Stephanie Bearce is an award-winning author of over 40 traditionally published books, including The Secret of Moonrise Manor (2025) and its sequel, The Curse of the Lost Cave (2026). She is the author of several nonfiction series, including The Top-Secret Files of History , Twisted True Tales from Science, and Awesome Disgusting History . Her books have been awarded the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award and recognized by the National Science Teachers Association’s Notable Book List. Stephanie is a certif...
Jul 08, 2025•45 min•Ep. 210
Anna Lee Huber is the USA Today bestselling and Daphne award-winning author of more than twenty novels, including the Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as Sisters of Fortune: A Novel of the Titanic and the anthology The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. Her novels have been translated into multiple languages, and she is a member o...
Jul 01, 2025•50 min
A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, novels of suspense, and books for kids. Her books have received many accolades. As Allison Brook she writes the Haunted Library series. Death Overdue , the first in the series, was an Agatha nominee for Best Contemporary Novel in 2018. Other mysteries include the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series, the Twin Lakes series, and Giving Up the Ghost . Her suspense, Come Home to Death , was released in April, 2024, and her suspense, Dang...
Jun 24, 2025•47 min•Ep. 208
Julia Buckley is a Chicago area mystery writer. She has authored several series for Penguin Random House and has also published several standalone mysteries, including suspense novels and a YA paranormal mystery. Several of her books were Barnes & Noble best sellers, and her novel A DARK AND STORMY MURDER was recently optioned for film. She taught English for 35 years, and continues to tutor young people around the world. She lives with her husband, a black Labrador, and four cats in a quiet...
Jun 17, 2025•55 min
After twenty years in Hollywood as a screenwriter working for the major studios, Jule Selbo moved to Portland Maine to focus on writing novels. First came three historical fiction books, then she moved into her favorite genre: crime-mystery. 7 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery, is the fourth book in the crime/mystery series that has made Kirkus’ Top 5 mysteries from Indie Publishers List, has been awarded a Silver Falchion and award nominations from Foreword Review, the Clue Award, Maine Literary Award...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Susan Elia MacNeal is the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope mysteries and Mother Daughter Traitor Spy . MacNeal won the Barry Award and an AudioFile Earphones award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, Agatha, Left Coast Crime, Dilys, ITW Thriller, and Nero awards. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son. https://www.susaneliamacneal.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/MrChurchillsSecretary Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/susaneliamacneal.bsky.soc...
Jun 03, 2025•53 min•Ep. 205
Grace Burrowes is a life-long voracious reader who one day about twenty years ago thought it might be fun to write a novel. After penning a lot of romance, she realized that her reading had shifted to focus almost exclusively on mystery and thriller, and thought it might be fun to write one of those. She’s still having fun, and still writing! BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/grace-burrowes Website: https://graceburrowes.com/ ***************** About SinC Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founde...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 204
Clara McKenna is a USA TODAY bestselling author of historical cozy mysteries. The Stella & Lyndy Mystery series is about an unlikely couple who mix love, murder, and horse racing in Edwardian England. MURDER AT MORRINGTON HALL kicks off the series. MURDER AT KEYHAVEN CASTLE, the third book in the series, was selected as a Historical Novel Society's Editor's Choice and voted one of the BEST cozy mysteries of 2021 by SUSPENSE MAGAZINE. Her latest release, MURDER ON GLENLOCH HILL, a USA TODAY B...
May 20, 2025•49 min•Ep. 204
New York Times Bestselling author Robin Burcell moonlighted as a cop for nearly three decades, while working as a mom full-time. She wrote police procedurals and international thrillers, until Clive Cussler asked her to co-write with him in the Fargo series (where the good guys sometimes skirted the law, but always saved the day). Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/RobinBurcell.Author Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinburcell Blue Sky Handle: @robinburcell.bsky.social Website: http:...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 202
Stephen G. Eoannou grew up in Buffalo, New York reading Hardy Boy Books and watching old Humphrey Bogart movies on The Late Show. His love of history and writing led him to SUNY Buffalo (BA), Miami University (MA), and The Queens University of Charlotte (MFA). He is the author of the short story collection Muscle Cars and the historical novels After Pearl, Yesteryear , and Rook . Yesteryear was awarded the 2021 International Eyelands Award for Best Historical Novel, The Firebird Book Award for B...
