Attending Authors

22 Years Celebrating the Traditional Mystery
Guest of Honor
Parnell Hall
Message from the Chair
Verena Rose
Springing Into Malice
A
s you all are aware, several months ago the
Malice Domestic family suffered a tragic loss.
Our beloved friend and fellow Board member, Louise
N. Leftwich, passed away. Our convention was an
important part of Louise’s life and she devoted a great
deal of time and energy over many years to a variety
of Board positions. She was dearly loved and will be
greatly missed by all.
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C
an you imagine springtime without Malice
Domestic? Well, neither can we. Even with the
economy in shambles, unemployment high, and so
many other conditions beyond our control to be dealt
with, our convention is a wonderful opportunity to
gather with friends, fans and favorite authors to celebrate our common interest. So, in an effort to forge
ahead and insure that Malice Domestic continues to
exist, we have decided that it is necessary to relocate.
For many years we have called Crystal City, Virginia
home. However, Malice Domestic is a Maryland nonprofit organization which means there are certain
important advantages to holding our convention in
Maryland.
As many of you know, the very first Malice
Domestic was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Silver
Spring, Maryland. In fact there are sixteen Malice
Domestic 22 attendees who survived that event. They
are known to us as the “Faithful Few” and, I’m sure
if you asked, one of them would be happy to regale
you with tales of that first Malice.
Not wanting to return to the Sheraton, the Malice
Board moved the convention to the Hyatt in
Bethesda, Maryland. There it remained for eight successful years. In fact, registrations sold out each year.
Believing that Malice could grow to the size of a
Bouchercon, the Board of Directors decided to again
move the convention. Unfortunately, there were no
hotels in Maryland that would fit the bill, so Malice
moved to the Renaissance in Washington, D.C. and
then, three years later, to the Crystal Gateway
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Marriott in Virginia. Malice has remained there
since, except for one year at the Sheraton National.
For better or worse, Malice never grew to the
magnitude of a Bouchercon. We had a few years
where attendance was over 600 but, for the most
part, we have remained in the 500-person range.
Based upon our evaluation of attendance over the
last several years, the Board concluded that Malice
has matured into a convention with a yearly attendance of approximately 500. While the Crystal
Gateway Marriott is a wonderful hotel, in the current
economic environment we do not have the number
of attendees that makes it realistic to remain in
Virginia where we lose our tax-exempt advantage.
Therefore, Malice will relocate once again. If you
are among those who attended Malice in the early
years, it will be a move home. For those of you who
never attended Malice in Maryland, we hope you’ll
come to consider it Malice’s new home. I’d like to
announce that I have signed contracts for Malice
Domestic 23 and Malice Domestic 24 to be held at
the Hyatt in Bethesda, Maryland.
In the months to come we will be providing you
with lots of information about the new hotel, transportation, restaurants, shopping and local points of
interest. Please pay particular attention to the
summer edition of The Usual Suspects where we’ll
be giving you much more specific information.
Now before I close, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend my personal congratulations and warm
wishes to this year’s honorees. As you know, they
are: Parnell Hall, Guest of Honor; Rhys Bowen,
Toastmaster; Mary Higgins Clark, Lifetime
Achievement Honoree; William Link, Poirot Honoree;
Tom and Marie O’Day, Fan Guests of Honor; and
Malice Remembers, Ed Hoch.
There are many wonderful panels and events
scheduled. Here’s wishing you all a fabulous Malice
weekend.
— Verena Rose
Chair Malice Domestic 22
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Table of Contents
Guest of Honor: Parnell Hall ..........................................3
Toastmaster: Rhys Bowen ............................................6
Fan Guests of Honor: Tom and Marie O’Day ................8
Lifetime Achievement: Mary Higgins Clark ..............10
Poirot Award: William Link ........................................14
Malice Remembers: Edward D. Hoch ........................18
In Memoriam: Louise N. Leftwich ..............................24
Agatha Awards ............................................................26
A Brief History of Malice Domestic ............................30
William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic Grants ............32
Our Sponsors ................................................................34
Memories of Malice ......................................................35
General Information ....................................................36
Charity Auction ............................................................38
Convention Schedule ..................................................40
Attending Authors ........................................................48
Expert ............................................................................69
St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Contest..............70
Dealers ..........................................................................72
ILLUSTRATION DEANE NETTLES
Malice Domestic Board of Directors............................74
Pre-Registered Participants ........................................76
Friends of Malice ..........................................................79
Malice Domestic, Ltd. organizes the convention for the education and entertainment of attendees. The responsibility for content of all
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Malice Domestic, Ltd. or its Officers, Directors, Committee Members, Advisors and Employees.
©2010 Malice Domestic Ltd. Copyrights of all essays revert to authors. All rights reserved.
Malice Domestic 22 Program Book: Published April 30, 2010.
Editor: Rita Owen.
Design and production by Judith Barrett Graphics, Alexandria, Virginia.
Printed by HBP, Hagerstown, MD.
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Guest of Honor
Parnell Hall
Parnell Hall
By Dorothy Cannell and Joan Hess
O
nce upon a time in the magical land of mayhem and mystery that is Malice Domestic,
something was missing. Poignantly, the population had no inkling what was needed to complete
the enchantment of the annual celebration in their
glorious capital. A dashing troubadour with a guitar
had yet to arise with wit, charm and exuberant
enthusiasm for the annual celebration of a beloved niche of
crime fiction. (Note from editor:
Ms. Cannell, use of the word
“troubadour” may lead to accusations
of slander, since letters can be utilized
to produce “bad,” “dour” and “outboard.”)
It might have been assumed
that such a personality would
leap onto the scene in a blaze
of glory and to a thunderous
accompaniment of a madrigal
choir and a thousand lutes. But
one Malice weekend, he was
there, an unassuming figure
vaguely perceived through the
dense fog of readers, writers,
editors and agents that swell the
book room and hallways, and
burst the seams of the elevators:
the blurred face, the drowned
voice of a man prosaically (if
memory serves true) wearing blue jeans. No satin
and ruffles ... no jangle of golden bells, no curlytipped velvet slippers. How was anyone to guess that
in addition to all else that was wonderful, Malice
would now offer the gift of Parnell Hall? (Note from
editor: Again, use caution. An anagram of said name is
“pall ran hell.” Suggest you replace it with a different
name, such as Joan Hess.)
At the time of his advent when, unlike this modern era, male participation was somewhat scanty, a
glimpse of what appeared to be an endangered
species may have played a role in edging him sufficiently into focus for the buzz to begin and, on the
wings of a half hour, mount in fervor and admiration
verging on awe.
“Isn’t that Parnell Hall?”
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“You mean the author of the Stanley Hastings
series?”
“I love those books. Detective, Strangler, Scam ....”
“And then there are the Steve Winslow mysteries!”
“I know, I know! Once I pick one up I can’t put it
down!” (Note from editor: Does this suggest the speaker
engages in shoplifting or merely finds the novels viscous?)
“They take me the same
way! The Baxter Trust, The
Anonymous Client ....”
“You don’t often find someone who writes such wonderful
books and gets them out so fast.
Some authors we won’t name
take years between one and the
next.” (Note from editor: I assume
you’re referring to dead authors,
although some of them remain amazingly prolific to this day.)
“It comes across that he loves
what he does. The characters are
alive on the page. I’m always
engaged right from the start, the
characters so wonderfully fleshed
out. No saintly protagonists or
villains with pasted-on black
moustaches.”
“A mystery can have a great
plot, but if you’re not drawn into
feeling a participant in the world
the author creates ....”
“I heard he’s worked as a P.I.”
“And bear in mind, he was also an actor. Stage,
films....” (Note from editor: please be specific. Did he portray Gentle Ben, Winnie the Pooh, or perhaps some sort of
polar bear?)
“Really? How positively thrilling!”
“What a combination! Knowledge of real-life
crime and the ability to set a scene on the stage of
Malice Domestic.”
So there it was. The curtain had been raised and
Parnell Hall had made his entrance. His readers were
heartfelt enthusiasts and his growing circle of friends
searched the crowds on arrival and other times
between in hope of spending time with him. But it
wasn’t until he was persuaded to join a humor panel
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Guest of Honor
Parnell Hall
that his star was born and his name became a Malice
household name. (Note from editor: Since Malice is not
held at a house, a more accurate description might be “a
hotel room name.”) Not only was he diligent in preparation and dedicatedly participatory, his respect for
his audience led him to provide them not only information, witty commentary, and insights into the writing process; he produced his guitar, twanged instantly
catchy melodies, and sang for us hilarious songs. Call
them writer rock, soulful sock hop... invariably they
brought down the house. (Note from editor: This may be
less than tactful, considering the proximity of the Pentagon.)
Who can forget the gem when he described in music
and rhyme how he felt when seated at a book signing
next to Mary Higgins Clark? What made it so great
was not only its hilarity but that very few people
would be unable to relate to it. The majority of us
have experienced moments of throat-drying inadequacy. Parnell’s performance let those readers who
believed all writers are beings set apart hear the
truth: that many have doubts of their ability to
achieve success in a highly-competitive field, while,
at the same time, they feel admiration and affection
for writers such as Mary who have reached the top
and remain there to dazzle us with their ability to
spin stories for us out of steel and silver thread. (Note
from editor: This would be a good place to insert a quote
from a novel by, i.e., Joan Hess.)
Parnell Hall has gifted us with books written with
the intelligence, wit and humor of his songs. He has
been nominated for the Edgar, Shamus and Lefty
awards. He has delighted us with his Puzzle Lady
series. Crosswords and mystery: what a duo! In addition to his many appearances on the humor panel,
Parnell has accepted other invitations to entertain
us. Malice has from the start been a perfect place to
bond, share, listen and learn, but to all those attributes Parnell has added the hugely important
word — Fun.
His books and his presence have been his gift to
us. The honor of being this year’s Guest of Honor is
our way of saying a hugely enthusiastic thank you.
Bring the guitar and ride in on a coal black steed. Mr.
Parnell Hall, you’ve earned your big entrance. (Note
from editor: I do hope, Ms. Cannell, that you haven’t
relapsed into your sheik fantasies yet again. It is my understanding that the above mentioned writer is happily married, as well as being deathly afraid of camels.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
The Puzzle Lady Crossword Puzzle Mysteries
A Clue For The Puzzle Lady (1999)
Last Puzzle & Testament (2000)
Puzzled To Death (2001)
A Puzzle In A Pear Tree (2002)
With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill ( 2003)
And A Puzzle To Die On (2004)
Stalking The Puzzle Lady (2005)
You Have The Right To Remain Puzzled (2006)
The Sudoku Puzzle Murders (2008)
Dead Man’s Puzzle (2009)
The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady (2010)
The Stanley Hastings Mysteries
Detective (1987)
Murder (1988)
Favor (1988)
Strangler (1989)
Client (1990)
Juror (1990)
Actor (1993)
Blackmail (1994)
Movie (1995)
Trial (1996)
Scam (1997)
Suspense (1998)
Cozy (2001)
Manslaughter (2002)
Hitman (2007)
Caper (2010)
The Steve Winslow Courtroom Dramas,
by J. P. Hailey
The Baxter Trust (1988)
The Anonymous Client (1989)
The Underground Man (1990)
The Naked Typist (1990)
The Wrong Gun (1992)
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Toastmaster
Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen: An Appreciation
By Claudia Bishop
R
hys is the World’s Best Guest. It’s one of the
nicest things about her. She’s been to our
small home in Florida a couple of times, and
like the canny directors of Malice Domestic, I always
want her to come back. She loves sunshine, swimming, the beach, al fresco picnics, and a really great
word game called Upwards. (Nobody with any sense
plays Scrabble with Rhys, not if
you hate to lose. Bring out the
Upwards, instead.) Not only that,
she tactfully sips tea in her room
until everyone else is up and ready
for breakfast.
But the best thing about Rhys
as a guest is that she talks. And it’s
not just that the talk is witty — or,
in the case of besotted male guests,
Noel Coward-quality badinage that
just slays me — she can talk about
mysteries. I love talking about
mysteries. And there’s no one as
knowledgeable, as conversable, as
delightfully professional about our
genre as your 2010 Toastmaster. At
the end of our discussions, there’s a
real sense of communion, as if the
best and happiest part of my life
has been thoroughly understood.
I thought, in a mildly egocentric way, that this was unique to
our friendship.
Not so.
Let me go back a few months.
We agreed to meet up again last year at Left
Coast Crime convention in Hawaii. We’d brought
our husbands along, and the four of us decided to
have dinner at one of those lovely, flower-scented,
beach-edged restaurants on the island. The talk was
as usual, lively, free-flowing, funny. On our separate
ways back to the hotel, my husband Bob said: “Nice
talk at dinner tonight. Rhys really got the points I
was trying to get across.” (This is Bob-speak for,
“She really understood the essential me!”)
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Of course, we hadn’t talked about mysteries at all.
We’d talked about global finance, politics, European
history and a lot of other stuff, none of which
remotely concerned the New Golden Age of
Mysteries, or the ever-green: What Is a Cozy, Really?
I realized then that Rhys’ talents as a novelist, a
singer, a songwriter, and as a friend draw from the
delightful well that makes her the
World’s Best Guest. She has the
unique ability to make you feel terrific about where you are. Whether
it’s sipping rum punches by the
pool, heading the wrong way on
the train because of my misguided
attempts to get us home late one
Florida night, or bringing her talent
as the creator of Molly Murphy,
Constable Evans, and Georgie, the
aristocratic sleuth from pre-World
War II England, to you, her
colleagues, friends and readers,
she’s in a class by herself.
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More about Rhys...
Rhys Bowen’s mysteries have
been nominated for every major
mystery award, including the Edgar
for best novel, and she has won
nine of them. She currently writes
the Molly Murphy mysteries, set in
turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring a
feisty Irish immigrant woman. In 1997 she began a
new, lighter series, this one about a minor royal in
1930s England. The first book was called Her Royal
Spyness. It has been described as Bridget Jones meets
Charade as told by Nancy Mitford and described in a
Booklist starred review as “A smashing romp.” The
first book has appeared on many bestseller lists and
award nomination slates, including the Dilys award
for the book that independent booksellers most
enjoyed selling. A Royal Pain and Royal Flush are
now in stores and Royal Blood comes out this fall.
Rhys was born in Bath, England, of a
Welsh/English family, and was educated at London
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University. She worked for the BBC in London, as an
announcer, then drama studio manager. She sang in
folk clubs with luminaries like Simon and Garfunkel
and Al Stewart; she also started writing her own radio
and TV plays. Needing to escape from the dreary
London weather, she accepted an invitation to work
for Australian Broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. While
Down Under, she met her future husband John, who
was on his way to California. She married and settled
in the San Francisco area, where she has lived ever
since, raising four children (although she now spends
her winters in her condo in Arizona).
Finding nothing like the BBC in California, Rhys
started writing children’s books. Her first picture book
was named a New York Times best book of the year.
More picture books followed; then Rhys moved to
young adult novels, writing many bestselling titles.
She also wrote some adult historical sagas and some
TV tie-ins. When she felt she had exhausted her
enthusiasm for writing for teenagers, Rhys decided to
write what she likes to read: mysteries with a great
feel for time and place. Her childhood memories of
her Welsh relatives were the inspiration for her first
mystery series: the Constable Evans novels. The stories were immediately well received. The second
book, Evan Help Us, was called “a jewel of a story”
by Publishers Weekly and was nominated for a Barry
Award. Evan’s Gate received an Edgar Best Novel
nomination.
Wanting to try her hand at something different
and edgier, Rhys conceived Molly Murphy, a brash,
fearless Irish immigrant in New York City. The first
book in this series, Murphy’s Law, won three awards
including the Agatha. Every subsequent book has
received starred reviews and award nominations. For
the Love of Mike won the Anthony Award at the world
mystery convention. Oh Danny Boy won a Macavity.
The ninth book, The Last Illusion, was published in
March.
Rhys also enjoys writing short stories and
has achieved much critical acclaim for them.
“Doppelganger” won the Anthony award and was
included in the World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories
anthology. More recently, her story “Voodoo” was
chosen to be part of the Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery
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Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense
anthology.
(Claudia Bishop is the author of the Hemlock Falls mysteries,
and, as Mary Stanton, the Beaufort & Company mysteries.
Avenging Angels is now in bookstores.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
The Constable Evans Mysteries
Evans Above (1997)
Evan Help Us (1998)
Evanly Choirs (1999)
Evan and Elle (2000)
Evan Can Wait (2001)
Evans to Betsy (2002)
Evan Only Knows (2003)
Evan’s Gate (2004)
Evan Blessed (2005)
Evanly Bodies (2006)
The Molly Murphy Mysteries
Murphy’s Law (2001)
Death of Riley (2002)
For the Love of Mike (2003)
In Like Flynn (2005)
Oh Danny Boy (2006)
In Dublin’s Fair City (2007)
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (2008)
In a Gilded Cage (2009)
The Last Illusion (March 2010)
The Royal Spyness Mysteries
Her Royal Spyness (2007)
A Royal Pain (2008)
Royal Flush (2009)
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Fan Guests of Honor
Tom and Marie O’Day
O Frabjous Days
By Barbara D’Amato
T
om and Marie O’Day met, Tom says, “very
romantically during an evening in 1971 as our
eyes met across a crowded room during a party
in downtown D.C. Shortly thereafter we sought each
other out for an introduction which led to a whirlwind romance and marriage in January 1972.” They
have been together ever since.
But they began their lives on opposite sides of the
country. Tom was born in Portland, Oregon, where,
he says, “It rains so much of the time that almost
everyone becomes an avid reader early in life.” Marie
was born in Canton, Pennsylvania, grew up reading
Nancy Drew, but quickly graduated to other mysteries, especially the English writers, as well as biographies and history. She was a frequent visitor to her
school library and Canton’s Green Free Library. Tom
read everything he could get his hands on: adventure, history, classics, science fiction/fantasy, and, of
course, mystery. Especially Sherlock Holmes and Poe.
“And the pulp magazines with their wonderful covers
of damsels in distress.”
After high school, Tom spent two years with the
armed forces in Korea, then attended Occidental
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College. Various career
moves finally brought
him to the Washington,
D.C. area in 1969 where
he became the public
affairs director and then
the chief federal lobbyist
for a national trade
association until his
retirement in 1996.
Marie, meanwhile,
graduated from Albright
College and then
embarked on her lifetime work for the federal government, which
took her to Philadelphia,
Baltimore and, finally,
to the Washington, D.C.
area in 1965. She retired
in 1997. One of Marie’s
passions is the Etruscans,
an early civilization in Italy. She was excited when
Lyn Hamilton wrote a book called The Etruscan
Chimera, since it combined two of her passions.
Further icing on the cake was Lyn’s talk at Malice
Domestic about the Etruscans.
When they met in Washington, Tom, “realizing
his good luck, married Marie” and they settled down
in Alexandria, Virginia. They have now spent 38
years getting to know each other while raising three
children, collecting art, reading mysteries, and living
with dragons.
Tom and Marie have been mystery fans most
of their lives. However, they got into the mystery
convention world in 1980 when they attended
Bouchercon XI in Washington, D.C. This early entry
was interesting but it was only later in 1990, with the
help of Jean McMillen, that they discovered Malice
Domestic. When they attended book signings at
Jean’s mystery bookstore in Bethesda, Jean urged
them to attend Malice. Malice III was their first.
There they met Charlotte MacLeod who initiated
them into the Malice family. They have been to all
the rest, since Malice is really their cup of mystery
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tea. At every opportunity, Tom and Marie talk about
Malice and encourage authors and fans to attend. In
1999 they joined the Malice Board, where they
served in various roles until 2005. They have been
dealers’ liaison, registrar, and chair. They have done
everything — pre-seating and setting up the banquet,
registering attendees, soliciting goodies for the registration bag. As Tom says, “Lots of work, lots of fun,
lots of satisfaction.”
In 2006, Tom and Marie moved from Alexandria
to Fredericksburg, Virginia where they now live in an
active adult community. They continue to spend a
considerable part of their time in the mystery world
— Malice Domestic, Bouchercon, Left Coast Crime,
ThrillerFest, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime, Red Circle, and CrimeFest. They also continue
to collect books — many mysteries/thrillers, but also
other fiction and nonfiction. The books share space
with an art collection and an extensive collection of
dragons. Besides their three wonderful adult children,
Tom and Marie have five fantastic grandchildren who
also share their love of all kinds of books, art and
dragons.
To me, Tom and Marie have been the heart and
soul of Malice Domestic. It isn’t quite Malice until I
see them walking toward me down the hall. They are
ever enthusiastic, ever cheerful, ever supportive.
They light up my life.
(Barbara D’Amato is the author of Death of a Thousand
Cuts and co-author of Foolproof.)
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Lifetime Achievement
Mary Higgins Clark
Lifetime Achievement: Mary Higgins Clark
By Lisl Cade
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Higgins Clark decided to go to secretarial school, to help with the
family finances. For three years
she worked in the advertising
department of Remington Rand.
Then, something triggered off an
irresistible urge to travel — a
casual remark over cocktails by a
glamorous Pan Am airline stewardess: “Oh, it was beastly hot in
Calcutta!” The very next day,
Mary applied for a job as a Pan
Am stewardess and was hired for
the Atlantic division — Europe,
Africa and Asia. After flying for
a year, she married a neighbor,
Warren Clark, nine years her
senior. Soon after her marriage,
she started writing short stories,
finally selling her first to Extension
Magazine in 1956 for $100.
“I framed that first letter of
acceptance,” she recalls.
In 1964, Warren Clark died of a heart attack.
Widowed at 36 with five children, Mary began to
write radio scripts for a living. Among these was a
series about historical figures, called Portrait of a
Patriot, among them George Washington. This led to
her first book, a historical novel about George and
Martha Washington. Published in 1969 by Meredith
Press with the title Aspire to the Heavens, the
Washington family motto, it disappeared without a
trace. Re-discovered by a Washington family descendant, it was re-issued in June 2002 by Simon &
Schuster and the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
with a new title, Mount Vernon Love Story.
Trying to decide what to write next, she looked
at her book shelves. They provided the answer —
her favorite reading had always been mystery and
suspense. Her first suspense novel, Where Are the
Children?, was inspired by a notorious criminal case
— that of a mother accused of murdering her two
children, who got off scot-free due to a legal technicality. Published in 1975 by Simon & Schuster, it
became her first bestseller and a turning point in
Photo: Bernard Vidal, Where are You Now?, Simon and Schuster
M
ary Higgins Clark’s books
are world-wide bestsellers
and in the United States
alone have sold over a hundred
million copies. What makes her
suspense novels so popular?
“Readers can walk in the shoes of
my characters,” she says. “They are
people like you and me, not looking for trouble, whose lives are
invaded by evil.”
She considers her Irish heritage an important factor in her
success as a writer. “The Irish are,
by nature, storytellers,” she
observes. “I am often asked where
I get my ideas for the books and
stories I write. It’s a hard question
to answer. Why in the maze of
event and remembrance does one
situation haunt the heart, press at
the mind, invade the dreams until
finally, often reluctantly, as I write
I say: “Your time has come. I will tell your tale.”
Mary Higgins Clark traces her journey from a
Bronx childhood during the Depression to becoming
America’s “Queen of Suspense” in her memoir, Kitchen
Privileges. Her parents were both Irish. Her mother,
Nora Higgins, was born here and her father, Luke
Higgins, came to the U.S. in 1905. They had three
children, Joseph, Mary and John. Luke Higgins owned
a pub in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx.
As the Depression worsened and he no longer could
afford help, he worked longer and longer hours, leaving home at seven in the morning and returning at
three the next morning. One day, when eleven-year
old Mary came home from morning Mass, she learned
that her father had died. Her mother, a bridal buyer
before her marriage at the Manhattan department
store B. Altman, was unable to find a job and decided
to rent rooms. The title of the memoir is based on a
sign her mother put on the door: FURNISHED
ROOMS — KITCHEN PRIVILEGES.
Following her graduation from Villa Maria
Academy, a Roman Catholic high school, Mary
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her life and career.
With her new-found financial freedom, she
decided to catch up on things she wanted to do. So
far, she had put her resources into her children’s education — now it was time for her own. She entered
Fordham University at Lincoln Center and in 1979
graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in philosophy. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from
Fordham University in 1998. She has nineteen honorary doctorates.
Two of Mary Higgins Clark’s novels were made
into feature films, Where Are the Children? and A
Stranger Is Watching. Many of her other works, novels
and short stories, were made into television films.
She is the #1 fiction bestselling author in France,
where she received the Grand Prix de Literature
Policière in 1980 and the Literary Award at the 1998
Deauville Film Festival. In 2000, she was named by
the French Minister of Culture “Chevalier of the
Order of Arts and Letters.”
She was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as
Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards. She was the
1987 president of Mystery Writers of America and, for
many years, served on their Board of Directors. In
May 1988, she was Chairman of the International
Crime Congress. In 2008, she received the
International Mystery Writers’ “First Lady of Mystery”
Award.
Mary Higgins Clark has combined her stellar writing career with a fulfilling personal life. Her children
all have successful careers. Her youngest daughter,
Patricia, was the matchmaker in her marriage in 1996
to her second “spouse extraordinaire,” John
Conheeney. Between them, they have seventeen
grandchildren — Mary’s six and John’s eleven.
Asked if she might give up writing for a life of
leisure, Mary Higgins Clark says: “Never! To be happy
for a year, win the lottery. To be happy for life, love
what you do.”
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Bibliography
HISTORICAL NOVELS
Aspire to the Heavens (1969)
Re-issued as Mount Vernon Love Story (2000)
MEMOIR
Kitchen Privileges (2002)
SUSPENSE NOVELS
Where Are the Children? (1975)
A Stranger Is Watching (1978)
The Cradle Will Fall (1980)
A Cry in the Night (1982)
Stillwatch (1984)
Weep No More, My Lady (1987)
While My Pretty One Sleeps (1989)
Loves Music, Loves to Dance (1991)
All Around the Town (1992)
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I’ll Be Seeing You (1993)
Remember Me (1994)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995)
Silent Night (1995)
Moonlight Becomes You (1996)
Pretend You Don’t See Her (1997)
You Belong To Me (1998)
All Through the Night (1998)
We’ll Meet Again (1999)
Before I Say Good-Bye (2000)
On the Street Where You Live (2001)
Daddy’s Little Girl (2002)
The Second Time Around (2003)
Nighttime Is My Time 2004)
No Place Like Home (2005)
Two Little Girls in Blue (2006)
I Heard That Song Before (2007)
Where Are You Now? (2008)
Just Take My Heart (2009)
The Shadow Of Your Smile (2010)
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Lifetime Achievement
Mary Higgins Clark
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
The Anastasia Syndrome & Other Stories (1989)
The Lottery Winner: Alvirah & Willy Stories (1994)
My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories (1996)
CHILDREN’S BOOK
Ghost Ship, illustrated by Wendell Minor (2007)
SUSPENSE NOVELS CO-AUTHORED WITH
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK
Deck the Halls (2000)
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping (2001)
The Christmas Thief (2004)
Santa Cruise (2006)
Dashing Through the Snow (2008)
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Poirot Award
William Link
MURDER, HE WROTE,
(AND THAT’S NOT ALL)
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By Robert S. Levinson
omebody once described William Link as “the
master of mystery, mayhem, murder and suspense.” I can’t argue with that, since the “somebody” was me, and, in fact, William Link is the master
of mystery, mayhem, murder and suspense.
Don’t take my word for it.
Instead, examine the career Bill built for himself
over half a dozen decades.
Evaluate the quality of his work.
For good measure toss in the mountain of awards
and honors he’s received.
Here’s some of what you’ll find:
Working with the late Richard Levinson (no relation) in the longest writing partnership in show business history — 43 years — the team created, wrote,
adapted or produced sixteen TV series, among them
Columbo, Murder, She Wrote, Ellery Queen, Mannix
and McCloud.
Add about fifteen more crime and mystery series
and a like number of television movies and you have a
TV record no one has yet come close to approaching.
Add to that the Link and Levinson groundbreaking films for television, The Execution of Private Slovik,
Crisis at Central High, The United States vs. Salim Ajami,
My Sweet Charlie (among the first movies to deal with
race relations) and That Certain Summer (the first to
deal with homosexuality).
Any wonder then that the pair called “Mr. Rolls
and Mr. Royce of American television” by the New
York Times was inducted into the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1994?
Big Screen Movies? You bet. Credits that include The
Hunter, Steve McQueen’s last film; Rollercoaster, with
Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda, and The
Hindenburg, with George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft.
Legitimate theater? Nominated for a Tony Award
for the Broadway musical Merlin. Prescription: Murder,
the second-highest grossing play of 1961, behind A
Man for All Seasons, with a new production set to tour
Great Britain this year. Columbo Takes the Rap, a major
hit with audiences at the inaugural International
Mystery Writers Festival. A new state-of-the-art theater at California State University-Long Beach named
in Bill’s honor, to open with a tribute built around
the 17 plays he’s written or co-written to date.
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The printed page? Two novels, two books about
television, dozens upon dozens of short stories in
Playboy, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine, and right now, making its debut
here at Malice Domestic, a series of new Columbo
short stories in The Columbo Collection (Crippen &
Landru).
And those awards and honors mentioned earlier?
Try this for a taste:
Two Television Academy Emmys. Two Hollywood
Foreign Press Association Golden Globes. The
Peabody Award. The Writers Guild of America’s
Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award. An NAACP’s Image
Award. Awards from the International Monte Carlo
Film Festival, Golden Gate Film Festival, Alliance of
Gay Artists in the Entertainment Industry, and the
Television & Radio Writers Association. Election to
the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame in 1995.
This past national president of the Mystery
Writers of America can also claim four MWA Edgar
Awards, an Ellery Queen Award for Lifetime
Achievement in the Art of Mystery Writing, the first
Marlowe award presented by the MWA Southern
California chapter, and, momentarily, a Poirot Award
from Malice Domestic.
Overall, not too shabby for a kid from Philly, who
shared a love for the movies with his neighborhood
pal, Dick Levinson, that led to their writing partnership — formed during summer camp — and a first
sale to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine before they
graduated high school.
Later, struggling after success in New York, they
squatted in a friend’s apartment at 75th and
Broadway and survived on the income from sales to
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
A lucky break writing a one-hour script for The
Chevy Mystery Show, a summer stand-in for songstress
Dinah Shore’s series, ultimately brought them to
Hollywood. Titled Enough Rope, it introduced a crafty,
deceptively soft-spoken, cheap cigar-chomping New
York police detective in a rumpled raincoat named
“Columbo,” but it was a dapper Los Angeles private
investigator named “Mannix,” in a series that ran for
eight years, that put Link and Levinson on the trail to
much-deserved big time success.
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Nowadays, Bill’s writing with as much passion as
ever in the poolside office retreat of the stately hillside home above Sunset Boulevard he shares with his
wife, Margery. The statuettes, plaques and other trappings of honor and career recognition are less visible
than the Mexican art decorating the walls. His own
great art, of course, is mounted on the title pages of
his scripts and stories, embedded in three words: “BY
WILLIAM LINK”
(Bob Levinson is the author of eight crime novels, including
his current thriller, The Traitor in Us All, as well as short
stories for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and various
mystery anthologies.)
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Bibliography of Films and Stage
SIXTEEN ON-THE-AIR SERIES, INCLUDING:
Columbo
Murder She Wrote
Ellery Queen
The Cosby Mysteries
Tenafly
Mannix
Scene of the Crime
Blacke’s Magic
Honey West
The Bold Ones
McCloud
Hard Copy
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TWO-HOUR MYSTERY CRIME MOVIES FOR
TELEVISION
Istanbul Express
The Whole World Is Watching
Partners in Crime
The Savage Report
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Charlie Cobb
Murder by Natural Causes
Rehearsal for Murder
The Guardian
Guilty Conscience
Vanishing Act
GROUNDBREAKING MOVIES FOR
TELEVISION
My Sweet Charlie
That Certain Summer
The Execution of Private Slovik
Crisis at Central High
The Guardian
The United States vs. Salim Ajami
The Boys
FEATURE FILM CREDITS
The Hunter
Rollercoaster
The Hindenburg
Homicidal
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Poirot Award
William Link
TELEVISION PRODUCTION
Supervising producer of the ABC Mystery Movie series
THEATRE CREDITS
Prescription: Murder (birth of the Columbo character in
1961)
Prescription: Murder due to tour Great Britain in the
spring 2010
Nominated for a Tony Award for his book for the
Broadway musical Merlin
Columbo Takes the Rap (2007 International Mystery
Festival)
NOVELS
Fineman
The Playhouse
NON-FICTION
Stay Tuned
Off-Camera
SHORT STORIES
The Columbo Collection (2010)
Several dozen short stories have appeared in Playboy,
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery
Magazine and others
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Two Emmys
Two Golden Globes
The Peabody
The Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Lifetime
Achievement in the Art of Television Writing
Silver Nymph Award from the International Monte
Carlo Film Festival
Golden Gate Film Festival Award
The Christopher
The Image Award from the NAACP
The Media Award from the Alliance of Gay Artists in
the Entertainment Industry
Television Radio Writers Annual Award
Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame
Four Edgar Allan Poe Awards
The Ellery Queen Award for Lifetime Achievement in
the Art of Mystery Writing
The Raymond Chandler Marlowe Award from the
Southern Chapter of the Mystery Writers of
America
The Bouchercon XX Performance Mystery Award
Link and Levinson inducted into the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame 1994
Actor in the Cosby Mystery series
2002 National President of the Mystery Writers of
America
Served on The Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences Board of Governors 1976-77
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Cartoonist
Museum shows at The Cartoon Art Museum, San
Francisco; The Hollywood Entertainment Museum,
Los Angeles, and The Writers Guild West, Los
Angeles
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Malice Remembers
Edward D. Hoch
The Prolific Edward D. Hoch
By Janet Hutchings
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
E
dward D. Hoch must be smiling on us all this
weekend. Malice Domestic’s official commemoration of his work fills the one gap in critical
recognition that remained for him: he’s an MWA
Grand Master, an Edgar Allan Poe Award winner, a
multiple winner of the Anthony, Derringer, and
Barry awards, and a recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Just
about the only award that escaped Ed during his lifetime was an Agatha for best short story. Wherever he
is now, I’m sure he finds this remembrance by Malice
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I say that because Ed Hoch was, after all, the
quintessential Malice Domestic author. You only
have to look at Malice’s mission statement
(“Saluting the traditional mystery — books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie”) to see that.
Ed was primarily a short story writer, but no one’s
mysteries better exemplify Agatha Christie’s at short
story length than his. He was the best of his generation at puzzle-spinning; the creator of a couple of
dozen long-running, beloved amateur-sleuth series,
and, like Christie, one of the most adept at creating,
even in exotic foreign settings, a closed circle of
believable suspects.
Ed was not a famous novelist (he didn’t enjoy
working on novels and wrote only five) and because
of that his work is probably less familiar to fan
members of the Malice conventions than the work
of some of his peers. (Let’s face it, short story writers
don’t have the publicity apparatuses of major publishing houses to help get their names out to the
public.) But Ed was known and loved by nearly all
of our field’s writers and editors. His passing, in
January of 2008, left holes that will probably never
be filled. Gone is not only the world’s premier writer
of the classical mystery short story but one of the
most knowledgeable and well-read mystery aficionados of all time.
For me, and for many others, the loss of all that
pales beside the loss of the person Ed was. He was as
good and kind a man as you could ever hope to
meet. Ed and his beloved wife Pat were registered
for Malice XX (2008) and were especially looking
forward to it since two of their friends were to be
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honored. That was Ed (Pat too!): always as much
interested in seeing others achieve their aspirations
as he was in fulfilling his own.
Those of you who knew Ed probably know that
one of his half-serious aspirations was to reach
1,000 published short stories. This resulted in some
good-natured wrangling among his editors over who
would publish the 1,000th tale. As it turned out,
none of us had that pleasure: Ed’s last story was his
950th (or thereabout).
Like all prolific writers, Ed had to contend with
comments about the extraordinary number of stories he had written and field the inevitable question
as to how he could come up with so many ideas.
The answer, in part, lies in his having led a quiet
life, unburdened by interests at variance with his
writing. He was also a “news junkie” who checked
for events on the world stage, large or small, as soon
as he rose each day. His travels outside the United
States were limited to the British Isles, but his
library, which gradually claimed the entire basement
of his house, was all he needed to be transported to
all sorts of unusual locations, many of which
became settings for his stories.
That basement library, double shelved throughout, contained many first editions, but not because
Ed was a collector in the traditional sense. He
wasn’t. He was simply a great reader, whose interest
in the work of virtually all of his contemporaries
drove him to place advance orders for large numbers
of books. There are many writers at this convention
who would be surprised to know, I imagine, that full
runs of their novels found a place in Ed’s library.
At least as remarkable as Ed’s prodigious output
of short stories was his indefatigability as a reader.
From 1976 to 1981 he partnered with Pat, who
shared his literary interests, to read every mystery
short story published in order to make selections for
Best Detective Stories of the Year. When that series
ceased publication, they resumed the gargantuan
task for fourteen more years for The Year’s Best
Mystery and Suspense Stories.
Ed’s own stories were often chosen for inclusion
in anthologies, both of the year’s-best variety and on
every imaginable sort of theme. His specialty was
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the “impossible crime” tale, a subgenre he was probably encouraged to pursue by Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine’s editor Fred Dannay (a.k.a. Ellery Queen).
Ed’s first sale to Dannay was in 1962 and it was the
beginning of what must surely be the most productive association between editor and author in the
history of the mystery. In 1973, Dannay decided to
start including a Hoch story in every issue of the
magazine. That unbroken run continued until
March/April of 2009.
Many of the twenty-eight series Ed developed
over the course of his career were exclusive to
EQMM. They include the tales of lovable thief of
“objects of little or no value,” Nick Velvet, basis for a
French TV series in the 1970s. Among the winningly
bizarre targets of Nick’s larceny were a bald man’s
comb, a dead houseplant, an empty birdcage, and
the “ostracized ostrich” of the final Velvet story,
winner of the 2007 EQMM Readers Award.
Percolating at the back of Ed’s mind, he told me just
weeks before his death, was a new Velvet tale
inspired by a letter he received from a wife desperate to get her husband to stop wearing an old shirt.
“I thought of Nick Velvet,“ she wrote. “He could
steal it and dispose of it before my husband discovered it missing.”
Readers all over the world had that kind of
intimate rapport with Ed through his characters.
Collections of his work saw print in countries as far
away as China, Japan, Thailand, Iceland, Germany
and Sweden, and everywhere they drew fans who
wrote Ed letters of appreciation.
Ed was never one to take his fans for granted. In
at least one instance, a fan note he received grew
into a twenty-year exchange of letters and
Christmas cards. But then, Ed took none of the good
things in his life for granted. There was never an
overlay of ego attached to any of his achievements;
he was modest to a fault. When informed that his
EQMM Readers Award win (something he’d been
waiting decades for) was a tie, his response was,
“I’m pleased to share it.”
Like so many others who had the privilege of
knowing Ed, I miss the goodness reflected in that
remark even more than I will miss the brilliantly
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inventive stories that came in the mail for me each
month for seventeen years. But of course, a lot of
what was best in Ed shines through in his stories,
and he left 950 of them behind.
I hope Malice 22’s celebration of Edward D.
Hoch’s work will inspire attendees to pick up the
several collections of those stories that are still available (most through Crippen & Landru Publishers).
And let’s all lift a glass to Ed sometime this
weekend. I think he’ll smile at that, too.
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Malice Remembers
Edward D. Hoch
Bibliography
Malice Domestic thanks June M. Moffatt and
Francis M. Nevins, Jr. for providing us a copy of their
monumental work, Edward D. Hoch (1930-2008)
Bibliography, 18th Edition. Ed Hoch was a prolific
writer who produced more than 950 stories including
505 published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and
110 published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
Here is a partial bibliography of Ed Hoch’s extensive
work.
SERIES CHARACTERS
Simon Ark
Ulysses S. Bird
Computer Cops
Professor Dark
Al Diamond/Al Darlan
Barney Hamet
Dr. Sam Hawthorne
Susan Holt
Interpol
Libby Knowles
Captain Leopold
Father David Noone
Sir Gideon Parrot
David Piper
Harry Ponder
Tommy Preston
Matthew Prize
Jeffrey Rand
Barnabus Rex
Annie Sears
Ben Snow
Charles Spacer
Stanton & Ives
Alexander Swift
Paul Tower
Nancy Trentino
Nick Velvet
Michael Vlado
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NOVELS
The Shattered Raven (1969)
The Transvection Machine (1971)
The Fellowship of the Hand (1972)
The Frankenstein Factory (1975)
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS (PARTIAL)
The Judges Of Hades (1971)
City of Brass (1971)
The Spy and The Thief (1971)
The Thefts of Nick Velvet (1978)
The Quests of Simon Ark (1985)
Leopold’s Way (1985)
Tales of Espionage (1989) (15 stories)
The Spy Who Read Latin and Other Stories (1991)
The Night My Friend: Stories of Crime and Suspense (1991)
Diagnosis: Impossible: The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne
(1996)
The Ripper of Storyville and Other Ben Snow Tales (1997)
The Velvet Touch (2000)
The Old Spies Club (2001)
The Night People and Other Stories (2001)
The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth (2003)
More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Sam
Hawthorne (2006)
The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch (2008)
Funeral in the Fog and Other Simon Ark Tales
(forthcoming)
Hoch’s Ladies (forthcoming)
Nothing Is Impossible: The Third Casebook of Dr. Sam
Hawthorne (forthcoming)
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Remembering
Louise N. Leftwich
In Memoriam: Louise N. Leftwich
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound ...”
I
t is almost impossible to put into words what the
loss of my dear friend Louise means to me. But
I know she’d understand how I feel having suffered
the loss of her closest friend, Carole Ann Nelson, not so
many years ago. We met, as one might
expect, through our service on the Malice
Board. Over the years we became friends
and more recently very close friends.
I was there for her when she lost her
beloved husband Ron so suddenly during
Malice XX and she was there for me when
I lost my dear father suddenly last Easter.
Those two tragic events forged a wonderful
closeness that I will forever miss.
It was an odd friendship, to say the
least. I would be considered a heathen in
that I am not a regular churchgoer; Louise
on the other hand was sincerely devout
and took great pleasure in her church and
singing in the choir. I never heard her sing
in church but I had the great pleasure to hear her sing
a capella at a Board Christmas dinner and it was
beautiful. With a voice that sweet, surely she must be
singing with the angels.
On December 9, 2009, the Malice
Domestic family lost an essential
member of the Board of Directors,
and more importantly, our dear
friend, Louise N. Leftwich. Louise
served the Board as hotel liaison,
publications chair, Agatha chair,
and chair. She lived in Brentwood,
Maryland where she often stated
that she and her late husband,
Ronald, “serve[d] as staff to
their cats.”
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What did we do in the time we spent together?
Nothing monumental, just all of those things that make
life special like eating out with a friend, going to movies
and plays with a friend and of course shopping with a
friend. But let’s not forget what might
possibly be the most important thing, our
mutual passion — books and, more
particularly, mystery books. While we both
agreed on our love of the historical mystery
we didn’t always agree when it came to the
more hard edged stories. I like them; she
wasn’t as fond of them.
Not being an author, like many of
you who will read this, I am finding it
extremely difficult to convey just how
important Louise and her friendship were
to me. Her loss leaves a great void, but the
memories of our shared friendship will fill
it. I can hear her voice and laughter in my
head — I hope never to lose that.
“... that saved a wretch like me.”
— Verena Rose
Malice Chair
Louise worked as a human resources database consultant. She grew up
reading Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden mysteries. After rediscovering
mysteries later in life, she spent much of her time frantically trying to catch
up. Malice 21 was her 16th Malice. Besides reading, she enjoyed board
games and times spent with her “malicious” friends.
— Tonya L. Spratt-Williams
Agatha Chair
Louise was SO smart and competent, and for so many years she
enriched Malice Domestic with her many gifts. She knew the organization
from top to bottom, and her contributions to the success of Malice, year after
year, are beyond measure.
She also gave those of us who were privileged to work with her a warm
and caring friendship — and ebullient laughter — which we will always
remember.
— Ruth Sickafus
Former Malice Board Member
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So many of our memories of Louise involve food — dinner and games at dear friend and
former Malice Board member Carole Anne Nelson’s, lunch at Hamburger Hamlet,
celebrations in and around the Washington area — Louise was always there with her warm
smile and hearty laugh, adding her own special charm and joy to the gathering. We were in
awe of her vast knowledge and wide experience on subjects ranging from travel and
mysteries through the complexities of the health care system.
Louise didn’t have a mean bone in her body. No matter how frantic Malice got (and over
the years there have been some near catastrophes), she handled everything with good grace
and a professional demeanor.
Her deep faith in God was an example to us all. Meals began with a gentle “Shall we give
thanks?” and ended with her calling her beloved husband Ron to let him know she was on
her way home (frequently with some carry-out for him). This faith sustained her through
the loss of Carole Anne and Ron and set a standard for the rest of us to try to live up to.
— Sheila Martin, Kay McCarty, and Anne Murphy
The Rockville Contingent
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SOME OF THE MANY OUTPOURINGS OF SYMPATHY FROM THE MALICE COMMUNITY
I can scarcely take this in. I’ve
known her as a friend, not just a
Malice friend, for so many years.
— Katherine Hall Page
May God open the gates of larger
life and may her memory give
comfort to her friends.
— Carolyn Hart
Louise is really going to be missed
— she was a very special woman.
— Hannah Dennison
Louise will be sorely missed.
— Patricia Sprinkle
This is very upsetting. Louise and I
spoke a few times and I so enjoyed
our conversations. My sincere
sympathies.
— Louise Penny
Louise was always so happy and
full of life that we always want to
remember her that way.
— Linda Rutledge
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This is very sad news indeed.
— Elaine Viets
Sincere condolences to you and all
the members of the board on the
loss of such a dear friend and
colleague.
— Renee & Donald Bain
I am very sorry to hear of Louise’s
death. We will all miss her kindness
and enthusiasm.
— Anne Perry
My sympathies to all Louise’s
friends and family.
— Kathleen Ernst
My heartfelt condolences and
sympathy to the Malice Domestic
Board and Louise Leftwich’s family.
She will definitely be missed. Her
contributions to the mystery
community were huge.
— Beth Groundwater
I’m so deeply sorry to hear the sad
news about Louise. I got to know
her almost ten years ago when she
moderated a Malice panel I was on,
and she was delightful, and
supportive of us all.
— Nancy Means Wright
Deepest condolences to all
connected with Malice Domestic
on the death of Louise Leftwich.
Her contributions to the
conference were mighty, and she
will be missed.
— Roberta Rogow
Louise valued her friends and her
high standards, her personal
ethics, and her commitment
toward Malice Domestic. Please
convey my support for all who
knew, loved, and valued her
presence in their lives. I will light a
candle for her life on this side and
to light her journey to the other
side.
— Susan E. Van Hyning
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Agatha Awards
2008
2004
Best Novel: The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: Death of a Cozy Writer, G.M. Malliet
Best Non-Fiction: 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
Best Novel: Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear
Best First Novel: Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak
Best Non-Fiction: 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
2007
2003
Best Novel: A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: Prime Time, Hank Phillippi Ryan
Best Non-Fiction: 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
2006
Best Novel: The Virgin Of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel: The Heat of the Moon,
Sandra Parshall
Best Non-Fiction: 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
2005
Best Novel: The Body in the Snowdrift, Katherine Hall Page
Best First Novel: Better Off Wed, Laura Durham
Best Non-Fiction: 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
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Best Novel: Letter From Home, Carolyn Hart
Best First Novel: Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
Best Non-Fiction: 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
2002
Best Novel: You’ve Got Murder, Donna Andrews
Best First Novel: In The Bleak Midwinter,
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Best Non-Fiction: 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
2001
Best Novel: Murphy’s Law, Rhys Bowen
Best First Novel: Bubbles Unbound, Sarah Strohmeyer
Best Non-Fiction: 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
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1994
Best Novel: Storm Track, Margaret Maron
Best First Novel: Death on a Silver Tray,
Rosemary Stevens
Best Non-Fiction: 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century,
Jim Huang, editor
Best Short Story: “The Man in the Civil Suit,”
Jan Burke
Best Novel: She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb
Best First Novel: Do Unto Others, Jeff Abbott
Best Non-Fiction: By A Woman’s Hand, Jean Swanson
and Dean James
Best Short Story: “The Family Jewels,”
Dorothy Cannell
1999
Best Novel: Mariner’s Compass, Earlene Fowler
Best First Novel: Murder, With Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Best Non-Fiction: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur
Conan Doyle, Daniel Stashower
Best Short Story: “Out of Africa,” Nancy Pickard
1998
Best Novel: Butcher’s Hill, Laura Lippman
Best First Novel: The Doctor Digs a Grave,
Robin Hathaway
Best Non-Fiction: 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
1997
Best Novel: The Devil in Music, Kate Ross
Best First Novel: The Salaryman’s Wife, Sujata Massey
Best Non-Fiction: 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 Non-Fiction: 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 Non-Fiction: Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide:
Chicago, Alzina Stone Dale
Best Short Story: “The Dog Who Remembered
Too Much,” Elizabeth Daniels Squire
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Best Novel: Dead Man’s Island, Carolyn G. Hart
Best First Novel: Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr
Best Non-Fiction: The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery,
Barbara D’Amato
Best Short Story: “Kim’s Game,” M. D. Lake
1992
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
1990
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
1989
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
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)
Join us at the Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD — April 29–May 1, 2011
* A special category for Malice XVI honored Special Malice Remembers, Carole Anne Nelson
** International Guest of Honor
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Malice Remembers
Lifetime Achievement
Poirot
Chair
Agatha Christie
None
None
Mary Morman
Dorothy L. Sayers
Phyllis A. Whitney
None
Mary Morman
Mary R. Rinehart
None
None
Gerry Letteney
Margery Allingham
None
None
Gerry Letteney
William Shakespeare
None
None
Ron McMillen
Edgar Allen Poe
Mignon G. Eberhart
None
Ron McMillen
Ngaio Marsh
None
None
Ron McMillen
Josephine Tey
Mary Stewart
None
Beth Foxwell
Richard & Frances Lockridge
Emma Lathen
None
Beth Foxwell
Ellery Queen
Charlotte McLeod
None
Carol Whitney
John Dickson Carr
Patricia Moyes
None
Carol Whitney
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dick Francis
None
Cindy Silberblatt
Rex Stout
Mildred Wirt Benson
None
Cindy Silberblatt
G. K. Chesterton
Tony Hillerman
None
Cindy Silberblatt
Agatha Christie
Elizabeth Peters
David Suchet
Tom O’Day
Erle Stanley Gardner
Marion Babson
Ruth Cavin &
Thomas Dunne
Tom O’Day
Ellis Peters
H.R.F. Keating
Angela Lansbury
Tom O’Day
Craig Rice
Robert Barnard
Doug Greene
Verena Rose
Georgette Heyer
Carolyn Hart
None
Verena Rose
All Those Previously
Honored
Peter Lovesey
Janet Hutchings
& Linda Landrigan
Verena Rose
Charlotte MacLeod
Anne Perry
Kate Stine & Brian Skupin
Louise Leftwich
Ed Hoch
Mary Higgins Clark
William Link
Verena Rose
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Grants
The William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic
Grants for Unpublished Writers, 1994–2010
I
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.”
The first grant was awarded to Jeffrey Marks at
Malice VI in April 1994. Since that time, the grants have
been awarded to 30 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
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.
Winners and Titles of Submitted Manuscripts
2010
2005
2009
2004
Patricia A. Gouthro, Lies My Professor Told Me
Stephanie Evans, Standing on the Promises
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)
Elizabeth Duncan, Dead Posh
(GRANT SPONSORED BY DONATIONS IN MEMORY OF DEAN BARTH)
Hilary McGowan, A Cottage with a View
Stacy Leigh Juba, Sign of the Messenger
Shirley Folwarski (writing as Clarissa Miller),
Blood Is Stickier Than Holy Water
Heidi Vornbrock Roosa (writing as McLean
Jacobson), Hypothesis for Murder
2003
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
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Coming Soon...
... from Amanda Flower
“
India Hayes is a witty, smart artist and college
librarian who makes one crucial mistake: she agrees
to a childhood friend’s surprising
request that she be her
bridesmaid. Proving that
no kindness goes
unpunished, India winds
up with the obligatory
hideous and expensive dress,
warring cats as housemates,
big trouble with her
idiosyncratic family and her
employer and neither last nor
least: murder. Author Amanda
Flower juggles it all with style
and charm, making this a most
welcome debut.
”
— Gillian Roberts
Visit Amanda online at www.amandaflower.com
Release date: June 16, 2010
Now available for preorder online or at your favorite bookstore!
ISBN: 978-1-59414-864-4
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
Publisher: Five Star Mystery/Gale
New this Spring from Perseverance Press
z
Midnight Fires
A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft
Nancy Means Wright
“An entertainingly seamy portrayal
of provincial aristocrats…. Add a
feisty, engaging heroine and the
result is an atmospheric and absorbing whodunit.” —Susanne Alleyn
ISBN 978-1-56474-488-3 • 248 pages • $14.95 • trade paperback
Going, Gone
A Gail McCarthy Mystery
Laura Crum
“The Gail McCarthy books are among
my very favorite contemporary
mysteries and Crum is, for my
money, the successor to mystery
giant Dick Francis.” —Ron Miller
ISBN 978-1-880284-98-8 • 192 pages • $14.95 • trade paperback
Order from your local bookseller or
from Perseverance Press z John Daniel and Company
(800) 662-8351 • www.danielpublishing.com/perseverance
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Our 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
SIMON & SCHUSTER
MALICE AT-A-GLANCE BOOKLET
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
OBSIDIAN MYSTERIES
NEW AUTHORS BREAKFAST
MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE
HOSPITALITY ROOM COFFEE SPONSOR
SISTERS IN CRIME’S CHESAPEAKE CHAPTER
THE JUNGLE RED WRITERS AND THE FEMMES FATALES
SOUVENIR SHORT STORY BOOKLET
CRIPPEN AND LANDRU
MALICE PARTNERS IN CRIME
ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE
ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE
BOOK BAG CONTRIBUTORS
ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE
AMERICAN GIRL BOOKS
MIDNIGHT INK
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
MINOTAUR BOOKS
CRIPPEN AND LANDRU
OBSIDIAN MYSTERIES
ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
POISONED PEN PRESS
FELONY & MAYHEM PRESS
SIMON & SCHUSTER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SOHO PRESS
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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.
Jay Bennett, Author
Ian Carmichael, Actor
Lionel Davidson, Author
Dominic Dunne, Author
Barbara Franchi, Author
Dick Francis, Author
Celia Fremlin, Author
Lyn Hamilton, 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
Lenore Boehm
Jack Cater
Judy J. Cater
Barbara D’Amato
Anna S. Jeffrey
Sheila J. Martin
Kay McCarty
Liz Mellett
Lee Mewshaw
C. W. Pollard
Anne Reece
Patricia Schutz
Janine Seitz
Gordon M. Shaw
Ruth C. Shaw
James D. Houston, Author
Laura Hyzy, Fan Guest of Honor
H. Paul Jeffers, Author
Stuart Kaminsky, Author
Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Publisher
Louise Leftwich, Malice Board
Frank McCourt, Author
Patrick McGoohan, Actor
Ralph McInerny, Author
John Mortimer, Author
Sister Carol Anne O’Marie, Author
Barbara Parker, Author
Robert B. Parker, Author
J. D. Salinger, Author
Erich Segal, Author
William G. Tapply, Author
John Updike, Author
Donald E. Westlake, Author
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General Information
“No Smoking” Policy
The hotel does not permit smoking.
Hotel Check-in/out
Check-in time at the Crystal Gateway Marriott is
4 p.m. If rooms are available, you can check-in earlier. Check-out time is 1 p.m. 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.
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.
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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The Hospitality Lounge
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. You will also find a book
“exchange” table where you can swap your books for
other books. 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!), buy Malice souvenirs, 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 23’s honorees (after they are
announced at the banquet).
Green Room
Moderators and panelists should gather in the
Hospitality Lounge 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 22. 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 23
Save time and money! Register for next year’s Malice
while you’re here. A registration form with a special
convention savings offer is available at the registration desk in the Grand Ballroom Foyer. Register now
for Malice 23 and SAVE!
Payments may be made by cash, check, or credit
card while the registration desk is open. The registrar
and other Board members will accept cash or checks
during the Agatha Tea and Closing Ceremonies from
those who procrastinate, but they cannot accept
credit cards.
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Charity Auction
Facts and Frequently Asked Questions
Live Auction
Silent Auction
How do I register?
An auction registration table will be located next to
Convention Registration from 4:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. on
Friday, April 30, 2010. Should latecomers wish to
participate in the live auction they will be able to
register before the auction begins in Salons B and C.
When and where will the auction be held?
The Malice Domestic 22 Silent Auction will be open
on Friday, April 30, 2010, from 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
and on Saturday, May 1, 2010, 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 in Salon B and C beginning at 9:00 p.m. on Friday evening, April 30, 2010.
What organization will be
receiving the auction proceeds?
The John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children
and Adolescents has been chosen as Malice Domestic
22’s auction recipient. JLG-RICA is a community
based 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, May 1, 2010.
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.
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 29
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Early Bird Registration
Friday, April 30
9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Registration
9:00–9:30 a.m.
Malice 101
9:30–9:45 a.m.
3:10–4:00 p.m.
You’ve Got Fan Mail:
Honored Guests with Fabulous Fans
Verena Rose — Moderator
Rhys Bowen
Mary Higgins Clark
Parnell Hall
4:10–5:00 p.m.
Ed Hoch Remembered: Honoring One of the Most
Prolific Writers of Short Detective Fiction
Janet Hutchings — Moderator
Mary Higgins Clark
Doug Greene
Margaret Maron
Steven Steinbock
Volunteers 101
5:10–5:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Opening Ceremonies
Hospitality Lounge & Silent Auction
5:30–6:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Opening Ceremonies Reception
Dealers
6:00–6:50 p.m.
10:00–11:30 a.m.
Malice Go Round:
It’s Like Speed Dating – with Authors
Judy and Jack Cater — Moderators
11:30 a.m.
Lunch Break
12:30–1:00 p.m.
Simply the Best: Agatha Best Novel Nominees
Shawn Reilly — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Lorna Barrett
Rhys Bowen
Louise Penny
Hank Phillippi Ryan
7:00–8:00 p.m.
Dinner Break
Malice Bingo: Get to Know Your Fellow Fans
1:10–2:00 p.m.
Poison Control: The Poison Lady Shares Simple Ways
to Commit Murder
Luci Zahray, The Poison Lady
2:10–3:00 p.m.
8:00–8:50 p.m.
Lifetime Achievement Interview:
Mary Higgins Clark interviewed by Parnell Hall
9:00–10:20 p.m.
Live Auction
Oh, Sir, Just One More Thing!: Poirot Award Honoree
William Link interviewed by Doug Greene
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Saturday, May 1
7:30–8:30 a.m.
New Authors Breakfast
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Registration
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hospitality Lounge & Silent Auction (Silent Auction
until 1:30 p.m. only)
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Dealers
9:00–9:50 a.m. — PANELS
Make It Snappy: Agatha Best Short Story Nominees
Ruth M. McCarty — Moderator
Dana Cameron
Kaye George
Barb Goffman
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Elizabeth Zelvin
Into the Wild: Mysteries Set in the Great Outdoors
Caroline Craig — Moderator
Suzanne Arruda
Rachel Brady
Beth Groundwater
Deborah Sharp
Cozy Books, Tough Topics:
Societal Problems Addressed in Cozy Fiction
Avery Aames — Moderator
JoAnna Carl
Kate Collins
Katherine Hall Page
Maggie Sefton
The Game is Afoot:
Sherlock Holmes’ Influence on Modern Sleuths
John Betancourt — Moderator
Parnell Hall
William Link
Daniel Stashower
Steven Steinbock
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10:00 a.m.
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
10:20–11:10 a.m. – PANELS
New to Woo:
Traditional Authors Who’ve Begun Paranormal Series
Becky Hutchison — Moderator
Jeffrey Cohen
Carolyn Hart
Sue Ann Jaffarian
Jim Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Murder in Paradise:
Mysteries Set In Vacation Spots
Patti Ruocco — Moderator
C.S. Challinor
Aaron Elkins
Marcia Talley
Kathryn R. Wall
New Kids on the Block:
Agatha Best First Nominees
Margaret Maron — Moderator
Lisa Bork
Meredith Cole
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Stefanie Pintoff
Page Turners: Books That Keep You Up At Night
Harriette Sackler — Moderator
Mary Higgins Clark
Jeanne M. Dams
Charles Todd (Caroline)
Sheila York
Culture Clash: Race and Ethnicity in Mysteries
B.K. Stevens — Moderator
Frankie Y. Bailey
Rhys Bowen
Kathleen Ernst
Alan Orloff
11:20 a.m.
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
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Convention Schedule
11:40 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
A Jungian Interpretation of the Absolutely Final
Farewell Tour of the Usual Suspects
Julian Cannell — Moderator
Dorothy Cannell
Parnell Hall
Joan Hess
Sharan Newman
Daniel Stashower
12:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:00 p.m.
Agatha Voting Deadline
1:30 p.m.
Silent Auction Bid Deadline
1:30–2:20 p.m. – PANELS
Big Truths and Mini Sleuths: Agatha Best Non-Fiction
and Children’s/Young Adult Nominees
Colleen A. Barnett — Moderator
Chris Grabenstein
Valerie O. Patterson
Elena Santangelo
Ripped From the Headlines:
How Current Events Influence Mysteries
Carolyn Mulford — Moderator
Margaret Fenton
Gerrie Ferris-Finger
Toni L.P. Kelner
C. Solimini
Double Trouble: Solving Contemporary and
Cold/Historical Crimes at the Same Time
John Billheimer — Moderator
Lillian Stewart Carl
Barbara Graham
Charlotte Hinger
Vincent H. O’Neil
Golden Inspiration: How Golden Age Mysteries
Influence Contemporary Authors
Maureen Collins — Moderator
Robin Hathaway
Susan Kandel
G.M. Malliet
L.C. Tyler
Behind the Curtain: An Inside Look at Unusual
Settings
C. Ellett Logan — Moderator
Joanne Dobson
Judith Koll Healey
Marion Moore Hill
Penny Warner
2:30 p.m.
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
2:50–3:40 p.m. – PANELS
Urban Fantasy Mysteries:
Stories with an Extra Dimension
Dina Willner — Moderator
Casey Daniels
Maria Lima
Kris Neri
Mary Saums
Tales with Tails: Roles Animals Play in Mysteries
Sandra Parshall — Moderator
Krista Davis
Hannah Dennison
Sasscer Hill
Elaine Viets
Love, Sex and Death: Mixing Cold Murder with
Steamy Sleuths
Amanda Flower — Moderator
Ellen Byerrum
Jane K. Cleland
Wendy Lyn Watson
Heather Webber
Whydunit?: Focusing on the Why to Get to the Who
Pat Remick — Moderator
Joan Boswell
Ellen Hart
Louise Penny
Cynthia Riggs
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Convention Schedule
2:50–3:40 p.m. – PANELS con’t.
9:00–9:50 a.m. – PANELS
Senior Sleuths versus Middle-Aged Meddlers and
Crime-Cracking Kids: How Age Impacts the Story
Maya Corrigan — Moderator
Sarah Masters Buckey
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Nancy Glass West
J L Wilson
No Rug Burns Here:
Mysteries with Good Clean Murder
schuyler kaufman — Moderator
Maggie Barbieri
Cathy Pickens
Jennifer Stanley
Leann Sweeney
3:50 p.m.
The Art of Distraction:
Using Red Herrings
Jane K. Cleland — Moderator
Peggy Ehrhart
Betty Hechtman
Tracy Kiely
Joanna Campbell Slan
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Shipping Service open
4:10–5:00 p.m.
Guest of Honor Interview: Parnell Hall interviewed by
Dorothy Cannell and Joan Hess
6:00 p.m.
Reception
7:00 p.m.
Agatha Awards Banquet
Sunday, May 2
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall — These Mysteries
Have It All:
How Season Affects Story
Verna Suit — Moderator
Lorna Barrett
Sheila Connolly
Sandra Parshall
Anne White
Sleuth Off!:
Audience Votes on the Greatest Sleuth of All
Chris Grabenstein — Moderator
Annamaria Alfieri
Vicki Doudera
Irene Fleming
Gabriella Herkert
8:00 a.m.
Board of Directors Business Meeting
8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Dealers
9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Registration
9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Hospitality Lounge
9:00 a.m.
Shipping Service open
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10:00 a.m.
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
10:20–11:10 a.m. — PANELS
From Simple Questions to DNA:
Investigative Methods Past and Present
Audrey Liebross — Moderator
Vicki Delany
Clare Langley-Hawthorne
Jeff Markowitz
Sharan Newman
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Convention Schedule
10:20–11:10 a.m. — PANELS con’t.
On the Road:
When Series Change Their Settings
Trish Carrico — Moderator
Kate Carlisle
L. C. Hayden
Maria Hudgins
Sarah Wisseman
Deadly Duos:
Sleuths Who Work in Pairs or Groups
Allan E. Ansorge — Moderator
Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Carole Nelson Douglas
Larry Mild
Rosemary Mild
Thrills and Chills:
Books That Take You on a Wild Ride
Debbi Mack — Moderator
Austin S. Camacho
Barbara D’Amato
John F. Dobbyn
Thomas Kaufman
Characters We Know and Love:
Authors Appear in Character
Doris Ann Norris — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Rosemary Harris
Mary Jane Maffini
Victoria Thompson
Bosom Buddies:
Friendships in Mysteries
Bonner Menking — Moderator
Dorothy Cannell
Sally Goldenbaum
Margaret Maron
Nancy Pickard
12:40 a.m.
11:20 a.m.
1:30–2:20 p.m.
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
A Toast to Rhys Bowen:
Rhys Bowen interviewed by Hank Phillippi Ryan
11:40 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – PANELS
2:30 p.m.
Town and Country:
How Setting Affects the Story
Clyde Linsley — Moderator
Lila Dare
R.J. Harlick
Con Lehane
Ilene Schneider
Signings
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
Until 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
Agatha Tea and Closing Ceremonies
As Time Goes By:
How Sleuthing Changed From the 1500s through the
1800s
Sally Fellows — Moderator
Peg Herring
M.E. Kemp
Roberta Rogow
Nancy Means Wright
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Attending Authors
Avery Aames
Avery Aames
Suzanne Arruda
Avery Aames writes A Cheese Shop Mystery
series for Berkley Prime Crime. Avery, aka
Daryl Wood Gerber, created the format for
the popular sit-com Out of this World and has
won awards for her screenplays. She also
writes short stories and suspense novels. She
likes to read, cook, garden and do amateur
photography. Daryl has hitchhiked around
Ireland by herself and has jumped out of a
perfectly good airplane. Avery lives vicariously through Daryl.
Websites: www.averyaames.com,
www.darylwoodgerber.com
Blog: www.mysteryloverskitchen
Suzanne Arruda invites you to climb 1920
Kilimanjaro with Jade del Cameron and a
silent movie crew in her newest Jade del
Cameron mystery, Treasure of the Golden
Cheetah. Suzanne is a former zookeeper and
biology instructor and an avid hiker. To
learn about Jade, Suzanne learned knife
throwing, lassoing, riflery and archery. She
once saved her boss’s life from rattlesnake
bite and learned to drive stick at same time.
Website: www.suzannearruda.com
Blog: suzannearruda.blogspot.com
Suzanne Arruda
Frankie Y. Bailey
Annamaria Alfieri
Annamaria Alfieri is the author of City of
Silver, a historical mystery published last
August by St. Martin’s Press to critical
acclaim. Writing as Patricia King, she is also
the author of “Baggage Claim,” a short story
in Queens Noir, a volume of Akashic Books’
award-winning Noir series. Her five business
books include Never Work for a Jerk, featured
Annamaria Alfieri on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and the current Monster Boss. She lives in New York City.
Website: www.annamariaalfieri.com
Frankie Y. Bailey
Frankie Y. Bailey, a professor in the School
of Criminal Justice, University at Albany
(SUNY), does research on crime and
American culture. Her most recent books
are African American Mystery Writers (2008)
and Wicked Albany: Lawlessness & Liquor in the
Prohibition Era (2009). Frankie’s mystery
series features crime historian Lizzie Stuart
in four books, with a fifth, 40 Acres and a
Soggy Grave, forthcoming. Frankie is at work
on a historical thriller and a new series.
Website: wwwfrankieybailey.com
Maggie Barbieri
Donna Andrews
Donna Andrews combines murder with
competitive rose growing and fainting
goats in Swan for the Money, her 2009 book
starring blacksmith Meg Langslow. And in
Stork Raving Mad, due out in July, Meg
sleuths while 8-1/2 months pregnant —
with twins.
Website: www.donnaandrews.com
Donna Andrews
Allan E. Ansorge
Allan E. Ansorge
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Allan is the author of Crossing the Centerline,
from Echelon press, the first of the Bay
Harbour series. Raised in a Wisconsin farming community Allan did not see a library
until he was forced onto a bus to attend
high school. There he found Holmes and
Christie. After a business career he returns
to spread imagination and humor to those
waiting to see, What Happens Next?
Website: www.aeansorge.com
Blog: allaneansorge.blogspot.com
Maggie Barbieri
Maggie Barbieri is the daughter of a retired
New York City police officer and a life-long
Nancy Drew fan, so mystery writing has
been in her blood since she was a child.
Maggie is a freelance writer and editor and
the author of the Murder 101 series, starring college professor Alison Bergeron and
her New York City Detective boyfriend,
Bobby Crawford. Final Exam, the fourth
installment in the series, was published in
December of 2009.
Website: www.maggiebarbieri.com
Blog: www.thestilettogang.blogspot.com
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Attending Authors
Colleen Barnett
Lorna Barrett
Colleen Barnett
Lisa Bork
Colleen Barnett authored a three-volume
reference series, Mystery Women, which
covered female sleuths from the 1860’s
to 2,000. The first volume dealt with the
years 1860-1979; the second covered only
a single decade, the 1980’s, but portrayed
the dramatic increase which reflected reallife changes. It was nominated for an
Agatha. Both have been updated. The
update of volume 3, nominated for an
Edgar, Agatha and Macavity, will be published late in 2010.
Lisa Bork is the author of For Better, For
Murder, the first book in the Broken Vows
mystery series featuring sports car dealer
Jolene Asdale and her unpredictable family. The second, For Richer, For Danger, will
be published later this year. Lisa resides in
western New York and spends a lot of time
in the Finger Lakes region, the setting for
her books, with her husband, two children
and the family dog.
Website: www.LisaBork.com
Blog: www.midnightwriters.blogspot.com
Lisa Bork
Lorna Barrett
Joan Boswell
Lorna Barrett is the New York Times bestselling author of the Booktown mysteries
from Berkley Prime Crime. She’s done it
all from drilling holes for NASA to typing
scripts in Hollywood. She writes the
Booktown mysteries as Lorna Barrett, the
Victoria Square mysteries as Lorraine
Bartlett and the Jeff Resnick paranormal/psychological suspense series as
L.L. Bartlett.
Website: www.LornaBarrett.com
Joan Boswell is a member of the Ladies
Killing Circle. Joan co-edited four of their
short story anthologies: Fit to Die, Bone
Dance, Boomers Go Bad and Going Out With a
Bang. Her three mysteries, Cut Off His Tale,
Cut to the Quick and Cut to the Chase were
published in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In 2000
she won the $10,000 Toronto Star‘s short
story contest. Joan lives in Toronto with
three flat-coated retrievers.
Joan Boswell
Rachel Brady
John Betancourt
John Betancourt
John Betancourt — in addition to running
Wildside Press — is a best-selling science
fiction author and an award-winning mystery author. He has been a literary agent, a
book packager and has worked (in one
capacity or another) for most major New
York publishing companies. His broad
knowledge of the publishing scene offers
unique insights into the past, present and
future of the industry.
Rachel Brady
John Billheimer
John Billheimer
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John Billheimer, a native West Virginian,
lives in Portola Valley, California. He holds
an engineering Ph.D. from Stanford
University and is the author of the “funny,
sometimes touching” Owen Allison mystery series set in Appalachia’s coalfields.
The Drood Review voted his first book, The
Contrary Blues, one of the ten best mysteries of 1998. Four subsequent novels
explore various Mountain State scams and
scandals. The most recent is Stonewall
Jackson’s Elbow, published in Fall 2006.
A graduate of Wright State University and
The Ohio State University, Rachel works as
a biomedical engineer at NASA in addition
to the time she spends writing mystery
and suspense fiction. Her interests include
health and fitness, acoustic guitar and
books of all kinds. She lives outside of
Houston, Texas, with her family. Final
Approach is her debut novel and she’s
excited to be back in D.C. for her second
Malice Domestic.
Website: www.rachelbrady.net
Blog: writeitanyway.blogspot.com
Sarah Masters Buckey
Sarah Masters
Buckey
Sarah Masters Buckey’s most recent book is
A Thief in the Theater: A Kit Mystery. It’s set
during the 1930s in a small theater struggling to survive the Great Depression, and it
was a 2008 Agatha nominee. Sarah has
written seven historical mysteries for young
readers, including The Light in the Cellar, a
2007 Agatha Award winner, and The Stolen
Sapphire, an Edgar Award nominee. She
and her family live in New Hampshire.
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Attending Authors
Elizabeth Kane
Buzzelli
Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Dana Cameron
Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli — novelist, journalist and creative writing teacher. Her
novels include: Gift of Evil (Bantam, 1988),
and from Midnight Ink Publishers, Dead
Dancing Women-2008, Dead Floating Lovers2009, Dead Sleeping Shaman-2010 and Dead
Dogs and Englishmen-2011. She taught 8
years at Skidmore College-IWWG Summer
Conference and at Oakland University. She
teaches writing at Northwestern Michigan
College and reviews books for the
Northern Express, and served on Michigan
State Library’s Notable Books Committee.
Website: www.elizabethbuzzelli.com
In addition to her award-winning archaeology mysteries, Dana Cameron’s werewolf
short story, “The Night Things Changed,”
won the Agatha and the Macavity and was
nominated for an Anthony. Her Agathaand Edgar-nominated story, “Femme Sole,”
appears in Boston Noir and “Swing Shift,”
her second “Fangborn” story, appears in
Crimes By Moonlight (April 2010). Dana
lives in Massachusetts with her husband
and two wicked kittens.
Website: www.danacameron.com
Dana Cameron
Dorothy Cannell
Ellen Byerrum
Ellen Byerrum
Ellen Byerrum writes the Crime of Fashion
mystery series featuring Lacey
Smithsonian. Killer Hair debuted in August
2003, followed by Designer Knockoff, Hostile
Makeover, Raiders of the Lost Corset, Grave
Apparel and Armed and Glamorous in July
2008. Two books — Killer Hair and Hostile
Makeover — were made into films for the
Lifetime Movie Network, premiering in
June 2009. Byerrum also has a Virginia PI
registration and is a published playwright.
Website: www.ellenbyerrum.com
Dorothy Cannell
JoAnna Carl
Austin S. Camacho
Austin S. Camacho is the author of five
detective novels in the Hannibal Jones
series: Blood and Bone, Collateral Damage, The
Troubleshooter, Damaged Goods and Russian
Roulette. Camacho is active in several writers’ organizations and teaches writing at
Anne Arundel Community College. After a
career as a military news reporter,
Austin S. Camacho Camacho is now a public affairs specialist
for the Defense Department. Camacho
lives in Springfield, Virginia with his lovely
wife Denise and Princess the Wonder Cat.
Website: www.ascamacho.com
Blog: ascamacho.blogspot.com
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Dorothy Cannell was born in Nottingham,
England, and came to 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 two cats named
Killer and Bub, Jr. They have four children, Warren, Jason, Rachael, who reside
in central Illinois, and Shana, who resides
in Maine. Among them, there are ten
grandchildren.
JoAnna Carl
JoAnna Carl is the author of the
Chocoholic mysteries. These feature an
amateur detective, Lee McKinney
Woodyard, who is business manager for a
company making luxury, European-style
chocolates in a Lake Michigan resort. The
ninth book in the series, The Chocolate
Pirate Plot, will be published in October.
JoAnna, who lives in Oklahoma and
spends summers in Michigan, has also
written under her real name, Eve K.
Sandstrom.
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Attending Authors
Lillian Stewart
Carl
Lillian Stewart Carl
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
The Charm Stone, the fourth book in the
Alasdair Cameron/Jean Fairbairn series
(America’s exile and Scotland’s finest on
the trail of all-too-living legends), takes
place in Colonial Williamsburg; the fifth,
The Blue Hackle, will be published in
November 2010. Lillian is the author of
numerous other mystery and fantasy novels and short stories. She was nominated
for a Hugo for co-editing The Vorkosigan
Companion about the award-winning science fiction work of Lois McMaster Bujold.
Website: www.lillianstewartcarl.com
Elizabeth Lynn Casey is the author of the
new Southern Sewing Circle mystery
series with Berkley Prime Crime. Sew
Deadly, the first in the series, debuted in
August, making its way onto a number of
national bestseller lists including Book
Scan and Barnes & Noble. Death Threads,
the second book in the series, will release
next week. When she’s not writing mysteries, Elizabeth also writes romances for
Harlequin American under the name
Laura Bradford.
Websites: www.elizabethlynncasey.com,
www.laurabradford.com
Elizabeth Lynn
Casey
Kate Carlisle
Kate Carlisle
New York Times bestselling author Kate
Carlisle spent twenty years in television
production before deciding to go to law
school, where she turned to writing fiction
as a lawful way to kill off the evil professors. She eventually left law school but the
urge to write has never stopped. Her
Bibliophile mysteries feature bookbinder
Brooklyn Wainwright, whose restoration
of rare books invariably uncovers old
secrets, treachery and murder. Kate lives in
Southern California.
Website: katecarlisle.com
C. S. Challinor
C. S. Challinor
Born in the States (Bloomington, Ind.) and
now residing permanently in Florida, C. S.
Challinor was educated in Scotland and
England, and holds a joint honors degree
from the University of Canterbury, Kent.
She is the author of the Rex Graves mystery series published by Midnight Ink
Books and of several short stories that
have appeared in American and British
magazines.
Website: www.RexGraves.com
Jane K. Cleland
Trish Carrico
Trish Carrico
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Trish Carrico is always glad to get out of
town. Surrounded by strangers and the
unfamiliar, the filter of normal daily life
gone, the details of a new place become
etched in memory — for future use. In
“Death Near the Rim of Heaven”
(Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’), a
tale of betrayal and its consequences, Trish
uses her experiences in Kyoto as background. Her next locale? Venice, the setting for “A Thing of Beauty.”
Jane K. Cleland
Jane K. Cleland’s multiple-award nominated and IMBA best-selling Josie Prescott
Antiques mystery series (St. Martin’s
Minotaur) is often called an Antiques
Roadshow for mystery fans. The series is set
on the rugged seacoast of New Hampshire
where Jane owned an antiques business
for many years. Jane is the Chair of the
Wolfe Pack’s literary awards and is a past
president and current board member of
the MWA/NY Chapter. “Engaging and
ingenious,” says Publishers Weekly.
Website: www.janecleland.net
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Attending Authors
Jeffrey Cohen
Maya Corrigan
Jeffrey Cohen is the author of the Double
Feature mystery series, most recently with
A Night At the Operation, and the Aaron
Tucker mystery series, most recently with
As Dog Is My Witness. He lives in New Jersey,
and doesn’t want you to ask “what exit?”
Website: jeffcohenbooks.com
Blog: heydeadguy.typepad.com/heydeadguy/
Maya (Mary Ann) Corrigan lives in
Virginia, a short drive from the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, the setting for her 2008
Chesapeake Crimes 3 story, “Chimera,” and
for her mystery series featuring a tennisplaying P.I. The first book in the series, The
Murder Racquet, was a finalist in the 2008 St.
Martin’s/Malice Domestic contest. Her latest
story, “Delicious Death,” appears in
Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’ (2010).
Jeffrey Cohen
Maya Corrigan
Meredith Cole
Meredith Cole
Meredith Cole directed feature films and
wrote screenplays before writing mysteries.
She won the St. Martin’s/Malice Domestic
Best First Traditional Mystery competition.
Her book Posed for Murder, set in
Williamsburg Brooklyn, was published by
St. Martin’s Minotaur in 2009. Her short
stories have appeared in EQMM and the
anthology Murder New York Style. Her second book, Dead in the Water, comes out
May 11, 2010. She lives in Central
Virginia, and teaches mystery writing and
screenwriting.
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Elizabeth Spann
Craig
Kate Collins
Kate Collins
Kate Collins is the author of the popular,
best-selling Flower Shop mysteries, starring feisty, fiery-haired, law-school dropout-turned-florist Abby Knight. The tenth
book in the series, Sleeping with Anemone,
was a February 2010 release, and the
eleventh book, Dirty Rotten Tendrils, will be
out in the fall of 2010. Read more and
explore Bloomers Flower Shop online.
Website: www.katecollinsbooks.com
Barbara D’Amato
Barbara D’Amato
Sheila Connolly
Sheila Connolly
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Sheila Connolly has been an art historian,
a financial consultant, a political fundraiser
and a professional genealogist. Now she
writes mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime:
the Glassblowing mysteries as Sarah
Atwell, whose first book, Through a Glass,
Deadly, was nominated for an Agatha
Award; and the Orchard mysteries, under
her own name. Sheila’s new series, the
Museum mysteries, also from Berkley
Prime Crime, will debut in October 2010.
Website: www.sarahatwellwriter.com
Blog: www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth Spann Craig writes the Myrtle
Clover series for Midnight Ink and is writing the upcoming Memphis Barbeque
series for Berkley Prime Crime as Riley
Adams. Like her characters, her roots are
in the South. As the mother of two,
Elizabeth writes on the run as she juggles
duties as room mom and Brownie leader,
referees play dates, drives car pools and is
dragged along as a hostage/chaperone on
field trips.
Website: elizabethspanncraig.com
Blogs:mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com,
mysteryloverskitchen.com
Barbara D’Amato is a past president of
Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of
America. She has won the Anthony twice,
the Agatha twice, the Carl Sandburg
Award for Fiction, the Macavity, the first
Mary Higgins Clark award and several
Lovies. Recently she collaborated with
Jeanne Dams and Mark Zubro on the
political thriller, Foolproof, published by
Forge in December.
Website: www.barbaradamato.com
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Attending Authors
Jeanne M. Dams
Jeanne M. Dams
Krista Davis
Jeanne Dams usually writes “cheerful mysteries” in two series. Her protagonist
Dorothy Martin is a sixtyish American
expat, living and sleuthing in contemporary
England. (The first “Dorothy” book won
the Agatha in 1996.) Hilda Johansson, by
contrast, is a young Swedish immigrant in
South Bend, Indiana, in the early twentieth
century, housemaid to the wealthy
Studebaker family. Jeanne’s latest work,
however, is a chilling political thriller,
Foolproof, written with colleagues Barbara
D’Amato and Mark Richard Zubro.
Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva mystery series. Her first book, The Diva Runs
Out of Thyme, was nominated for an
Agatha. Her most recent release is the
third book in the series, The Diva Paints the
Town. Krista lives in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia with an Ocicat and
three rambunctious dogs.
Website: divamysteries.com
Blog: mysteryloverskitchen.com (where
mystery authors cook up crime ... and
recipes!)
Krista Davis
Vicki Delany
Casey Daniels
Casey Daniels
Casey Daniels once applied for a cemetery
tour guide job. She didn’t get it, but she
did get the idea for Pepper Martin, a detective who works in a cemetery and solves
mysteries for ghosts not resting in peace!
Her latest release is Dead Man Talking. Book
#6, Tomb with a View, will be out in July. As
Miranda Bliss, she writes the Cooking
Class mysteries. Her latest is Murder Has a
Sweet Tooth.
Website: www.caseydaniels.com
Lila Dare
Lila Dare
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Author of the Southern Beauty Shop mysteries, Lila Dare was born in Georgia and
has lived in Alabama, Mississippi and
Virginia. Although she has never worked
in a beauty shop, she frequents salons and
likes to tell her stylist: “Surprise me.”
Maybe that’s why she looks nervous in her
photo. She currently lives west of the
Mississippi with her husband, two daughters and dog, and misses Southern cooking
and friendliness, but not the humidity.
Website: www.liladare.com
Vicki Delany
Vicki Delany writes the Constable Molly
Smith books, a traditional village/police
procedural series set in the mountains of
British Columbia, the latest of which,
Winter of Secrets, received a starred review
from Publishers Weekly (“artistry as sturdy
and restrained as a shaker chair”). She is
also the author of a historical series (Gold
Fever) set in the raucous heyday of the
Klondike Gold Rush. Vicki lives in rural
Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Website: www.vickidelany.com
Blog: fatalfoodies.blogspot.com,
typem4murder.blogspot.com
Hannah Dennison
Hannah was born in England and moved
to Los Angeles in 1993 to pursue a writing
career. Along the road to publication she
has served as an obituary reporter, private
jet flight attendant and Hollywood story
analyst. She began writing the Vicky Hill
mysteries six years ago. Her third book,
Expose! (Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin
Hannah Dennison USA), was published in December 2009.
Hannah is a board member of the Los
Angeles chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.hannahdennison.com
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Attending Authors
John F. Dobbyn
John F. Dobbyn
Carole Nelson Douglas
Harvard College and Harvard Law School
led to practice with a Boston trial firm
until the two best decisions of my life:
marriage to my love, friend and partner,
Lois, and a career as professor of law at
Villanova Law School. Mystery writing —
my third love — has involved twentysome short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine, another five in Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine and two novels — Neon
Dragon (2007) and Frame Up (March 2010).
Website: Johndobbyn.com
Feline PI Midnight Louie’s Cat in an
Ultramarine Scheme launches his next four
contracted books in August. Cat in a Topaz
Tango (paper) arrives in June. Delilah
Street, Paranormal Investigator’s third noir
urban fantasy-mystery, Vampire Sunrise,
will be followed by Silver Zombie in
December; title-matching cocktail recipes
included. The hit Sherlock Holmes film has
everyone talking about Irene Adler, giving
Carole’s reissued Good Night, Mr. Holmes
and other Adler series suspense mysteries
national media notice.
Website: www.carolenelsondouglas.com
Carole Nelson
Douglas
Joanne Dobson
Joanne Dobson
Vicki Doudera
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Joanne Dobson writes the Professor Karen
Pelletier mystery series from Doubleday
and Poisoned Pen Press. Quieter Than Sleep
won an Agatha nomination; the novels
have been widely reviewed, and in 2001
the New York Library Association named
her a Noted Author of the Year. Joanne
retired as a Fordham University English
Professor. Her latest is Death Without Tenure
(Poisoned Pen Press 2010). “A Good
Cuppa Joe,” with Beverle Graves Myers,
appears in AHMM (2009).
Website: www.joannedobson.com
Elizabeth Duncan
Elizabeth Duncan
Elizabeth Duncan’s first work of fiction,
The Cold Light of Mourning, won the 2006
William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant
for Unpublished Writers and the 2008 St.
Martin’s/Malice Domestic Award for best
first traditional mystery. It was published
by St. Martin’s Press in 2009 and will be
released in paperback June 2010. Her second novel, A Brush with Death, will be published July 2010. Elizabeth lives in Toronto
with her dog, Dolly.
Vicki Doudera
Peggy Ehrhart
Murder and real estate are an explosive
combination in the new Darby Farr series
by realtor Vicki Doudera. A House to Die For
(Midnight Ink) features a gutsy agent selling multimillion dollar homes — and solving murders — on a Maine island.
Publishers Weekly called the novel “an
appealing cozy,” while Tess Gerritsen (The
Mephisto Club) described it as an “expertly
woven tale of suspense.” Vicki writes, sells
houses and eats lobster in Camden, Maine.
Website: www.vickidoudera.com
Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor
with a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature who
now writes mysteries and plays blues guitar. Her publications include a prize-winning nonfiction book; she has also won
awards for her short fiction. Peggy’s first
mystery, Sweet Man Is Gone, features amateur sleuth and blues-singer Elizabeth
“Maxx” Maxwell, and is based on her
adventures in her NYC-based band. The
sequel, Got No Friend Anyhow, is due out
in January 2011.
Website: www.PeggyEhrhart.com
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Attending Authors
Aaron Elkins
Aaron Elkins
Margaret Fenton
Aaron Elkins’s mysteries and thrillers have
garnered an Edgar, an Agatha and a Nero
Wolfe Award. His books have been made
into a major ABC television series, and
have been published in thirteen languages.
Aaron is a frequent contributor to the New
York Times’ travel magazine, and has published numerous articles on fiction and
writing. A former anthropology professor,
he currently serves as forensic anthropology consultant to the Olympic Peninsula
Cold Case Task Force.
Website: aaronelkins.com
Margaret Fenton is an LCSW who spent
ten years as a child and family therapist
before taking a break to focus on her writing. Hence, her mysteries tend to reflect
her interest in social causes and mental
health, especially where kids are concerned. Her first book is Little Lamb Lost,
published in June 2009 by Oceanview
Publishing. She lives in Birmingham,
Alabama with her husband, a software
developer.
Website: www.margaretfenton.com
Margaret Fenton
Gerrie Ferris-Finger
Kathleen Ernst
Kathleen Ernst
Kathleen Ernst’s next book, Old World
Murder, will be published in October. This
traditional mystery for adults is set at a
large historic site where she once worked
as curator. Her books for young readers
have been honored with Agatha and Edgar
nominations. Her latest is Clues in the
Shadows: A Molly Mystery. Kathleen lives
and writes in Wisconsin, but takes great
pleasure in research trips to new locales.
Websites: www.kathleenernst.com,
www.sitesandstories.wordpress.com
Gerrie FerrisFinger
In 2009, Gerrie Ferris-Finger won The
Malice Domestic/St. Martin’s Minotaur
Best First Traditional Novel for The End
Game. She grew up in Missouri then left to
write for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She wrote and edited stories about the
South, including a column on the news.
After retiring, she turned to crime fiction.
She lives on the coast of Georgia with her
husband and standard poodle, Bogey.
Website: www.gerrieferrisfinger.com
Blog: www.gerrieferrisfinger.blogspot.com
Irene Fleming
Christy Evans
Christy Evans
Christy Evans writes in an office supervised by two feline overlords and her
writer-husband, J. Steven York. Living on
the Central Oregon Coast after sojourns to
both Los Angeles and Seattle, she’s a confirmed West Coast girl. The first two books
of her Lady Plumber series, Sink Trap and
Lead Pipe Cinch are available from Berkley,
with the third book scheduled for early
next year.
Blog: christy-evans-mystery.blogspot.com
Irene Fleming
Irene Fleming’s cliffhanging tale of the
early movie industry, The Edge of Ruin, is
due out from Minotaur at the end of April.
She lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with
her musician husband and their cat, where
she’s at work on the next book in this
series, The Brink of Fame. As Kate Gallison,
she has written three private eye novels
and five traditional mysteries.
Website: www.irenefleming.com
Amanda Flower
Maid of Murder, to be released by Five Star
Mystery June 2010, is author Amanda
Flower’s debut cozy mystery. Like her main
character, India Hayes, Flower is a college
librarian and avid traveler who aspires to
see as much of the globe as she can.
Website: www.amandaflower.com
Amanda Flower
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Attending Authors
Kaye George
Nadia Gordon
Kaye George is a member of Sisters in
Crime and treasurer for the Guppies chapter. Eleven of her short stories have
appeared in seven publications and four
have won awards. She’s working on several mystery series ideas and querying for
them. She lives near Austin, Texas.
Website: www.kayegeorge.com
Nadia Gordon’s most recent Napa Valley
culinary mystery, Lethal Vintage, was nominated for a 2010 MWA Mary Higgins Clark
Award. The series, featured in the documentary Mysterious California, has been
called “jolly, high-calorie pleasure” by the
Chicago Tribune, “highly enjoyable” by the
Washington Post and “rapturous” by the Los
Angeles Times. Writing under her real name,
Julianne Balmain, she is the author of
numerous books about food, sex, travel
and generally having a good time.
Website: www.nadiagordon.com
Kaye George
Nadia Gordon
Barb Goffman
Barb Goffman
Barb Goffman is thrilled that her short story
“The Worst Noel” from The Gift of Murder
anthology has been nominated for an
Agatha Award this year. Her stories have
appeared in three volumes of the
Chesapeake Crimes anthology series,
including “Volunteer of the Year” in
Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’, published just this month. Barb also received a
2005 Agatha nomination. She’s a past president of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters
in Crime.
Website: www.barbgoffman.com
Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein
Sally Goldenbaum
Sally Goldenbaum is the author of more
than two dozen novels, most recently the
Seaside Knitters mystery series, set in Sea
Harbor, Massachusetts. Moon Spinners, the
newest in the series, arrives in bookstores
May 2010, and a holiday mystery is scheduled for November publication. Sally lives
in Prairie Village, Kansas, and spends
Sally Goldenbaum many hours in coffee shops, listening to
her characters and corresponding with
readers — two lovely past-times.
Website: sallygoldenbaum.com
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Chris Grabenstein’s first mystery for young
readers, The Crossroads, won both the
Agatha and Anthony Awards and has been
optioned to become a movie. He is thrilled
that the sequel, The Hanging Hill, is nominated for an Agatha this year. Chris is also
the author of the award-winning John
Ceepak Jersey Shore mystery series that
started with Tilt A Whirl. Ceepak #6, Rolling
Thunder, will be published this May.
Website: www.ChrisGrabenstein.com
Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham began making up stories in
the third grade and immediately quit learning to multiply and divide. Her motto is
“every story needs a dead body and every
bed needs a quilt.” Murder By Artifact: The
Murder Quilt, her most recent release, has
both. A native Texan, she lives in Wyoming
with long suffering husband, a rescued
Catahoula/Karelien and the brains of the
operation, their Australian Shepherd.
Website: www.bgmysteries.com
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Attending Authors
Beth
Groundwater
Beth Groundwater
Carolyn Hart
Beth Groundwater writes the Claire
Hanover gift basket designer series (A Real
Basket Case, nominated for the 2007 Best
First Novel Agatha Award, and To Hell in a
Handbasket, published May 2009) and the
Mandy Tanner river ranger series. The first,
Wicked Whitewater, will be released early
2011. Her science fiction novella, The
Epsilon Eridani Alternative, was published
December 2009. Beth enjoys Colorado’s
many outdoor activities, including skiing
and whitewater rafting.
Website: bethgroundwater.com
Blog: bethgroundwater.blogspot.com
In Laughed ‘Til He Died, 20th title in the
Death on Demand series, Annie and Max
Darling struggle to find a killer before an
innocent woman is sent to jail and separated from her dying sister. Also new is
Merry, Merry Ghost. The late Bailey Ruth
Raeburn protects a little boy left on his
grandmother’s front porch a few days
before Christmas. Carolyn enjoys reading
old mysteries and writing new ones.
Carolyn Hart
Ellen Hart
RJ Harlick
RJ Harlick
Canadian author, RJ Harlick writes the
Meg Harris mystery series set in the wilds
of Quebec, where tensions amongst
English Canadians, Quebecois and
Algonquins invariably spark murder. In the
latest, Arctic Blue Death, the fourth in the
series, Meg travels to Canada’s Far North
in search of her father, whose plane vanished 36 years ago. Not only is this a journey into Meg’s past, it is also a journey
into the land of the Inuit.
Website: rjharlick.ca
Ellen Hart
Robin Hathaway
Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris’s debut novel Pushing Up
Daisies (Agatha and Anthony nominee for
Best First Novel, 2008) was called “quirky,
original and captivating” by Carolyn Hart,
and The Big Dirt Nap “a must for cozy readers” by Julia Spencer Fleming. Her third
book is Dead Head, the story of a suburban
woman discovered to be a fugitive from
the law. Rosemary is past president of
SINC New England and a board member
of MWA-NY.
Websites: www.rosemaryharris.com,
www.jungleredwriters.com
Robin Hathaway
Robin Hathaway’s first novel, The Doctor
Digs a Grave, won the St. Martin’s/Malice
Domestic prize 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 stand-alone espionage novel set during WWII in southern
NJ. She lives in New York City.
Website: www.RobinHathaway.com
L. C. Hayden
L. C. Hayden
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Ellen Hart is the author of 25 mysteries in
two series. She is a five-time winner of the
Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian
Mystery, and a three-time winner of the
Minnesota Book Award for Best Popular
Fiction. She’s taught “An Introduction to
Writing the Modern Mystery” through The
Loft Literary Center for twelve years. The
Mirror and the Mask, the seventeenth Jane
Lawless mystery, was released by St.
Martin’s/Minotaur in November 2009.
Website: www.ellenhart.com
Author of the popular Harry Bronson series,
L. C. Hayden’s newest release is When Death
Intervenes. Her previous mystery, Why Casey
Had to Die, was an Agatha Finalist for Best
Novel, won Best of the Best, and Pennsylvania chose it as one of their Top 40 Picks.
Hayden is also a popular speaker. She presents workshops, speaks to clubs, and major
cruise lines have hired her to speak about
writing while cruising all over the world.
Website and blog: lchayden.com
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Attending Authors
Judith Koll Healey
Judith Koll Healey has published two
works of fiction set in twelfth century
France and England. The newest book, The
Rebel Princess, relates the ferocious adventures of Princess Alais of France, who
braves armies, intrigue and fanatics to rescue her son and the icon treasured by the
Cathars. Judith works with present day
Judith Koll Healey families of wealth to assist in their philanthropic planning. They are happy she
writes about the Middle Ages, and not
their problems.
Website: therebelprincessanovel.com
Peg Herring
Peg Herring writes in the mystery genre
and talks about it a lot: to readers’ groups,
writers’ groups or anyone who will listen.
She lives in northern Lower Michigan with
her husband of many years, but they love
to travel: from Bahrain to Bouchercon,
from Scotland to Sleuthfest. And beyond.
Peg Herring
Joan Hess
Betty Hechtman
Betty Hechtman
Betty Hechtman writes the bestselling
Berkley Prime Crime crochet series featuring Molly Pink and the Tarzana Hookers.
The fourth in the series, A Stitch in Crime,
was released in February. The earlier titles
are Hooked on Murder, Dead Men Don’t
Crochet and By Hook or By Crook. She also
wrote the young adult mystery Blue
Schwartz and Nerfertiti’s Necklace. She lives
in Tarzana, California.
Website: www.BettyHechtman.com
Blog: www.Killerhobbies.blogspot.com
(Saturdays)
Gabriella Herkert
Gabriella Herkert
Gabriella Herkert learned at military and
law school that plotting against people was
a legitimate use of her time. After twenty
years of corporate law practice, she might
even get away with it. The award winning
author of the Animal Instinct mysteries
including Catnapped, Doggone and the
upcoming Horsewhipped, Gabi’s an animal
lover under the paw of her own black
lab mix, Koko.
Blog: 7criminalminds.blogspot.com
(Sundays)
Joan Hess
Marion Moore Hill
Marion Moore Hill writes two series, the
Scrappy Librarian mysteries and the
Deadly Past mysteries. In the former,
which began with Bookmarked for Murder
and continued with Death Books a Return,
librarian Juanita Wills solves crimes in her
small Oklahoma town. In the latter, which
began with Deadly Will and continued with
Marion Moore Hill Deadly Design, history buff Millie Kirchner
solves contemporary crimes relating to
famous figures from the American
Revolutionary Era.
Website: www.marionmoorehill.com
Sasscer Hill
Sasscer Hill
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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 and Mummy
Dearest.
In Sasscer Hill’s first novel, Full Mortality,
you will meet the young Maryland jockey,
Nikki Latrelle. The second in the Latrelle
series, Racing From Death, unfolds against
the backdrop of Virginia’s Colonial Downs.
The Sea Horse Trade, which races just
ahead of murder and mayhem at Florida’s
Gulfstream Park, is currently in progress.
Hill lives on a Maryland farm and has been
involved in breeding and selling race
horses for over twenty years.
Website: sasscerhill.blogspot.com
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Attending Authors
Charlotte Hinger
Charlotte Hinger
Susan Kandel
A childhood listening to natural born liars
and hearing “off the record” family stories
when she edited submissions for county
history books inspired Charlotte Hinger to
write Deadly Descent. Her story, “Any Old
Mother,” was included in the MWA
anthology, Blood on Their Hands. Convinced
that mystery writing and historical investigation go hand to hand, she applies her
MA in History to academic articles and her
depraved imagination to murder most foul.
Website: www.charlottehinger.com
Susan Kandel is the author of the Cece
Caruso mystery series, the most recent of
which is Dial H for Hitchcock, one of five
books selected by NPR as 2009’s “most
mesmerizing” mysteries. She lives in West
Hollywood with her husband and two
daughters.
Website: www.susankandel.com
Maria Hudgins
Maria Hudgins
Author of the Dotsy Lamb travel mysteries,
Maria consults her trip journals and photo
albums and then adds a bit of murder.
Following Death of an Obnoxious Tourist
(2006) and Death of a Lovable Geek (2008),
the third book in the series Death on the
Aegean Queen will be out in 2010. When
not jammed into tourist class, she lives in
Hampton, Virginia.
Website: www.mariahudgins.com
Susan Kandel
schuyler kaufman
You don’t choose writing; you write. If
Heaven loves you or slates you for madness,
you get published. Shakespearean glory was
schuyler kaufman’s first dream. Six years
of drama-school, singing telegrams and jobhunting taught schuyler that acting is for
those who can, actually, act. Beloved, mad
or both, schuyler now writes. In Dear Mouse,
schuyler kaufman has-been movie idol Matt Logan finds a
blackmailing starlet in his dressing-room
closet, strangled with his tie and dressed
for the shower scene.
Thomas Kaufman
Sue Ann Jaffarian
Sue Ann Jaffarian is the author of the
award-winning Odelia Grey mystery series,
as well as the Ghost of Granny Apples
mystery series. Coming in September 2010
is I Could Bite You Forever, the first book in
Sue Ann’s new vampire mystery series. In
addition to writing, Sue Ann is a full-time
paralegal for a Los Angeles law firm, and is
Sue Ann Jaffarian sought after as a motivational speaker.
Website: www.sueannjaffarian.com
Thomas Kaufman is the author of Drink the
Tea, which won the PWA/St Martin’s Press
competition for Best First PI Novel. He is
also an Emmy award-winning motion picture director/cameraman. When he’s not
working for the likes of National Geographic
and Discovery Channels, he sometimes
makes his own films. His current film project
Thomas Kaufman is an independent documentary, Indian Hill
Summer. He lives with his wife and kids just
outside Washington, D.C.
Website: www.thomaskaufman.com
Smita H. Jain
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Smita H. Jain
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Smita H. Jain was born in Amravati, India
and raised in Mumbai; attended Wellesley
College and Columbia University; and now
lives in Fredericksburg, VA. A lifelong fan
of the mystery, she finally decided to try
her hand at it, in-between working fulltime, homeschooling two daughters, and
not getting enough sleep. “Cosmic Justice”,
in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin’, is
her first published work of mystery fiction.
Toni L.P. Kelner
Toni L.P. Kelner
Agatha-award winning author Toni L.P.
Kelner multitasks. She writes the “Where are
they now?” mysteries (including the most
recent, Who Killed the Pinup Queen?), edits
NYT bestselling anthologies with Charlaine
Harris (Death’s Excellent Vacation comes out in
August) and sneaks in short stories (including
contributions to anthologies Delta Blues and
Crimes by Moonlight). She lives near Boston
with author/husband Stephen Kelner, two
daughters and two guinea pigs.
Website: www.tonilpkelner.com
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Attending Authors
M. E. Kemp
M. E. Kemp
Joyce Lavene
M. E. Kemp is the author of a series of historical mysteries featuring two nosy
Puritans as detectives. Her latest, Death of a
Dancing Master, will be released in the fall
of 2010. She is currently at work on the
fifth book, set on Cape Cod. Kemp’s short
stories and articles have appeared in
national and regional magazines. Kemp
lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Website: mekempmysteries.com
Joyce Lavene started writing when she
was only a small child. No matter how
hard her mother tried, she couldn’t break
her of the habit. Now she writes with her
husband/partner, Jim, who encourages the
bad habit. Together they’ve written four
mystery series and a few standalones,
romance, science fiction and fantasy. She is
the only reporter for her small town newspaper, deriving many possible characters
(alive and dead) for new books.
Website: www.joyceandjimlavene.com
Joyce Lavene
Tracy Kiely
Tracy Kiely
Clare LangleyHawthorne
Tracy Kiely was raised in Northern
Virginia, an only child born to two only
children. Family reunions were held in a
broom closet. Tracy attended Trinity
College with a B.A. in English and then
worked for many years as an editor for the
American Urological Association. (Really.)
Incorporating her love of both Agatha
Christie and Jane Austen, she then wrote
Murder at Longbourn, a humorous update of
the English cozy.
Website: www.tracykiely.com
Con Lehane
Con Lehane
Clare Langley-Hawthorne
Marilyn Levinson
Clare Langley-Hawthorne was raised in
England and Australia. She was an attorney in Melbourne before moving to the
United States, where she began her career
as a writer. Her first two Edwardian mystery novels, Consequences of Sin and The
Serpent and The Scorpion, were IMBA bestsellers and Consequences of Sin was nominated for the 2008 Sue Feder Memorial
Historical Mystery Macavity award.
Website: www.clarelangleyhawthorne.com
Marilyn Levinson is a multi-published
author of novels for children and young
adults. She is currently writing a cozy.
Marilyn is a member of Authors Guild,
Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime and RWA. She lives on Long Island
with her husband and cat Sammy.
Website: www.marilynlevinson.com
Marilyn Levinson
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.
Jim Lavene
Jim Lavene
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Con Lehane is a former bartender, union
organizer, college professor and labor journalist. He holds a Master of Fine Arts
degree in Fiction Writing from Columbia
University and is the author of three mystery novels, Beware the Solitary Drinker,
What Goes Around Comes Around and Death
at the Old Hotel. He is currently at work on
a fourth ... and occasionally a fifth.
Website: www.conlehane.com
Jim Lavene is a late-blooming author,
never writing anything until he was forty.
He is trying to make up for it by writing as
much as he can with his wife/partner,
Joyce. They have two new books with
Berkley Prime Crime in 2010: A Timely
Vision, Book One in the Missing Pieces
mysteries, and Deadly Daggers, Book Three
in the Renaissance Faire mysteries. He is
also currently learning to play the guitar.
Website: www.joyceandjimlavene.com
Audrey Liebross
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Attending Authors
Greg Lilly
Greg Lilly
Debbi Mack
Greg Lilly writes the Derek Mason Mystery
series first introduced with Fingering the
Family Jewels (RCE Quest, 2004). The next
book is Scalping the Red Rocks and will be
released July 2010. He is also the author of
the novel Devil’s Bridge and the historical
novel Under a Copper Moon. When not writing novels, Greg is a freelance writer, magazine editor and publishing house
representative. He writes and lives in the
Tidewater area of Virginia.
Website: www.GregLilly.com
Debbi Mack’s hardboiled mystery novel
Identity Crisis was voted Best Mystery in the
2009 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. She’s
also published short stories in the Chesapeake
Crimes anthology, The Back Alley Webzine and
the anthology Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It
Comin’ released by Wildside Press earlier this
year. A former attorney, Debbi has also
worked as a journalist, librarian and freelance writer/researcher.
Websites: www.debbimack.com,
midlistlife.wordpress.com
Debbi Mack
Maria Lima
Maria Lima
Maria Lima is a writing geek with one foot
in the real world and the other in the
make-believe. Her Blood Lines series
(Pocket/Juno) is set in the Texas Hill Country — a fabulous place for the paranormal.
Maria loves to read, write and watch genre
TV and feels very lucky that people actually
pay her to do one of these things. Her role
models include all the amazing kickass
women who write urban fantasy.
Website: www.thelima.com
Mary Jane Maffini
Mary Jane Maffini rides herd on three protagonists and mystery series: Charlotte
Adams is a professional organizer in upstate
New York, while lawyer Camilla MacPhee
snoops in Canada’s capital and Fiona Silk
must be the most reluctant sleuth in West
Quebec. Before turning to crime, Mary Jane
had lots of mysterious fun as a librarian and
Mary Jane Maffini a mystery bookseller. She lives and plots in
Ottawa, Ontario with her long-suffering
husband and two princessy dachshunds.
Website: www.maryjanemaffini.com
Clyde Linsley
G.M. Malliet
Clyde Linsley’s historical mystery, Death
of a Mill Girl, was recently re-released
through the Author’s Guild Back in Print
program. He’s also at work on two new
novels, “one contemporary and one sort of
quasi-historical.” He lives in the Northern
Virginia suburbs of Washington.
Clyde Linsley
G.M. Malliet
C. Ellett Logan
C. Ellett Logan
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Logan spent her formative years in the
Deep South, an experience that informs
her settings and troubles her characters,
Southern-Gothic-style. She moved with
her family to Northern Virginia in 1985.
Logan’s found the perfect home in the
crime fiction community, coveted spots for
her short stories, “Backseat” and “Anchors
Away”, in the Chesapeake Crimes anthology
series, and a dream position as President of
Sisters in Crime, Chessie Chapter. Her
novel in progress is Miasma.
G.M. Malliet’s Death of a Cozy Writer won the
2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel.
It was nominated for Anthony, David and
Macavity awards and a Left Coast Crime
award for best police procedural. Kirkus
Reviews named it one of the best books of
2008. The second St. Just book is Death and
the Lit Chick; the third is Death at the Alma
Mater. She is currently writing a new series
for Thomas Dunne/Minotaur.
Website: GMMalliet.com
Jeff Markowitz
Jeff Markowitz
Jeff Markowitz is the author of the Cassie
O’Malley mysteries, an amateur sleuth
series set deep in the New Jersey Pine
Barrens. His latest book is It’s Beginning to
Look a Lot like Murder. Kirkus Reviews said,
“...you’ll meet a number of amusing characters en route to the surprise ending.” Jeff
is a proud member of Sisters in Crime and
the Mystery Writers of America.
Website: jeffmarkowitzmysteries.com
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Attending Authors
Margaret Maron
Ruth M. McCarty
Margaret Maron
Carolyn Mulford
Margaret Maron has written twenty-six
novels and two collections of short stories.
An Edgar, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity
winner, her works are taught in various
courses on contemporary Southern literature and have been translated into sixteen
languages. A past president of Sisters in
Crime, the American Crime Writers
League and MWA, she has received the
North Carolina Award for Literature, the
state’s highest civilian honor. Sand Sharks is
her latest Deborah Knott novel.
Website: www.MargaretMaron.com
Carolyn Mulford worked as a magazine
editor before opening her own editorial
business. She wrote and edited thousands
of articles, several nonfiction books and
numerous other materials before turning to
fiction. A short story, “Crossing the Bridge,”
appeared in an anthology, Chesapeake Crimes
3, in 2008. The Missouri Center for the
Book selected her middle-reader historical
novel, The Feedsack Dress, as the State’s recommended read at the 2009 National Book
Festival in Washington, D.C.
Blog: www.FeedsackKids.typepad.com
Carolyn Mulford
Ruth M. McCarty
Kris Neri
Ruth M. McCarty’s short mysteries have
appeared in all Level Best Books anthologies. She received honorable mentions in
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, N.E.W.N.
and mysteryauthors.com for her flash fiction and won the 2009 Derringer for Best
Flash Story for her story “No Flowers for
Stacey” published in Deadfall: Crime Stories
by New England Writers. She is a past president of the New England Chapter Sisters in
Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of
America.
Kris Neri’s novels include High Crimes on the
Magical Plane, a funny paranormal mystery,
Never Say Die, and the Agatha, Anthony,
Macavity Award-nominated Tracy Eaton
mysteries, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, Dem
Bones’ Revenge and Revenge for Old Times’
Sake. Her short story collection is The Rose
in the Snow. She blogs with the Femmes
Fatales. Kris also owns The Well Red
Coyote bookstore in Sedona, Arizona.
Website: www.krisneri.com
Blog: femmesfatales.typepad.com/
my_weblog/
Kris Neri
Bonner Menking
Sharan Newman
Bonner Menking is an estate tax attorney
working on a legal thriller about an estate
tax attorney who leads a far more exciting
life than most of her peers. Her short story
“Climacophobia” has just been published
in the anthology, Chesapeake Crimes: They
Had It Comin’.
Bonner Menking
Sharan Newman
Rosemary and Larry Mild
Rosemary and
Larry Mild
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Rosemary and Larry are co-authors of the
Paco and Molly mysteries: Boston Scream
Pie, Hot Grudge Sunday and Locks and Cream
Cheese. Their series of four mystery stories,
“The Misadventures of Slim O. Witts, Softboiled Detective,” is currently running in
the quarterly Mysterical-E. The Milds teach
“Writing Mystery and Thriller Fiction” at
Anne Arundel Community College in
Arnold, Maryland.
Website: www.magicile.com
Sharan Newman is a medievalist and the
author of the award-winning Catherine
Levendeur mystery series, set in medieval
France. She has written non-fiction: 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
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Attending Authors
James O’Keefe
James O’Keefe
Sandra Parshall
James O’Keefe was born in Detroit,
Michigan, in 1945 and worked for thirtyseven years at the Wayne County Probate
Court. He has published three short stories:
“Death Makes a Comeback” (New Black
Mask Quarterly), “Scam Snooper” and
“Susan” (Hardboiled), and a novel, Unto
Madness (Outskirts Press).
Website: drlarsenbook.com
Sandra Parshall is the author of The Heat of
the Moon, which won the Agatha Award for
Best First Novel, Disturbing the Dead and
the recently released Broken Places, all featuring veterinarian Rachel Goddard. She
lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two cats.
Website: www.sandraparshall.com
Blog: www.poesdeadlydaughters.
blogspot.com
Sandra Parshall
Vincent O’Neil
Vincent O’Neil
Vincent O’Neil is the author of the Malice
Award-winning Frank Cole mystery series
(Murder in Exile, Reduced Circumstances and
Exile Trust). A native of Massachusetts, he
holds a Bachelor of Science from West
Point and a Master of Arts in International
Affairs from The Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy. His latest Frank Cole mystery, Exile Trust, was released in large print
by Thorndike Press in December 2008.
Valerie O. Patterson
Valerie O.
Patterson
Alan Orloff
Alan Orloff
Katherine Hall
Page
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Alan Orloff is the author of the justreleased mystery, Diamonds for the Dead
(Midnight Ink). The first book in his new
series, Killer Routine: A Last Laff Mystery featuring Channing Hayes, a stand-up comic
with a tragic past, will be out March 2011
(also from Midnight Ink). A former engineer, marketing manager and newsletter
editor, he lives in Northern Virginia with
his wife and two children.
Website: www.alanorloff.com
Blog: www.alanorloff.blogspot.com
Valerie Patterson was raised in the Florida
panhandle where the Gulf of Mexico
inspired a love of blue. Her first novel for
teens, The Other Side of Blue, was published
by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in
October 2009. She graduated in May 2008
with an MFA in Children’s Literature from
Hollins University. She is a member of the
Society of Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators and Sisters in Crime. She lives
in Virginia.
Website: www.valerieopatterson.com
Louise Penny
Louise Penny writes the Chief Inspector
Gamache novels. Her latest, The Brutal
Telling, debuted on the New York Times
bestseller list. Louise is thrilled, and deeply
grateful, to have won two Agatha Awards
for Best Novel. She and her patient husband Michael live outside a small village in
Quebec with their dog Trudy.
Louise Penny
Katherine Hall Page
Nancy Pickard
Katherine Hall Page’s series features amateur sleuth/caterer, Faith Fairchild. The
Body in the Belfry (1991) 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 . Upcoming is The Body in the Gazebo,
as well as — finally — the Have Faith in
Your Kitchen Cookbook.
Nancy Pickard’s new book is The Scent of
Rain and Lightning (Ballantine). It is the
second of her “Kansas” novels, following
The Virgin of Small Plains, which won the
Agatha for Best Novel. Nancy is a former
Malice Toastmaster and Guest of Honor,
and she is the proud owner of four Agatha
Award teapots for her books and short stories. She loves Malice Domestic and hopes
it lives forever.
Website: NancyPickard.com
Nancy Pickard
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Attending Authors
Cathy Pickens
Cynthia Riggs
Southern Fried (St. Martin’s/Malice
Domestic Award winner) was called an
“assured debut, a cozy with some sharp
edges” by Publishers Weekly. In Can’t Never
Tell, fifth in the series, the carnival brings a
mummy for attorney Avery Andrews.
Cathy teaches law and business at Queens
University in Charlotte.
Cynthia Riggs, a thirteenth-generation
Islander, lives on Martha’s Vineyard in her
family homestead, now a bed-and-breakfast catering to poets and writers. She has
a degree in geology from Antioch College,
an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont
College, and holds a U.S. Coast Guard
Masters License (100-ton vessels). Her
ninth book, Touch-Me-Not, is scheduled for
publication by St. Martin’s Minotaur in
Fall 2010.
Website: www.cynthiariggs.com
Cathy Pickens
Cynthia Riggs
Stefanie Pintoff
Stefanie Pintoff
Stefanie Pintoff’s Agatha- and Edgar-nominated debut novel, In the Shadow of Gotham,
began a mystery series where early criminal
science meets the dark side of old New
York. A former attorney and academic,
Stefanie is a full-time writer who splits her
time between Manhattan’s Upper West Side
and Westchester County. When not working, she enjoys all New York has to offer —
together with her husband, daughter and
their family dog. A Curtain Falls releases in
May 2010 from Minotaur Books.
Website: www.stefaniepintoff.com
Roberta Rogow
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
Pat Remick
Stefanie Pintoff
Pat Remick is an award-winning short
story author, veteran journalist and has coauthored two non-fiction books. She is the
2010 president of Sisters in Crime New
England, co-chair of the 2010 New
England Crime Bake conference for mystery writers and readers and a member of
Mystery Writers of America. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and she
is working on a novel.
Website: www.PatRemick.com
Blogs: PatRemick.blogspot.com,
workingstiffs.blogspot.com
Hank Phillippi
Ryan
Award-winning investigative reporter Hank
Phillippi Ryan is on the air at Boston’s NBC
affiliate. Along with her 26 Emmy awards,
Hank’s won dozens of journalism honors.
She’s been a radio reporter, a staffer for the
United States Senate and Rolling Stone
Magazine. Her first mystery, the best-selling
Prime Time, won the Agatha. Face Time and
Air Time (Sue Grafton says: “First class
entertainment!) are IMBA bestsellers. Drive
Time (February 2010) earned a starred
review from Library Journal.
Website: www.HankPhillippiRyan.com
Harriette Sackler
Harriette Sackler
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Harriette has served on the Malice Board
for many years, loves her position as Grants
Chair and feels like a mother hen when one
of her grants recipients is published. She is
vice president of a senior pet sanctuary and
works part-time as a juvenile forensic competency instructor. Harriette and husband
Bob live in the D.C. suburbs with their five
dogs. They have two married daughters.
Harriette is a former Agatha Award nominee for Best Short Story.
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Attending Authors
Elena Santangelo
Elena Santangelo
Maggie Sefton
Elena Santangelo is the author of the
Possessed mystery series, beginning with
Agatha Award finalist By Blood Possessed.
Most recent is Poison to Purge Melancholy, in
which Pat discovers both a colonial ghost
and a present-day murderer in Williamsburg. Fear Itself, featuring ghosts from the
Great Depression and murder in Pat’s
hometown, will be out next. Meanwhile,
look for Dame Agatha’s Shorts, an armchair
companion to Christie’s short stories.
Website: www.elenasantangelo.com
Maggie Sefton is the New York Times bestselling author of the Berkley Prime Crime
Knitting mysteries. The seventh in the
series, Dropped Dead Stitch, June 2009, was
Barnes & Noble #4 Bestselling Hardcover
Mystery, staying on their bestseller list for
five months. Publishers Weekly has said
about the series, “Readers will enjoy visiting with Kelly and her knitting buddies,
who, in their carefree way, resemble the
cast of Friends.”
Website: www.maggiesefton.com
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
Maggie Sefton
Mary Saums
Mary Saums
Mary Saums worked as a recording engineer in her youth in Muscle Shoals on
albums by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimmy
Buffett and many other fine artists. Her
new series stars two gun-toting sixtysomething leading ladies, Jane Thistle,
smart and British, and Phoebe Twigg, completely Southern. They made their debut
in Thistle and Twigg in 2007. Their second
adventure, Mighty Old Bones, was a May
2008 release.
Website: www.marysaums.com
Blog: femmesfatales.typepad.com
Deborah Sharp
Deborah Sharp
Deborah Sharp reported for USA Today for
20 years. She left to write funny fiction.
Her Mace Bauer mysteries are set in her
native Florida: think Carl Hiaasen on
estrogen. On NBC’s Today Show, she talked
about spending a week on horseback to
research Mama Rides Shotgun (Midnight
Ink, 2009). Her Mama Gets Hitched comes
out this summer. She’s married to TV
reporter Kerry Sanders. No kids. No pets.
Had goldfish once. Ended badly.
Website: www.DeborahSharp.com
Blog: ask-mama.blogspot.com
Ilene Schneider
Ilene Schneider
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Rabbi Ilene Schneider’s mystery Chanukah
Guilt was nominated for Best Mystery of
2007 by Deadly Ink. It was also one of My
Shelf’s 2007’s Top Ten Reads and a Midwest
Book Review Reviewers Choice Book. Her
second book, Talk Dirty Yiddish, was
reviewed by The Forward, an independent
national Jewish newspaper: “Such a breezy,
engaging book, I should be so lucky to
write.” She is writing her second Rabbi
Aviva Cohen mystery, Unleavened Dead.
Website: www.rabbiavivacohenmysteries.com
Joanna Campbell Slan
Joanna Campbell Slan is the author of the
Kiki Lowenstein mystery Series. Paper,
Scissors, Death (Midnight Ink) was a 2009
Agatha Award nominee for Best First
Novel. The third book in the series —
Photo, Snap, Shot — will be released May
2010. Website: www.JoannaSlan.com
Blog: www.KillerHobbies.blogspot.com
Joanna Campbell
Slan
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Attending Authors
C. Solimini
C. Solimini
Steven Steinbock
C. (Cheryl) Solimini’s first novel, Across the
River, won the Best Unpublished Mystery
Award at the 2007 Deadly Ink conference
and was published by Deadly Ink Press in
2008. Featuring Baby Boomer tabloid
reporter Andie Rinaldi, ATR became a
Best First Novel finalist and a Best
Mystery/Thriller semifinalist for two indie
book publishers’ awards. A former Features Editor of Mary Higgins Clark Mystery
Magazine, Cheryl is now a Consulting
Editor for Mystery Scene Magazine.
Website: www.acrosstheriver.info
Steven Steinbock is a religious educator
and a freelance journalist who writes regularly for The Strand Magazine and AudioFile.
His article about G.K. Chesterton’s “Father
Brown” appeared in a recent issue of
Mystery Scene Magazine, and his first short
story, “Cleaning Up,” appeared in the
April/May issue of Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine. He blogs every Friday about
mystery short stories at criminalbrief.com.
Steve lives with his family in Maine.
Steven Steinbock
B.K. Stevens
Jennifer Stanley
Jennifer Stanley
Jennifer (JB) Stanley taught sixth grade
language arts in North Carolina for the
majority of her eight-year teaching career.
Raised an antique-lover by her grandparents and parents, Stanley also worked
part-time in an auction gallery. An eBay
junkie and food-lover, Stanley now lives in
Richmond, Virginia with her husband, two
young children and three cats. She is the
author of The Supper Club mysteries
(Midnight Ink) and the Hope Street
Church mysteries (St. Martin’s).
Website: www.jbstanley.com
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
B.K. Stevens
Leann Sweeney
Daniel Stashower
Daniel Stashower
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.
Leann Sweeney
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
Professor and The Poison. She lives in Texas
with her husband, three inspirational cats
and a dog that thinks she’s a cat.
Website: www.leannsweeney.com
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
Marcia Talley
Marcia Talley
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B.K. Stevens (Bonnie Stevens) has published over thirty mystery stories, most of
them in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine;
her most recent story was “True Test.”
Some of her stories have been reprinted in
the Women of Mystery anthologies. Her article on Poe is slated to appear in The Writer.
She and her husband, Dennis, live in
Lynchburg, Virginia and have two daughters. Bonnie belongs to Mystery Writers of
America, Sisters in Crime and the Guppies.
Website: www.mysterywriters.org/?q=user
/1432
Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony
award-winning author of Without A Grave
and seven previous novels featuring survivor and sleuth, Hannah Ives. The ninth
book in the series, All Things Undying, will
be published in August. Her short stories
appear in more than a dozen collections
including the critically acclaimed “Can You
Hear Me Now” in Two of the Deadliest,
edited by Elizabeth George. Marcia is
President of Sisters in Crime.
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Attending Authors
Victoria
Thompson
Victoria Thompson
Kathryn R. Wall
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
Waverly Place, June 2009, and the twelfth
book in the series will be Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2010. 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
Kathryn R. Wall wrote her first story at the
age of six, then took a few decades off.
Born in Ohio, she and her husband now
live in the South Carolina Lowcountry
where her Bay Tanner series is set. She is a
founder of the Island Writers’ Network,
treasurer of SEMWA and the National
Treasurer of Sisters in Crime. Her tenth
book, Canaan’s Gate, was released in April
by St. Martin’s Minotaur.
Website: www.kathrynwall.com
Kathryn R. Wall
Penny Warner
Charles Todd (Caroline)
Charles Todd
(Caroline)
Caroline and Charles Todd are the authors
of the NY Times best-selling Inspector Ian
Rutledge series (The Red Door, January
2010) and the Bess Crawford series (An
Impartial Witness, September 2010), psychological suspense set in England in the
period of the Great War. Caroline is an
avid traveler and photographer.
Website: www.charlestodd.com
Penny Warner
Penny Warner has published over 50
books, both fiction and non-fiction, for
adults and children. How to Host a Killer
Party (NAL/Penguin) is the first in a new
series featuring party planner Presley
Parker, set in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Official Nancy Drew Handbook (Quirk)
was nominated for an Agatha Award. Her
books have won national awards, garnered
excellent reviews and have been printed in
14 countries throughout the world.
Website: www.pennywarner.com
L C Tyler
L C Tyler
Before becoming a crime writer, L C Tyler
lived and worked in Hong Kong, Malaysia,
Sudan, Thailand and Denmark. He is currently based in London. The first novel in
his Elsie and Ethelred series, The Herring
Seller’s Apprentice, was published in the UK
in 2007 and in the U.S. in 2009. He also
writes non-crime stories — and bad poetry,
some of which is sneaked into his novels
by having bad poets as central characters.
Website: www.lctyler.com
Wendy Lyn Watson
Wendy Lyn
Watson
Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets
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Elaine Viets writes two national bestselling
mystery series. Her Dead-End Job series,
set in South Florida, is a satiric look at a
serious subject, the minimum-wage world.
Publishers Weekly called her hardcover
debut “wry social commentary.” Half-Price
Homicide, set at a designer consignment
shop, is her ninth Dead-End Job mystery.
Elaine’s second series features St. Louis
mystery shopper Josie Marcus. The Fashion
Hound Murders is the latest. Elaine won the
Agatha, Anthony and Lefty Awards.
Wendy Lyn Watson writes deliciously
funny cozy mysteries with a dollop of
romance. Her Mysteries a la Mode (I
Scream, You Scream (October 2009) and
Scoop to Kill (July 2010)) feature amateur
sleuth Tallulah Jones, who solves murders
in between scooping sundaes. While she
does not commit — or solve — murders in
real life, Wendy can kill a pint of ice cream
in nothing flat. She’s also passionately
devoted to 80s music, Asian horror films
and reality TV.
Website: www.wendylynwatson.com
Heather Webber
Heather Webber
Former Agatha nominee Heather Webber
is the author of the Nina Quinn mysteries
and a brand new romantic mystery series
featuring psychic misfit Lucy Valentine.
Lucy’s first adventure, Truly, Madly,
debuted in February and its follow-up,
Deeply, Desperately, will be released
in August.
Website: www.heatherwebber.com
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Attending Authors
Nancy Glass West
Anne White
J L Wilson
Nancy Glass West
Nancy Means Wright
In West’s Forever Fatal, Aggie Mundeen
fears nothing but becoming decrepit. An
over-30 “mature” college student, she
takes Aspects of Aging and joins a health
club. As a supporting character from West’s
earlier novel, Aggie, with her offbeat views
and dauntless crime-solving methods,
overtook West’s imagination. Dr. Rollo
Newsom, editor of Lone Star Sleuths, writes
that this California publisher’s mystery
finalist has “main characters who could fill
a series. I hope so. I love this book!”
Website: www.nancygwest.com
Nancy Means Wright is the author of 15
books, including 5 mystery novels from St.
Martin’s Press. Midnight Fires, featuring
18th century feminist/rebel Mary
Wollstonecraft, is just out from
Perseverance Press; a sequel will follow
in 2011. Nancy has won an Agatha and
Agatha nomination, respectively, for her
kids’ mysteries; recent short stories appear
in EQMM and Quarry (Level Best Books).
Longtime teacher and actress, Nancy lives
and writes in bucolic Cornwall, Vermont.
Website: www.nancymeanswright.com
Nancy Means
Wright
Anne White
Eric Yoder
“Lake George isn’t just for summer anymore,” says a character in Cold Winter
Nights, Anne White’s 5th Lake George
mystery (Hilliard and Harris). But murder
casts its shadow even over winter activities
like the New Year’s Polar Bear Plunge, skiing at Gore Mountain and a Mardi Grastype Carnival on the Ice. Earlier books:
An Affinity For Murder (Malice Best First
Nominee, 2002), Beneath The Surface,
Best Laid Plans, Secrets Dark and Deep.
Website: www.annewhitemysteries.com
Eric Yoder is a reporter at The Washington
Post who also does freelance writing and
editing. He has been published in a variety
of magazines, newspapers, newsletters and
online publications on science, government, law, business, sports and other topics and has written, contributed to, or
edited numerous nonfiction books. His
most recent mystery book for children, One
Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve
with Math!, was published early in 2010.
Website: ericyoder.net
Eric Yoder
J L Wilson
Sheila York
J L Wilson is a Midwestern author of 13
books who writes “mysteries with a touch
of romance ... and romance with a touch of
gray.” She also writes time travel books and
has a paranormal-political thriller series
that’s set on another planet. She can be
found on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace (this
link tells you where to find her:
tinyurl.com/ak8hl8).
Website: jayellwilson.com
Sheila York grew up traveling, the daughter
of a career army officer. She spent much of
her childhood in Germany and later studied
abroad as an exchange student in England
and France. After post-graduate studies
in psychology, she took a sharp turn and
enjoyed a long career as a radio disk jockey
and occasional news anchor and sports reporter, including assignments in Los Angeles
and New York, where her books are set.
Website: sheilayork.com
Sheila York
Sarah Wisseman
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Archaeologist Sarah Wisseman writes the
Lisa Donahue mysteries based upon her
experiences in American museums and
excavations and travel in Israel, Italy and
Egypt. Her third and fourth books in the
series, The Fall of Augustus (Wings) and The
House of the Sphinx (Hilliard and Harris),
were published in late fall of 2009. Her
favorite themes are mummy investigations,
forgeries and ancient manuscripts.
Website: www.sarahwisseman.com
Elizabeth Zelvin
Elizabeth
Zelvin
Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City psychotherapist and author of two mysteries, Death
Will Help You Leave Him, and Death Will Get
You Sober, featuring recovering alcoholic
Bruce Kohler. The series includes three
published stories, one Agatha-nominated.
Website: www.elizabethzelvin.com
Blog: on Poe’s Deadly Daughters.
Elizabeth Zelvin
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Expert
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.
T H E N E W L AU R E N AT W I L L M Y S T E RY
A Good Knife’s Work
BY
SHEILA YORK
In the summer of 1946, hounded by publicity from a
vicious scandal, Hollywood screenwriter Lauren Atwill
escapes LA for the secure anonymity of New York City.
With her lover, handsome PI Peter Winslow, along as
bodyguard, she is determined to stay out of trouble. Then
a new friend is brutally murdered and Lauren must go
undercover – and risk her life – to catch the killer.
Snappy…[and] filled with fascinating details about
old-time radio production, this crime caper is as much
fun as a good game of Clue.
– Publishers Weekly
With pitch-perfect dialogue and a lush and vivid sense
of place and time . . . A Good Knife’s Work is a pageturner of a mystery. I loved this book!
– Jane K. Cleland, author of Silent Auction
Meet Sheila at
sheilayork.com
Five Star, $25.95, ISBN 978-1-59414-841-5
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St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic™