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Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun . She began writing novels while working fullt...

David Liss is the author of The Whiskey Rebels , The Ethical Assassin , A Spectacle of Corruption , The Coffee Trader , and A Conspiracy of...

Christine Cody is the author of the new postapocalyptic supernatural Western Bloodlands series . The first book, Bloodlands ,  launched Ju...

David Levien , author of Where the Dead Lay and City of the Sun , has been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, and Shamus awards, and is al...

Linda Urbach is a published author and screenwriter. Her third novel, Madame Bovary’s Daughter , addresses the question: Whatever happened ...

Meg Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from Stanford University and Stanford law school. ...

Brandi Lynn Ryder lives in the heart of Napa Valley. She applied the Page 69 Test to In Malice, Quite Close , her first novel, and repor...

Chris Ewan ’s debut novel, The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam , won the Long Barn Books First Novel Competition and was shortlisted for...

Jodi Compton is the author of the acclaimed novels Hailey’s War , The 37th Hour , and Sympathy Between Humans . She applied the Page 69 T...

A graduate of Yale, Gerald Elias has been a Boston Symphony violinist, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony since 1988, Adjunct...

Kathleen George , author of police thrillers, was an Edgar finalist for best novel for The Odds . A trade edition of The Odds was released...

Carson Morton was born in London, England and moved with his family to the United States when he was eleven. He worked as a professional mu...