May 06, 2025•56 min•Ep. 201
Donna Marie Miller is the author of two nonfiction books, Texas Secessionists Standoff; the 1997 Republic of Texas "War,” (2023) and The Broken Spoke; Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk , ( 2017,) both published by Texas A&M University Press. Her freelance articles have appeared in local, state, and national magazines. Early in her professional writing career she worked nine years as a newspaper reporter at three Texas daily newspapers. Miller also taught secondary level journalism courses for 24...
Apr 29, 2025•58 min•Ep. 200
Edgar Award nominee and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and badge in real life before turning to crime writing. A graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico and the first Latina to attain the rank of captain in her police department, she retired as the Commander of Special Investigations and Forensics. During more than two decades on the force, her assignments included hostage negotiator, department spokesperson, and precinct commander. She uses her law...
Apr 22, 2025•57 min•Ep. 199
Valerie Wilson Wesley writes mysteries, novels and children’s books. Her latest mystery is A Shimmer of Red (2023), which is the third book in her Odessa Jones Mystery Series. She is the author of nine Tamara Hayle Mysteries, including When Death Comes Stealing , named by Times magazine as one of the best mystery and thriller books of the last 100 years. Most of her mysteries and several of her novels have been published in Germany, France and Great Britain. Wesley has also written paranormal ro...
Apr 15, 2025•50 min•Ep. 195
Richard Cass is the author of the Elder Darrow jazz mystery series. The first book in the series won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The fifth, Sweetie Bogan’s Sorrow , won the Nancy Pearl Librarians’ Prize for Genre Fiction. The seventh book in the series Closing Time , was published in October, 2024. Dick has also published a thriller called The Last Altruist and a book of short stories entitled Gleam of Bone . He holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New H...
Apr 08, 2025•52 min•Ep. 197
Suja Sukumar writes YA suspense novels featuring South Asian main characters battling villains while also dealing with their own inner demons. Apart from being an author, she is also a senior staff physician in a major health system in suburban Detroit, where she lives with her family and an elderly cat. When Mimi Went Missing is her debut novel. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/sujasukumarwriter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sujawrites/ Blue Sky Handle: https://bsky.app/profile/s...
Apr 01, 2025•43 min•Ep. 196
JOSH PACHTER was the 2020 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. His stories appear in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , Black Cat Mystery Magazine , and elsewhere, and he is the author of the traditional whodunit Dutch Threat and the mystery for younger readers First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet . He edits anthologies (including Anthony finalists The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Son...
Mar 25, 2025•48 min•Ep. 185
Lisa Black is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 suspense novels, including the Gardiner & Renner series and the Locard Institute series. Her works have been translated into six languages, optioned for film, and shortlisted for both the inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award and the Nero. She is also a full-time Certified Latent Print Examiner and a Certified Crime Scene Analyst, beginning her forensics career at the Coroner’s office in Cleveland Ohio and then the police department in...
Mar 18, 2025•46 min•Ep. 194
New York Times Bestselling author Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva Mysteries, the Paws & Claws Mysteries, and The Pen & Ink Mysteries. Krista lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with a black Labrador mix, an English cream golden retriever, and two very inquisitive cats, all rescues. Her friends and family complain about being guinea pigs for her recipes, but she notices they keep coming back for more. Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/KristaDavisAuthor Instagram: https://www...
Mar 11, 2025•45 min•Ep. 193
Stella Oni is a British-Nigerian writer and author of the crime fiction debut, Deadly Sacrifice , a compelling police procedural that delves into Nigerian and British cultures, exploring themes of identity and tradition. It was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize and selected as an Audible Crime and Fiction Pick. Stella has also contributed short stories to anthologies, including Midnight Hour , which was nominated for an Anthony Award. Stella leads workshops, speaks at events, and share...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 192
Former newspaper reporter Jennifer K. Morita writes stories for Sacramento State by day and plots murder mysteries by night. Her debut mystery, GHOSTS OF WAIKĪKĪ, has been nominated for a Left Coast Crime Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery and an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It’s about an out-of-work journalist who reluctantly becomes the ghost writer for a controversial developer. When she stumbles into murder - and her ex - she discovers coming home to paradise can be murder. Jennifer wa...
