Attending Authors

24 Years Celebrating the Traditional Mystery
Guest of Honor
Jan Burke
Message from the Chair
Verena Rose
A Weekend of Mystery
s impossible as it seems, a year has passed
and we are about to start another weekend of
mystery. As April 2012 draws to an end we
are here at the Hyatt Regency to celebrate the 24th
year of Malice Domestic and the traditional mystery.
As in all of the past years the Board is confident that
this year’s convention will live up to all those Malice
Domestic conventions of the past.
It’s impossible to believe otherwise, when you
consider the individuals who will be honored this
weekend. First, there’s Dana Cameron who will be
our Toastmaster and my partner-in-crime throughout the convention. Dana and I are both very
excited about introducing to you our Guest of
Honor, Jan Burke; our Lifetime Achievement
Honoree, Simon Brett, and our Poirot Honoree, Lee
Goldberg. We’ll also be introducing you to Anne
Hillerman who is accepting the Malice Remembers
award in honor of her father, Tony Hillerman. Our
Fan Guest of Honor is Ruth Sickafus who was a
long-time member of the Board of Directors and
someone very special to all of us.
Let me tell you a little about a premier highlight
of this year’s convention — the presentation of the
first ever “Amelia” Award. When the Board decided
that it wanted to create an award to be given to
individuals the Board determined had contributed
to the Malice Domestic community and exemplified
what Malice Domestic represents, we were unanimous in our decision. We were all in agreement that
the first of these awards would be given to Elizabeth
Peters because without her Malice Domestic would
not exist. During that same discussion the Board
also decided that it wanted to name the award after
Elizabeth Peters’ most famous creation, Amelia
Peabody. And so the “Amelia” was born. The Board
and I hope you’ll be at the Banquet this Saturday
evening and join with us in honoring and
applauding Ms. Peters and all that she has meant
to Malice Domestic.
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The Board and I would also like to indulge in
a little self-promotion. As many of you are already
aware, Rita Owen and I are working on a book
entitled Malice Domestic...not everyone’s cup of tea: An
Interesting and Entertaining History of Its First 25 Years.
The book is being published by John Betancourt
and Wildside Press and is scheduled for release at
next year’s 25th Malice Domestic convention. As
a small added bonus, Malice Domestic is offering
a discount on copies that are pre-ordered on your
Malice Domestic 25 Registration Form. We will
have much more information about this wonderful
project in the months to come.
Now it’s time for me to let you get back to
perusing the Program Schedule and checking out
all of the goodies in your Registration Bag. I trust
you’ll find much to catch your fancy. Have a great
convention.
Maliciously yours,
Verena Rose
Chair, Malice Domestic Ltd.
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Table of Contents
Guest of Honor: Jan Burke ............................................3
Toastmaster: Dana Cameron........................................10
Fan Guest of Honor: Ruth Sickafus ............................14
Lifetime Achievement: Simon Brett ............................16
Poirot Award: Lee Goldberg ........................................22
Malice Remembers: Tony Hillerman ..........................26
Amelia Award: Elizabeth Peters ................................30
Agatha Awards ............................................................38
A Brief History of Malice Domestic ............................44
William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic Grants ............46
Our Sponsors ................................................................48
Memories of Malice ......................................................49
General Information ....................................................50
Charity Auction ............................................................52
Convention Schedule ..................................................54
Attending Authors ........................................................66
Expert ............................................................................92
Minotaur Books/Malice DomesticTM Competition ......93
Dealers ..........................................................................94
ILLUSTRATION DEANE NETTLES
Malice Domestic Board of Directors............................96
Pre-Registered Participants ........................................98
Friends of Malice ........................................................101
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©2012 Malice Domestic Ltd. Copyrights of all essays revert to authors. All rights reserved.
Malice Domestic 24 Program Book: Published April 26, 2012.
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Guest of Honor
Jan Burke
“A Normal Person”
By Laura Lippman
n October 1996, lurking at my first-ever
Bouchercon, I saw a woman walking through
the streets of St. Paul. She was clearly deep in
thought and although she looked like someone who
would be kind to a stranger who interrupted her
reverie, I decided not to disturb this
hard-won moment of solitude.
Later, however, I said to my
husband: “You won’t believe this,
but I saw Jan Burke walking
down the street just like a
normal person.”
Sixteen years later, I am one
of the many people lucky enough
to count Jan Burke as a friend,
but I still wouldn’t be surprised
to turn a corner and see her
walking on air, three or four feet
above the terra firma that we
lesser people tread. Jan is that
rarest of combinations, to steal
E.B. White’s formula: a good
friend and a good writer.
But she’s also a good person.
I will get, in a moment, to the
literary accomplishments that
have earned Jan Burke recognition by Malice Domestic this year — the awards,
the body of work, the insistence on pushing beyond
boundaries, internal and external. Yes, the work
alone would have been enough.
To me, however, the thing that makes Jan
remarkable is her insistence on giving back to our
genre and the world beyond.
Our friendship began when we were on the
Mystery Writers of America board, a job where one literally phones it in — the monthly meetings were held
by telephone conference. (One of the highlights was
the inevitable moment when Cappy, Jan’s beloved
dog, would erupt in barks at the postman. No, seriously, that was a highlight. Cappy died in 2010, but
Jan still keeps canine company with Wylie and
Britches, the latter of whom should probably have a
Twitter account dedicated to his bouts of destruction,
only he would inevitably eat his smartphone.)
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Over my head, giddy with pleasure just at being
asked to serve, I tended not to ask a lot of questions
at first. Jan asked questions. Jan did her homework.
Jan didn’t go along to get along. When an issue mattered to her, she dug in her heels and fought. Politely
and respectfully, and with a ruthless knowledge of Robert’s Rules
of Order, but without that horrible girlish tic of needing to be
liked. I learned by Jan’s example
that a volunteer’s job is to try to
leave an organization better and
stronger than when you found it.
And she wasn’t done. When
Jan finished her term on the
MWA board, she started a nonprofit, the Crime Lab Project,
whose mission is to raise public
awareness about the real-life
challenges facing public forensic
science agencies. She would never
call the CLP a one-woman show,
but she is its public face and its
social media liaison.
Oh, and she happens to be
one of our genre’s best writers,
with fourteen books to date —
twelve crime novels, one supernatural thriller and a
book of short stories. Her awards include the Edgar®,
Agatha and the Macavity, and it’s a rare year in
the mystery world that doesn’t see Jan’s work
nominated for multiple awards.
If it sounds as if Jan has more energy than most
people — well, she does. A night owl, she gets by on
enviably small portions of sleep; our emails often
cross in the early-morning hours, when I’m just
getting up on the East Coast and she’s about to go
to bed on the West Coast. Although not a native
Californian, her life and work are rooted there.
Those who have read her books, yet know nothing
of her biography, will not be surprised to learn that
she values family and is haunted by history, on the
micro and macro levels.
It is to Jan’s credit that many people think she
was a reporter; her portrait of Irene Kelly rings so
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true that people assume she must have worked at a
newspaper. In fact, she wrote weekly columns and
contributed interviews to her local paper — but only
after she started publishing fiction.
What I did not realize, until taking this assignment, was that Jan’s interest in missing persons
comes by way of personal history. She wrote to me:
“Two of my cousins were missing for a time, and
even though we knew shortly after they failed to
come home from a hunting trip that they probably
died in a boating accident on a lake, the lake was
frozen and could not be searched until the spring. I
talked to my aunt, their mother, about that wait and
what she went through emotionally during that time.
That made a lasting impression, and as I learned how
much we could do that we don’t do to help find the
missing, such cases mattered even more to me.”
That level of empathy, that awareness of how
grief snakes through our lives — these are the hallmarks of Jan’s work, even when her protagonist
(spoiler alert) turns out to be a seeing-eye dog. (This
particular story, “Unharmed” was inspired by a newspaper article. Jan happens to be a voracious consumer of news, especially the shoe-leather stories
where reporters dig deep in documents to figure out
how things really work.)
She also would be the first person to stop me
here and say: Do you have to make me sound like such a
saint? So, in honor of Jan’s mischievous nature and
fascination with history, I will note that she’s the
kind of friend who knows that the saying “If you
don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me,”
was embroidered on a pillow owned by Alice
Roosevelt Longworth. Also, if you’re looking to sing
a few show tunes and knock back a few drinks, and
not necessarily in that order, you’ll want Jan on
your team.
A few years ago, at an awards ceremony, Jan
came up and slipped something into my hand, saying only it was for good luck. It was a Zulu coin,
meaningless and worthless to many people, but Jan
knew that it would be valued by anyone who loves
Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I keep that coin on my
desk to this day, a reminder of the best luck of all:
counting Jan Burke among my friends. To circle
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back to E.B. White’s famous dictum: “It is not often
that someone comes along who is a good friend and
a good writer: Jan is both.”
(Laura Lippman is the author of 17 novels, 10
in the Baltimore-based Tess Monaghan series. A
New York Times bestseller, she has been awarded the
Agatha, Edgar®, Anthony and several other awards for
her work.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Irene Kelly series
Goodnight, Irene (1993)
Sweet Dreams, Irene (1994)
Dear Irene, (1995)
Remember Me, Irene (1996)
Hocus (1997)
Liar (1998)
Bones (1999)
Bloodlines (2005)
Kidnapped (2006)
Disturbance (2011)
NOVELS
Flight (2001)
Nine (2002)
The Messenger (2009)
SHORT STORIES
“The Imitator,” A Study in Sherlock, ed. Leslie Klinger
and Laurie R. King (2011)
“The Fallen,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (August
2008)
“Zuppa Inglese,” Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto
Penzler (2006)
“Call it Macaroni,” Murder Most Crafty, ed. Maggie
Bruce (2005)
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Eighteen, Collected Stories, limited edition (2002); Mass
market edition (2004)
“Devotion”
“The Mouse”
“Lost and Found,” in Creature Cozies, ed. Jill Morgan
(2005)
“The Abbey Ghosts,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
(January 2001)
“The Haunting of Carrick Hollow,” Crime Through Time
III, ed. Sharan Newman and Miriam Grace
Monfredo (2000)
“The Man in the Civil Suit,” Malice Domestic IX, ed.
Elizabeth Foxwell (2000)
“An Unsuspected Condition of the Heart,”
Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera and Martin
Greenberg (December 1999)
“Miscalculation,” Death Cruise: Crime on the Open Seas,
anthology ed. Lawrence Block and Martin H.
Greenberg (1999)
“A Man of My Stature,” Crime Through Time II,
anthology ed. Sharan Newman and Miriam Grace
Montefredo, with introduction by Lady Antonia
Fraser (1998)
“Two Bits,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (May 1998)
“A Fine Set of Teeth,” Bound and illustrated, signed
special edition; introduction by Michael Connelly ;
audio version including music by Tim Burke (1997),
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (October 1998)
“Mea Culpa,” Malice Domestic VI, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell,
presented by Anne Perry (1997); Audio version
read by Reed Diamond (1999)
“White Trash,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
(October 1996)
“The Muse,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
(February 1995)
“Unharmed,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine(Mid-Dec
1994)
“Revised Endings,” Viva (Dutch language magazine)
(1994); reprinted in Murderous Intent Mystery
Magazine (Winter 1998)
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“Ghost of a Chance,” Red Herring Mystery Magazine
(Summer 1994)
“Why Tonight?” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (MidDec 1993)
“The Loveseat,” Spannen Gebundeld (1993), Dutch
language anthology
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of
America, ed. Sue Grafton, associate ed. Jan Burke
and Barry Zeman (2002)
Contributor, The Sunken Sailor, Malice Domestic serial
novel, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell (2005)
Contributor, In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by
Edgar Allan Poe, with essays, ed. Michael Connelly
and presented by Mystery Writers of America
(2009)
Interviews, essays and other articles by Jan Burke
have appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Mystery
Scene, Mystery News, Forensic Magazine and other
publications
Former weekly columnist, Long Beach Press-Telegram
AWARDS
Macavity Winner, Best Short Story, 1994:
“Unharmed”
Edgar® Winner, Best Novel, 1999: Bones
Agatha Winner, Best Short Story, 2000: “The Man in
the Civil Suit”
Macavity Winner, Best Short Story, 2001: “The Abbey
Ghosts”
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers’ Award Winner:
“Unharmed”
RT Reviewers Choice Award, Best Suspense/Thriller:
The Messenger
RT Reviewers Choice Award, Best Contemporary
Mystery: Bloodlines
RT Reviewers Choice Award, Best Contemporary
Mystery: Bones
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NOMINATIONS
“The Fallen,” Barry Nominee, Best Short Story
Kidnapped, RT Reviewers Choice Award, Best Suspense
Bloodlines, Anthony Nominee, Best Novel; Barry
Nominee, Best Novel
Nine, RT Reviewers Choice Award, Best Suspense;
Macavity Nominee, Best Novel
Flight, Anthony Nominee, Best Novel; Nero Award
Finalist
Bones, Anthony Nominee, Best Novel; Named one of
the best mysteries of the year by Library Journal
(Best Books of the Year 1999)
Liar, Agatha Nominee, Best Novel
Hocus, Agatha Nominee, Best Novel; Macavity
Nominee, Best Novel; Barry Nominee, Best Novel
Goodnight, Irene, Agatha Nominee, Best First Novel;
Anthony Nominee, Best First Novel
Writing Mysteries, Agatha Nominee, Best Nonfiction
Book, 2002
“Devotion,” Agatha Nominee, Best Short Story, 2002
“The Abbey Ghosts,” Edgar® Nominee, Best Short
Story, 2001
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“The Man in the Civil Suit,” Macavity nominee, Best
Short Story
“Mea Culpa,” Audie Award (as part of Malice
Domestic 6 Audio edition)
“Two Bits,” Anthony nominee, Best Short Story
OTHER HONORS
Distinguished Alumna, College of Liberal Arts,
California State University, Long Beach
California Forensic Science Institute Hall of Fame
Guest of Honor, Malice Domestic 2012
Guest of Honor, Left Coast Crime, Los Angeles, 2010
Burbank Public Library, Burbank READS 2010,
Goodnight Irene
Guest of Honor, Mayhem in the Midlands, 2003
Guest of Honor, Deadly Ink, 2002
Romantic Times Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award
for Contemporary Suspense
Nominated for a Gumshoe Award, given by Mystery
Ink each year to recognize the best achievements in
the world of mystery fiction.
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Toastmaster
Dana Cameron
Dana Cameron: Digging Below the Surface
By Toni L. P. Kelner
’ve known Malice Domestic Toastmaster Dana
her husband James. She then edited the heck out of
Cameron for years, and can honestly say that she’s it, with James’s able help. At the same time, she was
one of the best friends I could ever wish to have.
reading mysteries and attending lectures and events
She’s generous, loyal, a great conversationalist and
to learn more about the nuts-and-bolts of crime ficenormously fun to spend time with. She is also, as her tion. (She even showed up at one of my talks, bless
readers and fans know, an
her heart.
amazingly talented writer,
Fortunately, I
and I admire her greatly.
didn’t scare
But here’s the fascinating
her off.) That
thing about being friends
amount of
with Dana — I learn someeffort would
thing new about her every
be enough for
time we get together. There
most aspiring
is so much more to her than
authors, but
you see on the surface.
Dana went
After a very early-morning hot-air
Of course, that’s approeven further.
balloon ride over the Göreme Valley
(in Cappadocia), Turkey (2011)
priate given Dana’s former
She submitted
life as an archeologist. She’s
her manuscript
often told the story of how
to the prestishe was talking to a friend
gious Bread
about some of the incidents
Loaf Writers’
that happen on site. Once
Conference
she was working at a dig in
and was
New England when a pot
accepted — to
hunter with a metal detecgive you a hint
tor showed up, and when
of what that
Outside a Silk Road caravansary in
he was challenged by one of
means, in a
Harran, Turkey (2011)
her colleagues, he actually
recent year,
pulled a gun on them.
only twenty-two percent of applicants got in, and
Fortunately, it all ended without bloodshed,
very few of those were genre writers. Dana was
and the friend said, “You should write a book about
determined to do everything she could to learn her
this stuff!” Dana usually concludes with something
craft, but she’s too modest to say how hard she’s
like, “So I wrote a mystery.” As if any archeologist
worked.
could just put down her trowel and write mystery
Dana’s first foray into urban fantasy shows a siminovels as exciting and layered as the Emma Fielding
lar pattern. When she talks about her first Fangborn
series!
adventure, “The Night Things Changed,” she
This is where you have to dig below the surface
describes how writing the story was a revelation
to find out what really happened between that
because for once, she didn’t need to start with
eureka moment and the publication of Site Unseen. In
research. She could just make it up. As if just any
fact, you have to go back before then, to realize that
writer could come up with a completely fresh take on
Dana had already written a nonfiction volume. But
vampires and werewolves.
there’s a big difference between scholarly work and
Again, you have to dig to find out what else she
mysteries, and Dana tackled this new task with
did. Despite her admission that she didn’t have any
everything she had.
references to consult, she did check out anthropologiShe wrote the first draft in secret, not even telling cal studies on cross-cultural views of vampires and
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Toastmaster
Dana Cameron
werewolves. She also read vast amounts of modern
urban fantasy and paranormal romance to see what
other writers were doing. Only then did she devise
the Fangborn. And of course, she neglects to mention
the fact that an intriguing background was only the
start of what became an award-winning short story.
(“The Night Things Changed” won the Agatha and
the Macavity and was nominated for the Anthony.)
Her approach to writing “Femme Sole,” her first
piece of noir fiction, was just as thorough. She’ll tell
you she went historical for the Anna Hoyt stories
because she already knew the era, but as you could
guess by now, that’s only part of the tale. Dana
doesn’t talk about the extra research she did, or her
efforts to create a character who was true to her time,
or the analysis of what noir means in terms of tone
and world-view, rather than just using the hard-bitten private eye trappings. And again, she needed a
plot and such to go with all that to get her those four
award nominations. (Those would be the Edgar®, the
Agatha, the Anthony and the Macavity.)
Then there’s what Dana does to prepare for
author appearances. If she’s participating on a panel,
she’ll hit the web for information about her fellow
participants, and if she has books by any of them,
skims them to refresh her memory. If she’s moderating a panel, you can be sure she’s done even more
in-depth research: reading at least one book by each
participant, visiting participant’s blogs and web sites,
and writing out her questions well in advance. I cannot imagine how much work she‘s done to make
sure she does a good job as Toastmaster this weekend
and I suspect she’s reread every one of Jan Burke’s
books and as many of Jan’s stories as she could get
her hands on.
Now you might think Dana’s thoroughness only
applies to her writing life, which is, after all, informed
by her training as an academic and a scientist. Except
that if that were true, how would you explain her
approach to Christmas presents for my daughters?
Like many people, she often gives gift cards, which is
great. Kids love gift cards. But here’s the below-the-
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surface part. She didn’t just grab a card at whatever
store she was in. She found out that the girls are big
into art and which art store in the area was the best
so she could make a special trip to get the gift cards.
Then she planned a day so she could take them to
lunch and then to the art store. She even got them
ice cream. It wasn’t just a present — it was an event!
Now that I think about it, you could say that
Dana herself digs below the surface in everything she
does, so I guess it should be no surprise that we have
to dig below the surface to fully appreciate her and
her work.
I hope that you enjoy getting to know Dana this
weekend. I can guarantee that she’ll be charming and
entertaining, but if you have a chance to follow her
example and dig a little, you’re going to see for yourself what a treasure she is.
(Agatha winner Toni L.P. Kelner is the author of the
“Where are They Now?” mysteries, the Laura Fleming
series and the forthcoming Family Skeleton books. She coedits anthologies with Charlaine Harris, including Home
Improvement: Undead Edition. Toni is particularly
proud that she and Charlaine acted as godmothers to
Dana’s Fangborn stories — they published the first story
in their anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Emma Fielding Archaeological Mysteries
Site Unseen (2002)
Grave Consequences (2002)
Past Malice (2003)
A Fugitive Truth (2004)
More Bitter Than Death (2005)
Ashes and Bones (2006), Anthony Award, Best PBO
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SHORT STORIES
“The Lords of Misrule,” Sugarplums and Scandal (2006),
Nominee, Anthony Award
“The Night Things Changed,” Wolfsbane and Mistletoe,
ed. Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner (2008),
Winner, Agatha Award; Winner, Macavity Award;
Nominee, Anthony Award
“Femme Sole,” Boston Noir, ed. Dennis Lehane (2009),
Nominee, Agatha Award; Nominee, Anthony
Award; Nominee, Edgar® Award; Nominee,
Macavity Award
“Swing Shift,” Crimes By Moonlight, ed. Charlaine
Harris (2010), Winner, Anthony Award; Winner,
Macavity Award; Nominee, Agatha Award
“Disarming,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (June
2011)
“Ardent,” Cape Cod Noir, ed. David Ulin (2011)
“Love Knot,” The Wild Side: Urban Fantasy with an Erotic
Edge, ed. Mark Van Name (2011)
“One Soul at a Time,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
(June 2012)
“Mischief in Mesopotamia,” Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine (forthcoming)
ESSAYS
“Lust! Love! The World at Your Feet! Why Libraries
Are the Sexiest Places on Earth,” Mystery Readers
Journal (Bibliomysteries), Volume 21, No. 3 (Fall
2005)
“Blood Shows Up Nicely on Ivory,” Mystery Readers
Journal (Academic Mysteries 101), Volume 22, No. 3
(Fall 2006)
“Marvel University, or What I Learned from Reading
Comics,” CrimeSpree Magazine #24 (May/June 2008)
“Revolution, Starting at $6.95,” Edgar Allan Poe
Awards Dinner Program, Mystery Writers of
America, 2008
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Fan Guest of Honor
Ruth Sickafus
Elegance, Style and Grace
By Joni Langevoort
’ve always found it fun to type a random string
of words into Google and see what comes up.
I’m certain if I typed in “elegance,” “style” and
“grace,” the first entry to pop up
would be “Ruth Fields Sickafus.”
The embodiment of all things
stylish, Ruth is a lifelong lover of
the arts. As a child in Kentucky,
her passions were music (she
began her piano lessons at age 8),
writing (which she thought
would be her career; she is in fact
a published short story author)
and reading, with her particular
favorites being Nancy Drew, the
“Campfire Girls” stories and the
Ruth Fielding books by Alice
Emerson. When Ruth was a
senior in high school, she visited
her sister at college and was introduced to several of her sister’s
friends — one in particular had
kind of a funny name and an
engaging smile. She says of that
meeting, “I remember thinking
that he was big and blonde and
good-looking. Well, it turned out that he wasn’t particularly big, and he wasn’t at all blonde, but I got
one out of three right — he was good-looking”. She
thought it was great that a college-aged guy was
interested in her, but all too soon, Chuck Sickafus
was off to Europe, fighting for his country in WWII.
Ruth enrolled at Morehead State University, studying
English, business and music, and upon graduation
she stayed at Morehead as Assistant to the Dean.
When the war ended, Chuck came home to attend
Morehead himself, and he and Ruth married in 1946
— since then, Ruth has had the same funny name
(“Ziegenfuss” in the original German, the name
means “goat foot”).
Chuck had been the official photographer for the
95th Infantry Division, but his primary passion, like
Ruth’s, was music. He played French horn (and every
other wind instrument) and enjoyed a long and storied career as a music educator, while Ruth’s love of
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music took her in a direction away from performing
(“for which everybody should be grateful,” she says)
and into administration. And what an extensive
career she’s had!
After moving to the
Washington, D.C. area in 1956,
Ruth became Executive Director
of the People-to-People Music
Committee, where she developed
and implemented projects large
and small to assist school music
programs and performing organizations in more than 70 countries,
primarily in the developing world.
Her work earned her a citation
from the State Department “in
recognition of outstanding service
in advancing understanding and
goodwill between the people of
the United States and the peoples
of other countries”. Ruth was on
the staff of the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts at
the time of its opening in 1971,
and it was there she met and
became friends with the celebrated operatic bass-baritone George London, who
was serving as the Kennedy Center’s artistic director.
When George was appointed Executive Director of
the National Opera Institute, Ruth became the
Institute’s first administrator, a position she held for
twelve years. Upon George’s death in 1985, she
helped his widow Nora establish the George London
Foundation to support young opera singers, and has
served for many years as a member of the foundation’s advisory board.
A longtime member of Sigma Alpha Iota, the international music fraternity for women, she has been
awarded its highest honors. She served for four years
as the director of the Washington International
Competition, which awards prizes to young musicians
at the beginning of their careers as performing artists.
Ruth also served for 25 years as a volunteer with
two major international student exchange programs,
Youth for Understanding (YFU) and Future Leaders
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Exchange (FLEX), which brings high school-aged
students from the former Soviet Republics to the U.S.
for an academic year.
And that ties nicely into another of Ruth’s great
loves: travel! She and Chuck (her “bonny travel companion”) journeyed to more than 50 countries on six
continents, lacking only a visit to Antarctica to make
it seven for seven. One of the great joys of her life is
her foster son John, whom she and Chuck sponsored
when he was a young boy in Greece. They visited
John many times in Greece and later in Germany,
and watched him as he grew, married and became a
father and a grandfather. John and his daughter
made the trip from their home in Berlin to be with
Ruth after Chuck’s death in 2010.
Somewhere along the way, Ruth earned a second
degree, in anthropology, which remains an interest of
hers. She has always been an avid reader; from her
early years with Nancy Drew, she moved on to
Agatha Christie and Mary Roberts Rinehart, and then
to Ngaio Marsh, Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr,
Josephine Tey, Craig Rice ... sound familiar to you
Malice attendees?
She began her service on the Malice board as secretary, and has also served as treasurer and archivist
par excellence (she would cry to see the state of
things since she left, so don’t tell her). In fact, there
were more than a few tears from the board when she
moved away from the area!
Ruth is now a resident of Lexington, Kentucky,
where she serves on the Executive Board of the
International Book Project, which provides books to
schools, libraries and non-profit organizations
throughout the developing world, and is a member of
the Board of Directors of the Kentucky chapter of the
National Society of Arts and Letters. She is a strong
supporter of the local opera scene, and is brushing up
on her German with a tutor from the German department at University of Kentucky.
I think if I added “great friend,” “superb administrator,” “musician,” “strong supporter of the Malice
genre,” “world traveler,” “devoted foster mother” and
“excellent writer” to that Google string, the first entry
would still be “Ruth Fields Sickafus.” It is my great
privilege — and indeed the great privilege of the
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Malice board — to present to you Malice 24’s Fan
Guest of Honor, our friend Ruth Sickafus.
(Joni Langevoort serves on the Malice board as Publisher
and Advertising Liaison. She shares Ruth’s love of books,
music, fabulous style and travel, but, unlike Ruth, can’t
speak a word of German beyond, “Can I pay with this
credit card?”)
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Lifetime Achievement
Simon Brett
The Seventeen Faces of Simon
By Peter Lovesey
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Scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, to read history, and (typical of the syndrome) stopped being a
historian, switched to English and was awarded a first
class honors degree. Significantly, too, he joined the
university drama society, and played a variety of roles
with such distinction that in his
final year he became President of
the Oxford University Dramatic
Society (OUDS).
And now we come to the first
of those seventeen mind-boggling
personality changes.
PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN DOYLE
errific idea for Malice Domestic to honor Simon
with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In
truth, the man has recorded enough achievements to fill several lifetimes. A prolific author, he is
heading fast for his hundredth book. These, as you
know, are quality books. And he
writes plays, verse, non-fiction,
humor, parodies and short stories.
Yet he never appears to show the
strain. Meet Simon and he is laidback, affable, wonderful company,
with a permanent smile. He’s
never in a hurry to rush back to
his laptop and write another
Fethering mystery or the latest in
his new Blotto and Twinks series.
How is this possible? The
truth had to come out some time
and I’d better reveal it. Do you
remember that old movie The
Seven Faces of Eve, about a woman
with multiple personalities? No,
Simon didn’t write it. He’s the
living, breathing sequel, The
Seventeen Faces of Simon. There may
be more identities I’m unaware
of, but seventeen is enough to be
going on with, making him a fascinating case study,
unique in the annals of psychology.
Fortunately multiple personality syndrome is a
rare condition. And happily, in the case of Simon, it
hasn’t yet made him dangerous to be with. He could
so easily have become Dr. Jekyll and the Seven Mr.
Hydes. The personas he inhabits are without exception harmless.
The onset of Simon’s condition has been traced
to his teens, although it wasn’t obvious at the time.
After a conventional suburban upbringing, he won
a scholarship to Dulwich College and began to show
an interest in drama. No problem there. Many children want to act in the school play. It’s only with
hindsight that we raise an eyebrow over his brilliant
success as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A brilliant scholar, Simon won a Major
Father Christmas. For a period of
seven weeks in 1967, Simon
metamorphosed into Santa Claus
in a department store in Sutton.
In red coat with hood, white
beard and “Ho, ho ho,” he became
Santa. “Only 22 and master of
my own grotto!” he recalled later
on his website.
From then on, for the next
forty years, he underwent a
bewildering series of changes that
can be summarised as follows:
Radio Producer. Disguised with a beard (but not
Santa’s) to make him appear older than he was, he
infiltrated the BBC and produced a number of radio
shows so successful that some of them are still running forty years on, though without Simon still at the
helm. They included Just a Minute and I’m Sorry, I
Haven’t a Clue, shows with a strong emphasis on
impersonation and improvisation.
Cosmologist. Still at the BBC, he launched himself into
space with the pilot episode of a drama series called
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Scripted by
Douglas Adams, it was the most innovative radio program of its time, and still enjoys a cult status.
Dorothy L. Sayers Expert. Another of his radio successes
was a series called Lord Peter Wimsey, based on the
Sayers oeuvre and starring Ian Carmichael. And here
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we get a glimpse of how Simon’s chameleon process
functions. To quote him, “Working with actors gave
me the idea of creating an actor detective.”
Crime Novelist. The first Charles Paris novel, featuring
a jobbing actor with a fondness for the bottle and an
eye for a hidden clue, appeared in 1975. The title
was not only extremely clever — Cast in Order of
Disappearance — but has a resonance to my theme
because by this time Simon was shedding personalities as if they were old coats. What a good thing
the crime writer coat is the one he has never
thrown away.
Husband, Father and Grandfather. During his BBC Radio
career, Simon met a studio manager called Lucy and
married her in 1971. It may be noted in passing that
Simon shaved off his beard for the wedding, but kept
a moustache “that made me look like an unctuous
Italian waiter trying to force Parmesan on one of his
diners.” Not only is Lucy beautiful, charming and
successful in her own right as Head of Development
of the Chichester Festival Theatre, but she clearly has
the devotion of a guardian angel, having tolerated
the seventeen Simons and stayed married to them all
for forty years. They have three grown-up and not at
all confused children, Sophie, Alastair and Jack. And
two grandchildren, Jake and Isla.
Are you counting? We’ve already reached personality number nine:
Child Care Adviser. And this isn’t merely a Dad taking
his share of parenting. It’s a shelfload of books, my
dears: Baby Tips for Dads, Baby Tips for Mums, Baby Tips
for Grandparents, The Child-Owner’s Handbook and, to
get the full perspective, How To Be A Little Sod, which
became a bestseller and was adapted for television,
starring Rik Mayall.
TV Producer. From radio, it was an easy move to
London Weekend Television, but it required a new
image. “Surrounded by pushy whizz-kids, I shaved
off the beard to look younger.” He produced several
series, but “I found the television process painfully
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slow”. He spent much of the time with a calculator
plotting his next and scary incarnation in 1979.
Freelance Writer. Faced with earning a living by his
own wits, Simon began a prolific period when the
multiple personalities (including a few I haven’t mentioned) came to his aid. Books of all kinds, mystery,
comedy, anthologies, spin-offs and take-offs,
appeared at the rate of four or five a year. Charles
Paris was his steady and unsteady detective through
these years. Simon’s expert knowledge of the acting
profession gives substance to the character, the puzzle
and the fun. In 1988 he began a new series featuring
Mrs. Pargeter, a crime-solving widow with a shadowy
past. And for the twenty-first century, with The Body
on the Beach, he started the Fethering mysteries set
not a million miles from where he lives, at the foot of
the South Downs. Then, with scarcely a pause for
breath, he launched the sleuthing siblings Blotto and
Twinks. The latest, Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager
Duchess, is hot from the press.
Movie Man. Michael Caine has Simon to thank for A
Shock to the System, the 1984 book that the movie of
the same title was based on. Over the years other distinguished actors, like Prunella Scales, Bill Nighy and
Rik Mayall, have all accepted roles created by our
multi-talented author.
Playwright. As if writing books were not enough,
Simon is a prolific dramatist. His stage thrillers,
Murder in Play and Silhouette, are regularly performed
by companies who value a well-wrought plot. He has
written five pantomimes — the uniquely British
Christmas entertainment built around a children’s
story. Each year he scripts a new play for his local literary festival at Arundel. For radio, he wrote the runaway success After Henry, starring Prunella Scales. It
later transferred to television.
Are you thinking this is all too much? A strain to
read about? Hold on.
Poet. You probably know that the late H R F Keating,
a previous recipient of the Lifetime Achievement
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Simon Brett
Award, once wrote an entire crime novel in verse. I
have to tell you that Simon, in moments of creativity
only he can aspire to, has written two novellas in
verse, A Crime in Rhyme and Lines of Enquiry. And
when invited to contribute to an anthology honoring
Harry Keating, he came up with a third, Initial Impact.
Chairperson. Naturally enough, his colleagues in the
writing world look to a distinguished man of letters
to represent them. Step forward Simon — Chairman
of the Crime Writers’ Association, the Society of
Authors and the Public Lending Right Advisory
Committee. And on dark November nights in
secret venues he dons an enormous scarlet cloak as
President of the Detection Club and enacts a not-toosecret ritual to initiate new members. Chesterton,
Sayers and Christie all wore the cloak before him and
it may be the candlelight or the malign influence of
Eric the Skull, but there are moments when Simon
appears the embodiment of each of his predecessors
— but that would make three extra personas, so I’d
better not push it too far.
Parodist. As editor of the Faber Book of Parodies
(“When lovely woman stoops to folly, The evening
can be awfully jolly”) it was inevitable that Simon
himself should transmute into a parodist. His
Wastepaper Basket Archive contained the discarded
writings of the famous, including King Arthur’s
attempt to do a seating plan with a Square Table; a
crumpled sheet from Samuel Beckett (“Act One,
Scene One: Enter Godot”); and Agatha Christie’s Last
Will & Testament (it’s too long to quote, but ask him:
it’s a classic).
Country Gentleman. He lives in a Sussex village straight
out of Agatha Christie in an eighteenth-century
house once owned by the poet and novelist John
Cowper Powys. For recreation he visits a nearby
stately home at Petworth and plays Real Tennis, an
arcane sport once said to have been played by King
Henry V and certainly played by Henry VIII at
Hampton Court. And he has three cats, Geoffrey,
Castor and Pollux.
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Oh dear. That’s seventeen faces of Simon and I’ve
hardly scratched the surface. There is the crossword
solver; the son-et-lumière man who lights up cathedrals; the compiler of the Hypochondriac’s Directory of
Ill Health; the Faber Book of Diaries; and the promoter
of the new-wave Scandinavian crime writer, Turgid
Glümsdottir. Even as I write these words, more faces
of Simon may be manifesting themselves. All I can
suggest is that instead of presenting one teapot as
this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, you order
a batch of thirty.
(Peter Lovesey first came to Malice Domestic in 1992. He
was Guest of Honor in 1996 and was given the Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2008. But his lifetime continues and
his 2012 Peter Diamond mystery is Cop to Corpse.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Charles Paris Series
Cast, In Order of Disappearance (1975)
So Much Blood (1976)
Star Trap (1977)
An Amateur Corpse (1978)
A Comedian Dies (1979)
The Dead Side of the Mike (1980)
Situation Tragedy (1981)
Murder Unprompted (1982)
Murder in the Title (1983)
Not Dead, Only Resting (1984)
Dead Giveaway (1985)
What Bloody Man Is That? (1987)
A Series of Murder (1989)
Corporate Bodies (1991)
A Reconstructed Corpse (1993)
Sicken and So Die (1995)
Dead Room Farce (1997)
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Mrs. Pargeter Series
A Nice Class of Corpse (1986)
Mrs., Presumed Dead (1988)
Mrs. Pargeter’s Package (1990)
Mrs. Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh (1992)
Mrs. Pargeter’s Plot (1996)
Mrs Pargeter’s Point of Honour (1998)
Feathering Series
The Body on the Beach (2000)
Death on the Downs (2001)
The Torso in the Town (2002)
Murder in the Museum (2003)
The Hanging in the Hotel (2004)
The Witness at the Wedding (2005)
The Stabbing in the Stables (2006)
Death Under the Dryer (2007)
Blood at the Bookies (2008)
The Poisoning at the Pub (2009)
The Shooting in the Shop (2010)
Bones Under the Beach Hut (2011)
Guns in the Gallery (2011)
Blotto and Twinks Series
Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King’s Daughter (2009)
Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess (2010)
Blotto, Twinks and the Rodents of the Riviera (2011)
NOVELS, NONFICTION, VERSE
Frank Muir Goes Into... (1978)
The Second Frank Muir Goes Into... (1979)
The Third Frank Muir Goes Into... (1980)
Frank Muir On Children (1980)
The Fourth Frank Muir Goes Into... (1981)
The Child-Owner’s Handbook (1983)
Molesworth Rites Again (1983)
Take a Spare Truss (1983)
A Shock to the System (1984)
Bad Form (1984)
Dead Romantic (1985)
People-Spotting (1985)
The Three Detectives and the Missing Superstar (1986)
The Wastepaper Basket Archive (1986)
How to Stay Topp (1987)
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After Henry (1987)
The Three Detectives and The Knight In Armor (1987)
The Booker Book (1989)
The Christmas Crimes at Puzzel Manor (1991)
How To Be A Little Sod (1992)
Murder in Play (1994)
Look Who’s Walking (1994)
The Hypochondriac’s Dictionary of Ill Health (1994), with
Dr. Sarah Brewer
Singled Out (1995)
Mr. Quigley’s Revenge (1995)
Not Another Little Sod! (1997)
The Tale of Little Red Riding Hood (1998)
Silhouette (1998)
Sleeping Beauty (1999)
A Crime in Rhyme, and Other Mysterious Fragments (2000)
Lines of Enquiry, and Other Literary Oddities (2002)
Putting the Kettle On (2002)
A Bad Dream (2004)
Baby Tips for Dad (2005)
Baby Tips for Mums (2005)
Baby Tips for Grandparents (2006)
The Penultimate Chance Saloon (2006)
On Second Thoughts... (2006)
A Small Family Murder (2008)
ANTHOLOGIES
The Faber Book of Useful Verse (1981)
Frank Muir Presents The Book Of Comedy Sketches (1982)
The Faber Book Of Parodies (1984)
The Faber Book of Diaries (1987)
The Detection Collection (2005)
SHORT STORIES
A Box of Tricks (1985)
Crime Writers and Other Animals (1997)
PLAYS AND TELEPLAYS
After Henry (TV series)
A Healthy Grave (2010)
A Story Set in Stone (son-et- lumière, Chichester Cathedral)
The Inner Soprano (2010)
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Poirot Award
Lee Goldberg
Rack Up the Body Count
By Tod Goldberg
’ve followed Lee Goldberg’s career with a fair
amount of enthusiasm since the winter of 1971.
This probably sounds a touch obsessive, particularly since Lee’s first book didn’t come out until
1985 (.357 Vigilante in case you missed it, which
many, many people did, since it
was written under the pseudonym Ian Ludlow), and in light of
the fact that in the winter of 1971
I was a newborn. But, you see,
that’s the advantage I have of
being his brother: I’ve been hearing his stories for a very long
time; some, over and over and
over again.
What I’ve taken particular
note of over these many years is
that I don’t want to make Lee
angry, since he knows every conceivable way to kill a man. By my
(conservative) count, over the
course of just the last 25 years,
my brother has murdered 750
people. You write 50 crime novels, produce a couple thousand
hours of network television and
then found an entirely new series
of horror novels called The Dead
Man, all of which contain multiple murders, well,
you’re gonna rack up a body count. And let’s not
forget that Lee also wrote a few episodes of The New
Adventures of Flipper, which means only he knows
how many herring died in order for his scripts (and
his aquatic actor) to reach the screen.
Even before he was killing people professionally,
Lee was writing compelling crime fiction from the
comfort of his childhood bedroom. What I remember
most about growing up down the hall from my older
brother was that it was very hard to get much sleep
on the weekends. Unlike most teenagers who would
be blaring music and having wild sex, Lee spent his
weekend nights typing. His pseudonym then, for
reasons I’ve either forgotten or blacked out, was Lee
Bodine. Mr. Bodine’s most compelling work, as I
recall, concerned an underwater sperm bank that was
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under attack by...something. I’m not sure what that
something was anymore, nor how deposits were
made at the underwater sperm bank, nor why someone thought that the world needed an underwater
sperm bank (my recollection was that the sperm bank
also doubled as some kind of
paramilitary base, good training
for Lee’s work on SeaQuest many
years later), nor why anyone
would need to attack the sperm
bank, but I do recall Lee being
very adamant about all of it being
very important and believable,
even if no one else did.
Fortunately, Lee’s work has
grown in sophistication over the
years, in the process forging what
can only be considered a wildly
successful career. His words have
consistently appeared on TV
screens for parts of the last four
decades — the 80s, 90s, 00s and
the 10s — starting with Spenser:
For Hire in 1987, when, at 25, a
spec script he wrote with his
longtime writing partner William
Rabkin ended up getting picked
up by the show and shot, which
is roughly equivalent to Ford finding a scrap of paper
featuring a child’s drawing of a car and deciding,
what the hell, let’s call it a Mustang and mass produce it! Subsequently, Lee went on to write and produce for such shows as Hunter, Nero Wolfe, SeaQuest,
1-800-Missing, Diagnosis Murder, The Cosby Mysteries,
Martial Law, Monk, Psych, The Glades and countless
others. (He’d be upset if anyone mentioned his fine
work on Baywatch, so, please, no one bring it up
to him.)
Of course, he also managed to write all those
novels I mentioned earlier, including an astounding
14 (and counting) novels featuring the iconic (and
madly idiosyncratic) detective Adrian Monk, another
eight featuring Dr. Mark Sloan from Diagnosis Murder,
and several standalone titles. And then there’s the
nonfiction — books on unsold television pilots, an
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immensely popular textbook on writing for television, another on media tie-in novels — and, well, all
the other stuff: the films he has in development, The
Dead Man series, his championing of the ebook industry, his journalism, his work with the Mystery Writers
of America. In short, I’m not entirely convinced Lee
has ever slept more than four hours in a single night.
Perhaps the one thing most people don’t know
about Lee Goldberg is this: he is one of the most giving, caring and loyal people you could ever hope to
know. His public persona may seem a touch on the
cranky side — see the above note regarding his lack
of sleep — but the truth is that he’s helped hundreds
of writers get started in both TV and print, has stood
up for the rights of writers in every format and is one
of the most vocal opponents of those who would take
advantage of unsuspecting writers. His passion has
always been for mysteries and that shows itself in his
prodigious creative output, but the real measure of
my brother is how many people he’s lifted up and
given an opportunity to over the years. He learned at
the foot of a master in this regard — one of his earliest mentors, Stephen J. Cannell — and that trait is far
more notable than any other. And, clearly, worthy of
an award.
When I told my brother that I, too, wanted to be
an author, he gave me two very salient pieces of
advice. He told me not to be an author, that instead I
should learn how to be a writer, so that way I’d have
several different ways of telling a story, be it fiction,
nonfiction or a screenplay. That sounded smart, so I
decided I’d do that, too. He then told me that I
needed to create my own luck. And that the only
way to do that was to work incredibly hard, be persistent in the face of rejection and be a professional.
That seemed like good advice, too, so I’ve done that
as well. Funny thing? He was right. One thing he
didn’t mention, however, was that if you wanted to
be really successful, it helped to have a seemingly
bottomless well of ideas (other than that underwater
sperm bank, of course). Problem is, the only person
I’ve ever met who actually seemed to have the location of that well was my brother Lee and that was
the one thing he hasn’t shared, so I’ve just kept looking, along with the rest of the world.
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The best way to honor a writer, I believe, other
than with huge satchels of cash, is with their own
words. And so, in honor of Lee’s Poirot Award, I offer
back to him these words of his, from his book
Successful Television Writing: “Most kids grow up watching TV. We grew up wanting to live it...We were just
kids, but even then we knew wouldn’t end up being
spies like Napoleon Solo on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,
super cyborg heroes like The Six Million Dollar Man, or
even debonair thieves like The Saint. But there was
one TV character we knew we could be.... His name
was Rob Petrie.” So, someone, please, make sure
there’s not an ottoman on the way to the stage when
my brother picks up his award, because lo and
behold, he ended up Rob Petrie after all.
(Tod Goldberg is the author of eleven books, including the
novels Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize, Fake Liar Cheat and the popular
Burn Notice series, as well as two award-winning collections of short stories, Simplify and Other Resort Cities.
He directs the MFA program in Creative Writing & Writing
for the Performing Arts at the University of California,
Riverside, and can confirm that his brother Lee has snored
for his entire life, despite protests to the contrary.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Diagnosis Murder Series
The Silent Partner (2003)
The Death Merchant (2004)
The Shooting Script (2004)
The Waking Nightmare (2005)
The Past Tense (2005)
The Dead Letter (2006)
The Double Life (2006)
The Last Word (2007)
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Monk Series
Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse (2006)
Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii (2006)
Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu (2007)
Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants (2007)
Mr. Monk in Outer Space (2007)
Mr. Monk Goes to Germany (2008)
Mr. Monk is Miserable (2008)
Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop (2009)
Mr. Monk in Trouble (2009), Excerpt: “The Case of the
Piss-Poor Gold,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
(November 2009)
Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out (2010)
Mr. Monk On The Road (2011), Excerpt: “Mr. Monk and
the Seventeen Steps,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
(December 2010)
Mr. Monk on the Couch (2011)
Mr. Monk on Patrol (2012)
Charlie Willis Series
My Gun Has Bullets (1995), Reprinted (2003), Kindle
Edition (2009)
Beyond the Beyond (1997), Kindle edition (2009)
(retitled Dead Space)
NONFICTION
Unsold TV Pilots (1992)
Unsold Television Pilots 1955-1989 (1990)
Television Series Revivals (1993), retitled Television Fast
Forward in the 2010 ebook edition
Science Fiction Film-Making in the 1980s (1994), cowritten with William Rabkin, Randy & Jean-Marc
Lofficier
Dreamweavers: Fantasy Film-Making in the 1980s (1994),
co-written with William Rabkin, Randy & JeanMarc Lofficier
Successful Television Writing (2003), co-written with
William Rabkin
Tied In: The Business, Craft, and History of Media Tie-In
Writing (2010), editor
STANDALONES
The Walk (2004), Kindle Edition 2009
The Man with the Iron-On Badge (2005), Kindle Edition
2010
Top Suspense: 13 Stories by 12 Masters of the Genre (2011),
contributor
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads (2010), contributor
Hollywood & Crime (2008), contributor
The Dead Man Series
Face of Evil, with William Rabkin (2011)
Ring of Knives, with William Rabkin and James Daniels
(2011)
Hell in Heaven, with William Rabkin (2011)
The Dead Woman, with William Rabkin and David
McAfee (2011)
The Blood Mesa, with William Rabkin and James
Reasoner (2011)
The Jury Series
.357 Vigilante (1985), Kindle Edition 2010 (retitled
Judgment)
.357 Vigilante: Make Them Pay (1985), Kindle Edition
2010 (retitled Adjourned)
.357 Vigilante: White Wash (1985), Kindle Edition 2010
(retitled Payback)
.357 Vigilante: Killstorm, unpublished, released in a
Kindle Edition 2010 (retitled Guilty)
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Malice Remembers
Tony Hillerman
A Natural Storyteller
By Carolyn Marino
f you ever met Tony Hillerman, you know that he
was down-to-earth, funny, modest, generous,
wise and a consummate gentleman. If you read
his work, you know that he was an extraordinary
writer, a man of deep understanding and, as his
daughter Anne says, “a natural
storyteller.” He was unique. And
he had a remarkable life.
Tony Hillerman was born in
1925 in tiny Sacred Heart,
Oklahoma. On growing up in the
Dust Bowl, Tony said, “The Joads
were the ones who had enough
money to move to California.” He
served as a combat infantryman in
World War II and came home
with the Silver Star, the Bronze
Star and the Purple Heart. He was
a hero. Years afterward, one of
Tony’s great pleasures was attending the reunions with his former
Army colleagues.
After graduating from the
University of Oklahoma in 1948,
Tony worked as a newspaper
reporter and editor, and then,
with a MA degree from the
University of New Mexico, he went on to teach there,
where he was a beloved mentor and a convivial
poker player. Along the way, he and his lovely wife
Marie raised six children, five of them adopted.
With all his accomplishments and distinguished
career as a journalist and a university professor, Tony
had another ambition — to try his hand at writing fiction. When he first decided to get serious about it, he
visited the University of Georgia and read the unedited
manuscripts of John Steinbeck. Steinbeck apparently
crossed out a lot of what he’d written, and Tony
observed, “You could really see the craftsmanship in
his work.” He added, “You’d like to think the muse is
with you, you’re a genius, and it’s just flowing out —
but, hell, you’re just a carpenter, putting it together.”
As with many aspiring novelists, the path to publication was a bit rocky. Tony sent the manuscript of
what became The Blessing Way, his first novel, to his
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then-agent, who didn’t want him to write fiction to
begin with. He waited three weeks and then called
her to ask if she could sell it. She said no. Why? She
said it was neither a mainstream novel nor a mystery.
Tony wanted to rewrite it and asked if she had any
advice. She suggested he “get
rid of all that Indian stuff.”
Fortunately, Tony didn’t listen.
Harper & Row (now
HarperCollins) published The
Blessing Way in 1970 when Tony
was 45 years old. He went on to
write more than 30 books —
novels, most of which featured
Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe
Leaphorn and Jim Chee; children’s books; nonfiction, including his autobiography Seldom
Disappointed, which won an
Agatha Award in 2001; and he
edited several fine collections and
anthologies. His books have been
published in more than thirty
languages, and he’s won every
major mystery award, in addition
to being named Grand Master by
the Mystery Writers of America
in 1991. In recognition beyond the mystery field,
there are many more awards, among them the
Navajo Tribes Special Friend Award and the Public
Service Award from the U.S. Department of
the Interior.
I had the privilege of being Tony’s editor at
HarperCollins Publishers, and he was a delight to
work with. Every so often my phone would ring, and
a voice would come down the line saying “This is
Hillerman.” (That’s how Tony always identified himself — a holdover from his days as a newspaper
reporter, I believe.) He would describe the plot of the
story he had in mind and we’d talk about it. Tony
didn’t outline. He would do his research, think
through the story and then put it down on paper.
In 2005 HarperCollins celebrated Tony’s 35 years
with the company. We issued special editions of his
novels, featuring tributes from some of his fellow
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writers. “He just flat out knows how to tell a story
and he does it with such grace that you can’t imagine
the hard work that must go into every scene.” That’s
what Sue Grafton wrote. Harlan Coben said, “He
writes about remote, wide-open spaces and makes
them feel as close as your heart. He takes the specific
and finds the universal.” And from Michael Connelly:
“By any definition Tony Hillerman is an American
original....You hear the wind when you read his stories. You fly with the spirits into the night sky. To me
his work is a beautiful treasure.”
In his own, respectful way, Tony gave voice to a
neglected part of our heritage. And he always did it
in the context of a great read. It is impossible to
imagine a literary landscape without Tony Hillerman.
(Carolyn Marino is Senior Vice President and Executive
Editor at HarperCollins Publishers.)
Three-in-one Volumes
The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries: Three Classic Hillerman
Mysteries Featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn: The Blessing Way,
Dance Hall of the Dead, Listening Woman (1989)
The Jim Chee Mysteries: Three Classic Hillerman Mysteries
Featuring Officer Jim Chee: People of Darkness, The Dark
Wind, The Ghostway (1990)
Tony Hillerman: Three Jim Chee Mysteries: People of
Darkness, The Dark Wind, The Ghostway (1993)
Leaphorn & Chee: Three Classic Mysteries Featuring Lt. Joe
Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee: Skinwalkers, A Thief of
Time, Talking God (1992)
Leaphorn & Chee: Three Classic Mysteries Featuring Lt. Joe
Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee: Skinwalkers, A Thief of
Time, Talking God (2001)
Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn & Chee Novels: Skinwalkers,
A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits (2005)
Tony Hillerman: Leaphorn, Chee and More: The Fallen
Man, The First Eagle, Hunting Badger (2005)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Leaphorn and Chee Series
The Blessing Way (1970)
Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)
Listening Woman (1978)
People Of Darkness (1980)
The Dark Wind (1982)
The Ghostway (1984)
Skinwalkers (1986)
A Thief of Time (1988)
Talking God (1989)
Coyote Waits (1990)
Sacred Clowns (1993)
The Fallen Man (1996)
The First Eagle (1998)
Hunting Badger (1999)
The Wailing Wind (2002)
The Sinister Pig (2003)
Skeleton Man (2004)
The Shape Shifter (2006)
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OTHER NOVELS
The Fly on the Wall (1971)
Finding Moon (1995)
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (for children) (1972)
Buster Mesquite’s Cowboy Band (for children) (1973)
MEMOIRS, NON-FICTION, ANTHOLOGIES
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir (2001)
The Great Taos Bank Robbery (1973)
The Spell of New Mexico (1976)
Indian Country (1987)
Talking Mysteries (1991), with Ernie Bulow
The Tony Hillerman Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to
His Life and Work by Hillerman, Martin Greenberg
(1994)
The Oxford book of American Detective Stories (1996)
Canyon De Chelly (1998)
Best American Mysteries of the Century (2000)
Best of the Western: Anthology of Classic Writing from the
America West (1991)
New Omnibus of Crime (2005)
The Mysterious West (1995)
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ABOUT TONY HILLERMAN, NONFICTION,
BY OTHERS
Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with Chee and
Leaphorn, by Anne Hillerman with photos by Don
Strel (2009)
Tony Hillerman’s Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts and
Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries, by
Laurance D. Linford, Tony Hillerman (2001);
Expanded Third Edition (2011)
Tony Hillerman’s Indian Country Map & Guide, first
edition, by Time Traveler Maps, by Tony Hillerman
(1998)
Tony Hillerman’s Indian Country Map & Guide, second
edition, by Time Traveler Maps, by Tony Hillerman
(2003)
The Ethnic Detective, by Peter Freese, including a
detailed analysis of Listening Woman
Tony Hillerman: A Critical Companion, Critical
Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
series, by John M. Reilly (1996)
BOOKS OF PHOTOS
Kilroy Was There (2004)
Hillerman Country (1991)
Indian Country: America’s Sacred Land, by Bela Kalman
(text by Hillerman) (1987)
Rio Grande, by Robert Reynolds (text by Hillerman)
(1975)
New Mexico, photography by David Muench (text by
Hillerman) (1975)
FILMOGRAPHY
The Dark Wind (1991)
Skinwalkers (2002)
Coyote Waits (2003)
A Thief of Time (2004)
Skinning the Night: American Mystery (DVD)
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Elizabeth Peters
The Life and Loves of a She-Writer
By An Anonymous Source of Impeccable Virtue
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so that she could graduate, get married and have
children. “Go forth and multiply,” ordered the Dean.
