Sisters in Crime 25th Anniversary Beach Reads Event at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod

What are your favorite mystery authors reading this summer?

Join us for a lively discussion at the Cape Cod Cultural Center at an event offered in conjunction with Books by the Sea of Osterville, MA. 

The participating authors will recommend one book that they'll be reading on the beach this summer and will also talk about and sign their own books.  And one lucky audience member will win a beach bag full of books by authors who are members of Sisters in Crime New England.

The panelists:

Sheila Connolly writes the Orchard Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime. The newest entry, Bitter Harvest is coming in August, 2011. As Sarah Atwell, she also writes the Glassblowing Mysteries, whose debut book, Through a Glass, Deadly, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Sheila’s new series, the Museum Mysteries, opened in October 2010 with Fundraising the Dead. More..

Barbara Ross' mystery novel The Death of an Ambitious Woman was published in August 2010. Barbara is a co-editor/co-publisher of Level Best Books which publishes an annual anthology of Crime Stories by New England Writers. This year's anthology, Thin Ice contains stories that have garnered Edgar®, Agatha and Derringer Award nominations. More...

Susan Santangelo, the author of the Baby Boomer Mysteries, is an early member of the Baby Boomer generation herself. She has been a feature writer, drama critic and editor for daily and weekly newspapers in the New York metropolitan area, including a stint at Cosmopolitan magazine. She divides her time between Cape Cod, MA, and the Connecticut shoreline. A portion of sales from the Baby Boomer Mysteries is donated to the Breast Cancer Survival Center, a non-profit based in Connecticut which Susan founded. More...

Clea Simon is the author of three nonfiction books and three mystery series. Her Dulcie Schwartz series launched in 2009 with Shades of Grey and Grey Matters (2010) and continued in 2011 with Grey Zone. This year also saw the launch of her third series, the Pru Marlowe pet noirs, featuring a bad girl pet psychic and her crotchety tabby, Wallis with Dogs Don't Lie, in April, 2011. More...

Sarah Smith An Agatha winner for her most recent novel, THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK, Sarah Smith has written a bestselling adult mystery series set in the Edwardian period; two of the books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year, one was a London Times Book of the Year, and the first, THE VANISHED CHILD, is being made into a musical. She is working on a novel about the TITANIC.  More...

Leslie Wheeler writes the Miranda Lewis "living history" mystery series--books set in the present-day but at historic sites, which enables her to weave in a lot of history. Titles include Murder at Plimouth Plantation, Murder at Gettysburg, and the recently published, Murder at Spouters Point. Loving Warriers, Leslie's biography in letters of the nineteenth-century feminist, Lucy Stone, and her husband,Henry Blackwell, won the English-Speaking Union's Ambassador of Honor Award. More...

Sisters in Crime New England is a chapter of the national organization Sisters in Crime, an international organization dedicated to the professional development and advancement of women crime writers. Founded in 1986 by a group including best-selling author Sara Paretsky and Kate Mattes, owner of the former Cambridge literary fixture, Kate’s Mystery Books, Sisters in Crime celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Today the national Sisters in Crime organization includes 48 chapters worldwide with more than 3600 members. The New England chapter serves close to 200 members. For more information see www.sincne.org/about-us.