Feb 25, 2025•46 min•Ep. 191
Walter Mosley is the author of 60 critically-acclaimed books, translated into 25 languages. He has had several of his books adapted for film and tv including Devil in a Blue Dress , Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned , and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel Jackson. He was a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, “Snowfall” and filming has just completed on his “Man in My Basement,” starring Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins. He is the winner of an O. Henry Awa...
Feb 18, 2025•45 min•Ep. 190
Richie Narvaez (nar-VYE-ehz) is the author of two novels, HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE and HOLLY HERNANDEZ AND THE DEATH OF DISCO, which won the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award. He's also had two short story collections published, ROACHKILLER & OTHER STORIES and NOIRYORICAN (nwah-YOUR-eekan). His work has been featured in ELLERY QUEEN, LATINX RISING, TINY CRIMES, and BLACK CAT WEEKLY, among many others. He recently received a Letras Boricuas Fellowship and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence Colleg...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 189
Hannah Martian (she/they) is a writer of queer crime fiction, including her debut novel, LONG TIME GONE. She is a two-time graduate of Washington State University (MA ’24, BA ’20). Hannah currently lives in eastern Washington and is hard at work plotting her next (very gay) mystery. Michelle Richter podcast episode: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Michelle_Richter Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HannahMartianAuthor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahmartian34/ Other Social M...
Feb 04, 2025•46 min•Ep. 188
Over the years, Matt Cost aka Matthew Langdon Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable. During those years, since age eight actually, the true passion has been writing. I Am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (Encircle Publications, March, 2020) was his first traditionally published novel. Cost has now written six books in the Mainely Mystery series starting with Mainely Power , five books in t...
Jan 28, 2025•42 min•Ep. 187
Daryl Wood Gerber is the Agatha Award-winning and nationally bestselling author of the Literary Dining Mysteries, the Fairy Garden Mysteries and the Cookbook Nook Mysteries. As Avery Aames, she penned the popular Cheese Shop Mysteries. In addition, Daryl writes suspense including the well-received The Son’s Secret , Girl on the Run , and the popular Aspen Adams suspense novels. Daryl has also published a standlone Christmas romance, Hope for the Holidays . Fun Tidbit: as an actress, Daryl appear...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 186
Dianne Freeman is the USA Today bestselling author of the Agatha and Lefty award-winning Countess of Harleigh Mystery series. She is also a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark and the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award. After thirty years of corporate accounting, she now writes full-time. Born and raised in Michigan, she and her husband split their time between Michigan and Arizona. Visit her at www.difreeman.com Mentioned in the podcast: Haunted Highway: https://a.co/d/fDqZL59 To Marry an Engli...
Jan 14, 2025•50 min•Ep. 185
Marjorie (M.M.) DeLuca was born in England, studied at the University of London, then moved to Canada, where she studied Advanced Creative Writing with Pulitzer Prizewinner Dr. Carol Shields. She's the author of five self-published novels and four traditionally published historical and contemporary suspense novels: Amazon bestseller, THE PERFECT FAMILY MAN (Canelo 2021), Bookscan Top 100 bestseller, and Apple Books Top 100 bestseller, THE SECRET SISTER (Canelo 2021), critically acclaimed literar...
Jan 07, 2025•56 min•Ep. 184
Jodé Millman is the award-winning author of HOOKER AVENUE and THE MIDNIGHT CALL as well as an attorney for more than 40 years with practical experience in Intellectual Property Law. A law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School, she is the creator of The Writer’s Law School and has presented “The Writer’s Law School” to national and international literary and visual arts organizations and public libraries. She is also a reviewer for Booktrib.com, the host/producer of The Backstag...
Dec 17, 2024•56 min•Ep. 183
PAULA MUNIER is the Senior Agent and Director of Storytelling for Talcott Notch Literary and the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones , the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. Home at Night was named Library Journal’s Mystery Pick of the Month. The Night Woods , the ...
Dec 10, 2024•57 min•Ep. 182
Carolyn Marie Wilkins is the author of three mystery novels: Death at a Séance , Melody for Murder and Mojo for Murder , all available from Pen-L Publications. She is also the author of Tips for Singing (Hal Leonard Press) and two memoirs: Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Journey from Slavery to Bittersweet Success , and They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her , available from the University of Missouri Press. Murder At The Wham Bam Club , the first i...
Dec 03, 2024•51 min•Ep. 181