Barbara met his gaze with blazing eyes and retorted,
“No, I want to dig in sandboxes!” Without a second’s
hesitation, she abandoned a potential career as an
elementary teacher/wifey, took sanctuary in the
Oriental Institution at the university and emerged at the tender
age of twenty-three with a PhD in
Egyptology. Alas, a speed bump
popped up. In the post-WWII
era, a woman with a degree in
Egyptology was less likely to find
a job than a talking gecko. Her
head held high, her upper lip stiff,
Barbara married. No additional
information can be provided,
since her husband was a covert
agent of a U.S. intelligence
bureau, and he’d have to kill us
if I told you.
During the course of the
marriage, Barbara lived in
Germany and in Rome. Unable
to find gainful activity, she
became increasingly driven to
write. (This is a common malady
of young readers; having
ingested an overabundance of letters and words,
they must expel them somehow.) Her first two nonfiction books were published and well-received:
Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs and Two Thousand
Years in Rome. Giddy with success, Barbara flagged
down the Gothic Express, climbed aboard and raced
into countryside rife with shivering mansions, will
o’ the wisps and things that go harrumph in the
night. Ammie Come Home has become a classic in its
genre and a movie adaptation starred Barbara
Stanwyck and Richard Egan.
Back in the U.S., Barbara settled down with two
children, their names cleverly based on her penname
‘Elizabeth Peters’, and began to write left and right,
day and night, upstairs, downstairs and in her chambers. We are talking prolific. She has demurely dismissed such a callous word, citing such motivation as
PHOTO BY SHMULIK ALMANY
aveat lector, gentle readers. The following should
be taken cum grano salis, since the anonymous
source often lapses into delectatio morose, best
defined as peevish delight. We have come to praise
Barbara Mertz (Elizabeth Peters), not to bury her
beneath a heap of snips and snipes. Our goal is
admirable. Let us keep that in mind.
Barbara Mertz was born some
time ago and abandoned in a carpet bag in a bus station in Illinois.
In that she had not a tuppence to
her name, she was taken by
errant gypsies to her rightful parents in a small town that had but
one sidewalk and vague potholes
in the unpaved street. Since this
so-called town of minimal import
had no library to nurture her
growing mind, her parents grudgingly tossed scraps of print and
scurrilous novels into her crib to
appease her. Soon she had mastered the fine print on airline tickets, the nutritional guidelines on
cereal boxes, Zen and the art of
motorcycle maintenance. Thus
prepared with limited wit and
wisdom, young Barbara was
deported to Chicago, that toddlin’ town where Leroy
Brown wrestled with junkyard dogs and baby bears
wore colorless footwear.
None of this interrupted young Barbara’s reckless
determination to read everything that had ever been
written or would ever be written in the future.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Bronte, Alcott,
Gibbon, Prachett, Tolstoy, et al were mere speed
bumps in her impetuous drive to master the literary
arts. It is possible, if not probable, that she may not
have been able to pass a pop quiz on the Karamazov
boys or Freud’s “Sexuality in The Aetiology of The
Neuroses,” but her treasured collection of “King Tut,
Super Pharaoh” comic books gave her an overinflated sense of her own power.
The University of Chicago welcomed Barbara
with a scholarship and a promise to educate her well
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rent, groceries and the cost of kiddie shoes. As of the
last time I counted, she has written twenty-nine
novels as Barbara Michaels and thirty-seven novels as
Elizabeth Peters. She has used her academic knowledge to write the brilliant Amelia Peabody series, as
well as the less fanciful but equally charming Vicky
Bliss novels. She has written an entirety of one short
story that gave her immense personal satisfaction.
Life is good.
Now arrives the time when I, the anonymous
source of impeccable virtue, am supposed to rave
about Barbara’s flair, her capacity to capture characters and settings with astounding depth, her mastery
of word and phrase, her undeniable talent and, most
importantly, her ability to sweep her readers into an
alternative reality that is invigorating, complex,
intriguing and always credible. Or I suppose I could
carry on about her as an individual and the paragon
of grace and charm (in public, anyway). Barbara has
won the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by
Malice Domestic, and is a Grandmaster of MWA. She
has been honored with the Alumna Award from the
University of Chicago and the Audiofile Award (with
Barbara Rosenblat, reader). She was involved with
the founding of the American Crime Writers League,
as well as Malice Domestic. The Arkansas Mystery
Writers’ Alliance has named her Super Hot Pooh Bah
of Comedic Mystery Fiction, a highly coveted award
given once a millennium.
Enough of the sugar-coating, I say. What about
Barbara Mertz in her own writ? Her major flaw is her
generosity of spirit, carefully hidden underneath her
clever wit. If any of her friends was to confide in her
with a problem, Barbara would squander no time
with further details and find the best solution. When
a friend cries, Barbara has a tissue. When a friend
hurts, Barbara offers solace. She is the epitome of
grace under fire, unless you annoy her beyond her
boundary of tolerance. Imagine the descent of the
Valkyries, and picture Barbara leading the formation.
If you mess with her friends, you will not sleep well.
Grudges rival the Suez Canal in depth and significance. Walk softly and carry a big, pointed stick, for
Barbara is armed with a potentially lethal parasol.
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This is not to imply that Barbara is menacing.
I have never met anyone with such a delightfully
twisted, keen-edged sense of humor. She and
Charlotte MacLeod sharpened their hatpins and
skulked in the shadows. She and Alexandra Ripley
raged freely at antique jewelry shops and antiques
auctions. She engaged in what became a five year
fracas best known as “Sheep Wars” with a colleague;
although Pax Ovinicas was proffered, Barbara and
her evil assistant continue to harass this hapless
participant whose name eludes me. She allowed
herself to be dragged into the Whimsey Foundation,
and was a founding member of GroucherCon.
Now Barbara Mertz, Barbara Michaels and
Elizabeth Peters live quietly in ménage à trois in an
18th century farmhouse in Maryland. Although some
of the plumbing remains in the 19th century, the
house has a glorious solarium and a secret tunnel.
The gardens surround a gazebo, under which the
bodies are buried. A marble statue of a...uh...scantily
clad youth (okay, naked) oversees a reflecting pond.
The koi provide sustenance for the herons, and the
frog population is monitored by cats, raccoons and
whatever else creeps in the night. This is the prowling ground of one of the most-beloved mystery
writers of our time. I, merely as anonymous source
of impeccable virtue, would like to conclude with
a quote from Madam Mertz as she stood on the
podium, accepting an award: “I may write fluff,
but I write damn good fluff!”
Can’t argue with that.
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Bibliography
WRITING AS ELIZABETH PETERS
SERIES
Vicky Bliss
Borrower of the Night
Street of Five Moons
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Elizabeth Peters
Silhouette in Scarlet
Trojan Gold
Night Train to Memphis
The Laughter of Dead Kings
The Love Talker
Summer of the Dragon
Copenhagen Connection
WRITING AS BARBARA MICHAELS
Jacqueline Kirby
The Seventh Sinner
Murders of Richard III
Die for Love
Naked Once More
Amelia Peabody
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Curse of the Pharaohs
The Mummy Case
Lion in the Valley
Deeds of the Disturber
The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
The Hippopotamus Pool
Seeing a Large Cat
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
The Falcon at the Portal
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Lord of the Silent
The Golden One
Children of the Storm
Guardian of the Horizon
Serpent on the Crown
Tomb of the Golden Bird
A River in the Sky
SHORT STORIES
The Runaway (as Barbara Michaels)
The Locked Tomb Mystery (as Elizabeth Peters)
Elizabeth Peters, P.I. (as Elizabeth Peters)
The Master of Blacktower
Sons of the Wolf
Ammie Come Home
Prince of Darkness
The Dark on the Other Side
The Crying Child
Greygallows
Witch
House of Many Shadows
Sea King’s Daughter
Patriot’s Dream
Wings of the Falcon
Wait for What Will Come
The Walker in Shadows
The Wizard’s Daughter
Someone in the House
Black Rainbow
Here I Stay
The Grey Beginning
Be Buried in the Rain
Shattered Silk
Search the Shadows
Smoke and Mirrors
Into the Darkness
Vanish with the Rose
Houses of Stone
Stitches in Time
The Dancing Floor
Other Worlds
WRITING AS BARBARA MERTZ
NON-SERIES
The Jackal’s Head
The Camelot Caper
The Dead Sea Cipher
The Night of 400 Rabbits
Legend in Green Velvet
Devil-May-Care
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Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs
Red Land, Black Land
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Malice Domestic: A Celebration of
the “Cozy” Mystery
By Barbara Mertz
f memory serves (and I have to admit, sometimes it doesn’t) Malice Domestic was founded as
a result of a bunch of us sitting around one day
kvetching about how, in our opinions, the MWA
awards had come to be dominated by male writers
and hard-boiled plots. The issue developed into an
actual investigatory committee — The Gang of Ten,
as we called ourselves — and finally a report which
said there had been no deliberate bias against books
by women. There was one dissenter. Me.
Nonetheless, MWA had the right to professionally recognize and therefore promote whatever type
of mysteries they chose. The obvious solution was to
start another mystery group that would recognize
the type of mystery MWA seemed to have forgotten.
Thus did Malice Domestic come into being. The
name was chosen to emphasize the nature of the
mysteries we loved to read. These were domestic
crimes that happened not to P.I.’s or professional
agents, but to people like you and me; and the
crimes were not necessarily murder. Malice can
take a number of forms. It was a celebration of the
“cozy” mystery, as exemplified by writers like
Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh, with amateur
sleuths operating in familiar settings. We had a wonderful time over the years fighting to get our cause
recognized, usurping particular panels and giving
speeches. One of my fondest memories is of
Dorothy Cannell pounding on the
podium and declaiming, “Yes, I
write fluff! But I write Damn
Good Fluff!”
Dorothy Cannell, Joan
Hess, Charlotte MacLeod
and Sarah Caudwell were
among the writers who
joined the cause. A number of other dear friends
allowed me to bully them
into attending the first
Malice Domestic convention.
It would never have taken off
without their presences.
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Our first meeting was in humble surroundings
— a hotel in NW Washington, where amenities
were, to put it nicely, less than luxurious. But everyone had a good time, or pretended to. I was Guest
of Honor — and we had a program book with my
picture on it, and everything!
So after that, what? For some of those involved,
the answer was that the meeting was sufficient unto
itself. My answer was that a) an award wasn’t worth
a damn if it was the only one given only once and
b) (on a less selfish note) one convention did not
solve the original problem — the neglect of the cozy
(which happened, at that time, to be mostly written
by women) in awards circles.
If I had known how much work would be
involved in putting Malice on a permanent footing
I might have had second thoughts. We got a
committee together — and everyone was great. Beth
Foxwell, Dean James, Mary Morman and Ron and
Jean McMillen were there from the start. My official
title was Author Liaison, but since we were a small
group we each dealt with anything that happened
to arise.
I soon came up against various legal and logistical problems which, in my innocence, I hadn’t considered. If Malice was to continue it had to be
insured against lawsuits, both frivolous and serious,
it needed a permanent (read: better) home, it would
require complicated scheduling arrangements for a
growing list of authors on panels and signings, it would need greater revenue in
order to meet the needs of a growing
convention, and so on. In short
— it needed a board — which
was duly selected. We met
weekly to deal with these
and other matters.
Eventually the convention
site became the Hyatt
Regency in Bethesda, which
served our needs admirably, and
where it remained for many years
(I refuse to consider how many) until
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Elizabeth Peters
it was transferred to a Virginia location as being
more convenient for those who came by train
or plane.
It wasn’t as convenient for me, but what the
heck, I had been hanging around for a long time,
and as age and aching joints began to take their toll,
I gracefully bowed out of my position on the board.
I admit that I am proud of my part in helping to
make Malice what it has become — a force to be
reckoned with in the mystery community promoting, recognizing and awarding the type of mystery
that is still my favorite reading. But I certainly could
never have done it alone — I made many friends
who cared as deeply as I did about this genre and
who worked as hard to promote it. When I look at
that first program book I am awed by the prestigious
names of those who attended — names that still resonate: Aaron Elkins, Sue Dunlap, Dorothy Cannell,
Mary Higgins Clark, Joan Hess, Margaret Maron,
Carolyn Hart, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Nancy
Pickard, P. M. Carlson, Sharyn McCrumb and
Charlotte MacLeod, to name only a few. I’m sure
I’ve left someone out; but I thank all of you, named
and unnamed, from the heart, and so, I know, do
the readers whose mysteries you helped to support.
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Agatha Awards
2010
2006
Best Novel: Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: The Long Quiche Goodbye,
Avery Aames
Best Nonfiction: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks:
50 Years of Mysteries in the Making, John Curran
Best Short Story: “So Much in Common,”
Mary Jane Maffini
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: The Other Side
of Dark, Sarah Smith
Best Novel: The Virgin Of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel: The Heat of the Moon,
Sandra Parshall
Best Nonfiction: Don’t Murder Your Mystery,
Chris Roerden
Best Short Story: “Sleeping with the Plush,”
Toni L.P. Kelner
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction:
Pea Soup Poisonings, Nancy Means Wright
2009
2005
Best Novel: The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie,
Alan Bradley
Best Nonfiction: Dame Agatha’s Shorts, Elena
Santangelo
Best Short Story: “On the House,” Hank Phillippi
Ryan, Quarry
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: The Hanging Hill,
Chris Grabenstein
Best Novel: The Body in the Snowdrift, Katherine Hall
Page
Best First Novel: Better Off Wed, Laura Durham
Best Nonfiction: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the
Women Who Created Her, Melanie Rehak
Best Short Story: “Driven to Distraction,”
Marcia Talley
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction:
Down the Rabbit Hole, Peter Abrahams
Flush, Carl Haissen
2008
Best Novel: The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: Death of a Cozy Writer, G.M. Malliet
Best Nonfiction: How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries,
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Best Short Story: “The Night Things Changed,” Dana
Cameron
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: The Crossroads,
Chris Grabenstein
2007
Best Novel: A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: Prime Time, Hank Phillippi Ryan
Best Nonfiction: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Jon
Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley
Best Short Story: “A Rat’s Tale,” Donna Andrews
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: A Light in the
Cellar, Sarah Masters Buckey
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2004
Best Novel: Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear
Best First Novel: Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak
Best Nonfiction: Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady
Detectives, Jack French
Best Short Story: “Wedding Knife,” Elaine Viets
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel: Chasing
Vermeer, Blue Balliett
2003
Best Novel: Letter From Home, Carolyn Hart
Best First Novel: Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
Best Nonfiction: Amelia Peabody’s Egypt:
A Compendium, edited by Elizabeth Peters and
Kristen Whitbread; designed by Dennis Forbes
Best Short Story: “No Man’s Land,” Elizabeth Foxwell
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel:
The 7th Knot, Kathleen Karr
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2002
1998
Best Novel: You’ve Got Murder, Donna Andrews
Best First Novel: In The Bleak Midwinter,
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Best Nonfiction: They Died in Vain: Overlooked,
Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited
by Jim Huang
Best Short Story: “The Dog That Didn’t Bark,”
Margaret Maron and “Too Many Cooks,” Marcia
Talley
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel: Red Card:
A Zeke Armstrong Mystery, Daniel J. Hale and
Matthew LaBrot
Best Novel: Butcher’s Hill, Laura Lippman
Best First Novel: The Doctor Digs a Grave,
Robin Hathaway
Best Nonfiction: Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide:
Washington, D.C., Alzina Stone Dale
Best Short Story: “Of Course You Know that Chocolate
is a Vegetable,” Barbara D’Amato
2001
Best Novel: Murphy’s Law, Rhys Bowen
Best First Novel: Bubbles Unbound, Sarah Strohmeyer
Best Nonfiction: Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir, Tony
Hillerman
Best Short Story: “The Would-Be Widower,”
Katherine Hall Page
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel:
The Mystery of the Haunted Caves, Penny Warner
2000
Best Novel: Storm Track, Margaret Maron
Best First Novel: Death on a Silver Tray,
Rosemary Stevens
Best Nonfiction: 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century, Jim
Huang, editor
Best Short Story: “The Man in the Civil Suit,”
Jan Burke
1999
Best Novel: Mariner’s Compass, Earlene Fowler
Best First Novel: Murder, With Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Best Nonfiction: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan
Doyle, Daniel Stashower
Best Short Story: “Out of Africa,” Nancy Pickard
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1997
Best Novel: The Devil in Music, Kate Ross
Best First Novel: The Salaryman’s Wife, Sujata Massey
Best Nonfiction: Detecting Men Pocket Guide,
Willetta Heising
Best Short Story: “Tea for Two,” M. D. Lake
1996
Best Novel: Up Jumps the Devil, Margaret Maron
Best First Novel: Murder on a Girl’s Night Out,
Anne George
Best Nonfiction: Detecting Women 2, Willetta Heising
Best Short Story: “Accidents Will Happen,”
Carolyn Wheat
1995
Best Novel: If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him, Sharyn
McCrumb
Best First Novel: The Body in the Transept, Jeanne Dams
Best Nonfiction: Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: Chicago,
Alzina Stone Dale
Best Short Story: “The Dog Who Remembered
Too Much,” Elizabeth Daniels Squire
1994
Best Novel: She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb
Best First Novel: Do Unto Others, Jeff Abbott
Best Nonfiction: By A Woman’s Hand, Jean Swanson
and Dean James
Best Short Story: “The Family Jewels,”
Dorothy Cannell
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Agatha Awards
1993
1990
Best Novel: Dead Man’s Island, Carolyn G. Hart
Best First Novel: Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr
Best Nonfiction: The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery,
Barbara D’Amato
Best Short Story: “Kim’s Game,” M. D. Lake
Best Novel: Bum Steer, Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel: The Body in the Belfry,
Katherine Hall Page
Best Short Story: “Too Much to Bare,” Joan Hess
1992
Best Novel: Naked Once More, Elizabeth Peters
Best First Novel: Grime and Punishment, Jill Churchill
Best Short Story: “A Wee Doch and Doris,”
Sharyn McCrumb
Best Novel: Bootlegger’s Daughter, Margaret Maron
Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam, Barbara Neely
Best Short Story: “Nice Gorilla,” Aaron and Charlotte
Elkins
1991
Best Novel: I.O.U., Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel: Zero at the Bone, Mary Willis Walker
Best Short Story: “Deborah’s Judgment,”
Margaret Maron
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1989
1988
Best Novel: Something Wicked, Carolyn G. Hart
Best First Novel: A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George
Best Short Story: “More Final Than Divorce,”
Robert Barnard
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A Brief History of Malice Domestic
Convention
Guest of Honor
Toastmaster
Fan Guest of Honor
Malice I (April 21–23, 1989)
Barbara Mertz
Robert Barnard
Ellen Nehr
Malice II (April 6–8, 1990)
Patricia Moyes
Sharyn McCrumb
Phyllis Brown
Malice III (April 26–28, 1991)
Charlotte MacLeod
Simon Brett
Janet Rudolph
Malice IV (April 24–26, 1992)
Aaron Elkins
Mary Higgins Clark
Bill Deeck
Malice V (April 23–25, 1993)
Anne Perry
Nancy Pickard
Mary Morman
Malice VI (April 22–24, 1994)
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Dorothy Cannell
Jim Huang
Malice VII (April 28–30, 1995)
Ellis Peters
Edward Marston
Dean James
Malice VIII (April 26–28, 1996)
Peter Lovesey
Margaret Maron
Shirley Beaird
Malice IX (May 2–4, 1997)
Carolyn G. Hart
Joan Hess
Judy & Jack Cater
Malice X (May 1–3, 1998)
Robert Barnard
Katherine Hall Page
Maureen Collins
Malice XI (April 30–May 2, 1999)
Mary Higgins Clark
M. D. Lake
Carol Harper
Malice XII (May 5–7, 2000)
Simon Brett
Eileen Dreyer
Sheila Martin
Malice XIII (May 4–6, 2001)
Margaret Maron
Rita Mae Brown
Patti Ruocco
Malice XIV (May 3–5, 2002)
Edward Marston
Annette & Martin Meyers
Gerry Letteney
Malice XV(May 2–4, 2003)
Barbara D’Amato
Parnell Hall
Donna Beatley
Malice XVI* (April 30–May 2, 2004)
Dorothy Cannell
Jan Burke
Linda Pletzke
Malice XVII (April 29–May 1, 2005)
Joan Hess
Carole Nelson Douglas
Anne Reece
Malice XVIII (April 21–23, 2006)
Katherine Hall Page
Kate Grilley
Kay McCarty
Malice XIX (May 4–6, 2007)
Rochelle Krich
Kate Grilley
Lee Mewshaw
Malice XX (April 25–27, 2008)
Charlaine Harris
Lindsay Davis**
Dan Stashower
Elizabeth Foxwell
Ron & Jean McMillen
Malice 21 (May 1–3, 2009)
Nancy Pickard
Elaine Viets
Laura Hyzy
Malice 22 (April 30–May 2, 2010)
Parnell Hall
Rhys Bowen
Tom & Marie O’Day
Malice 23 (April 29–May 1, 2011)
Carole Nelson Douglas
Donna Andrews
Anne Murphy
Malice 24 (April 27–29, 2012)
Jan Burke
Dana Cameron
Ruth Sickafus
Malice 25 (May 3–5, 2013)
Join us at the Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD — May 3, 2013–May 5, 2013
* A special category for Malice XVI honored Special Malice Remembers, Carole Anne Nelson
** International Guest of Honor
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Lifetime Achievement
Poirot
Amelia
Chair
Agatha Christie
None
None
None
Mary Morman
Dorothy L. Sayers
Phyllis A. Whitney
None
None
Mary Morman
Mary R. Rinehart
None
None
None
Gerry Letteney
Margery Allingham
None
None
None
Gerry Letteney
William Shakespeare
None
None
None
Ron McMillen
Edgar Allen Poe
Mignon G. Eberhart
None
None
Ron McMillen
Ngaio Marsh
None
None
None
Ron McMillen
Josephine Tey
Mary Stewart
None
None
Beth Foxwell
Richard & Frances Lockridge
Emma Lathen
None
None
Beth Foxwell
Ellery Queen
Charlotte McLeod
None
None
Carol Whitney
John Dickson Carr
Patricia Moyes
None
None
Carol Whitney
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dick Francis
None
None
Cindy Silberblatt
Rex Stout
Mildred Wirt Benson
None
None
Cindy Silberblatt
G. K. Chesterton
Tony Hillerman
None
None
Cindy Silberblatt
Agatha Christie
Elizabeth Peters
David Suchet
None
Tom O’Day
Erle Stanley Gardner
Marion Babson
Ruth Cavin &
Thomas Dunne
None
Tom O’Day
Ellis Peters
H.R.F. Keating
Angela Lansbury
None
Tom O’Day
Craig Rice
Robert Barnard
Doug Greene
None
Verena Rose
Georgette Heyer
Carolyn Hart
None
None
Verena Rose
All Those Previously
Honored
Peter Lovesey
Janet Hutchings
& Linda Landrigan
None
Verena Rose
Charlotte MacLeod
Anne Perry
Kate Stine & Brian Skupin
None
Louise Leftwich
Ed Hoch
Mary Higgins Clark
William Link
None
Verena Rose
Lyn Hamilton
Sue Grafton
Janet Rudolph
None
Verena Rose
Tony Hillerman
Simon Brett
Lee Goldberg
Elizabeth Peters
Verena Rose
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Grants
The William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic
Grants for Unpublished Writers, 1994–2012
n October 1993, Ron McMillen, then chair of
Malice Domestic, Ltd., announced on behalf of
the Board of Directors, the creation of the Malice
Domestic Grants for Unpublished Writers. “We see
this as one way to foster quality Malice literature.
We want to give back something to the field that has
provided us with so much enjoyment, and encourage the next generation of Malice authors.”
I
The first grant was awarded to Jeffrey Marks at
Malice VI in April 1994. Since that time, the grants have
been awarded to 32 other aspiring mystery writers.
On July 2, 2004, William F. Deeck, a longtime
fan and supporter of the mystery genre and of Malice
Domestic, passed away. On June 27, 2004, the Malice
Domestic Grants for Unpublished Writers was named
The William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic Grants
Winners and Titles of Submitted Manuscripts
2012
2005
Sarah E. Bewley, Florida is Burning
Cynthia M. Sabelhaus, Trite but True
Hilary McGowan, A Cottage with a View
Stacy Leigh Juba, Sign of the Messenger
2011
2004
Robin Templeton, Double Exposure
Shirley Folwarski (writing as Clarissa Miller),
Blood Is Stickier Than Holy Water
Heidi Vornbrock Roosa (writing as McLean
Jacobson), Hypothesis for Murder
2010
Patricia A. Gouthro, Lies My Professor Told Me
Stephanie Evans, Standing on the Promises
2003
2009
Kimberly Gray, Ghost of a Chance
2008
Robin Hewitt, One Sweet Pickle
(GRANT SPONSORED BY DONATION IN MEMORY OF DEAN BARTH)
Linda Reeder, Bricks and Murder
2007
Dawn Dixon Cotter, Faux Finish
Gigi Morrissett Pandian, Artifact
2006
Joseph W. Richardson, Gideon’s Inn
(GRANT SPONSORED BY DONATION IN MEMORY OF CONNIE NIESER)
Thomas E. Bonsall, Lilac Time
Martha Crites, She Who Listens
G. M. Malliet, Death of a Cozy Writer
2002
Elizabeth Berry, Inn Sight
2001
Terry Hoover, Sweet Alice
Kyle Z. Bell, George Washington Died Here
2000
Susan Wrona Gall (writing as Wrona Gall),
Canvas Shroud
Carolyn Kourofsky, Through a Shooter’s Eye
Elizabeth Duncan, Dead Posh
(GRANT SPONSORED BY DONATIONS IN MEMORY OF DEAN BARTH)
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Program for Unpublished Writers in honor and in
recognition of Bill’s advocacy of aspiring mystery writers.
The winners of The William F. Deeck — Malice
Domestic Grants for Unpublished Writers are listed
below with the name of the manuscript the writer
submitted to the competition. In some cases, the titles
of those manuscripts also became the title of the
published work.
✍
1999
Claire M. Johnson, Murder Underfoot
Anne White, An Affinity for Murder
1998
Marcia Talley, Sing It To Her Bones
Matt Witten, Breakfast at Madeline’s
1997
Carol Hauswald, Avenging Angels
1996
Joan C. Curtis, The Internet Murderer
Sujata Massey, The Salaryman’s Wife
1995
LeeAnna Lawrence, A Cousin Once Removed
1994
Jeffrey Marks, The Scent of Murder
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Sponsors
Thanks, Sponsors!
Malice just wouldn’t be the same without our sponsors! Their generosity helps Malice maintain and
even improve its high standards while keeping registration costs within reach of the average mystery
reader. Our deepest and most sincere appreciation is offered to the following contributors who have
helped defray the costs of bringing you this year’s Malice Domestic. Their representatives will have special
“Sponsor” ribbons attached to their badges — please stop them and tell them “Thank you”!
SOUVENIR TOTE BAG
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
MALICE DOMESTIC
MALICE AT-A-GLANCE BOOKLET
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
OBSIDIAN MYSTERIES
NEW AUTHORS BREAKFAST
MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE
HOSPITALITY LOUNGE BEVERAGES
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SOUVENIR SHORT STORY BOOKLET
CRIPPEN AND LANDRU
MALICE PARTNERS IN CRIME
ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE
ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
BOOK BAG CONTRIBUTORS
ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE
AMERICAN GIRL BOOKS
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
CRIPPEN AND LANDRU
ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
FELONY & MAYHEM PRESS
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HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
MIDNIGHT INK
MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE
OBSIDIAN MYSTERIES
POISONED PEN PRESS
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
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Memories of Malice
Absent Friends
Malice remembers the following individuals
who have enriched the Malice Domestic genre
and the mystery world in general. May they
rest in peace.
Gilbert Adair, Author
George Baker, Actor
Beverly Barton, Author
Lilian Jackson Braun, Author
Milton T. Burton, Author
Blaize Clement, Author
Peter Falk, Actor
Ron Faust, Author
The Faithful Few
The following 16 participants survived Malice I
in Silver Spring and have returned for every
Malice since — truly the triumph of hope over
experience!
Donna Beatley
Lee Mewshaw
Lenore Boehm
Anne Murphy
Jack Cater
C. W. Pollard
Judy J. Cater
Anne Reece
Anna S. Jeffrey
Patricia Schutz
Sheila J. Martin
Janine Seitz
Kay McCarty
Gordon M. Shaw
Liz Mellett
Ruth C. Shaw
Dorothy Gilman, Author
Joe Gores, Author
Edward Hardwicke, Actor
Joyce Harrington, Author
Reginald Hill, Author
Diana James, Publicist
H.R.F. Keating, Author
Paul Lindsay, Author
Judi McCoy, Author
Enid Schantz, Bookstore Owner
Craig Thomas, Author
Michael Van Rooy, Author
Ronald B. Watkins, Author
Barbara Whitehead, Author
Tom Wicker, Author
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General Information
“No Smoking” Policy
The Hospitality Lounge
The hotel does not permit smoking.
The Hospitality Lounge is open during most of
Malice. It provides a comfortable place to relax and
discuss your favorite books. You’ll find tables with
“freebies” and information about authors, organizations and activities. Limited complimentary tea and
coffee service will be available.
The Hospitality Lounge is also where you’ll find
the “volunteers” table. In addition to being the place
where you sign up to volunteer your services, here
is where you turn in your Agatha ballot (on time,
please!), and turn in your evaluation form. (Yes, we
read them.)
You’ll also find the Silent Auction items in their
own special section. Look for the display about
Malice with information covering this year’s special
activities and Malice 25’s honorees (after they are
announced at the banquet).
Hotel Check-in/out
Check-in time at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda,
is 4 p.m. If rooms are available, you can check-in earlier. Check-out time is 12 noon. Late check-out is
available on request on a space-available basis.
Attended luggage storage is available at the bell
stand.
To Help Us Keep Things Running
Smoothly
We request that you do not corner authors and panelists immediately after a program session. This keeps
them from proceeding to their next session or signing, prevents the next panel from starting on time,
and generally disrupts the flow of events. Please help
us stay on schedule.
Green Room
Book Signing
Autograph sessions with attending authors are scheduled at various times during the convention. We ask
that you please observe the following guidelines:
• Limit all autograph requests to the autograph
sessions.
• Limit all autograph requests to three books per
person at one time. You can re-enter the line as
often as time permits.
• Avoid blocking the hallways outside the signing
area.
• Autograph requests for Elizabeth Peters are limited
to ONE book only.
Agatha Awards Voting
Only convention attendees may participate in the
Agatha Awards voting. An official ballot is in your
registration packet. If you lose your ballot, you lose
your vote.
The ballot box is located in the Hospitality
Lounge. Ballots must be submitted by Saturday at
1:00 p.m. No exceptions! At that time, the ballot box
is sealed and taken to a secret location by the Agatha
Awards Committee, which does the official counting.
The results are revealed at the banquet on Saturday
evening and subsequently posted in the Hospitality
Lounge.
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Moderators and panelists are welcome to gather in
the Hotel's Executive Boardroom, which has been
designated as the Green Room, about 15 minutes
prior to the start time for their panels unless they’ve
made other arrangements in advance.
Volunteers
Volunteers should check in and pick up materials for
their assignments at the “volunteers” table in the
Hospitality Lounge. Anyone wishing to volunteer,
who did not do so before the convention, can sign up
on the chart for available slots. Volunteers who contribute four hours receive a special gift not available
to others at Malice 24. Also, look for the sign-up
sheet so you can be placed on the volunteers’ mailing
list and get advance information about next year’s
program.
Evaluation Forms
Your opinions count! Please fill out the evaluation
form in your registration bag and deposit it in the
appropriate box at the volunteers table in the
Hospitality Lounge before you leave Sunday. Or you
can also turn it in at the Agatha Tea and Closing
Ceremonies.
The Malice Board reviews these evaluations carefully in an effort to maintain our high standards and
plan for future programming.
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Advance Registration Discount for
Malice 25
Save time and money! Register for next year’s
Malice while you’re here. A registration form with a
discounted on-site convention rate will be available
at the registration desk. Register now for Malice 25
and SAVE!
We accept cash, check or credit cards while the
registration desk is open. The registration desk will be
open through the Closing Ceremonies, and this will
be the last opportunity to take advantage of the onsite rate.
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Charity Auction
Facts and Frequently Asked Questions
Live Auction
Silent Auction
How do I register?
Starting this year with Malice Domestic 24, we are
simplifying the live auction registration process by
assigning each attendee a number in our computer
system. That number will also be the attendee’s
Bid card number for the live auction. Attendees
will receive their bid card at the time they sign in
at registration on Thursday or Friday. There is no
requirement to attend the live auction; however,
the bid numbers are nontransferable. All on-site
registrants will be assigned a number and given a bid
card at the registration desk.
When and where will the auction be held?
The Malice Domestic 24 Silent Auction will be open
on Friday, April 27, 2012, from 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
and on Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 8:00 a.m.–1:30
p.m. in the Hospitality Lounge.
When and where will the auction be held?
The Live Auction will be held on Friday evening,
April 27, 2012, from 7:30– 9:00 p.m. in
Waterford/Lalique.
What organization will be
receiving the auction proceeds?
The John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children
and Adolescents has been chosen as Malice Domestic
24’s auction recipient. JLG-RICA is a communitybased public educational treatment and day/residential
facility serving children and adolescents, ages 10–18
with severe emotional disabilities. It is located in
Rockville, Maryland. Funds will be used to develop
and support residential literacy programs.
If I am the winning bidder
how do I claim my item?
You must claim your item(s) immediately following
the auction at the auction check-out table. If you are
unable to remain for the entire auction, please let
one of the auction volunteers know before you leave
the room.
What organization will
be receiving the auction proceeds?
As with the live auction, the John L. Gildner Regional
Institute for Children and Adolescents will be the
recipient of the proceeds from the silent auction.
Proceeds from this auction will be used to fund a
Malice Domestic Scholarship for Graduating Seniors.
How do I claim my item(s)?
Winning bidders must report to the Hospitality
Lounge Silent Auction check-out table between
2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, 2012.
A list of winning bidders will be posted in the hallway outside the Hospitality Lounge.
How can I pay?
You may pay for your item(s) with credit card, cash or
check. Receipts will be available at time of payment.
When and how will I receive my
donor receipt?
Starting this year, the committee will have receipts
prepared and ready for distribution shortly after the
conclusion of the auction. For any donors who are not
at the convention, we will either e-mail or mail
their receipts.
How can I pay?
You may pay for your item(s) with credit card,
cash or check. Receipts will be available at time
of payment.
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Convention Schedule
Thursday, April 26
3:00–3:50 p.m.
Friday, April 27
You’ve Got Fan Mail:
Honored Guests Discuss Mail from Fascinating Fans
Verena Rose — Moderator
Simon Brett
Jan Burke
Dana Cameron
Lee Goldberg
8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
4:00–4:50 p.m.
Registration
Malice 101:
An Introduction to Malice
For First-time Attendees
Judy Cater
Simply the Best:
Our Agatha Best Novel Nominees
Shawn Reilly — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Krista Davis
G.M. Malliet
Margaret Maron
9:30–9:45 a.m.
5:00–5:30 p.m.
Volunteers 101: Important Information
for Attendees Who Want to Help Out
Judy Cater and Anne Murphy
Opening Ceremonies
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Early Bird Registration
9:00–9:30 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Dinner, On Your Own
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hospitality Lounge & Silent Auction
7:00 p.m.
Bar opens in Crystal Ballroom Foyer
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Dealers
7:30–9:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Live Charity Auction
Auctioneers: Katherine Hall Page and
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Malice Go Round:
It’s Like Speed Dating , With Authors
Jack Cater — Moderator
9:00–10:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception
11:30 a.m.
Lunch Break
1:00–1:50 p.m.
A Toast to Dana Cameron:
Toastmaster Interview
Dana Cameron interviewed by Hank Phillippi Ryan
2:00–2:50 p.m.
Tell Us What You Really Think, Lee:
Poirot Awardee Interview
Lee Goldberg interviewed by Rhys Bowen
Saturday, April 28
7:00–8:30 a.m.
New Authors Breakfast:
Fans Get to Dine with This Year’s New Authors
Host: Cindy Silberblatt
(Food service begins at 7:00 a.m,;
presentations begin at 7:30 a.m.)
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Registration
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8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hospitality Lounge & Silent Auction (Silent Auction
until 1:30 p.m. only)
8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Dealers
8:45–9:30 a.m.
It’s An Honor:
Guest of Honor Interview
Jan Burke interviewed by Daniel Stashower
9:40–10:30 a.m. — PANELS
Capitol Crimes:
All Politics Is Deadly
Audrey Liebross — Moderator
Alan Orloff
Andrea Penrose
Maggie Sefton
B. K. Stevens
Dorothy St. James
Make It Snappy:
Agatha Best Short Story Nominees
Melodie Johnson Howe — Moderator
Dana Cameron
Krista Davis
Daryl Wood Gerber (Avery Aames)
Barb Goffman
Roberta Isleib
The Sound and the Fury:
Southern Mysteries
Sandra Parshall — Moderator
Erika Chase
Christy Fifield
Miranda James
Leann Sweeney
Lisa Wysocky
Lights, Camera, Murder:
Mysteries That Translate to the Stage and Screen
Ellery Adams — Moderator
Ellen Byerrum
Kate Collins
Hallie Ephron
Lee Goldberg
Cozy and Loving It:
The Allure of Cozy Mysteries
Ilene Schneider — Moderator
Lorraine Bartlett
Mollie Cox Bryan
Juliet Blackwell
Sheila Connolly
Betty Hechtman
10:40–11:30 a.m. — PANELS
Have Gun, Will Travel:
Mysteries Set Out West
Linda Rodriguez — Moderator
Casey Daniels
Anne Hillerman
Robert Kresge
Greg Lilly
Kids Love A Mystery:
Agatha Best Children’s/Young Adult Nominees
Carolyn Mulford — Moderator
Chris Grabenstein
Matthew J. Kirby
Shawn Thomas Odyssey
Penny Warner
Witches and Zombies and Ghosts, Oh My:
Paranormal Mysteries
Nicole Peeler — Moderator
Heather Blake
Bailey Cates
Jennifer Harlow
Maria Lima
Small Towns, Big Secrets:
Mysteries Where Everything Isn’t So Cozy
B. K. Stevens — Moderator
Dorothy Cannell
Jane K. Cleland
Jess Lourey
Katherine Hall Page
Sandra Parshall
New Kids on the Block:
Agatha Best First Novel Nominees
Margaret Maron — Moderator
Janet Bolin
Kaye George
Sara J. Henry
Rochelle Staab
Kari Lee Townsend
(continued)
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Convention Schedule
11:35 a.m.
Signings in the Crystal Ballroom Foyer area
Also in adjacent Cartier/Tiffany rooms
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
12:00–1:15 p.m.
The Poison Lady Presents Ethanol:
An Alternative Means of Death
Presentation by Luci Zahray, The Poison Lady
(Bring lunch and eat during the presentation)
1:00 p.m.
Agatha Voting Deadline
1:30 p.m.
Silent Auction Bid Deadline
1:30–2:20 p.m. — PANELS
Three Strikes, You’re Dead: Sports-Related Mysteries
Alan Orloff — Moderator
Maggie Barbieri
Laura DiSilverio
Beth Groundwater
Sasscer Hill
Making History: Agatha Best Historical Nominees
Harriette Sackler — Moderator
Rhys Bowen
J. J. Murphy
Ann Parker
A Taste for Murder: Culinary Mysteries
Becky Hutchison — Moderator
Ellery Adams
Janet Benrey
Ron Benrey
Liz Lipperman
It’s Murder, Mon: Mysteries Set in Exotic Locales
Charles Finch — Moderator
Sarah Masters Buckey
Rebecca M. Hale
Laurie R. King
Sujata Massey
Michael Stanley
Suffering for Their Art:
What Authors Endure in the Name of Research
Molly Weston — Moderator
Claudia Bishop
Sophie Littlefield
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Sarah R. Shaber
Elaine Viets
2:30–3:20 p.m. — PANELS
Murder on the Mean Streets: Urban Mysteries
Triss Stein — Moderator
Jack Bludis
Jacqueline Corcoran
Roberta Rogow
Cathi Stoler
Elizabeth Zelvin
Just the Facts, Ma’am:
Agatha Best Nonfiction Nominees
Steve Steinbock — Moderator
Leslie Budewitz
John Curran
Michael Dirda
A. B. Emrys
Charlaine Harris
My, How You’ve Grown:
How Characters Have Developed Over the Years
Dina Willner — Moderator
Jan Burke
Joanna Campbell Slan
Marcia Talley
Victoria Thompson
Living with the Seven Deadly Sins:
Mysteries as Modern Morality Plays
Art Taylor — Moderator
Nancy J. Cohen
R.J. Harlick
Carolyn Hart
Tracy Kiely
Margaret Maron
Elvis and the Commies:
Sidekicks Who Provide Comic Relief
Catriona McPherson — Moderator
Joelle Charbonneau
Deborah Sharp
Lane Stone
Lois Winston
(continued)
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Convention Schedule
3:30–4:15 p.m.
Another Shirt Ruined:
An Interview with Our First Amelia Award Honoree,
Elizabeth Peters
Inquisitors: Dorothy Cannell, Parnell Hall, Joan Hess and
Daniel Stashower
4:20 p.m.
Signings in the Crystal Ballroom Foyer area
Also in adjacent Cartier/Tiffany rooms
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
6:30 p.m.
Cocktails available in Crystal Ballroom Foyer and
at the main bar on the Lobby Level
7:00 p.m.
Agatha Awards Banquet
Sunday, April 29
8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Dealers
9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Hospitality Lounge
9:00 a.m.
Guilty Pleasures, Innocent Sleuths:
Mysteries Sweetened with Wine, Chocolate
and Massages
Joanna Campbell Slan — Moderator
JoAnna Carl
Mindy Starns Clark
Vicki Doudera
Jenn McKinlay
They Love Lucy:
If Lucy Ricardo Were a Sleuth
Ruth M. McCarty — Moderator
Karen Cantwell
Jessie Chandler
Cindy Sample
Nancy Glass West
Haunting Secrets in Spooky Places:
Modern Gothic Mysteries
C. Ellett Logan — Moderator
Jan Burke
Lillian Stewart Carl
Vicki Delany
Alma Katsu
J.D. Shaw
Tea, Scones and Death:
Murder Comes to England
Kathryn Johnson — Moderator
Simon Brett
Charles Finch
Eileen Robertson
Charles Todd (Caroline)
Nancy Means Wright
Shipping Service open
8:45–9:35 a.m. — PANELS
9:45–10:35 a.m. — PANELS
Murder by the Book:
No One’s Safe in the Book Industry
John Betancourt — Moderator
Lucy Arlington
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Con Lehane
Molly MacRae
The New Nick and Noras:
Mixing Romance and Murder
Stephanie Evans — Moderator
Kate Carlisle
Elizabeth Duncan
Kathleen Ernst
Christina Freeburn
Barbara Graham
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Convention Schedule
9:45–10:35 a.m. — PANELS (cont.)
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium:
Travel Mysteries
Gigi Pandian — Moderator
Hilary Davidson
Janice Hamrick
Maddy Hunter
Marie Moore
Sarah Wisseman
Occupy Malice:
When Money is the Root of All Murder
Avery Aames — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Mike Befeler
Jeanne M. Dams
Catriona McPherson
Elena Santangelo
Good Gals, Bad Attitudes:
Mysteries with Kick-Ass Heroines
James Lincoln Warren — Moderator
Carole Nelson Douglas
Darrell James
Nora McFarland
Jennifer McAndrews
Thou Shalt Not Kill:
The Intersection of Religion and Murder
Harriette Sackler — Moderator
Raymond Buckland
Amanda Flower
M. E. Kemp
G. M. Malliet
Sharan Newman
Must Love Dogs:
Mysteries Involving Man’s Best Friend
Doris Ann Norris — Moderator
Sparkle Abbey (Anita Carter)
Sparkle Abbey (Mary Lee Woods)
Esri Allbritten
Linda O. Johnston
Neil S. Plakcy
Well-Schooled in Murder: Academic Mysteries
Judy Hogan — Moderator
Frankie Y. Bailey
Debra H. Goldstein
Camille Minichino
Linda Rodriguez
Robert Spiller
12:05 p.m.
Dirty Little Secrets:
An Inside Look at the Writer’s Life
Aimee Hix — Moderator
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Jeffrey Cohen
Kate Gallison
Robin Hathaway
Toni L. P. Kelner
Signings in the Crystal Ballroom Foyer area
Also in adjacent Cartier/Tiffany rooms
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
10:40 a.m.
Lunch Break
Signings in the Crystal Ballroom Foyer area
Also in adjacent Cartier/Tiffany rooms
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
12:30–1:30 p.m.
11:10–Noon — PANELS
Down the Shore:
Coastal Mysteries
Trish Carrico — Moderator
Michelle L. Johnson
Jim Lavene
Joyce Lavene
John Reisinger
Maggie Toussaint
12:05 p.m.
Malice Board Meeting
Open to all attendees
Until 12:30 p.m.
Tony Hillerman’s Landscape:
A Slideshow Presentation in Honor of Tony Hillerman
Anne Hillerman
Don Strel
1:40–2:25 p.m.
Interview of a Lifetime:
Lifetime Achievement Interview
Simon Brett interviewed by Parnell Hall
2:30 p.m.
Agatha Tea and Closing Ceremonies
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Attending Authors
Avery Aames
Avery Aames
Esri Allbritten
Avery Aames pens the Agatha Award winning, nationally bestselling “A Cheese Shop
Mystery Series”. Avery is the pseudonym
for Daryl Wood Gerber. Prior to her career
as a novelist, Daryl (aka Avery) created the
format for the TV sitcom Out of this World.
She was also an actress and co-starred on
Murder, She Wrote. She loves to cook, read,
golf, and garden. She shares recipes at
www.mysteryloverskitchen.com.
Website: www.averyaames.com
Esri Allbritten is the author of Chihuahua
of the Baskervilles, first in the Tripping
Magazine mystery series, which falls somewhere between Agatha Christie and Scooby
Doo. In addition to sushi, bowling and
madrigals, she enjoys discovering quirky,
real-life towns and wreaking fictional havoc
in them. Esri lives in Boulder, Colorado
with her husband, Angel Joe; her cat,
Musette La Plume, and her Chihuahua
puppy, Josie O.
Website: EsriAllbritten.com
Esri Allbritten
Sparkle Abbey
Sparkle Abbey
Sparkle Abbey is the pseudonym of mystery
authors Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter
who write the Pampered Pets Mystery
Series from Bell Bridge Books. They have
had fun writing the series and hope readers
enjoy the wacky world they’ve created.
Book one in the series, Desperate Housedogs,
is out now, book two, Get Fluffy, is coming
soon, and will be followed by Kitty, Kitty,
Bang, Bang and then Yip Tuck.
Website: www.sparkleabbey.com
Donna Andrews
Donna Andrews
Ellery Adams
Ellery Adams
Ellery Adams grew up on a beach near the
Long Island Sound. Having spent her adult
life in a series of landlocked towns, she cherishes her memories of open water, violent
storms and the smell of the sea. Ms. Adams
has held many jobs including caterer, retail
clerk, car salesperson, teacher, tutor and
tech writer, all the while penning poems,
children’s books, and novels. She now writes
full-time from her home in Virginia.
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
Website: www.elleryadamsmysteries.com
Gloria Alden
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Gloria Alden is the author of “Cheating on
Your Husband Can Get You Killed” which
won the Love is Murder contest in 2011
and was featured in Crimespree Magazine.
Her short story “The Professor’s Books”
appeared in the Fish Tales anthology. Her
first book, The Blue Rose, will be published
this year. She lives on a small farm in
northeast Ohio with two ponies, several
cats and her collie, Maggie.
Blog: www.writerswhokill.blogspot.com
Website: www.gloriaalden.com
Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown,
Virginia and now lives in Reston, Virginia.
The Real Macaw (July 2011, Minotaur)
is the latest book in her Agatha- and
Anthony-winning Meg Langslow series.
Some Like It Hawk will be released in July
2012. Andrews serves as president of the
Mid-Atlantic chapter of MWA and is a past
president of the Chessie Chapter of Sister in
Crime. She blogs with the Femmes Fatales.
Blog: femmesfatales.typepad.com
Website: donnaandrews.com
Lucy Arlington
Lucy Arlington
Lucy Arlington is an avid reader, cook, and
gardener. If she had her way, she’d divide
her time between preparing delectables in
her kitchen, traveling the globe on her
scooter and sitting in a comfortable chair
with a cup of coffee and a paperback until
her legs cramped. Lucy is devoted to her
husband and children. Lucy’s first cozy
mystery, Buried in a Book, is set in a
North Carolina literary agency called
A Novel Idea.
Websites: www.lucyarlington.com
www.sylviamay.com
www.elleryadamsmysteries.com/
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Attending Authors
Frankie Y. Bailey
Frankie Y. Bailey
Mike Befeler
Frankie Y. Bailey is a criminal justice professor and author of nonfiction books about
crime, history, and popular culture. Her
mystery series features crime historian
Lizzie Stuart, most recently in Forty Acres
and a Soggy Grave (2011), set on the Eastern
Shore of Virginia. Frankie is at work on a
near-future police procedural series set in
Albany, New York. A past EVP of MWA,
Frankie is the current President of Sisters
in Crime.
Website: www.frankieybailey.com
Mike Befeler is author of the Paul Jacobson
Geezer-lit Mystery series including
Retirement Homes Are Murder, Living With Your
Kids Is Murder (a finalist for the Lefty Award
for the best humorous mystery of 2009)
and Senior Moments Are Murder. Mike is
active in organizations promoting a positive
image of aging and is vice-president of the
Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery
Writers of America. He lives in Boulder,
Colorado, with his wife, Wendy.
Blog: www.mikebefeler.blogspot.com
Website: www.mikebefeler.com
Mike Befeler
Maggie Barbieri
Maggie Barbieri
Maggie Barbieri is the author of the Murder
101 series and a freelance college textbook
editor. The series features college professor
Alison Bergeron and her New York City
detective boyfriend, Bobby Crawford. Love,
murder and mystery combine to make this
couple a modern-day Nick and Nora. Third
Degree, the fifth installment in the series,
was published in November 2010.
Blog: www.thestilettogang.blogspot.com
Website: www.maggiebarbieri.com
Janet Benrey
Janet Benrey
Aileen G. Baron
Aileen G. Baron
A retired Near Eastern archaeologist, Aileen
G. Baron is the author of the Lily Sampson
series, set in the Middle East during WWII,
featuring archeologist Lily Sampson. Her
latest books are The Scorpion’s Bite, the third
book in the Lily Sampson series in which
Lily is doing an archaeological survey of
Trans-Jordan for the OSS, and The Gold of
Thrace, a standalone, about the intrigue
and deceit in the antiquities trade.
Website: www.aileengbaron.com
Lorraine Bartlett
Lorraine Bartlett
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Lorraine Bartlett must be absolutely crazy.
Why else would she write three different
mystery series under three different names?
In addition to the Victoria Square Mysteries,
she writes the Jeff Resnick Mysteries as L.L.
Bartlett, and The New York Times bestselling,
Agatha-nominated Booktown Mysteries
under the name Lorna Barrett.
Websites: www.LorraineBartlett.com
www.Lorna Barrett.com
Janet has co-written (with her husband
Ron) three cozy mystery series, including
the Royal Tunbridge Wells Mysteries, the
Pippa Hunnechurch Mysteries and the
Glory, North Carolina Mysteries. In 2011,
they launched Greenbrier Book Company,
LLC, a small publisher whose list of 50+
titles includes mystery novels — eBooks
and some paper books — written by five
popular authors. Janet, previously a literary
agent, serves as Greenbrier Book’s acquisitions editor. The Benreys live in North
Carolina.
Website: benrey.com
Ron Benrey
Ron Benrey
Ron has co-written (with his wife Janet)
three cozy mystery series, including the
Royal Tunbridge Wells Mysteries, the Pippa
Hunnechurch Mysteries and the Glory,
North Carolina Mysteries. In 2011, they
launched Greenbrier Book Company, LLC,
a small publisher whose list of 50+ titles
includes mystery novels — eBooks and
some paper books — written by five popular authors. Ron’s latest nonfiction book is
Know Your Rights — a Legal Survival Guide for
Non-Lawyers. The Benreys live in North
Carolina.
Website: benrey.com
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John Betancourt
John Betancourt
Jack Bludis
John Gregory Betancourt owns Wildside
Press, an indy publishing company.
He writes the “Pit Bull” Peter Geller series
(running in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery
Magazine) as time allows, and won a Black
Orchid Award for his story “Horse Pit.” In a
former career, he was a bestselling science
fiction author. He has more than a million
books in print.
Jack Bludis has sold sixty novels and novellas and nearly 450 stories in various genres
using many pseudonyms. His best works
are mysteries in his own name, including
the Shamus-nominated Shadow of the Dahlia
and The Last Sellout, the final book of the
Brian Kane trilogy. Both are now available
in paperback along with his collection that
includes the story “Munchies” which was
nominated for both the Shamus and
Anthony Awards.
