Our fall showcase features 11 Sisters in Crime authors with exciting new work in a range of styles. Hear flash readings and enter to win a free book!
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JoAnn Smith Ainsworth experienced food rationing and black-out sirens as a child. These WWII memories create vivid descriptions of time and place for her award-winning paranormal suspense series wherein the U.S. recruits psychics to hunt down Nazi spies. She has a B.A. and M.A.T. in English, and M.B.A. studies.
Daisy Bateman is a mystery lover, cheese enthusiast, and world-renowned expert in Why You Should Buy That. In what passes for normal life, she works in biotech. She lives in Alameda, California, with her husband, a puppy, and a cat, only one of whom wears a tuxedo on a regular basis.
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 19 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, set in Paris. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime.
Diana Chambers was born with a book in one hand and a passport in the other. An importing business led to Hollywood scriptwriting, until her characters began demanding their own novels. Her latest is The Star of India, published by Penguin Random House India. She is past president of SinC-NorCal.
Janet Dawson writes the 1950s California Zephyr series featuring Zephyrette protagonist Jill McLeod. The fourth book, just published, is Death Above the Line. Janet’s other sleuth is Oakland private eye Jeri Howard, featured in 13 books, most recently The Devil Close Behind.
Heather Haven has won numerous awards for her Silicon Valley-based Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries; Manhattan-based WWII Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries; Ringling Brothers’ Circus docu-mystery, Murder under the Big Top; and Corliss and Other Award-Winning Stories. She and hubby live with their cat, Ellie, in the foothills of San Jose, California.
Reece Hirsch is the author of six thrillers that draw upon his background as a privacy attorney. He has been a finalist for a Thriller Award and a member of the board of directors of the MWA NorCal chapter. His latest is Dark Tomorrow, the second book in a series featuring FBI Special Agent Lisa Tanchik, who investigates cybercrime.
Margaret Lucke writes tales of love, ghosts, and murder—sometimes all three in one book. She is the author of four novels, most recently House of Desire, and the editor of SinC Norcal’s anthology Fault Lines. Margaret teaches fiction writing classes and has published books on writing craft.
Susan McCormick is a cozy mystery writer and doctor who lives in Seattle. She served in the Army for nine years before moving to the Pacific Northwest. She also wrote Granny Can’t Remember Me, a lighthearted picture book about Alzheimer’s disease. She is married with two sons and giant Newfoundland dog, Albert.
Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author, breast cancer survivor, and accidental almost-vegan. The child of anthropologists from New Mexico and South India, she was dragged around the world on their research trips, and now writes mysteries that are a cross between Indiana Jones and Agatha Christie.
Faye Snowden is the author of The Killing series (Flame Tree Press) featuring homicide detective Raven Burns. Her short story, One Bullet. One Vote. was published in July in the anthology Low Down Dirty Vote: Vol. 2. Faye writes from her home in Northern California.
The authors’ books can be purchased from Book Passage.
