ROBERT DUGONI is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, consisting of My Sister’s Grave, Her Final Breath, In the Clearing, The Trapped Girl, Close to Home, and A Steep Price, as well as the bestselling author of the David Sloane series, and the standalone novels The 7th Canon, The Cyanide Canary, and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, Suspense magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an Audiofiles Earphones Award. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for Fiction and the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award, and is a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Writers and Harper Lee Awards, as well as the Silver Falchion Award and the Edgar Award.
WILLIAM FRANK spent his childhood on naval air stations ranging from French Morocco to Guam. He served as a flight test engineer in the U.S. Air Force and later as a professor of tropical meteorology at the University of Virginia and Penn State. His detective fiction explores the complex world of art theft and its role in international crime and terrorism. A fourth-generation New Mexican, Bill now lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Kathleen Frank, a noted landscape painter.
GEORGIA JEFFRIES is the author of three novels, including Malinche, a story of military injustice and border war. Her short story “Little Egypt” appeared in the 2017 noir anthology Last Resort, and a family memoir, “The Last Gun of Tiburcio Vásquez,” was published in the UC Press quarterly Boom: A Journal of California. She is also a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, HuffPost, and Written By. Prior to her work in prose, Jeffries cracked TV’s glass ceiling as a writer-producer of multiple Emmy Award–winning series and is the first individual woman to earn a Writers Guild of America Award for Television Episodic Drama. Born in the Illinois heartland, she graduated from UCLA and is a tenured professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
LOU KEMP’s short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including Seattle Noir and MWA’s Crimes by Moonlight, where her character Celwyn made his first appearance before Odd Partners. She is currently finishing a book of Celwyn’s adventures as he becomes a mysterious player in certain historical occurrences. She lives in the Seattle area and believes anything is possible in the land of Oz.
WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor mystery series, set in the great Northwoods of Minnesota. He is a five-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award. Among his many other accolades is the Edgar Award for Best Novel for his 2013 release Ordinary Grace. He lives in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves, and does all his creative writing in local, author-friendly coffee shops.
JOE R. LANSDALE, Champion Mojo Storyteller, has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has written forty-five novels and published thirty short-story collections along with many chapbooks and comic-book adaptations. His stories have won ten Bram Stoker Awards, a British Fantasy Award, an Edgar Award, a World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, a Sugarprize, a Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, a Spur Award, and a Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and several of his novels have been adapted to film. His Hap and Leonard series features two friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in the fictional town of Laborde, in East Texas, and find themselves solving a variety of often unpleasant crimes. These books have been adapted into a TV series for the Sundance TV channel, and a series of graphic novels began publication in 2017.
LISA MORTON is a screenwriter, nonfiction author, award-winning prose writer, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” Her most recent releases include Ghosts: A Haunted History and the anthology Haunted Nights (co-edited with Ellen Datlow).
CLAIRE ORTALDA’s short fiction has been published in numerous literary journals, earning her the Georgia State University Fiction Prize and national Hackney Award, among other prizes. She has been an associate editor for Narrative Magazine, a founding board member of PEN Oakland, and co-editor of Fightin’ Words. Her recent segue to mystery writing resulted in her first story in that genre, “Crime on Hold,” being published in the anthology Fish Out of Water. Her mystery novel, The Psychopath Companion, was short-listed for the Del Sol Press First Novel Prize 2017.
ANNE PERRY is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Tide Rising and An Echo of Murder, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Murder on the Serpentine and Treachery at Lancaster Gate. She is also the author of a new series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt’s son, Daniel, including Triple Jeopardy and Twenty-one Days, as well as a series of five World War I novels, sixteen holiday novels (most recently A Christmas Revelation), and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles.
ADELE POLOMSKI is a graduate of Rutgers University with a master’s in creative writing. She has published more than twenty mini-mysteries in Woman’s World, along with stories in the anthologies Busted! and Noir at the Salad Bar. “NO 11 SQUATTER” is a tribute to her late mother-in-law, Norma, and to Norma’s “assistant,” Kareen. The women began their relationship as strangers with different needs, cultural dissimilarities, and communication issues. With seemingly nothing in common, they forged a friendship of mutual respect and devotion. Theirs made for an odd partnership that worked beautifully. Adele is the mother of three children, and resides at the Jersey shore.
STEPHEN ROSS has been nominated for an Edgar Award, a Derringer Award, and an International Thriller Writers Award, and was a 2010 Ellery Queen Readers Award finalist. His short stories and novelettes have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, two previous MWA anthologies, and numerous other publications. He has lived in Auckland, London, and Frankfurt; he currently resides on the beautiful Whangaparaoa Peninsula of New Zealand, where his dog Mycroft takes him for afternoon walks.
MARK THIELMAN works as a criminal magistrate in Fort Worth, Texas. Originally from South Dakota, he came south to attend Texas Christian University and the University of Texas School of Law. He and his wife, Betty, are both former prosecutors who live in Fort Worth with their sons and dogs.
CHARLES TODD is the writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd, bestselling authors of the Inspector Ian Rutledge series and the Bess Crawford series, as well as two standalone novels. They also write short stories, including “The Trophy” in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, “The Pretty Little Box” (Otto Penzler), and “The Piper,” a Rutledge mystery published by Harper Witness Impulse. They live on the East Coast, are history buffs, and travel to England as often as they can.
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR’s nationally bestselling first novel, Maisie Dobbs, garnered an array of accolades, including New York Times Notable Book in 2003, a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mystery 2003, and a BookSense Top Ten selection. In addition, the novel was nominated for seven awards, including the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Over the years, her work has won the Agatha, Macavity, Alex, and Sue Feder Awards. Subsequent novels in the series have continued to win awards. Together with The American Agent (2019), Jacqueline has now published fifteen nationally bestselling novels in the Maisie Dobbs series, including ten New York Times bestsellers. Her standalone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times and national bestseller, and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. In 2019, Jacqueline published What Would Maisie Do?, a nonfiction book based upon the Maisie Dobbs series.
AMANDA WITT’s fiction has been called “hottest of all” by Kirkus Reviews and “arresting” by Publishers Weekly. She served as a judge for the 2017 MWA Edgar Awards, holds a Ph.D. in English, has taught writing at various universities across the United States, and is happy to now be settled wi
th her husband back in their home state of Texas. Though mystery is her first love, she also has written four dystopian novels, The Red Series.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
ANNE PERRY is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Tide Rising and An Echo of Murder, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Murder on the Serpentine and Treachery at Lancaster Gate. She is also the author of a new series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt’s son, Daniel, including Triple Jeopardy and Twenty-one Days, as well as a series of five World War I novels, sixteen holiday novels (most recently A Christmas Revelation), and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles.
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