Leslie S. Klinger is an Edgar Award-winning anthologist and highly regarded expert in the field of crime fiction. Considered one of the foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes, he edited the three-volume The Annotated Sherlock Holmes; other titles include The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, The New Annotated Frankenstein, and January’s In the Shadow of Agatha Christie.…
T. M. Logan was a national newspaper journalist before transitioning to writing fiction fulltime. His debut novel, Lies, was one of Amazon UK’s biggest ebooks of 2017, selling more than 330,000 copies and garnering in excess of 1,300 5-star reader reviews. The title has since been sold to 10 other countries, including the United States…
Traci Lambrecht collaborated with her mother, PJ Lambrecht, under the pseudonym PJ Tracy until PJ’s death in 2016. Together, they wrote several romance novels under a variety of names before turning to crime fiction. Their books are national and international bestsellers and have won accolades including the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their…
Born in Belleville, Ontario, Courtney Summers currently resides in a small Canadian town not far from there. When she was 18 years old, she wrote her first novel, Cracked Up to Be, which was published in 2008. Best known for her unapologetic, difficult female protagonists, Summers was named one of Flare Magazine‘s 60 under 30. Her latest, Sadie,…
Mindy Mejia is the author of The Dragon Keeper (2012) and the suspense novel Everything You Want Me to Be (2017). She received a BA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Hamline University; Mejia has lived in the Twin Cities nearly her entire life, where she has held jobs ranging from apple…
Dolores Redondo is the internationally acclaimed author of the Baztán trilogy, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in Spanish, been translated into more than 35 languages, and was adapted into a popular film series. A student of law and the culinary arts, she’s twice been nominated for the CWA International Dagger Award and was…
Laurie Petrou is the author of the short story collection Between (2006), which was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (Top 5 First Fiction). She is also an associate professor at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto and an “artist/maker.” Petrou won the inaugural Half the World Global Literati Award…
In Louise Candlish’s new novel, Our House, protagonist Fiona Lawson returns to her posh suburban London home on a Friday morning in January only to find a curious scene. A moving van is parked outside. And inside? Another family, eager to finish moving in and start setting up their new home. Except, Fiona insists, she…
Shari Randall is the author of the Lobster Shack Mystery series, which debuted earlier this year with Curses, Boiled Again!. The second title, Against the Claw, revisits protagonist Allie Larkin as she assists her beloved Aunt Gully with the day-to-day operations of The Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack—a seemingly straightforward task that repeatedly lands her in…
I’ve been friends with Rio Youers for a while and a fan of his work since I read his brilliant fantasy novel Westlake Soul, which is a masterclass in all the things that a story told from the first-person point of view should do. I greatly admire Rio’s restlessness. He’s a very funny man, but…
