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Wisconsin

Cover Reveal: Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey

By Crime HQ

January 18, 2021

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Hello, Transcriber, the debut novel from Hannah Morrissey featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. Read on for more about the book! Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee…

Watch the Trailer for HBO’s New True Crime Documentary: Beware the Slenderman

By Crime HQ

December 1, 2016

What drives two twelve-year-old girls to stab a mutual friend nineteen times and leave her for dead? What could possibly fill young and innocent minds with such cold blood and carnage?  HBO’s new documentary Beware the Slenderman (debuting January 23, 2017) explores the very real case of a near-fatal stabbing attack in the small town of…

A Voice from the Field: New Excerpt

By Neal Griffin

January 25, 2016

A Voice from the Field by Neal Griffin is a gripping thriller about human trafficking, following Detective Tia Suarez, who will stop at nothing to rescue the woman she saw bound and gagged in the back of a van and take down the group responsible (Available February 2, 2016). Gunther Kane and his white supremacist…

Fresh Meat: Benefit of the Doubt by Neal Griffin

By Doreen Sheridan

May 6, 2015

Benefit of the Doubt by Neal Griffin is a debut crime novel about a disgraced big-city cop who learns his tiny hometown is no safe haven from corruption (available May 12, 2015). This gritty debut novel from a former law-enforcement officer is a hard-hitting look at police corruption in small-town America, laced with an impressive…

Fractured: New Excerpt

By Kate Watterson

March 8, 2015

Fractured by Kate Watterson is the 4th mystery featuring Detective Elle MacIntosh set in Milwaukee where romance and murder collide as a serial killer runs free (available March 10, 2015). Milwaukee homicide detective Ellie MacIntosh's bizarre case takes gruesome to a new level—and is eerily and frustratingly familiar. She has seen the signature work of…

Board Stiff, a Mattie Winston mystery by Annelise Ryan

Fresh Meat: Board Stiff by Annelise Ryan

By Kerry Hammond

March 4, 2014

Board Stiff by Annelise Ryan is the 5th in the Mattie Winston Mystery series about a small-town coroner who'll investigate the death of a nursing home owner (available March 4, 2014). Mattie Winston is a nurse-turned-coroner by profession, living in a small town in Wisconsin. Mattie is tough, never dainty, and sweet on Steve Hurley,…

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