Nicole Asselin graduated from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts with a degree in English/Creative Writing, with a minor in Dance. She also attended George Mason University, where she earned a Master's degree in Arts Management.

She currently lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her three cats: Madeline, The Captain, and Cooper Maye.

Nicole is the current President of Sisters in Crime New England and serves on the committee for the New England Crime Bake, held every November.

The Ballpark Mystery Series is her debut series. Inspired by her Grandpa and Grandma Asselin, the books blend her two great loves—mystery and baseball—into a cozy mystery series (Go Red Sox).

When not traveling the world to research wine, spirits and food, Becky Sue Epstein writes wine- and travel-inspired cozy mysteries. Her first two were longlisted for Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award for Best Cozy unpublished manuscript in 2024 and 2025.

She’s published a short story and was a Flashwords contest winner at New England Crime Bake 2023.

Currently, she’s based on Cape Cod with her husband and two fluffy white cats, all very supportive.

Gabriella Stiteler is a writer and educator based in Portland, Maine. Her work has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Best of New England Crime Writing, Dark Waters Anthology, and elsewhere.

She has twice been shortlisted for Best American Mystery and Suspense, and her debut story was a finalist for the Robert L. Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 2025, she received the Bodwell Fellowship from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and was named a Hewnoaks Fellow.

Defying her agent’s instruction to stick to one thing, Kate Flora, always up for a new writing adventure, has published police procedurals, strong women mysteries, true crime, romantic suspense, memoir, and short stories.

From riding an ATV deep into the Canadian woods to going on stakeouts where she spotted the bad guys to riding in a truck while someone in the backseat holds a shotgun, she does what it takes to make the work feel authentic.

An Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Derringer finalist, two-time Maine Literary Award winner, and winner of the Public Safety Writers Award for non-fiction, Flora has even won awards for her unpublished books. She’s always hoping her next reward will be you as a reader.

Author Website: http://kateclarkflora.com

Award-winning journalist Maureen Boyle is the author of three true-crime books. Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer was published in 2017, The Ghost: The Murder of Police Chief Greg Adams and the Hunt for His Killer (Black Lyon) was published in June 2021, and Child Last Seen: The Search for Patty Desmond (Black Lyon) was published in June 2023. She is now working on her fourth book.

She was named New England Journalist of the Year three times and has been honored for her work covering crime, drug issues, and human-interest stories both regionally and nationally.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in criminal justice, and is now the journalism program director at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Trish Esden writes twisty contemporary New England mysteries centered on feisty women who rise up with determination, heart, and a passion for justice when crime strikes their small-town communities.

She is the author of the Scandal Mountain Antiques Mystery series. Her novel A Wealth of Deception won an IPNE Silver Award, and The Art of the Decoy was a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion finalist.

Her short fiction has appeared in numerous venues, including Deadly Nightshade: Best of New England Crime Stories 2022.