Featured Speakers

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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...

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...

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...

Sheila Connolly

Sheila Connolly writes the Orchard Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime. As Sarah Atwell, she also wrote the Glassblowing Mysteries, whose debut book, Through a Glass, Deadly, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Another series, the Museum Mysteries, opened in October 2010 with...

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 Emma Lee...

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...

Kathy Emerson

Kathy Lynn Emerson writes the Face Down Mystery Series and is the author of the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet. As Kaitlyn Dunnett she is the author of the Liss MacCrimmon Scottish American Heritage Mysteries.

Hallie Ephron

Hallie Ephron: An award-winning writer and book reviewer, Hallie writes books she hopes will keep readers up nights. Her two latest suspense novels, "Come and Find Me" and "Never Tell a Lie" were both finalists for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. "Never Tell a Lie," which was set in a fictional...

Susan Fleet

Susan's life revolves around Music and Mayhem. After playing trumpet in the Boston area for many years, she began writing crime novels and moved to New Orleans, the setting for her award-winning thrillers, ABSOLUTION and DIVA. Now she divides her time between Boston and The Big Easy where she...

Kate Flora

Attorney Kate Flora’s eleven books include seven Thea Kozak mysteries, two gritty police procedurals including The Angel of Knowlton Park, a suspense thriller (written as Katharine Clark) and a true crime. Finding Amy was a 2007 Edgar nominee and has been optioned for a movie. Her current...

Nancy Gardner

Nancy has had four short stories published. “Count To Ten, is the latest and is included in the 2011 Level Best Books anthology, Dead Calm. It won an honorable mention in the Al Blanchard Award contest. "Count To Ten" will be republished in an anthology of baseball fiction in the January/...

Gary Goshgarian

Gary Braver is the bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed mysteries and thrillers—the first three under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, the subsequent and future works under the pen name, Gary Braver.

The Braver books include: ELIXIR, GRAY MATTER, SKIN DEEP, and FLASHBACK, which...

Rosemary Harris

Author of the Dirty Business mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Paula Holliday. Pushing Up Daisies, the first book in the series, was nominated for an Agatha and an Anthony for best First Novel of 2008 and will be available on Kindle for only $2.99 starting March 15 to coincide with the...

Jayne Hitchcock

Jayne's own experience with cyberstalking, which garnered international headlines, led her to become a noted cybercrime and security expert. She speaks about cybercrime and online security to educational institutions, librarians, corporations, the general public, students and parents, and trains...

Roberta Isleib

Clinical psychologist Roberta Isleib (AKA Lucy Burdette) has published 8 mysteries with Berkley Prime Crime, including DEADLY ADVICE and SIX STROKES UNDER. Her books and stories have been nominated for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime...

Stacy Juba

Stacy Juba is the author of the mystery novels Twenty-Five Years Ago Today and Sink or Swim (Mainly Murder Press), the paranormal young adult thriller Dark Before Dawn, and the young adult family hockey novel Face-Off, as well as the patriotic children’s picture book The Flag Keeper and the...

Toni L. P. Kelner

Agatha award winner Toni L.P. Kelner is the author of three different mystery series: the eight Laura Fleming novels, the three "Where are they now?" books, and the forthcoming Family Skelton series. Her most recent book is BLAST FROM THE PAST. She also co-edits urban fantasy anthologies with...

M. E. Kemp

M.E. Kemp is the author of a series of historical mysteries featuring two nosy Puritans as detectives, the series reflecting her love of American history.

Kemp was born in Oxford, MA, the town her ancestors helped settle in 1713 and where her family still resides today. With her roots...

Lisa Kleinholz

Lisa Kleinholz is the author of the Zoe Szabo mystery series, including Exiles on Main Street and Dancing with Mr. D.

Steve Liskow

A former English teacher, actor, and director, Steve has published several short stories in Level Best Books and the Black Orchid Novella Award winning "Stranglehold" in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. His short story "Hot Sugar Blues" appears in the MWA collection Vengeance, edited by Lee...

Edith Maxwell

Edith Maxwell, a software technical writer, lives on the Massachusetts north shore. “Obake for Lance” appeared in Riptide (2004) and “Reduction in Force” in Thin Ice (2010), anthologies of Crime Stories by New England Writers from Level Best Books.  She...

Ruth McCarty

Ruth M. McCarty's short mysteries have appeared in all of the Level Best anthologies. She received honorable mentions in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, NEWN, and mysteryauthor.com for her flash fiction, and won the 2009 Derringer award for Best Flash Story for "No Flowers for Stacey,"...

Leslie Meier

Leslie Meier's books draw heavily on her experience as a mother of three and her work as a reporter for various weekly newspapers on Cape Cod. Her heroine, Lucy Stone, is a reporter in the fictional town of Tinker's Cove, Maine, where she lives in an old farmhouse with her restoration carpenter...

Michael Nethercott

Michael Nethercott’s writings have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers; Plays, the Drama Magazine for...

Vincent O'Neil

Vincent H. O’Neil brings a wealth of life experience to his writing. He has served as a US Army officer, a private consultant, a risk manager, an advertiser, and an apprentice librarian.

A native of Massachusetts, he holds a Bachelor of Science from West Point and a Master of Arts in...