Jack Bludis
Claudia Bishop
Claudia Bishop
Mary Stanton (Claudia Bishop) is the
author of more than forty novels, twentytwo of them mysteries. The fifth in the
popular Beaufort&Company series, Angel
Condemned, was published early in 2012.
The eighteenth in the Hemlock Falls series,
Dread On Arrival, is scheduled for April
2012. Both series are from Berkley Prime
Crime. A long time resident of upstate New
York, Mary lives in West Palm Beach,
Florida.
Janet Bolin
Janet Bolin
Juliet Blackwell
Juliet Blackwell
Juliet Blackwell is the NYT bestselling
author of the Haunted Home Renovation
mystery series (If Walls Could Talk, Dead
Bolt) and the Witchcraft mystery series
(Secondhand Spirits, A Cast-off Coven, Hexes
and Hemlines and In a Witch’s Wardrobe,
coming 6/12). As Hailey Lind, Juliet
penned the Art Lover’s Mystery series,
including Agatha-nominated Feint of Art.
A former anthropologist, artist and social
worker, Juliet served as two-term president
for Northern California Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.julietblackwell.net
Heather Blake
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Heather Blake writes the paranormal
Wishcraft mysteries featuring Darcy
Merriweather, a novice witch with the ability to grant wishes and a knack for solving
crimes. The first book in the series, It Takes a
Witch, debuted in January. Heather Blake is
the pen name of two-time Agatha nominee
Heather Webber, who writes the humorous
Nina Quinn landscaping mysteries and the
popular romantic mystery series featuring
psychic Lucy Valentine.
Website: www.heatherblakebooks.com
Janet Bolin writes the Threadville Mystery
series for Berkley Prime Crime. Willow
Vanderling runs a machine embroidery
boutique in Threadville, a dream village for
crafty people, fabriholics and textile artists.
In Dire Threads (June, 2011), Willow’s
threats come back to haunt her. In Threaded
for Trouble (June, 2012), a killer sewing
machine lives up to its name. Like Willow,
Janet plays with machine embroidery and
rescued dogs on the shores of Lake Erie.
Website: www.ThreadvilleMysteries.com
Brynn Bonner
Brynn Bonner
Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonner resides in
North Carolina and both her literary fiction
and mysteries reflect the landscapes and
genuine people of her southern heritage.
Witchger is currently under contract with
Pocket/Gallery for two books based on a
young female genealogist protagonist.
Writing as Ellen Harris she penned six books
in the Mysteries of Sparrow Island series for
Guidepost Books. Her short stories have
been featured in EQMM, Futures, Now and
Then, Crossroads and other publications.
Blog: thevinylcall.blogspot.com
Website: brendawitchger.wordpress.com
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Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen
Sarah Masters Buckey
Rhys Bowen is the bestselling author of
three mystery series. Rhys’s books have
won an amazing 13 awards, including
Agatha Best Novel, out of 31 nominations,
including for the Edgar® Best Novel. She
currently writes two mystery series, the
Molly Murphy novels, about an Irish
immigrant in 1900s New York City, and
the lighter Royal Spyness mysteries about
a penniless minor royal in 1930s Britain.
Rhys was born and raised in Britain but
now divides her time between California
and Arizona, where she goes to escape
from the harsh California winters.
Sarah Masters Buckey’s new mystery, Clue
in the Castle Tower: A Samantha Mystery, takes
place in early 1900’s England. When a first
edition of Paradise Lost disappears from a
manor, Samantha tries to discover the thief
— and untangle the truth behind a fabled
ghost. Sarah’s eight historical mysteries for
young readers include The Light in the Cellar,
a 2007 Agatha Award winner, and The
Stolen Sapphire, an Edgar® Award nominee.
She lives in New Hampshire.
Sarah Masters
Buckey
Raymond Buckland
Duffy Brown
Duffy Brown
Duffy Brown loves anything with a mystery. While others girls dreamed of dating
Brad Pitt, Duffy longed to take Sherlock
Holmes to the prom. She has two cats,
Spooky and Dr. Watson, and conjures up
who-done-it stories of her very own for
Berkley Prime Crime. Iced Chiffon, out
October 2012, is the first book in the
Consignment: Murder series. Duffy writes
romance as Dianne Castell and is a USA
Today bestselling author.
Website: DuffyBrown.com
Raymond
Buckland
Leslie Budewitz
Mollie Cox Bryan
Mollie Cox Bryan
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Mollie Cox Bryan is a food writer with a
penchant for murder. Scrapbook of Secrets:
A Cumberland Creek Mystery (Kensington
Publishing) is her debut novel — the first
in a trilogy. Mollie’s second cookbook, Mrs.
Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies (Ten Speed
Press/Random House 2009) is a regional
bestseller. She’s also regular essayist on
WVTF Public Radio and restaurant reviewer
for the Daily News Leader, Staunton,
Virginia.
Website: www.molliecoxbryan.com
Raymond Buckland has authored eleven
novels and almost sixty nonfiction books.
He has been translated into seventeen foreign languages. His first book was published
in 1969. He loves the Victorian era and his
two series (The Penny Court Enquirers and
Bram Stoker’s Dark Mysteries), together
with his standalone Golden Illuminati, are
all set in that time frame. An ex-Brit, he
finds the research side of writing almost
as satisfying as the writing itself.
Website: www.raybuckland.com
Leslie Budewitz
Leslie Budewitz lives in northwest Montana
and watches deer and chickadees from her
office windows. A practicing lawyer who
loves helping writers get the legal details
right, she’s the author of Books, Crooks &
Counselors: How to Write Accurately About
Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure (Quill
Driver, 2011). Her short stories have
appeared in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock
and elsewhere. Her cozy series, The Food
Lovers’ Village Mysteries, will debut from
Berkley Prime Crime in 2013.
Website: www.LawandFiction.com
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Ellen Byerrum
Ellen Byerrum
Lillian Stewart Carl
Ellen Byerrum writes the popular Crime
of Fashion mysteries, set in bustling
Washington, D.C., The City That Fashion
Forgot. Featuring Lacey Smithsonian, who
solves crimes with fashion clues, Death on
Heels (Number 8) takes Lacey out of her
comfort zone and into the Wild West. While
researching fashion, Byerrum has collected
her own assortment of 1940s styles, but
laments her lack of closet space. She has
been a D.C. news reporter and playwright
and holds a Virginia P.I. registration.
Website: www.ellenbyerrum.com
The Mortsafe, sixth and shortest of the
Alasdair Cameron/Jean Fairbairn series,
takes place in mysterious underground
Edinburgh. Of The Blue Hackle, Publisher’s
Weekly says, “...Carl’s spirited fifth mystery
featuring American travel journalist Jean
Fairbairn and her Scottish fiancé, retired
detective inspector Alasdair Cameron
(after 2009’s The Charm Stone)...to diverting
effect.” Lillian is the author of numerous
other mystery and fantasy novels and short
stories, all available in electronic and
paper form.
Website: www.lillianstewartcarl.com
Lillian Stewart
Carl
Dorothy Cannell
Dorothy Cannell
Dorothy Cannell was born in Nottingham,
England, and came to the U.S. in 1963. She
married Julian Cannell, and lived in Peoria,
Illinois, from 1965 to 2004. They then
moved to Maine where they reside with
their dog Teddy and a cat named Killer.
They have four children, Warren, Jason,
Rachael, who reside in central Illinois, and
Shana, who resides in Maine. Among
them, there are ten grandchildren.
Kate Carlisle
Kate Carlisle
Karen Cantwell
Karen Cantwell
Karen Cantwell writes the Barbara Marr
Mystery Series, which includes Take the
Monkeys and Run, Citizen Insane and Silenced
by the Yams. Like Barbara Marr, Karen is a
mother living in the suburbs. Unlike Barb,
she has never found monkeys in her trees
or a severed human head in her neighbor’s
basement, and for this she is very thankful.
Karen loves to hear from readers.
Website: KarenCantwell.com
Trish Carrico
JoAnna Carl
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JoAnna Carl writes the Chocoholic mysteries. In these a young woman who is
business manager for her aunt’s chocolate
company solves mysteries in a Lake
Michigan resort community. The lighthearted traditional mysteries also feature
lore or information about the history, science and trivia of chocolate. Carl is a pseudonym for Eve K. Sandstrom, who earlier
published six mysteries under her own
name. She has attended Malice Domestic
for twenty-plus years.
A native Californian, NYT bestselling author
Kate Carlisle worked in television production
for many years before turning to writing. A
lifelong fascination with the art and craft of
bookbinding led her to write the Bibliophile
Mysteries featuring Brooklyn Wainwright,
whose bookbinding and restoration skills
invariably uncover old secrets, treachery and
murder. A recipient of the acclaimed Daphne
du Maurier award, Kate also writes romance
for Harlequin Desire and loves to visit with
readers on Facebook.
Website: www.katecarlisle.com
Trish Carrico
Trish Carrico has been fascinated by words
since she learned to read at age three. As a
girl, she went from rewriting the endings of
her favorite books to reviewing books for
her high school paper. Later on, after a stint
in the theater and public service, she was an
editor and wrote freelance articles for The
Washington Post. Her story, “Death Near the
Rim of Heaven,” appeared in Chesapeake
Crimes: They Had It Comin’.
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Attending Authors
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Elizabeth Lynn
Casey
Mindy Starns Clark
While spending a rainy afternoon at a
friend’s house more than thirty years ago,
Elizabeth Lynn Casey fell in love with writing over a stack of blank paper, a box of
crayons and a freshly sharpened number
two pencil. From that moment forward, she
never wanted to do anything else. Today,
Elizabeth writes the Southern Sewing Circle
Mystery Series and the upcoming Amish
Mysteries (writing as Laura Bradford).
She lives in New York with her family.
Website: www.elizabethlynncasey.com
Jane K. Cleland
Jessie Chandler
Jessie Chandler
Debut author Jessie Chandler is the Vice
President of the Twin Cities chapter of
Sisters in Crime. In her spare time,
Chandler sells unique, artsy T-shirts and
other assorted trinkets to unsuspecting conference and festival goers. She is a former
police officer and State Patrol dispatcher.
Jessie resides in Minneapolis with her
partner of 16 years.
Website: JessieChandler.com
Jane K. Cleland
Jeffrey Cohen
Joelle Charbonneau
Joelle
Charbonneau
Joelle Charbonneau has performed in a variety of opera and musical theatre productions
across Chicagoland. She now teaches private
voice lessons and uses her stage experience
to create compelling characters in her books.
Skating Over the Line featuring Rebecca
Robbins (who Kirkus calls the “Midwest’s
laid-back answer to Stephanie Plum”) hit
shelves in September 2011. The first of her
new Glee Club mystery series, Murder for
Choir (Berkley), will debut July 3, 2012.
Website: www.joellecharbonneau.net
Dolled Up for Murder is the seventh book in
Jane K. Cleland’s Josie Prescott Antiques
Mystery series [St. Martin’s Minotaur]. Her
new short story, “Last Supper,” which introduces a 12-year-old detective, appears in the
June 2012 issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery
Magazine. “Josie” stories have also appeared
in the magazine. Jane chairs the Wolfe
Pack’s literary awards, which include the
Nero Award and the Black Orchid Novella
Award, granted in partnership with AHMM.
Website: www.janecleland.net
Jeffrey Cohen
Jeffrey Cohen writes the Haunted
Guesthouse mystery series (An Uninvited
Ghost, Night of the Living Deed) under the
name E.J. Copperman. As himself, he
writes the Double Feature Mystery series
(Some Like It Hot-Buttered, A Night at the
Operation) and the Aaron Tucker Mystery
series (For Whom the Minivan Rolls, As Dog Is
My Witness). He lives in New Jersey and
considers himself relatively normal.
But then, it’s all relative, isn’t it?
Blog: heydeadguy.typepad.com/heydeadguy
Website: www.ejcopperman.com
Nancy J. Cohen
Erika Chase
Erika Chase
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Erika Chase, in a parallel life AKA Linda
Wiken, is a former mystery bookstore
owner. Her first Ashton Corners Book Club
mystery, A Killer Read, hit the shelves
in April. Read and Buried is slated for
November 2012 release. Her short stories
have appeared in the seven Ladies’ Killing
Circle anthologies and in magazines, and
she’s been short-listed for an Arthur Ellis
Award from Crime Writers of Canada.
Website: www.erikachase.com
Nancy J. Cohen
Nancy J. Cohen is a multi-published author
of romance and mystery whose first book
won the HOLT Medallion Award. Titles in
her popular Bad Hair Day Mysteries have
made the IMBA bestseller list, while her
imaginative sci-fi romances have garnered
rave reviews. A featured speaker at libraries
and conferences, Nancy is the author of
over fifteen titles. She is listed in Contemporary Authors, Poets & Writers and Who’s Who
in U.S. Writers, Editors, & Poets.
Website: www.nancyjcohen.com
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Kate Collins
Kate Collins
Tom Crowley
Kate Collins is the author of the national
bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series.
Her books have made The New York Times
Extended Bestseller List, Barnes & Noble
bestseller lists, and the Independent
Booksellers bestsellers list. Kate’s latest
mystery, Nightshade on Elm Street, #13 in the
Flower Shop Mystery series, will be released
November, 2012. Kate’s mysteries are available in print, digital and large-print editions,
and romances in digital.
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
Website: www.katecollinsbooks.com
Tom Crowley’s origins are in Milwaukee,
though virtually his entire adult life has
been spent living in Asia. His education was
at Marquette University and Johns Hopkin’s
SAIS in Washington, D.C. His career has
spanned service as an infantry officer in
Vietnam, in the Foreign Service and the
commercial world. His writing reflects his
varied experiences in Asia. He resides in
Kensington, Maryland, and Bangkok. His
most recent book is Viper’s Tail.
Website: www.mettavisions.com
Tom Crowley
John Curran
Sheila Connolly
Sheila Connolly
After exploring careers ranging from art historian to investment banker to professional
genealogist, Sheila Connolly began writing
mysteries in 2001, and is now a full-time
writer. She writers the Orchard Mystery
series, set in Western Massachusetts, as well
as the Museum Mystery series, based in
Philadelphia. In addition, she’s working on
a new series set in Ireland that will debut in
2013. Sheila lives in Massachusetts with her
husband, daughter, and three cats.
Blog:www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com
Website: www.sheilaconnolly.com
John Curran
Jeanne M. Dams
Jacqueline Corcoran
Jacqueline Corcoran is the author of mysteries
A Month of Sundays and Backlit and middlegrade fantasy Time Witch. Forthcoming novels
include mystery Maiming of the Shrew and
YA Memoir of Death and Love Triangles are
Murder. Jacqueline has also published three
self-help books and eleven textbooks.
Website: www.jacquelinecorcoran.com
Jacqueline
Corcoran
John Curran won the Agatha, Anthony and
Macavity for Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks
and is Agatha- and Edgar®-nominated this
year for Agatha Christie: Murder in the
Making. He previously edited the Agatha
Christie Newsletter and acted as consultant
to the National Trust during the renovation
of Christie’s former home, Greenway House
in Devon. He is writing a PhD thesis on The
Golden Age of Detection at Trinity College,
Dublin where he lives.
Website: www.johncurran.info
Jeanne M. Dams
Jeanne M. Dams writes “cheerful mysteries”
in two series. Her protagonist Dorothy
Martin is a sixtyish American, living and
sleuthing in contemporary England. (The
first “Dorothy” book won the 1995 Agatha.)
Hilda Johansson, by contrast, is a young
Swedish immigrant in South Bend, Indiana
in the early 1900s, housemaid to the
Studebaker family. The latest Dorothy is
The Evil That Men Do; look for The Corpse of
St. James’s soon. Hilda’s newest adventure
is Murder in Burnt Orange.
Website: www.jeannedams.com
Amy Corwin
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Amy Corwin is a member of Mystery
Writers of America and Romance Writers
of America and has been writing for the last
ten years. She writes historical mysteries set
in the 19th century, featuring the fictional
inquiry agency: Second Sons. In 2012, her
first contemporary mystery, Whacked!, will be
released in hardcover from Five Star/Gale.
Website: www.amycorwin.com
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Casey Daniels
Casey Daniels
Vicki Delany
Casey Daniels once applied for a job as a
tour guide in a cemetery. She didn’t get it,
but she did get the idea for the Pepper
Martin mysteries. Pepper solves mysteries
for the ghosts in the cemetery where she
works. Book #8 Wild, Wild Death, was published in January. Casey is also Kylie Logan,
who writes the Button Box mysteries. Book
#1 was Button Holed and Hot Button will be
out in June.
Website: www.caseydaniels.com
Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific
and varied crime writers. She writes everything from standalone novels of gothic suspense (Burden of Memory) to the Constable
Molly Smith books (In the Shadow of the
Glacier, Among the Departed), a traditional
village/police procedural series set in the
British Columbia Interior, to the lighthearted Klondike Gold Rush Series, the most
recent of which is Gold Mountain. Vicki lives
in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Blog: klondikeandtrafalgar.blogspot.com
Website: www.vickidelany.com
Vicki Delany
Hilary Davidson
Hilary Davidson
Hilary Davidson won the 2011 Anthony
Award for Best First Novel for The Damage
Done. She also earned a Crimespree Award
and nominations for Arthur Ellis and
Macavity awards. The sequel, The Next One
to Fall, was published by Forge in February
2012. Hilary’s short stories have been
featured everywhere from Ellery Queen to
Thuglit. A Toronto-born travel journalist and
the author of 18 nonfiction books, she has
lived in New York City since October 2001.
Website: www.hilarydavidson.com
Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
book columnist for The Washington Post and a
frequent contributor to several literary periodicals. He is the author of the memoir An
Open Book and of four collections of essays:
Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book and
Classics for Pleasure. His most recent book,
published by Princeton University Press, is
On Conan Doyle. He is currently teaching a
course on the adventure novel at the
University of Maryland.
Krista Davis
Krista Davis
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Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime. Her first
novel, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme, was nominated for an Agatha. The sixth book in
the series, The Diva Digs Up the Dirt will be
released on June 5th. Her short story “Dead
Eye Gravy” was published in Fish Tales, the
Guppy Anthology. Krista lives in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia with three dogs
and two cats.
Blogs: mysteryloverskitchen.com & killer
characters.com
Website: divamysteries.com
Laura DiSilverio
Laura DiSilverio
Laura DiSilverio served twenty years as an
Air Force intelligence officer before retiring
to write and parent full time. She writes the
Mall Cop mysteries (Berkley Prime Crime)
and the Swift Investigations PI series
(Minotaur). Her first PI novel, Swift Justice,
was a finalist for the Lefty Award for Best
Humorous Mystery of 2010, and The Writer
magazine featured her as a Breakthrough
author. Find her on Facebook.
Website: www.lauradisilverio.com
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Attending Authors
Vicki Doudera
Carole Nelson
Douglas
Vicki Doudera
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Top-producing realtor Vicki Doudera uses
high-stakes, luxury real estate as the setting
for a suspenseful series starring crime-solving, deal-making agent Darby Farr. A broker with a busy coastal firm since 2003 and
former Realtor of the Year, Vicki’s latest,
Deadly Offer, takes Darby to a winery where
murder, mayhem and Merlot all mingle. As
in the popular Killer Listing and A House To
Die For, Darby Farr discovers that real estate
means real trouble.
Website: www.vickidoudera.com
Kaitlyn Dunnett is the author of the Liss
MacCrimmon Scottish-American Heritage
Mysteries. The latest entry is Scotched
(October 2011), in which the murders take
place at the First Annual Maine-ly Cozy
Con! Kaitlyn lives on a Christmas tree farm
with her husband and three cats. As Kathy
Lynn Emerson, she wrote the Agatha
award-winning How to Write Killer Historical
Mysteries and the Face Down series featuring
16th century herbalist Susanna Appleton.
Website: KaitlynDunnett.com
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Carole Nelson Douglas
A. B. Emrys
Literary chameleon Carole Nelson Douglas
reinvented Irene Adler as a formidable divadetective and remade Las Vegas twice:
“slightly surreal” for Midnight Louie, feline
PI, and his human quartet of crime-solvers,
and “post-apocalyptic from Hell” for Delilah
Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator). Carole’s
sixty novels have won many awards and
made mystery, fantasy and romance bestseller lists, including USA Today. An exreporter, she loves reading, writing, research,
cats, vintage clothing and just desserts.
Website: www.carolenelsondouglas.com
A. B. (Barbara) Emrys taught writing and
popular literature at Columbia College,
Florida State University and the University
of Nebraska. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and
anthologies, currently forthcoming in
Whacked! (Rainstorm Press). She guestedited an upcoming issue of Clues on paranormal mysteries, and her study of mystery
form, Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the
Evolution of the Casebook Novel (McFarland)
is nominated for an Agatha.
A. B. Emrys
Hallie Ephron
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Elizabeth J.
Duncan
Elizabeth J. Duncan’s first work of fiction,
The Cold Light of Mourning, won the
Minotaur Books /Malice Domestic
Competition and was nominated for both
an Agatha Award (USA) and Arthur Ellis
Award (Canada). The third novel in the
series, A Killer’s Christmas in Wales, was
published in 2011. Elizabeth lives in
Toronto with her dog, Dolly, and spends
several weeks each year in North Wales
where her books are set.
Hallie Ephron
Kathleen Ernst
Kathleen Ernst
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Hallie Ephron writes books she hopes will
keep readers up nights. Her two latest, Come
and Find Me and Never Tell a Lie, are both
Mary Higgins Clark Award finalists. Never
Tell a Lie was adapted into a movie for the
Lifetime Movie Network. She coauthored
five Dr. Peter Zak mysteries and wrote the
Edgar®-nominated Writing and Selling Your
Mystery Novel.
Website: hallieephron.com
The Chloe Ellefson mysteries reflect the
decade Kathleen spent as a curator at a
large historic site. Old World Murder and The
Heirloom Murders will soon be followed by
The Lightkeeper’s Legacy. Kathleen’s next children’s mystery will be published in 2013.
Honors for her work include Agatha and
Edgar® nominations. Kathleen lives and
writes in Wisconsin, but takes great pleasure in research trips to new locales!
Website: www.kathleenernst.com
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Attending Authors
Christy Fifield
Christy Fifield
Christina Freeburn
Christy Fifield writes the Haunted Gift Shop
series for Berkley (Murder Buys a T-Shirt). As
Christy Evans, she is the author of the Lady
Plumber mysteries; and she’s multipublished in speculative fiction, romance and
young adult for Tsunami Ridge Publishing
as (her actual name) Christina F. York. The
genre hopping isn’t really her fault: she’s a
Gemini. Christy lives with husband and
fellow writer J. Steven York on the Oregon
Coast under strict feline supervision.
Blog: christy-evans-mystery.blogspot.com
Website: www.yorkwriters.com
Christina Freeburn’s romantic suspense
series, New Beginnings, features a skiptracing business specializing in relocating
abused women. The first two books, Lost
Then Found and Led Astray, are available.
Under C.A. Freeburn, she republished Dying
for Redemption, a detective novel featuring PI
Callous Demar whose agency is located in
Limbo. She has had three mystery novels
published and her first novel, Parental
Source, was a 2003 Library of Virginia
Literary Award nominee.
Website: www.theselfrescueprincess.wordpress.com
Cristina Freeburn
Charles Finch
Charles Finch
Charles Finch recently moved back to the
States from England, and lives in New York
with his wife and their Yorkshire terrier,
Lucy. He is the author of the bestselling
Charles Lenox series of Victorian mysteries,
the most recent of which, A Burial At Sea,
was called “rousing, baffling, and thrilling”
by The New York Times. His first literary
novel, The Last Enchantments, will be out in
2013 from St. Martin’s Press.
Website: facebook.com/charlesfinchauthor
Kate Gallison
Kate Gallison
Amanda Flower
Amanda Flower
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Former Best First Novel Agatha Nominee
Amanda Flower is the author of India
Hayes Mystery Series featuring a sarcastic
librarian-sleuth. In Murder in a Basket, India
tries to solve a basket weaver’s murder and
find a home for a labradoodle with a sizable
trust fund. Summer 2012, Amanda will
debut the Appleseed Creek Mystery Series
(B&H Publishing), which takes place in
Ohio’s Amish Country. In 2013, she will
write as Isabella Alan for NAL.
Websites: www.amandaflower.com,
www.isabellaalan.com
Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic
Alliance fiction prize for 2010, Kate Gallison
writes the Emily Daggett Weiss silent movie
mysteries under the name of Irene Fleming.
As Kate Gallison she wrote the acclaimed
Mother Lavinia Grey books and a series
about a Trenton private detective. She lives
quietly in Lambertville, New Jersey, with
her husband and the obligatory cat. She is
descended from a convicted Salem witch.
Blog: crimewriters.blogspot.com
Website: www.kategallison.com
Kaye George
Kaye George
Kaye George, Agatha nominated short story
writer, is the author of Choke, Mainly
Murder Press, as well as A Patchwork of
Stories, a collection of her previously published stories. Other stories are in Fish Tales:
A Guppy Anthology and in All Things Dark and
Dastardly. She reviews for Suspense Magazine,
and writes for several newsletters and blogs.
She gives workshops on various subjects
and more stories appear here and there.
She lives near Austin, Texas.
Website: KayeGeorge.com
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Attending Authors
Barb Goffman
Debra H.
Goldstein
Chris Grabenstein
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Barb Goffman
Barbara Graham
Barb Goffman is a short-story author who’s
branching into novels. She’s had four stories
nominated for the Agatha Award, including
“Truth and Consequences” this year. Her
newest story, “The Lord Is My Shamus,”
appears in the just-released Chesapeake
Crimes: This Job is Murder. Barb recently finished her first novel, Call Girl. She is Malice
Domestic’s program chair, secretary of her
local MWA chapter and a past president of
her local Sisters in Crime chapter.
Website: www.barbgoffman.com
Barbara Graham began making up stories in
the third grade instead of learning to multiply and divide. A native Texan, she later
lived in Denver, New Orleans and East
Tennessee. Inspiration for Silersville (home
of her imaginary friends) comes from her
Tennessee period. An unrepentant quilting
addict, she lives in Wyoming with her long
suffering husband and two dogs. Her motto
is, “Every book needs a dead body and
every bed needs a quilt”.
Website: www.bgmysteries.com
Barbara Graham
Debra H. Goldstein
Beth Groundwater
Debra H. Goldstein hates to be pigeonholed. Judge, author, litigator, wife, stepmom, mother of twins and civic volunteer
are words that have been used to describe
her. Maze in Blue, her debut mystery, set on
the University of Michigan’s campus in the
1970’s, is the first of Chalet Publishers’
Denney Silber series. She also has won
nonfiction and fiction awards for “Maybe I
Should Hug You,” and her short stories
“Malicious Mischief” and “Legal Magic.”
Blog:
www.debrahgoldstein.com/dhgblog.html
Website: www.DebraHGoldstein.com
Beth Groundwater writes the Claire
Hanover gift basket designer series (A Real
Basket Case, a Best First Novel Agatha Award
finalist, and To Hell in a Handbasket) and the
Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures series
starring whitewater river ranger Mandy
Tanner (Deadly Currents, March 2011, and
Wicked Eddies, May 2012). The third books
in both series will appear in 2013. Beth
enjoys Colorado’s many outdoor activities,
including skiing and whitewater rafting,
and loves talking to book clubs.
Blog: bethgroundwater.blogspot.com
Website: bethgroundwater.com
Beth
Groundwater
Chris Grabenstein
Rebecca M. Hale
Chris Grabenstein is the Anthony and
Agatha Award winning author of the John
Ceepak mysteries for adults and the
Haunted Mystery series (Random House)
for children. His new caper series for young
readers, Riley Mack and the Other Known
Troublemakers, was just published by
HarperCollins. Pegasus Crime will publish
the seventh Ceepak mystery, FUN HOUSE,
this May. Chris is thrilled to see The Black
Heart Crypt nominated for an Agatha this
year. So is his mother.
Website: www.ChrisGrabenstein.com
Rebecca M. Hale is The New York Times bestselling author of How to Wash a Cat (the Cats
and Curios Mystery series), starring her
cats, Rupert and Isabella. The fourth book
in the lineup, How to Tail a Cat, is due out
July 2012. Rebecca also writes the Mystery
in the Islands series, set in the U.S. Virgin
Islands. The first title, Adrift on St. John,
publishes March 2012.
Website:
www.facebook.com/Rebecca.M.Hale.author
Rebecca M. Hale
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Attending Authors
Parnell Hall
Charlaine Harris
Parnell Hall is the author of the Puzzle Lady
crossword puzzle mysteries, the Stanley
Hastings private eye novels and the Steve
Winslow courtroom dramas. eBook vs Book is
his latest video on YouTube.
A native of the Mississippi Delta, Charlaine
Harris has lived her whole life in various
southern states. Her first book, a mystery,
was published in 1981. After that promising
debut, her career meandered along until the
success of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
Now all her books are in print, and she is a
very happy camper. She is married and has
three children.
Website: charlaineharris.com
Parnell Hall
Charlaine Harris
Janice Hamrick
Janice Hamrick
RJ Harlick
Janice Hamrick is the author of the Jocelyn
Shore mystery series. Her first novel,
Death On Tour, is the winner of the
MWA/Minotaur First Crime Novel award
and nominee for both the 2012 Mary
Higgins Clark award and RT Reviewers’
Choice First Crime Novel award. Her second Jocelyn Shore mystery, Death Makes the
Cut, will be published in July 2012. Janice
lives in Austin, Texas, where she is busy
completing the third novel in the series.
Website: www.janicehamrick.com
Carolyn Hart
Carolyn Hart
Carolyn Hart is the author of 47 mysteries.
Death Comes Silently, the 22nd Death on
Demand title, is new this spring. Hart’s
books have won Agatha, Anthony and
Macavity awards. She also writes the Bailey
Ruth Raeburn and Henrie O series. The first
in the Bailey Ruth series — Ghost at Work —
was named a notable book of 2008 by PW.
She lives in Oklahoma City with her husband, Phil.
Website: www.CarolynHart.com
RJ Harlick
Robin Hathaway
RJ Harlick writes the acclaimed Meg Harris
mystery series set in the wilds of Quebec. Like
her heroine Meg Harris, RJ loves nothing better than to roam the forests surrounding her
own wilderness cabin or paddle the endless
lakes and rivers. The fourth book, Arctic Blue
Death, was a finalist in the 2010 Arthur Ellis
Award for Best Novel. A Green Place for Dying,
the fifth and latest in the series, has Meg
scrambling to find a missing native woman.
Website: www.rjharlick.ca
Robin Hathaway’s first novel, The Doctor Digs
a Grave, won the Minotaur Books/Malice
Domestic Competition in 1997 and an
Agatha Award in 1998. Since then Robin
has published five Dr. Fenimore mysteries
and three novels in her Jo Banks series. The
third in this series, Sleight of Hand, won the
2009 Deadly Ink “David Award.” Robin
recently completed a standalone espionage
novel set during WWII in southern New
Jersey. She lives in New York City.
Website: www.RobinHathaway.com
Robin Hathaway
Jennifer Harlow
Jennifer Harlow
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Jennifer Harlow, author of Mind Over
Monsters, first in the F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad
series, spent her childhood scaring herself
with horror movies and books. She grew
up to earn a degree at the University of
Virginia which she put to use as a radio DJ,
crisis hotline volunteer, bookseller and government investigator, among others. In her
free time, she continues to scare the beejepers out of herself watching scary movies
and opening her credit card bills.
Blog: blog.jenniferharlowbooks.com
Website: www.jenniferharlowbooks.com
Betty Hechtman
Betty Hechtman
All Betty Hechtman ever wanted to do was
to make something out of nothing. Like
taking a ball of yarn and turning it into a
scarf, or taking a dictionary full of words
and turning them into a mystery series.
Writing the national bestselling crochet
series featuring Molly Pink and the Tarzana
Hookers for Berkley Prime Crime is a dream
come true.
Website: www.BettyHechtman.com
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Attending Authors
Sara J. Henry
Sara J. Henry
Judy Hogan
Sara J. Henry’s first novel, Learning to Swim,
features a woman living in the Adirondacks
who rescues a small child — and then must
figure out what to do with him. Learning to
Swim is a finalist for the Agatha, Barry and
Mary Higgins Clark awards, with its sequel
scheduled for November 2012. Sara grew
up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and now lives
on a dirt road in Vermont with at least one
too many dogs.
Website: www.SaraJHenry.com
Judy Hogan has served as publisher
(Carolina Wren Press), teacher of creative
writing and freelance editor. She chaired
the Committee of Small Magazine Editors
and Publishers, 1975-78, and presided over
the North Carolina Writers’ Network, 198487. Judy has five volumes of poetry from
small presses, and two prose works. Killer
Frost, her first mystery novel, a finalist in
the 2011 Best First Malice Domestic competition, will be published Sept. 1, 2012, by
Mainly Murder Press.
Blog: postmenopausalzest.blogspot.com
Website: judyhogan.home.mindspring.com
Judy Hogan
Joan Hess
Joan Hess
Joan Hess has been seen around town in a
blue Mustang convertible, and she intends
to dye her hair to match said car. Although
this is a secret, she and Dorothy Cannell
were detained briefly by local police officers,
and then kept under surveillance for the
next two hours. Her latest books are The
Merry Wives of Maggody, Mummy Dearest and
Deader Home and Gardens (2012).
Melodie Johnson Howe
Sasscer Hill
Sasscer Hill
Sasscer Hill lives on a Maryland farm and
has bred racehorses for many years. A winner of amateur steeplechase events, she has
galloped her horses on the farm and trained
them into the winner’s circle. Her first
novel, Full Mortality, was a finalist for both
Agatha and Macavity Best First Mystery
Awards. Her second novel, Racing from
Death, was recently released.
Blog: SasscerHill.blogspot.com
Melodie Johnson
Howe
Maddy Hunter
Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman
Anne is the author of five published books
including Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the
Road with Chee and Leaphorn, and her
newest, Gardens of Santa Fe, both created
with husband-photographer Don Strel.
Anne is the co-founder of Wordharvest
Writers Workshops which offers the annual
Tony Hillerman Writers Conference in
November. The eldest of mystery author
Tony Hillerman’s six children, she is touring
the Southwest this year with Roads Scholar
programs in honor of her dad.
Website: www.annehillerman.com
Maddy Hunter
Maddy Hunter is the Agatha Award-nominated author of the nationally bestselling
Passport to Peril mysteries. After a hiatus of
four years, she’s back on bookstore shelves
with Dutch Me Deadly, the seventh adventure in her comedic globetrotting series that
features Emily Andrew-Miceli and her band
of zany Iowa senior citizens. Follow Maddy
on her Facebook fan page.
Website: www.maddyhunter.com
Roberta Isleib
Roberta Isleib
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Melodie Johnson Howe’s new book for
2012 is Shooting Hollywood: The Diana Poole
Stories. Diana Poole, after the death of her
husband, returns to the only career she
knows — acting. Hollywood can be a brutal
place for an actress in her early forties
especially when she discovers crime in the
world of glamour and greed. Ms. Howe has
been nominated for two Barry Awards, an
Edgar®, an Anthony and an Agatha.
Website: www.MelodieJohnsonHowe.com
Roberta Isleib (aka Lucy Burdette) is a clinical psychologist whose books and stories
have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony
and Macavity awards. She is a pastpresident of Sisters in Crime. Her Key
West food critic mystery series debuted in
January with An Appetite for Murder. Death in
Four Courses will follow in September.
Blog: www.jungleredwriters.com
Website: www.lucyburdette.com
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Attending Authors
Smita Harish Jain
Kathryn Johnson
Smita Harish Jain has published three short
stories: “Cosmic Justice,” Chesapeake Crimes
4; “The Body in the Gali,” Mumbai Noir; and
“An Education in Murder, Chesapeake Crimes
5 — and is currently working on her first
novel, a mystery set in Mumbai, India.
When she isn’t writing or working at her
day job, she is cheering her husband on at
triathlons. One day, she will probably write
a mystery set at a triathlon in Mumbai.
Kathryn Johnson has written over 40 novels for major U.S. publishers and teaches
the popular Extreme Novelist courses at The
Writer’s Center, Bethesda. She is a former
Agatha Award finalist. The first of her new
series of Victorian thrillers, written as Mary
Hart Perry for HarperCollins, launches
August 1, 2012. The Wild Princess, set in
1871 London, features Queen Victoria’s
fourth daughter, Louise. Kathryn also offers
mentoring/editorial services for fiction
authors.
Blog: www.writebyyou.blogspot.com
Website: www.writebyyou.com
Kathryn Johnson
Darrell James
Darrell James
Darrell James is a fiction writer with residence in both Pasadena, California, and
Tucson, Arizona. His short stories have
appeared in numerous book anthologies
and have garnered a number of awards, to
include finalist in the 2009 Derringer
Awards. His debut novel, Nazareth Child,
was recently published by Midnight
Ink/Llewellyn Worldwide. His personal
odyssey to publication appears in the
Writer’s Digest book How I Got Published,
with J.A. Jance, David Morrell, Clive
Cussler and other notable authors.
Website: www.darrelljames.com
Miranda James
Miranda James
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Dean James is a multi-award-winning
author of over twenty books of mystery
fiction and nonfiction. He has written as
Jimmie Ruth Evans and Honor Hartman.
Writing as Miranda James, he is The New
York Times bestselling author of Murder Past
Due (Berkley Prime Crime 2010) and
Classified as Murder (Berkley Prime Crime
2011). This new series features widowed
librarian Charlie Harris and his Maine coon
cat, Diesel.
Website: www.catinthestacks.com
Michelle L. Johnson
Michelle L.
Johnson
Michelle L. Johnson’s debut mystery, The
Footloose Killer, was released in March of
2012. It is the first in a series starring
Detectives Lexi Sawyer and Morgan Pryce.
She is currently working on two novels and
a memoir and also edits for two publishing
houses. Michelle has owned two independent bookstores and managed another. She
resides in Virginia Beach, the perfect setting
for her detective series.
Blog: www.michellejohnson35.wordpress.com
Website: www.michelleljohnson.com
Linda O. Johnston
Linda O. Johnston’s first published fiction,
in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, won the
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best
First Mystery Short Story of the year. Linda
now writes romance and mystery novels.
Linda’s Pet Rescue Mysteries, a spinoff from
her Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter series for
Berkley Prime Crime, features Lauren
Linda O. Johnston Vancouver, a determined pet rescuer who
runs a no-kill shelter. In this cozy series,
“no-kill” refers to animals, not people.
Blog: KillerHobbies.blogspot.com
Website: www.LindaOJohnston.com
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Attending Authors
Alma Katsu
Alma Katsu
Laurie R. King
Alma Katsu’s debut The Taker (Gallery
Books), a historical suspense novel with a
supernatural element, was named a top
ten debut of 2011 by American Library
Association-Booklist and made U.K. bestsellers lists. The Reckoning, the second book
in the trilogy, is coming out in June 2012.
Ms. Katsu is a former senior intelligence
analyst.
Website: www.almakatsu.com
Laurie R. King is a third generation
Californian with a background in theology,
whose first crime novel (1993’s A Grave
Talent) won the Edgar® and Creasey awards.
Her yearly novels include a historical series
about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes,
from Agatha-nominee The Beekeeper’s
Apprentice to 2011’s Pirate King. Her books
have won the Edgar®, Creasey, Wolfe,
Lambda and Macavity awards, and appear
regularly on The New York Times bestseller list.
Website: www.LaurieRKing.com
Laurie R. King
Toni L.P. Kelner
Toni L.P. Kelner
Toni L.P. Kelner is the author of the “Where
are they now?” and the Laura Fleming novels. She is a prolific short story writer, and
along with Charlaine Harris, co-edits fantasy/mystery anthologies. Toni has an
Agatha teapot and Romantic Times Career
Achievement Award on her mantel, and
has been nominated for the Anthony, the
Macavity and the Derringer. She lives in
Massachusetts with her husband, author
Stephen P. Kelner, Jr. and their two
daughters.
Website: www.tonilpkelner.com
Matthew J. Kirby
Matthew J. Kirby is a writer of books for
young readers, and a school psychologist.
His middle grade novel Icefall is nominated
for the 2011 Best Children’s/Young Adult
Agatha award, as well as the Edgar® Award
in juvenile fiction, and won the Parents’
Choice Award Gold Medal.
Website: www.matthewjkirby.com
Matthew J. Kirby
Robert Kresge
M. E. Kemp
M. E. Kemp
M. E. Kemp is the author of a series of
historical mysteries featuring two nosy
Puritans as detectives. Her fifth book, Death
of Cape Cod Cavalier, will be out in the Fall of
2012. Kemp’s short stories and articles have
appeared in national and regional magazines. Kemp lives in Saratoga Springs,
New York.
Website: mekempmysteries.com
Robert Kresge
Robert Kresge is the author of two
Warbonnet Mysteries, Murder for Greenhorns,
a finalist for the 2011 Bruce Alexander
Award for Best Historical Mystery, and
Painted Women, both set in 1870s Wyoming
and featuring sleuths Monday Malone and
Kate Shaw. This is Rob’s ninth Malice, his
first as an author. A D.C. native, he served
30 years in the CIA and was a founding
member of the Counterterrorist Center. He
now lives in Albuquerque.
Website: www.robertkresge.com
Tracy Kiely
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Tracy Kiely graduated with an English
degree from Trinity College in 1990.
This accomplishment, however, merely
prompted job interviewers to ask, “How
fast can you type?” Her standard answer of
“not so fast” usually put an end to further
questions. That’s when she thought writing
a novel might be a good idea. Tracy’s novels combine her love of the English cozy
and all things Jane Austen. Her latest,
Murder Most Persuasive, was released
September 2011.
Website: Tracykielymysteries.com
Jim Lavene
Jim Lavene
Jim Lavene, and his wife/partner Joyce, celebrated his 40th anniversary and their 60th
novel published in 2011 with A Spirited Gift,
Book 3 in the Missing Pieces Mystery series
from Berkley Prime Crime, now a National
Bestseller. He enjoys travel, collecting dragons and spending time with his grandchildren. He is president of the only North
Carolina chapter of Sisters in Crime,
Murder We Write, in High Point.
Website: www.joyceandjimlavene.com
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Attending Authors
Joyce Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Greg Lilly
Joyce Lavene and her husband/partner Jim
are currently writing three mysteries
for Berkley Prime Crime, including the
Renaissance Faire series, the Missing Pieces
series and a new series, the Sweet Pepper
Fire Brigade Mysteries which begins in 2013.
She enjoys going to yard sales with her
daughters, looking at antiques and photography. She recently finished working on the
second Cape Fear Crime Festival mystery
conference in Wilmington, North Carolina,
along with Jim and author Judy Nichols.
Website:
www.facebook/Joyce and Jim Lavene
Greg Lilly writes the Derek Mason Mystery
series where family ties can lead to strangulation. The latest release, Scalping the Red
Rocks, was nominated for the Lambda
Literary Award. He’s also the author of the
novels Devil’s Bridge and Under a Copper Moon.
His current project is a standalone mystery
set in 1690s and present-day Virginia. Greg is
a workshop presenter, magazine editor and
publishing house representative. He writes
and lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Website: www.GregLilly.com
Greg Lilly
Maria Lima
Vivian Lawry
Vivian Lawry
Vivian Lawry, author of Dark Harbor: A
Chesapeake Bay Mystery, is Appalachian by
birth and a social psychologist by training.
Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in more than thirty literary journals, ranging from Apalachee Review to
Xavier Review. She is currently serving as
president of the Central Virginia Chapter
of Sisters in Crime.
Website: VivianLawry.com
Maria Lima
Maria loves to read, write and watch genre
TV and feels very lucky that people actually
pay her to do at least one of these things.
Maria’s Blood Lines series, set in the Texas
Hill Country, is published by Pocket Books.
You’ll also find her in various genre-based
essay anthologies from Smart Pop Books
among other collected works. She loves to
mix mystery, fantasy and magic in everything she writes.
Website: www.marialima.com
Clyde Linsley
Con Lehane
Con Lehane
Con Lehane has published three crime novels featuring New York City bartender Brian
McNulty: Beware the Solitary Drinker, What
Goes Around Comes Around and Death at the
Old Hotel. His latest effort, Murder at the 42nd
Street Library, features librarian Raymond
Ambler (a friend of the aforementioned
McNulty) and will appear in 2012. Over the
years, he (Lehane, that is) has worked as a
college professor, union organizer, labor
journalist and bartender.
Website: www.conlehane.com/reviews.html.
Clyde Linsley is the author of four mysteries, the last three of which are set early in
the 19th Century and feature Josiah Beede,
the “boy hero” of the Battle New Orleans.
He is at work on a book set around the
Mississippi River. He and his wife live in
Northern Virginia.
Clyde Linsley
Liz Lipperman
Audrey Liebross
Audrey Liebross, a federal government procurement attorney by day, is finishing a
novel, Chicken Soup Justice, in which Rabbi
Cindy Katzmann solves the murder of an
elderly lady. Audrey’s latest short story is
“Passing Through” in Chesapeake Crimes: They
Had it Comin’. The mother of three sons,
Audrey lives in Annandale, Virginia.
Audrey Liebross
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Liz Lipperman
Liz Lipperman lives north of Dallas with her
high school sweetheart hubby, close to her
kids and grandkids. A retired nurse, she
spent many years chasing the romance
genre until she gave in to all those pesky
villains who kept popping up in her stories.
Last year the first book of her Clueless Cook
Mysteries debuted from Berkley. She also
writes steamy romantic suspense under the
pseudonym, Liz Roth.
Blog:
www.mysteriesandmargaritasblogspot.com
Website: www.lizlipperman.com
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Attending Authors
Sophie Littlefield
Sophie Littlefield
Molly MacRae
Sophie Littlefield earned an Edgar® nomination as well as an Anthony Award and an
RT Book Award for her first novel, A Bad
Day for Sorry. In addition to the Stella
Hardesty mystery series, she writes the
post-apocalyptic Aftertime series and paranormal fiction for young adults. Her most
recent mystery is A Bad Day for Scandal
(Minotaur, 2011). Sophie lives in Northern
California.
Website: www.sophielittlefield.com
Look for Last Wool and Testament, the first in
Molly’s new Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries
— the series that puts the woo-woo in the
wool — coming from Penguin/NAL in
September 2012. In the meantime, read
Lawn Order, hailed by The Boston Globe as
“murder with a dose of drollery.” Molly’s
short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine since 1990. After twenty
years in northeast Tennessee, she now lives
with her family in Champaign, Illinois.
Website: www.mollymacrae.com
Molly MacRae
C. Ellett Logan
C. Ellett Logan
C. Ellett Logan spent the first half of her life
in the Deep South, an experience that
informs her settings and troubles her characters southern-Gothic-style. Today, she’s
a member of the Chesapeake Chapter of
Sisters in Crime (board member for the previous three years) and Mystery Writers of
America. Her short stories show off in
Chesapeake Crimes anthologies (Wildside
Press). Her novel, Miasma, part of The
Quagmire Murder Mysteries, is set in
Georgia’s low country.
Website: www.celogan.com
G.M. Malliet
G.M. Malliet
G.M. Malliet is a two-time Anthony nominee who won the Agatha for her first book,
Death of a Cozy Writer, which initially won
the Malice Domestic grant. Wicked Autumn
(Minotaur 2011) is her first book in the
new Max Tudor series. Library Journal and
The Boston Globe named it one of the top
ten crime novels of 2011. It was a Shelf
Awareness Reviewer’s Choice for one of
the top ten books of 2011.
Website: www.GMMalliet.com
Margaret Maron
Jess Lourey
Jess Lourey
Jess Lourey is the author of the humorous
Murder-by-Month mysteries set in Battle
Lake, Minnesota, and featuring amateur
sleuth, Mira James. Jess has been teaching
writing and sociology at the college level
since 1998. She is a member of Sisters in
Crime and serves on the national board of
Mystery Writers of America. In a starred
review of November Hunt, her seventh book,
Booklist says, “It’s not easy to make people
laugh while they’re on the edge of their
seats, but Lourey pulls it off!”
Website: www.jesslourey.com
Margaret Maron
Sujata Massey
Sujata Massey
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Margaret Maron lives and writes on her
family’s century farm in “Colleton County,”
North Carolina (28 novels, 2 collections of
short stories). She has served as president of
Sisters in Crime and MWA. Her books are
on the reading list for several university
courses in contemporary Southern literature. She does not have a law degree.
Website: www.MargaretMaron.com
Sujata Massey is elated to return to Malice
after a five year absence! She’s author of
the Rei Shimura mystery series, which in
past years gathered six Agatha nominations
and one win. Since last here, she’s published Shimura Trouble, the tenth Rei mystery (print and ebook); and The Convenience
Boy and Other Stories of Japan (ebook).
Coming soon are The Sleeping Dictionary, a
standalone historical suspense novel set in
colonial India, and an eleventh Rei novel.
Website: www.sujatamassey.com
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Attending Authors
Jennifer
McAndrews
Jennifer McAndrews
Catriona McPherson
Jennifer McAndrews is a two-time Daphne
du Maurier Award of Excellence finalist and
a Romance Writers of America Golden
Heart finalist. Her love of mystery began in
middle school, and despite occasional forays
into romance fiction, Jennifer is happiest
weaving puzzles on the page and leaving a
trail of clues for the reader to follow. She
resides in the greater New York metro area
with her husband, children and an assortment of pets.
Website: www.jennifermcandrews.com
Recovering academic, Catriona McPherson,
is the author of six mysteries set in Scotland
in the 1920s, featuring the posh but poor,
brisk but kind, lost but learning, private
detective Dandy Gilver. St. Martin’s Press
launched the series in the U.S. last year
with Dandy Gilver and The Proper Treatment of
Bloodstains. Catriona is as Scottish as a plaid
haggis but has recently moved to northern
California.
Website: www.dandygilver.com
Catriona
McPherson
Cricket McRae
Ruth M. McCarty
Ruth M. McCarty
Nora McFarland
Ruth M. McCarty’s short mysteries have
appeared in several anthologies. She
received honorable mentions in AHMM and
mysteryauthors.com for her flash fiction
and won the 2009 Derringer for Best Flash
Story for “No Flowers for Stacey” published
in Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England
Writers. She is former editor at Level Best
Books, a past president of the New England
SinC, a member of MWA and a founding
member of the New England Crime Bake.
Website: www.ruthmmccarty.com
Nora McFarland
Jenny Milchman
Nora McFarland is the author of The Lilly
Hawkins Mysteries from Touchstone/Simon
& Schuster. The third book in the series,
Going to the Bad, will be released in August
2012. Nora has worked in national news at
CNN as well as local news in Bakersfield,
California. She loves movies almost as
much as books and has an MFA from USC’s
School of Cinematic Arts. She lives in
Macon, Georgia.
Website: www.noramcfarland.com
Jenny Milchman is a suspense writer from
New Jersey. Her debut novel, Cover of Snow,
is forthcoming from Ballantine, with short
stories to be published in Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine and Adirondack Mysteries II.
Jenny is the Chair of ITW’s Debut Authors,
and the founder of Take Your Child to a
Bookstore Day. She features bestsellers,
Edgar® winners and independent authors
on her blog. Jenny teaches writing and
publishing and co-hosts the series Writing
Matters.
Websites: jennymilchman.com
suspenseyourdisbelief.com
Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay
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Cricket McRae
Cricket McRae enjoys traditional colonial
home crafts like soap making, food preservation, spinning and herbalism. She studied
philosophy, English and history and held
positions ranging from driver’s license
examiner to soap maker. After traveling the
world as a localization program manager,
now she sticks close to home and writes the
Home Crafting Mystery Series and, as
Bailey Cates, the Magical Bakery Mysteries.
In between, she cooks, bakes and tends to
a dozen garden beds.
Website: www.cricketmcrae.com
Jenn McKinlay is The New York Times bestselling author of the Cupcake Bakery mysteries and the Library Lover’s mysteries. Her
free time is spent reading everything, baking cupcakes, pruning her orchard, knitting
and felting handbags and skateboarding
with her hooligans. She lives in sunny
Arizona in a house that is overrun with
kids, pets and her husband’s guitars.
Website: www.jennmckinlay.com
Jenny Milchman
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Attending Authors
Rosemary and
Larry Mild
Rosemary and Larry Mild
Carolyn Mulford
Rosemary and Larry Mild’s latest novel is
Cry Ohana: Adventure and Suspense in Hawaii,
where murder, blackmail and passion thrust
a Hawaiian family into the tentacles of
Honolulu’s dark side. They also co-author
the Paco and Molly Mysteries: Boston Scream
Pie, Locks and Cream Cheese and Hot Grudge
Sunday. Just out: Rosemary’s memoir on
love, lessons and political betrayal: Miriam’s
World-and Mine, a tribute to their daughter
lost on Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland.
Website: www.magicile.com
Carolyn Mulford edited national and international magazines before becoming a freelance writer and editor. Recently she
changed her focus to fiction. A short
story, “Crossing the Bridge,” appeared in
Chesapeake Crimes 3 in 2008. Her YA novel,
The Feedsack Dress, became Missouri’s Great
Read at the 2009 National Book Festival. In
2013 Five Star will publish Show Me the
Murder, a mystery featuring an ex-spy who
copes with crime and personal crises in
rural Missouri.
Website: www.CarolynMulford.com
Carolyn Mulford
Camille Minichino
Camille Minichino, a retired physicist
turned writer, is the author of the Periodic
Table Mysteries. As Margaret Grace, she
writes the Miniature Mysteries; as Ada
Madison, she’s launched an academic
series featuring Professor Sophie Knowles,
math teacher at fictional college in
Massachusetts. Soon, every aspect of her
Camille Minichino life will be a mystery series. Camille also
works at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and is on the faculty of Golden
Gate University in San Francisco.
Website: www.minichino.com
J.J. Murphy
J.J. Murphy
Sharan Newman
Marie Moore
Marie Moore
Shore Excursion (April 2012) is Marie
Moore’s debut novel, the first in a series
featuring New York-based travel agent
Sidney Marsh. Sidney escorts senior citizens
on a Baltic cruise, but soon discovers that
there is a killer on board, targeting the High
Steppers, and quite possibly herself. Like
Sidney, Marie Moore is a native
Mississippian, and a former travel agent,
who has visited over 60 countries. Marie is
a member of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.mariemooremysteries.com
Sharan Newman
Sharan Newman is a medievalist and the
author of the award-winning Catherine
Levendeur mystery series, set in medieval
France. She has also written nonfiction: The
Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code and The
Real History Behind the Templars. A mystery,
The Shanghai Tunnel, set in 1868 Portland,
Oregon, is as close to modernity as she
wishes to go. Her latest nonfiction is The
Real History of the End of the World.
Website: www.sharannewman.com
Shawn Thomas Odyssey
Shawn Thomas
Odyssey
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J.J. Murphy is the author of the Algonquin
Round Table Mysteries, which feature
Dorothy Parker as a wisecracking sleuth.
An award-winning health care writer in
Pennsylvania, J.J. Murphy is also a longtime Dorothy Parker fan. J.J. started writing
the Algonquin Round Table Mysteries after
the birth of twin daughters, as an escape
from toddler television.
Website: www.roundtablemysteries.com
Shawn Thomas Odyssey’s magical mystery
novel The Wizard of Dark Street has been
nominated for both an Agatha and an
Edgar® award, and is an ABC New Voices
selection for 2011, with a sequel due out
Spring 2013. Shawn is also a professional
music composer for film and TV, with works
including HBO’s Deadwood and the video
game release of Kung Fu Panda.
Websites: shawnthomasodyssey.com,
thewizardofdarkstreet.com
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Attending Authors
Alan Orloff
Alan Orloff
Sandra Parshall
Alan Orloff’s debut mystery, Diamonds for the
Dead, was a Best First Novel Agatha Award
finalist. He writes the Last Laff mystery
series for Midnight Ink (Killer Routine and
the recently-released Deadly Campaign), and
writing as Zak Allen, he’s published The
Taste and First Time Killer, both eBook originals. He’s the treasurer of the Mid-Atlantic
Chapter of MWA, and belongs to ITW and
The Writer’s Center (Bethesda, Maryland).
Website: www.alanorloff.com
Sandra Parshall will always have a warm
spot in her heart for Malice Domestic
because she won the Agatha Award for Best
First Novel for her debut book, The Heat of
the Moon. Since then she has published
three more entries in her Rachel Goddard
series, including the latest, Under the Dog
Star. She lives in McLean, Virginia, with her
husband and cats.
Website: www.sandraparshall.com
Sandra Parshall
Nicole Peeler
Katherine Hall Page
Katherine Hall
Page
Katherine Hall Page’s series features amateur sleuth/caterer, Faith Fairchild. The Body
in the Belfry (1990) won an Agatha for Best
First; “The Would-Be Widower” (2001)
won Best SS; and The Body in the Snowdrift
(2005) won Best Novel when Katherine
was Malice XVIII’s Guest of Honor. The Body
in the Boudoir, the 20th book in the series,
and Have Faith in Your Kitchen: a Faith
Fairchild Cookbook are out now.
Website: www.katherine-hall-page.org
Nicole Peeler
Andrea Penrose
Gigi Pandian
Gigi Pandian
Gigi Pandian’s debut mystery novel, Artifact,
was awarded a Malice Domestic Grant.
Artifact comes out in August 2012 and is the
first in a series featuring treasure-hunting
Indian-American historian Jaya Jones. Jaya
also appears in Gigi’s mystery story, “The
Shadow of the River,” in the Fish Tales
anthology. Gigi is a graphic designer in the
San Francisco Bay Area, where she served
on the board of Sisters in Crime’s Northern
California chapter for four years.
Website: www.gigipandian.com
Andrea Penrose
Ann Parker
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Andrea Penrose made her debut into the
world of historical mystery last spring with
Sweet Revenge, the first book in a Regencyset series featuring two unconventional
aristocrats as amateur sleuths. Her second
book, The Cocoa Conspiracy, came out in
December 2011. A graduate of Yale, she has
an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale
Art School, and also writes historical
romance under the pen name Cara Elliott.
Blog: www.wordwenches.typepad.com
Website: www.andreapenrose.com
Neil Plakcy
Ann Parker
Ann Parker’s award-winning Silver Rush
mystery series (Silver Lies, Iron Ties, Leaden
Skies, and Mercury’s Rise) features saloonowner Inez Stannert in 1880s Colorado.
Ann’s ancestors include a Leadville blacksmith, a Colorado School of Mines professor
and a gandy dancer. She lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area (although she’d prefer
to be in Colorado), where she does science
writing by day to pay the bills and pens historical mysteries at night to satisfy her soul.
Website: www.annparker.net
Nicole Peeler, author of Tempest Rising,
writes the Jane True series for Orbit Books.
She’s also an assistant professor of English
Literature and Creative Writing at Seton Hill
University, where she teaches in Seton Hill’s
MFA in Popular Fiction. When she’s not
teaching, she’s traveling. She is on Twitter
as nicolepeeler.
Website: nicolepeeler.com
Neil Plakcy
Neil Plakcy is the proud papa of a golden
retriever who is just as sweet as Rochester
in In Dog We Trust and The Kingdom of Dog,
though not quite as smart. Fortunately he
doesn’t have Rochester’s talent for finding
dead bodies. A native of Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, where the Golden Retriever
mysteries are set, Neil is working on a third
mystery, and Sam is curled behind his desk
chair.
Website: www.mahubooks.com
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Attending Authors
John Reisinger
John Reisinger
Roberta Rogow
Former engineer John Reisinger is the
author of Master Detective, the true story of
Ellis Parker and the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Master Detective has also been published in
Taiwan and China. John’s Max Hurlock
Roaring 20s mysteries are based on real
cases. Death on a Golden Isle is set on Jekyll
Island, Georgia, and Death of a Flapper is
based on a real-life locked room murder.
John lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
with his wife Barbara.
Blog: johnreisinger.wordpress.com
Website: www.johnreisinger.com
Roberta Rogow has had stories published in
both Science Fiction and Mystery anthologies. Her most recent novel, The Root of the
Matter (Deadly Ink Press, 2010), is set in
Gilded Age New York City. Roberta recently
retired after 37 years as a Children’s
Librarian in public libraries in New Jersey.
Roberta Rogow
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Eileen Robertson
Eileen Robertson
Eileen lives in Gosport and worked as
a lecturer at Highbury College and at
Portsmouth University. She has had several
plays performed in the Portsmouth Arts
Centre and has always had an interest in
writing. It was not until her husband,
William, suffered a stroke that she had to
change her career to that of a caregiver.
Although this was not easy it did give her
the opportunity to focus on her writing.
Hank Phillippi
Ryan
Harriette Sackler
Linda Rodriguez
Linda Rodriguez
Linda Rodriguez has published one novel,
Every Last Secret (Minotaur Books), winner
of the Malice Domestic First Traditional
Mystery Novel Competition, and books of
poetry, Heart’s Migration (Thorpe Menn
Award) and Skin Hunger. She received the
Midwest Voices & Visions Award, Elvira
Cordero Cisneros Award, Ragdale and
Macondo fellowships. Rodriguez is a member of Latino Writers Collective, Wordcraft
Circle of Native American Writers and
Storytellers, International Thriller Writers
and Sisters in Crime.
Blog:
www.LindaRodriguezWrites.blogspot.com
Harriette Sackler
Harriette Sackler is a longtime member of
the Malice Domestic Board of Directors and
serves as grants chair. She is a past Agatha
Award nominee for “Mother Love,” her
short story that appeared in Chesapeake
Crimes II. Look for her new stories scheduled for publication in Chesapeake Crimes V
and in Fishnets. Harriette lives in the D.C.
suburbs with her husband, Bob, and their
five pups.
Cindy Sample
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Hank Phillippi Ryan is investigative reporter
for Boston’s NBC affiliate, winning 27
Emmys and 10 Murrow awards. A bestselling author of four mystery novels, Ryan
won the Anthony, Macavity and two
Agatha awards for her crime fiction. Her
newest book is Drive Time. She’s on the
national board of MWA and vice-president
of national Sisters in Crime. Her new mystery, The Other Woman, begins a new series
September 2012 from Forge Books.
Website: www.HankPhillippiRyan.com
Cindy Sample is a former mortgage banking
CEO who decided plotting murder was
more entertaining than plodding through
paperwork. Her humorous mystery series
set in the California gold country features
single soccer mom, Laurel McKay. Dying for
a Dance, the sequel to Dying for a Date (2010)
is a 2012 Lefty nominee for best humorous
mystery. Cindy is past president of
Sacramento SINC and co-chair of Left Coast
Crime 2012.
Website: www.cindysamplebooks.com
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Attending Authors
Elena Santangelo
Elena Santangelo
Sarah R. Shaber
Elena Santangelo’s novel Fear Itself (2011) is
the latest addition to her Possessed Mystery
series, which began with Agatha Award
finalist By Blood Possessed. Fear Itself features
ghosts from the Great Depression, murder
in Pat’s hometown, a cat with more than
nine lives and a dog who only understands
Czech. Elena also won the Agatha Award
for Best Nonfiction with Dame Agatha’s
Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story
Companion.
Website:
www.elenasantangelo.blogspot.com
Sarah R. Shaber is the author of Louise’s War
and Louise’s Gamble (May 2012), the first
books in a new series set in Washington,
D.C. during World War II. Shaber is also the
author of the Professor Simon Shaw series.
Her first book, Simon Said, won the Minotaur
Books/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional
Mystery award. She also edited Tar Heel
Dead, a collection of short stories by North
Carolina Mystery writers.
Website: www.sarahrshaber.com
Sarah R. Shaber
Deborah Sharp
Ilene Schneider
Ilene Schneider
Rabbi Ilene Schneider, Ed.D., one of the
first women rabbis ordained in the U.S.,
hasn’t decided what she wants to be when
she grows up. She is currently Coordinator
of Jewish Hospice for Samaritan Hospice,
Marlton, New Jersey. Chanukah Guilt is the
first Rabbi Aviva Cohen mystery. She has
completed the second, Unleavened Dead, and
is working on the third, Yom Killer. She is
also the writer of Talk Dirty: Yiddish.
Website: rabbiauthor.com
Deborah Sharp
Deborah Sharp left USA Today to write the
funny ‘’Mace Bauer Mysteries,’‘ set in rural
Florida. Think Stephanie Plum as a ‘gator
trapper with two cousins named Bubba. Red
carpet parties and feather boas kicked off
Deb’s latest book, the movie-themed Mama
Sees Stars. She appeared recently on NBC‘s
Today show, where she revealed she identifies too strongly with her wacky Mama
character. She and husband Kerry Sanders
live in southern Florida.
Website: www.DeborahSharp.com
J. D. Shaw
Maggie Sefton
Maggie Sefton
Maggie Sefton is the The New York Times
bestselling author of the Berkley Prime
Crime Knitting Mysteries. Unraveled, 9th in
the series, made the The New York Times
Bestselling Hardcover Fiction List after its
June 2011 release. All of the mysteries in
the successful series have been Barnes &
Noble Top Ten Bestselling Mysteries.
“Readers will enjoy visiting with Kelly and
her knitting buddies, who, in their carefree
way, resemble the cast of Friends.” —
Publisher’s Weekly
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
Website: www.maggiesefton.com
J. D. Shaw
Joanna Campbell Slan
Joanna Campbell
Slan
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Jane (J.D. Shaw) is the author of two standalone young adult mysteries: The Secrets
of Loon Lake and Leave No Footprints with
another, Miss Millie’s Murder, coming out this
Fall. The stories deal with teenagers who find
themselves in strange situations not of their
own making, such as escaping from a dangerous and abusive family or finding themselves suddenly homeless. But sometimes the
safe havens they find are anything but safe.
Website: jdshawmysteries.com
RT Book Reviews calls Joanna Campbell
Slan one of “mystery’s rising stars.” She is
the author of The Jane Eyre Chronicles, a
new series that picks up where Charlotte
Brontë’s Jane Eyre left off with Death of a
Schoolgirl (Berkley, August 2012). Joanna’s
first book in the Kiki Lowenstein series,
Paper, Scissors, Death (Midnight Ink, 2008),
was an Agatha Award finalist. The fifth Kiki
book, Ready, Scrap, Shoot, is out now.
Website: www.JoannaSlan.com
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Attending Authors
Robert Spiller
Robert Spiller
Daniel Stashower
Robert Spiller is the author of the Bonnie
Pinkwater mysteries. His math teacher sleuth
uses Mathematics and her knowledge of historic mathematicians to solve murders in the
small Colorado town of East Plains. Radical
Equations, the fourth in the series, was
released in February 2012. Robert lives
with his wife Barbara in Colorado Springs.
Blog: Spillerwrites.blogspot.com
Website: rspiller.com
Daniel Stashower is a two-time Edgar® and
Agatha award winner whose most recent
nonfiction books are The Beautiful Cigar Girl
and (as co-editor) Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life
in Letters. Dan is also the author of five mystery novels, and was the toastmaster of
Malice Domestic XX. His short stories have
appeared in numerous anthologies, and in
The Best American Mystery Stories. He lives in
Washington, D.C. with his wife and their
two sons.
Daniel Stashower
Dorothy St. James
Mystery author Dorothy St. James makes
her home on an artsy island community in
South Carolina with her husband, two dogs
and fluffy cat. She holds an undergraduate
degree in Wildlife Biology, a graduate degree
in Public Administration and Urban Planning
and is a certified master gardener. She’s
worked in all branches and all levels of govDorothy St. James ernment including local, regional, state, federal and nonprofit. Dorothy currently writes
the White House Gardener Mystery series.
Website: www.dorothystjames.com
Triss Stein
Triss Stein
Triss Stein had a story, “Greenmarket
Violinist,” in the 2011 anthology Murder
New York Style: Fresh Slices; another,
“NYPDaughter,” in the original Murder New
York Style, and has completed the first book
in a new series about Brooklyn neighborhoods, history, family life and crime. She
thinks of it as “urban cozy.” She also wrote
two older published mystery novels and
managed the recent Sisters in Crime
research study of mystery readers.
Website: www.murdernystyle.com
Rochelle Staab
Rochelle Staab
Rochelle Staab, a former award-winning
Top 40 radio programmer and music industry marketing executive, blended her fascination with the supernatural and her love
for mystery in Who Do, Voodoo?, her debut
novel and the first in her Mind for Murder
Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime,
featuring psychologist Liz Cooper. Bruja
Brouhaha, the second novel in her series,
will be released in August 2012.
Website: www.rochellestaab.com
Michael Stanley
Michael Stanley
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Steve Steinbock
Steve Steinbock
Steve Steinbock is a lifelong reader, collector
and historian of detective fiction. He holds
an MA in Judaic studies, and in 2010 was
awarded an honorary doctorate by Hebrew
Union College. Steve is a contributing editor
for AudioFile Magazine, and serves as book
critic for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, a
position that was once held by Anthony
Boucher, the namesake of Bouchercon.
He lives with his family in Maine.
Website:
www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/jury
South African born Stanley Trollip is half
(with Michael Sears) of the writing team,
Michael Stanley. They have published three
Detective Kubu mysteries: A Carrion Death,
The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu and
Death of the Mantis, which is shortlisted for
an Edgar® and a Barry. Before becoming a
writer, he was a professor interested in how
computers can facilitate learning. He is a
pilot and has enjoyed many flying safaris
throughout southern Africa.
Website: www.detectivekubu.com
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Attending Authors
B.K. Stevens
B.K. Stevens
Sylvia A. Straub
B.K. (Bonnie) Stevens has published almost
forty short stories, most in Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine; her most recent story is
“Thea’s First Husband” (June). One Shot, an
e-novella published by Untreed Reads, is a
humorous whodunit that takes a satirical
look at issues ranging from gun control to
reality shows. Bonnie’s awards include a
Derringer and first place in a suspense-writing contest judged by Mary Higgins Clark.
Bonnie and her husband, Dennis, live in
Virginia.
Website: www.bkstevensmysteries.com
Sylvia Straub’s short stories, “Dog’s Best
Friend” and “Vena’s Rules of Engagement,”
appeared in Mozark Press anthologies. Prior
to writing fiction, she earned a doctorate
in theoretical linguistics. The French Review
published her article on French syntax.
Later, she turned to nonprofit management
and served as CEO of two national and one
international professional associations. She
is completing an ecclesiastical mystery;
an earlier version won second place in
Shepherd University’s writing competition.
Sylvia A. Straub
Leann Sweeney
Cathi Stoler
Cathi Stoler
Cathi Stoler’s first mystery/suspense novel,
Telling Lies, takes on the subject of stolen
Nazi art. Other novels include The Hard
Way, a story about the international diamond trade and Keeping Secrets, which
delves into the subject of hidden identity.
Short stories include “Fatal Flaw” and “Out
of Luck,” which was published in Murder
New York Style: Fresh Slices. Cathi is a member of Mystery Writers of America and the
New York Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.cathistoler.com
Leann Sweeney is the author of two cozy
series from NAL/Obsidian, the Cats in
Trouble mysteries and the Yellow Rose mysteries. Her newest release is The Cat, The Wife
and The Weapon. She lives in Texas with her
husband, her inspirational cats and a dog
that thinks she’s a cat.
Website: www.leannsweeney.com
Leann Sweeney
Marcia Talley
Lane Stone
Lane Stone
Lane Stone’s debut mystery, Current Affairs:
A Tiara Investigations Mystery was published
by Mainly Murder Press. She lives in Sugar
Hill, Georgia, and Alexandria, Virginia.
When not writing she’s enjoying characteristic baby boomer pursuits: hiking in various countries and playing golf. Her
volunteer work includes raising money for
women political candidates. She’s a proud
member of both the Chessie and Atlanta
chapters of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.LaneStoneBooks.com
Marcia Talley
Art Taylor
Art Taylor
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Marcia is the author of The Last Refuge and ten
previous Hannah Ives mysteries. A winner of
the Malice Domestic grant and an Agatha nominee for Best First Novel, Marcia won an Agatha
and an Anthony for her story “Too Many
Cooks” and an Agatha for the story “Driven to
Distraction.” She edited two mystery collaborations, and has published more than a dozen
short stories. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland
and winters in the Bahamas.
Website: www.marciatalley.com
Art Taylor’s short fiction has appeared in
several national magazines (including Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine and North American
Review), online at Fiction Weekly, Prick of
the Spindle, and SmokeLong Quarterly, and in
various regional journals/newspapers. His
story “A Voice from the Past” was shortlisted for the 2010 Best American Mystery
Stories anthology. He regularly reviews mysteries and thrillers for The Washington Post
Book World and contributes frequently to
Mystery Scene and other publications.
Website: www.arttaylorwriter.com
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Attending Authors
Joseph L.S. Terrell
Joseph L.S. Terrell, who makes his home on
the Outer Banks of North Carolina, is the
published author of five books. The most
recent are mysteries: Overwash of Evil (Bella
Rosa Books, 2011), Tide of Darkness: ‘The Lost
Colony Theater’ Murders (2010, Bella Rosa
Books); and a young adult/adult thriller,
The Other Side of Silence (2007, Bella Rosa
Joseph L.S. Terrell Books). He is at work on another mystery,
also set at the Outer Banks.
Kari Lee Townsend
Kari Lee
Townsend
Victoria Thompson
Victoria
Thompson
Edgar®-nominated author Victoria Thompson
writes the Gaslight Mystery Series, set in
turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and detective
Frank Malloy. Her latest is Murder on Fifth
Avenue, May 2012. She also contributed to
the award winning writing textbook Many
Genres/One Craft. A popular speaker, Victoria
has taught at Penn State University and currently teaches in the Seton Hill University
master’s program in creative writing.
Website: www.victoriathompson.com
Diane Vallere
Diane Vallere
Caroline Todd
Caroline Todd
New York Times bestselling author Charles
Todd writes the Inspector Ian Rutledge
Mysteries and the Bess Crawford Mysteries,
(Morrow). The 14th Rutledge, The
Confession, came out January 3 and the 4th
Bess, An Unmarked Grave, is scheduled for
June. Two books a year as well as numerous short stories keep Caroline and Charles
busy when they aren’t researching in
Britain. They’re on Facebook.
Website: www.charlestodd.com
Maggie Toussaint
Maggie Toussaint
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Formerly an aquatic toxicologist contracted
to the U.S. Army and currently a freelance
reporter, Southern author Maggie Toussaint
loves writing mysteries. She’s published
four romantic suspenses and four mysteries,
with Death, Island Style and Murder in the Buff
her most recent releases. Her debut release,
House of Lies, won Best Romantic Suspense
in the 2007 National Readers Choice
Awards. She’s a board member for
Southeastern Mystery Writers of America.
Blog: mudpiesandmagnolias.blogspot.com
Website: www.maggietoussaint.com
Kari Lee Townsend lives in central New
York with her understanding husband, her
three busy boys and her oh-so-dramatic
daughter :-) She is the National Bestselling
Author of The Fortune Teller Mysteries for
Berkley Prime Crime. Book one, Tempest in
the Tea Leaves, received 4-1/2 stars from RT
and is nominated for Best Amateur Sleuth
of 2011. Small towns, mystical elements,
quirky characters and a few chuckles along
the way are her cup of tea.
Blog: mysteriesandmargaritasblogspot.com
Website: karileetownsend.com
Diane Vallere is a fashion-industry veteran
with a taste for murder. Her short story
“Identity Crisis” was published in Fish Tales:
The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press, 2011),
and Designer Dirty Laundry, the first in her
Style and Error series, comes out June 1,
2012 (Polyester Press). She started her own
detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues and clothes
ever since.
Website: www.dianevallere.com
Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets’s bestselling Dead-End Job
series is a satiric look at a serious subject —
the minimum-wage world. Her character,
Helen Hawthorne, works a different lowpaying job each book, from telemarketer to
hotel maid. Publishers Weekly called her
hardcover debut “wry social commentary.”
Final Sail, Elaine’s eleventh Dead-End Job
mystery, debuts at Malice. Elaine’s second
series features mystery shopper Josie
Marcus. Elaine won the Agatha, Anthony
and Lefty Awards. Listen to her “Dead-End
Jobs Show” at
www.mixcloud.com/tag/elaine-viets
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Attending Authors
Lea Wait
Lea Wait
Nancy G. West
Maine author and antique dealer Lea Wait
writes the Shadows Antique Print Mystery
Series starring protagonist Maggie Summer.
Shadows at the Fair was honored by a “best
first” Agatha nomination. Her latest, Shadows
of a Down East Summer, finds Maggie back in
Maine, finding clues to a current murder in
the diary of a young woman who posed for
Winslow Homer in 1891. Lea also writes historical novels for ages 8-14. Also on Facebook.
Website: www.leawait.com
Nancy G. West, author of poetry on NPR
and award-winning suspense, presents the
new Aggie Mundeen mystery series. Past
thirty and terrified of approaching middle
age, Aggie writes an anti-aging advice
column. Before anyone learns she’s
the author, she has to get in shape —
unpleasant but feasible until she stumbles
into murder. Whoever dreads aging, tries
to stay fit or has loved the wrong man
will appreciate Aggie in Fit to be Dead and
Dang Near Dead.
Website: www.nancygwest.com
Nancy G. West
Penny Warner
Penny Warner
Penny Warner’s mystery series features
event planner, Presley Parker, is set in the
San Francisco Bay Area, and include How To
Host a Killer Party, How To Crash a Killer Bash,
How To Survive a Killer Séance and How To
Party With a Killer Vampire. Her middle-grade
mystery, Code Busters Club: The Skeleton Key,
features four kids who solve a mystery by
cracking codes in each chapter.
Website: www.pennywarner.com
Lois Winston
Lois Winston
James Lincoln Warren
James Lincoln
Warren
James Lincoln Warren’s stories have
appeared frequently in Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine. He is the most recent winner of
the Black Orchid Novella Award, given by
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and the
Wolfe Pack, the Nero Wolfe fan organization, for his story “Inner Fire,” which will
be in the July/August 2012 issue. He is a
past President of the SoCal Chapter of
Mystery Writers of America.
Website: www.swordquill.com
Sarah Wisseman
Chassie West
Chassie West
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Chassie West’s sixteen books for young
adults included two in the Nancy Drew Files.
She entered the adult market with romantic
suspense for Silhouette, then the Leigh Ann
Warren series, two of which, Sunrise and
Killing Kin, were Edgar® and Agatha nominees. Next was a novella in Bark M for
Murder, a Mystery Guild Alternate Selection.
No Reason for Goodbyes — Messages From
Beyond Life, nonfiction about after-death
communication, was released January 2011.
Website: www.ChassieWest.com
Award-winning author Lois Winston writes
the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack
Crafting Mysteries. Assault With a Deadly
Glue Gun (January 2011) received starred
reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist.
Kirkus Reviews proclaimed Death by Killer
Mop Doll (January 2012) filled with
“...oodles of laughs and an older, more centered version of Stephanie Plum.” Lois is
also published in women’s fiction, romantic
suspense, and nonfiction and is an awardwinning crafts and needlework designer.
Blog: www.anastasiapollack.blogspot.com
Website: www.loiswinston.com
Sarah Wisseman
Archaeologist Sarah Wisseman writes the
Lisa Donahue mysteries based upon her
experiences working on excavations and
in museums. Two of her books (Bound for
Eternity and The Fall of Augustus) are set in a
fictional Boston museum and two are set in
the Middle East (The Dead Sea Codex and The
House of the Sphinx). The Bootlegger’s Nephew
(Hilliard and Harris 2012) will be published
any day now, but definitely in time
for Malice!
Website: www.sarahwisseman.com
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Attending Authors
Nancy Means
Wright
Nancy Means Wright
Elizabeth Zelvin
Nancy Means Wright has published 17
books, including 5 mysteries from St.
Martin’s Press, and most recently two historicals: The Nightmare (Perseverance,’11)
and Midnight Fires, ‘10). Her children’s
mysteries received an Agatha Award and
Agatha nomination. Short stories have
appeared in American Literary Review, Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine and elsewhere.
Longtime teacher, actress-director and
Bread Loaf Scholar for a first novel, Nancy
lives with her spouse and two Maine Coon
cats in Middlebury, Vermont.
Website: www.nancymeanswright.com
Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City
psychotherapist whose new mystery is
Death Will Extend Your Vacation. Her previous
mysteries were Death Will Get You Sober and
Death Will Help You Leave Him. Three of Liz’s
short stories have been Agatha nominees.
Another was nominated this year for the
Derringer Award for Best Short Story. Liz’s
CD of original songs, titled Outrageous Older
Woman, has just been released. Look for a
new story in EQMM.
Blog:
www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com
Website: www.elizabethzelvin.com
Elizabeth Zelvin
Lisa Wysocky
Lisa Wysocky
Books and horses! Award-winning
author/horse trainer Lisa Wysocky coauthored Front of the Class, which also aired
as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. Lisa’s
My Horse, My Partner helps horse/human
partners bond, and Lisa combines horses
and country music in Horse Country. Her
fun, debut equestrian mystery, The Opium
Equation, received rave reviews from
Midwest Book Review, The Library Journal, etc.
Lisa is a Nashville-based PATH instructor
who educates horses for therapeutic riding.
Website: www.LisaWysocky.com
Eric Yoder
Eric Yoder
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Eric Yoder is the award-winning author of
two books of short mysteries for elementary and middle school markets, 65 Short
Mysteries You Solve with Science and 65 Short
Mysteries You Solve with Math. A third book,
of more science-based mysteries, will be
published this fall. He is a reporter for The
Washington Post who has written or edited
numerous nonfiction books and has written about a wide variety of topics for many
magazines, newspapers and online sites.
Expert
Luci Zahray aka The Poison Lady
Luci Zahray is a registered Pharmacist with a Masters
Degree in Toxicology from Texas A&M University. A fan
of the mystery novel since childhood, she has combined
her vocation with her avocation to tell hundreds of
people how to kill someone. Using her personal collection of poisons as props, Luci has presented programs
to writers groups throughout the Midwest and Canada,
including Dark & Stormy in Chicago, Magna Cum
Murder in Muncie, Bouchercon in Toronto and the
MWA Chicago Chapter.
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Competition
Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic™ Competition
for the Best First Traditional Mystery Novel
ince the early years of Malice Domestic,
Minotaur Books, a part of St. Martin’s Press,
has been sponsoring this competition. Although
Malice’s name is featured, the competition is
conducted solely by Minotaur Books. It is open to any
professional or non-professional writer, regardless
of nationality, who has never been the author of a
published traditional mystery, as defined by Minotaur
Books’ guidelines, and is not under contract with a
publisher for publication of a traditional mystery. The
late Ruth Cavin, senior editor and associate publisher
of Thomas Dunne Books, said, “In 1988, when we
received word of the first Malice convention, Tom
Dunne, who with Bob Randisi of Private Eye Writers
S
of America had created the Best First Private Eye
Novel contest, quickly realized that we needed
another contest for books with less sex and violence,
suspects who were somehow related personally...in
other words, ‘Malice-type’ books. We did it with
informal permission from Barbara Mertz and her
fellow founders, and over time, with the invaluable
assistance of our volunteer judges, it became a justenough formalized arrangement to make everyone
happy.” Additional information and guidelines for this
competition must be obtained from Minotaur Books.
The website link to the Minotaur
Books/Malice DomesticTM Competition is:
www.minotaurbooks.com/writingcompetitions.
1990
1998
2006
Piano Man by Noreen Gilpatrick
Murder with Peacocks by Donna
Andrews
A Stranger Lies Here by Stephen
Santogrossi
The Winter Widow by Charlene
Weir
1999
2007
Jackpot Justice by Marilyn Wooley
1992
2000
Copy Cat Murders, retitled to Posted
for Murder by Meredith S. Cole
The Man Who Understood Cats by
Michael Allen Dymmoch
The Gripping Beast by Margot
Wadley*
1993
2001
Something to Kill For by Susan
Holtzer
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia
Spencer-Fleming
1994
2002
Lie Down With Dogs by Jan Gleiter
Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg
1995
2003
Simon Said by Sarah Shaber
Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
1996
2004
Final Closing by Barbara Lee
Eight of Swords by David Skibbins
1997
2005
The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin
Hathaway
Murder in Exile by Vincent O’Neal
1991
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2008
Dead Posh, retitled to The Cold Light
of Mourning by Elizabeth J.
Duncan
2009
The End Game, by Gerrie FerrisFinger
2011
Every Last Secret, by Linda
Rodriguez
*Sadly, Margot Wadley died in an auto
accident shortly after she won.
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Dealers
The Book House
Felony & Mayhem Press
Mystery Loves Company
11 North U.S. Rt. 15, shop #5
Dillsburg, PA 17019
717-432-2720
220 West 98th Street, #9E
New York, NY 10025
Fax: 212-656-1227
[email protected]
Contact: Joanne or Larry Klase
Located on Rt. 15 halfway between
Harrisburg and Gettysburg. 25,000 plus
hardbacks and paperbacks. Areas of
specialty: History, Mystery, Children’s
and vintage paperbacks. Hours: Mon.
and Tues. 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; Wed. and Thurs.
10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.;
Sat. 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; First and Third Sun.
10 a.m.–4 p.m
www.FelonyandMayhem.com
Contacts: Maggie Topkis
([email protected])
202 S. Morris Street
Box 160
Oxford, MD 21654
410-226-0010 or 800-538-0042
Buzzy Multi Media
5603-B West Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410
Telephone: 877-845-4534
www.buzzymultimedia.com
[email protected]
Buzzy Multimedia – Your Premiere Source
of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Audio Books...Funny
T-Shirts!
Crum Creek Press/The
Mystery Company
1558 Coshocton Ave #126
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Fax: 740-204-3180
www.crumcreekpress.com
[email protected]
Contact: Jim Huang
Crum Creek Press is a boutique firm that
strives to uphold traditional publishing
values in a dynamic environment. We
publish contemporary mysteries in the
classic style, offering reprints and original
work in hardcover, paperback and digital
editions. We also publish reference books
for mystery lovers, books that have
allowed voices from across the genre to
share their love and enthusiasm for
mysteries.
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Julia Musha
[email protected])
Felony & Mayhem publishes “the best in
intelligent mystery fiction,” with a definite
tilt toward the literary end. We offer
reprints of titles that had previously —
and inexplicably — gone out of print; first
paperback editions of books previously
published in hardcover; and first U.S.
editions of books previously published
overseas. Look for our first original title
next year.
Flying Coyote
1307 Hornsbyville Road
Yorktown, VA 23692
757-898-1504
[email protected]
Contact: Phyllis White
Flying Coyote deals in matted images,
objets d’art and books relating to
predators.
Frozen Light
4459 S. Gary Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74105
918-492-1212 or 918-381-4449
www.frozenlight.biz
Contact: Mona Betz
Sterling silver jewelry and exotic
adornments gathered from all over
the world.
www.mysterylovescompany.com
blog: www.mysterysalon.com
Contact: Kathy Harig
Visit us in historic Oxford, on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore. We feature new, gentlyused books, signed first editions and
collectible mysteries. We host author
events, and do custom gift baskets.
Check our monthly lists of new releases
and email your order to:
[email protected].
Follow us on Facebook.
Novel Places
23341 Frederick Road
Clarksburg, MD 20871
301-972-3060
www.novelplacesusa.com
[email protected]
Contact: Patrick Darby
Located in the original John Clark Trading
Post of Clarksburg’s Historic District, Novel
Places offers a wide variety of new and
used books. We specialize in children,
mystery, and science fiction categories.
Join us for our book groups and author
signings. Be a part of the family with
vintage service, where we find books a
good home.
Scene of the Crime Books
20 Hawthorne Avenue
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
L2M 6A9
905-646-0214
www.sceneofthecrimebook.com
Contact: Don or Jenn Longmuir
We’ve been selling books online for 15
years primarily on ABE but you can also
find us on Alibris, Amazon.com, Ebay and
Biblio. In 2004, we opened a brick and
mortar store where authors such as
Linwood Barclay and Kelley Armstrong
had regular signing events. But in 2006 we
closed the store and moved everything
home. We specialize in signatures and first
editions. If you’re ever in the area please
give a call — we are home most days.
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Sisters in Crime
Undiscovered Treasures
Wildside Press
P.O. Box 442124
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-1325
9619 Pierrpont Street
Burke, VA 22015
703-978-1959
www.SistersInCrime.org
[email protected]
Sisters in Crime (SinC) is an international
organization founded in 1986 to promote
the professional development and
advancement of women writing crime
fiction. Today, SinC is made up of more
than 3,000 members and 48 chapters
worldwide — authors, readers, publishers,
agents, booksellers, librarians and others
who love mysteries. This year, we’re
celebrating 25 years of opening doors to
strengthen the voice of women in the
mystery field. We hope you’ll join us. For
more information, Sisters in Crime is
online at www.sistersincrime.org. SinC
into a great mystery!
[email protected]
Contact: Chris Cowan
Undiscovered Treasures carries
jewelry ranging from hand-strung
semiprecious/pearl sets and silver
through “costume” pieces.
9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234
Rockville, MD 20850
301-762-1305 phone
301-762-1306 fax
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www.wildsidebooks.com
[email protected]
Contacts: John Betancourt,
Carla Coupe
Wildside Press is an independent
publishing company with more than
13,000 books in print in a variety of
genres, including Mystery, Science
Fiction and Classics.
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Malice Board and Committees
Board of Directors
Chair Verena Rose
I grew up in a family of readers — particularly my
father who loved reading all sorts of things. I read lots
of books about history and fiction and eventually
discovered that I was mad for mysteries. I became aware
of Malice Domestic around the time it was celebrating
its 5th or 6th year but I didn’t attend my first convention until Malice Domestic VIII. That year Margaret
Maron was Toastmaster and Peter Lovesey was Guest
of Honor and I spent the evening at the Agatha Awards
banquet completely mesmerized. Only three short
years later and I found myself elected to the Board of
Directors as Author Liaison for Malice XI. Over the past
fourteen years, in addition to Author Liaison I have
served as Program Chair, Treasurer, Agatha Awards
Committee Chair and in recent years as the Chair of the
Board of Directors. Suffice to say, Malice, for me, is a
labor of love. In addition to all of my usual duties for
Malice, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Malice
Domestic I asked Rita Owen to Co-Edit with me a book
to be published in time for Malice Domestic 25 entitled
Malice Domestic...not everyone’s cup of tea: An Interesting and
Entertaining History of Its First 25 Years. As always I take
every opportunity to spend time with my grandchildren,
Justin and Abbey.
Secretary Janet Blizard
Janet recently retired after a 40-year career with the
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
For the last 20 years, she was actively involved in the
implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Janet survived law school by reading mysteries. She
“discovered” mystery conventions at Malice Domestic II,
has attended almost every Malice since then, and has
been a member of the Board for the last 10 years.
When she is not reading, Janet is an avid fan of the
Boston Red Sox and a loyal employee of the Siamese
cat who runs her home.
Treasurer Angel Trapp
Angel is still fairly new to Malice. She is enjoying
functioning as both Treasurer and Auction Chair. Angel
has her own accounting company and enjoys working
closely with her clients. Angel is actively working with
and contributing to KEEN Greater D.C., a local nonprofit
volunteer-led organization that provides one-to-one
recreational opportunities for children and young adults
with developmental and physical disabilities. Angel loves
to travel with her husband, Jason, and she is also looking forward to getting to know everyone at Malice and
getting more immersed into the Malice community.
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Convention Events Coordinator Marian Lesko
Marian Lesko who previously served as Treasurer
for Malice will be starting her second year in the position of Agatha Chair and Dealer Liaison and is looking
forward to another wonderful event with Malice 24.
When not performing the tasks required for Malice
Marian is employed full-time with a local Maryland CPA
firm. In addition to reading mysteries, Marian enjoys
cooking, travel and time spent with family.
Grants Chair Harriette Sackler
Harriette Sackler is a longtime member of the Malice
Domestic Board of Directors and serves as grants chair.
She is a past Agatha Award nominee for “Mother Love,”
her short story that appeared in Chesapeake Crimes II.
Look for her new stories scheduled for publication in
Chesapeake Crimes V and Fishnets. An avid pet lover, she
is vice president of House with a Heart Senior Pet
Sanctuary. Harriette lives in the D.C. suburbs with her
husband, Bob, and their five pups. She has two married
daughters and loves thoroughly spoiling her two grandbabies, Ethan and Makayla.
Hotel Liaison Caroline L. Craig
Caroline Craig is a third-generation native of the
Washington, D.C. area and has been an avid reader
since the age of four. Retired after 35 years as a civil
servant, she worked as a comptroller for the Department
of Defense (DoD), the last 24 years for the Missile
Defense Agency (formerly Strategic Defense Initiative
Organization). She attended Arlington County Public
Schools and graduated from Madison College (now
James Madison University) with a double major of
Russian language and political science and a minor in
Soviet studies. She has two sisters and two brothers-inlaw who also live in the D.C. area. A long-time mystery
reader, she was a volunteer at Malice for several years
before being elected to the Board in 2007 and currently
serves as the Hotel Liaison.
Publisher Liaison Joni Langevoort
A lifelong fan of books in general and mysteries in
particular, Joni is a recovering lawyer whose license
hangs on the wall of the laundry room, right over the litter boxes. The proud mother of Kate (an au pair living in
Paris) and Jackson (a student at Penn State), Joni keeps
busy by serving on several charitable boards, volunteering, taking piano lessons, scrapbooking, worrying about
her children, watching ice hockey games live and on TV,
and, of course, reading. She and her Georgetown Law
Center professor husband Don live in Virginia with one
dog, four cats and thousands upon thousands of books.
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Committee Chairs/Board Advisors
Author Liaison Donna Andrews
Like Meg Langslow, the ornamental blacksmith
heroine of her series from Minotaur, Donna Andrews
was born and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. These days
she spends almost as much time in cyberspace as Turing
Hopper, the artificial intelligence who appears in her
technocozy series from Berkley Prime Crime. In the fall
of 1997 she started on the road to publication by submitting her first completed mystery manuscript to the
Malice Domestic/St. Martin’s Press Best First Traditional
Mystery contest. Upon learning that Murder with Peacocks
had won, she acquired a copy of Peterson’s Field Guide to
Eastern Birds and settled down to have fun in her
fictional world for as long as she could get away with it.
Her books have won many awards, and appeared on
The New York Times bestseller lists. The most recent, The
Real Macaw, was released in July 2011, and Some Like It
Hawk will be released in July 2012. Andrews is president of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of MWA and a member of Sisters in Crime and the Private Investigators and
Security Association. Andrews spends her free time
killing innocent weeds in her garden and corrupting
her mind with computer games.
Programs Barb Goffman
Barb Goffman loves being Malice program chair,
not only because it allows her to organize things and
tell people what to do (who doesn’t like that?), but also
because she believes that the best crime stories are those
of the domestic variety. Mothers. Husbands. Sisters. Pals.
All are fair game when Barb chooses her victims. She’s
had several short stories published, four of which have
been nominated for the Agatha Award, including one
this year. She’s a co-coordinating editor of the awardwinning Chesapeake Crimes anthology series, the latest
of which, Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder (Wildside
Press 2012), was just released. Barb has also recently
completed her first novel, Call Girl. She lives in Virginia
with her miracle dog, Scout (a three-time cancer
survivor!). Website: www.barbgoffman.com
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Publications Rita Owen
Rita Owen retired after a career in human resources
and Six Sigma. A native of Washington, D.C., her
passions include reading (mysteries, of course), quilting,
family history and genealogy, writing, folk music and
friends and family. She lives in New Jersey, where she
teaches quilting and designs original quilts as well as
designs and manages a website and newsletter for
Budding Star Quilts in Lebanon, New Jersey. She has
been providing signage support to Malice for seven
years and publications for four years. It should be mentioned that she has hooked a number of quilting friends
on Malice mystery authors and in return, those friends
provide volunteer help preparing materials for Malice.
She’s delighted to be aunt and great-aunt to seven
nieces and nephews and eight (with number nine on
the way) great-nieces and great-nephews. She’s also
hooked on her Kindle.
Volunteers Anne Murphy
Anne and her retired nuclear engineer husband Joe
have three wonderful sons, three beautiful daughtersin-law, three gorgeous granddaughters, three handsome
grandsons, and an Irish wolfhound with a sense of
humor. A charter member of Malice Domestic and survivor of the Silver Spring Sheraton, she often wonders
what life might have been like had she ignored Sheila
Martin and Kay McCarty when they insisted, “This
Malice Domestic thing sounds like fun. Let’s go!”
Registration Services Shawn Reilly Simmons
Shawn Reilly Simmons has been working with
Malice since 2003, starting out as PR Chair and then
moving on to the position of Registrar. She now handles
Registration Services and Malice PR. Graduating from
the University of Maryland with a degree in English
Literature, she then moved to New York City and
worked in sales and marketing. She lives in Frederick,
Maryland, with her husband, son and two English
Bulldogs. Shawn’s website is
www.GroundFloorPromotions.net.
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Pre-Registered Participants
(Authors in bold)
Avery Aames
Sparkle Abbey
Dominick Abel
Marilyn A. Ackley
Cathy Adams
Ellery Adams
Judith Akers
Claudia Albert
Gloria Alden
Esri Allbritten
Carolyn Allen
Zak Allen
Sheila Anderson
Mary Andrasco
Donna Andrews
Jim Archambault
Kris Archambault
Lucy Arlington
Bill Aronoff
Carol Aronoff
Patsy Asher
Doris Austin
Frankie Y. Bailey
Irma Baker
Sandy Balintfy
Maggie Barbieri
Kaye Barley
Joye Barnes
Elizabeth Barrett
Lorna Barrett
Ella Barrick
Lorraine Bartlett
Donna Beatley
Lynn Beene
Penny Beene
Mike Befeler
Jo Beichler
Susan Belsky
Janet Benrey
Ron Benrey
Paula Benson
Dorothy Bermudez
Carol Bessette
John Betancourt
Mona Betz
Vicky Bijur
Joshua Bilmes
Jane Bird
Terri Bischoff
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Claudia Bishop
Debbie Bishop
Juliet Blackwell
Heather Blake
Les Blatt
Leslie Blatt
Janet Blizard
Jack Bludis
Lenore Boehm
Amanda Bolenbaugh
Emily Bolenbaugh
Janet Bolin
Nikki Bonanni
Brynn Bonner
Rhys Bowen
Jeanne Munn Bracken
Laura Bradford
Judy Brancheau
Jennifer Brehl
Lucy Brett
Simon Brett
Duffy Brown
Sarah Brown
Mollie Cox Bryan
Debby Buchanan
Sarah Masters Buckey
Raymond Buckland
Maxine Buckles
Leslie Ann Budewitz
Lucy Burdette
Jan Burke
Tim Burke
Geraldine G. Burket
Ellen Byerrum
Valerie Caires
Ellen Callahan
Dana Cameron
Laura Campos
Dorothy Cannell
Karen Cantwell
Diane Card
Lillian Stewart Carl
JoAnna Carl
Kate Carlisle
Trish Carrico
Anita Carter
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Bailey Cates
Jack Cater
Judy Cater
Mary Chamberlain
Susan Robinson Chan
Jessie Chandler
Joelle J. Charbonneau
Erika Chase
Cathy Chatham
Lexa Christopher
Debbie Clark
Mindy Starns Clark
Jane Cleland
Jeffrey Cohen
Nancy J. Cohen
Helen Coker
Lavinia Coker
Jayne Colangelo
Kate Collins
Maureen Collins
Sheila Connolly
E. J. Copperman
Jacqueline Corcoran
Amy Corwin
Carla Coupe
Chris Cowan
Caroline Craig
Ann Crowe
Tom Crowley
John Curran
Leigh S. Curry
Jeanne M. Dams
Casey Daniels
Patrick Darby
Hilary Davidson
Marie Davies
Christine Davis
Krista Davis
Nancy M. Davis
Rebecca G. Davis
Rosalia R. de Williams
Lynn Deardorff
Stacia Decker
Patricia Deewey
Vicki Delany
Janet Desjardins
Mary Elizabeth Devine
Louise Dietz
Susan A. Dill
Deborah Dingboom
Michael Dirda
Laura DiSilverio
Linnea Dodson
Vicki Doudera
Carole Nelson Douglas
Laney Doyle
Pat Drucker
Maxine Drusch
Susan M. Duchek
Ann Duff
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Jeanne Durrer
Pam Edmondson
Sheryl Ehrlich
Kathy Lynn Emerson
A. B. Emrys
Hallie Ephron
Kathleen Ernst
Karen S. Esibill
Christy Evans
Donna Evans
Jimmie Ruth Evans
Stephanie Evans
Sue Evans
Sharon D. Ewing
Peggy Fedder
Sally Fellows
Nancy Fifield
Christy Fifield
Charles Finch
Kendel Flaum
Margery Flax
Irene Fleming
Amanda Flower
Christina Freeburn
Kate Gallison
Prentiss Garner
Pauline Gary
Kaye George
Daryl Wood Gerber
Jan Giles
Barb Goffman
Lee Goldberg
Debra H. Goldstein
James Goodwin
Chris Grabenstein
Margaret Grace
Barbara Graham
Beth Groundwater
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Chris Gulhaugen
Jaya Gulhaugen
Robert Guzman
Elizabeth Gwiazdowski
Rebecca M. Hale
Parnell Hall
Janet Hamlet
Janice Hamrick
Peggy Hanson
Kathy Harig
Tom Harig
RJ Harlick
Jennifer Harlow
Charlaine Harris
Ellen Harris
Linda Harris
Carolyn Hart
Honor Hartman
Robin Hathaway
Mary Hawkes
Betty Hechtman
Maureen Heedles
Freida Heisser
Sara J. Henry
Anita Herbert
Joan Hess
Sasscer Hill
Anne Hillerman
Marjorie Hilton
Lois Foster Hirt
Aimee Hix
Judy Hogan
Angie Hogencamp
Sarah Hogroian
Sue Horowitz
Melodie Johnson
Howe
Jim Huang
Linda Hull
Maddy Hunter
Karen Hurley
Becky Bartlett Hutchison
Roberta Isleib
Smita Harish Jain
Darrell James
Miranda James
Dean James
Anna Jeffrey
Nancy Jo
Heidi Johnson
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Kathryn Johnson
Michelle Johnson
Linda O. Johnston
Janet Kargol
Alma Katsu
Kathleen Kearns
Toni L.P. Kelner
M. E. Kemp
June Kennedy
Tracy Kiely
Karen Kiley
Judith Kindell
Laurie R. King
Joanne Klase
Larry Klase
Victoria Koski
Rob Kresge
Jan Kurtz
Norma Kurtz
Danielle LaBue
Shirley J. Landes
Joni Langevoort
Jim Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Vivian Lawry
Alan Leathers
Cheryl Leathers
Angela Lee
Laurie Leff
Con Lehane
Kit Leider
Marian Lesko
Kelly Letourneau
Judith Levitan
Vera Libeau
Audrey Liebross
Greg Lilly
Maria Lima
Hailey Lind
Clyde Linsley
Liz Lipperman
Sophie Littlefield
C. Ellett Logan
Kylie Logan
Don Longmuir
Jen Longmuir
Jess Lourey
Dru Ann Love
Molly MacRae
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Pre-Registered Participants
Ada Madison
G. M. Malliet
Colleen Manning
Sherry Markowitz
Margaret Maron
Diane Martin
Sheila J. Martin
Sujata Massey
Sherri Mayer
Jennifer McAndrews
Kay McCarty
Ruth McCarty
Nora McFarland
Jenn McKinlay
Hulda McLlachlen
Catriona McPherson
Cricket McRae
Liz Mellett
Bonner Menking
Lea Mesner
Gail A. Metzgar
Marvin E. Metzgar
Lee Mewshaw
Joe Meyers
Jennifer Milchman
Larry Mild
Rosemary Mild
Camille Minichino
Gwynyth Mislin
Valerie Moon
Marie Moore
Susan Morrison
Carolyn Mulford
Seileen Mullen
Anne Murphy
J J Murphy
Elaine Naiman
Karen E. Neary
Sharan Newman
Doris Ann Norris
Betty Occhiogrosso
Francesca Occhiogrosso
Marie O’Day
Tom O’Day
Shawn Thomas
Odyssey
M. E. O’Neill
Alan Orloff
Kathleen Owen
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Rita Owen
Katherine Hall Page
Gigi Pandian
Mary Faith Pankin
Ann Parker
Nancy J. Parra
Sandra Parshall
Nicole Peeler
Andrea Penrose
Mary Hart Perry
Elizabeth Peters
Nancy Petersen
Caroline Petrequin
Donna Jeanne Phillips
Deanna Pivoroff
Neil Plakcy
Joy Poger
C. W. Pollard
Lynn Pooley
Janet Powell
Alice Pradin
Sherry Prather
Twyla Racz
Maggie Range
Pam Rau
Anne Reece
Barbara Reisinger
John Reisinger
Audrey Reith
Eileen Robertson
Dianne Rodman
Linda Rodriguez
Roberta Rogow
Verena Rose
Natalee Rosenstein
Dodie Ruskie
Sammi Russell
Linda Smith Rutledge
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Cynthia Sabelhaus
Ralph Sabelhaus
Harriette Sackler
Cindy Sample
Eve K. Sandstrom
Christine Sannerud
Elena Santangelo
Peggy Rae Sapienza
Joni Sauer-Folger
Sinya Schaeffer
Ilene Schneider
Patricia Schutz
Sandy Sechrest
Maggie Sefton
Janine Seitz
Kristin Sevick
Sarah R. Shaber
Deborah Sharp
Gordon Shaw
J. D. Shaw
Ruth Shaw
Judith Sheard
Colleen Shogan
Ruth Sickafus
Cindy Silberblatt
Shawn Simmons
Brian Skupin
Joanna Campbell Slan
Robert Spiller
Dorothy St. James
Rochelle Staab
Denise Stablein
J. B. Stanley
Michael Stanley
Mary Stanton
Stanley Trollip
Daniel Stashower
Cheryl Steimle
Triss Stein
Steve Steinbock
B. K. Stevens
Dennis Stevens
Robert W. Steventon
Kate Stine
Cathi Stoler
Lane Stone
Sylvia A. Straub
Don Strel
Verna Suit
Patricia Summers
Leann Sweeney
Marcia Talley
Art Taylor
Mike Taylor
Robin Templeton
Victoria Thompson
Sheila M. Tierney
Debra Todd
Charles Todd
(Caroline)
Maggie Toussaint
Kari Lee Townsend
Angel Trapp
Arleen Trundy
Elizabeth Vaccaro
Robert Vaccaro
Diane Vallere
Patricia Valoon
Donna Van Dyke
Mary Van Dyke
Polly Van Hyning
Susan E. Van Hyning
Elaine Viets
Katie Voegerl
Carrie Voorhis
Josephine Wagner
Lea Wait
Penny Warner
James Lincoln Warren
Beth Wasson
Courtney Waverick
Doreen L. Weaton
Heather Webber
Chassie L. West
Nancy Glass West
Molly Weston
Phyllis White
K. G. Whitehurst
Pam Wieland
Linda Wiken
Joyce Wilcox
June Williams
Dina S. Willner
Lois Winston
Sarah Wisseman
Brenda Witchger
Michael Withiam
Mary Lee Woods
Bonnie Wojnowski
Cynthia Wong
Nancy Means Wright
Lisa Wysocky
Eric Yoder
Christina F. York
Marisa Young
Luci Zahray
Elizabeth Zelvin
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Friends of Malice
Helen Barer
Fred Barnes
Diana Barnes
Wendy Bartlett
Barbara Berman
Julie Hyzy
Tammy Kaehler
Jackie King
Christine Lanphere
Marilyn Levinson
Edith M Maxwell
Veronica Moschetti
Cathy Pickens
Sharon Potts
Hannah Reed Deb Baker
Mary Saums
Pamela A. Simon
Richard Steelman
Joseph L.S. Terrell
Cathy Wiley
Barbara Witek
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See you next year at
Malice Domestic 25!
May 3–5, 2013
Check the Malice website for hotel information.
Special Discount for those who register
and pay at this year’s Malice:
Forms are available at the Registration desk.
Use credit card, cash or check.
Comprehensive Registration
(includes Agatha Banquet)
$295 until 12/31/2012 — $320 1/01– 4/15/2013*
Basic Registration
(no Banquet)
$245 until 12/31/2012 — $270 1/01– 4/15/2013*
* if space is available
Deadline all registrations: 4/15/2013
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