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Pauline Alldred

MS in Nursing. MA in Literature. RN. Published poems and short stories. Submitting mystery novel to agents. Working on missing persons series. Born in the UK. Lived and worked in Boston and suburbs. Lives now in Western Mass. Two daughters and three male grandchildren. Avid gardener. Wants to...

Ray Anderson

I write long-distance hiking thrillers and am hoping my debut novel will be sold soon. I spent my corporate career in sales with Procter & Gamble and the Coca-Cola Company.
I have my blog at www.TakeaLongHike.com...

Elaine J. Anderson, Ph.D.

Author of three Rosa Arroya crime novels currently available from Amazon.com; Taylor & Baker; major bookstores; or at nettisplace.com/nettisplacecom - Invisibility Formula,Code Name IF; Chameleon; and, Dragonfly.

Retired University Professor of biology,2003, living in Provincetown,...

Amy Beth Arkawy

Life off the radio is murder! Radio talker and award-winning playwright tuned mystery writer, I am the author of The Eliza Gordon Mystery series: Killing Time ( Hen House Press, 2012) & Dead Silent ( Cozy Cat Press, 2013) My acclaimed short story "Dangerous Appetites" featured in collection...

Emily Arsenault

Emily is the author of two novels, The Broken Teaglass and In Search of the Rose Notes. She has worked as a lexicographer, and English teacher, and a Peace Corps volunteer (in rural South Africa). She now lives in Shelburne Falls, MA, where she is working on her third novel.

Frankie Y. Bailey

Frankie Y. Bailey is a criminal justice professor at University at Albany (SUNY). She specializes in crime and American culture (crime history, and mass media/popular culture). Her current research focuses on crime and clothing. Her mystery series features crime historian Lizzie Stuart, most...

Lorraine Bartlett

Lorraine Bartlett writes the Victoria Square Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin USA. She also writes the Jeff Resnick Mysteries and L.L. Bartlett and the New York Times bestselling and Agatha-nominated Booktown Mystery series as Lorna Barrett.

Janis Bolster

Janis Bolster grew up in small towns in Maine. After post-English-major stints at things like checking off boxes on insurance claim reports and performing for a blind professor those tasks that his Seeing-Eye dog couldn't manage, she found her way to a job in publishing that has become a career...

Dana Cameron

Dana Cameron’s "Fangborn" short story "Swing Shift" was just nominated for an Agatha Award; a third "Fangborn" story, “Love Knot,” will be published in August. Her colonial noir story “Femme Sole” was nominated for the 2010 Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards; two more Anna Hoyt stories...

Tracy Carbone

Tracy L. Carbone is a Massachusetts native living with her daughter and a house full of pets. She works full time for a bank and does most of her writing on the train or late at night.

Her horror and literary short stories have appeared in several anthologies and magazines in the U.S. and...

J.P. Choquette

J.P. Choquette is passionate about many things; reading great books and writing are high on the list. First published at age 14, Choquette has been writing professionally since 2007.

She's been published in numerous national magazines, journals, and newspapers, has acted as judge for the...

Jim Ciullo

Jim Ciullo is a member of Mystery Writers of America (MWA)—including its New England Chapter, International Thriller Writers (ITW), and Sisters in Crime (SINC)—including its New England Chapter (SINCNE). He lives in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, where in his previous career, he...

Louisa Clerici

Louisa Clerici’s short story, The Rose Collection is included in Level Best Book’s Best New England Crime Stories 2012, Dead Calm. Her short stories and poetry have been published in literary anthologies and magazines including Carolina Woman Magazine, The Istanbul Literary Review, Shore Voices...

Sheila Connolly

Sheila Connolly writes the Orchard Mystery series, set in a small town in western Massachusetts, the most recent of which, Sour Apples, was a New York Times bestseller. She also writes the Museum Mystery series, based in Philadelphia's cultural community. Her newest series, the County Cork...

Lee Conrad Kemsley

Lee Conrad Kemsley is a longtime journalist and freelance writer. Having lived and worked in various parts of the country, Lee has adopted a 130 year-old farmhouse in the northern Vermont woods as home. She is currently at work on her first mystery.

Sharon Cook

I've been writing a humor/human interest column for decades, along with short stories (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag) and others. In Sept. '10, my first mystery, A NOSE FOR HANKY PANKY, was published by Mainly Murder Press. An art school grad, I also illustrated the cover (check out the legs at...

Hans Copek

Born 1932 in a small town near Berlin, educated in Göttingen, I came to the United States in 1956, supposedly for two years. I am still here. In 1961, I married Judy Travis, and we have two sons and one granddaughter. From 1956 to 1983, I worked in sales and marketing of scientific instruments....

Judith Copek

An information systems nerd for twenty years, Judith is a survivor of  the Millennium bug, Dilbert-like reengineering projects and 3:00 a.m. computer program crashes.  In her writing, she likes to put a literary spin on technology. 

Her novel, The Shadow Warriors, featuring cyber-sleuth...

Susan Corso

Shulamith Burton is the pseudonym of spiritual author, speaker, and counselor Rev. Dr. Susan Corso. She is an omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002). She has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She is represented on video on the...

Susan Cory

I have been a licensed architect for several decades and have run a residential firm in Cambridge for many years. My recently finished first mystery is about a Cambridge Architect getting caught up in buried secrets and murder when she goes back to her 20th Harvard Architecture School reunion....

Jessie Crockett Estevao

A nearly life-long resident of the Granite State, Jessie naturally adores black flies, killing frosts in August and snow banks taller than the average grandmother. When not working on her next murderous adventure she enthusiastically putters in her greenhouse, designs bento lunches and throws...

John Davey

John Davey graduated with degree in English from Boston College. He was formerly an Assistant Atty General for The Commonwealth, and Special Counsel for the Mass Special Crime commission.

Sharon Daynard

Sharon (S.A. Daynard) has received good reviews for her stories published in print and has been a regular contributor to a New England crime anthology. Her short story “Widow’s Peak” received a Derringer nomination for Best Flash of 2004 and has been used to help teach minimalist writing in...

Nancy DeMarco

Raised in rural New England, Nancy doesn’t mind skinny dipping with bloodsuckers, drinking from snow melt, and outrunning deer flies. She has spent most of her life in the company of horses, working in all aspects of the equine industry. Today, she divides her time between writing, raising fresh...

Vicki Doudera

Vicki Doudera writes page-turning mysteries grounded in a reality she knows all too well: the world of luxury real estate. A top producing broker for a firm on the coast of Maine and former Realtor of the Year, Vicki's first novel, A HOUSE TO DIE FOR, was chosen by Suspense Magazine as a top...

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