survivor, and accidental almost-vegan. The child of cultural anthropologists from New Mexico and the southern tip of India, she spent her childhood being dragged around the world on their research trips and now lives outside San Francisco. She writes the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, Accidental Alchemist...

Olivia Matthews is the cozy mystery pseudonym of award-winning, national best-selling author Patricia Sargeant. Patricia has been inspired by writers such as Walter Mosley, Dick Francis and Tami Hoag, who put ordinary people in extraordinary situations and have them find the Hero Inside. To learn more about her upcoming releases and events, visit PatriciaSargeant.com .  Facebook Page https://www.f...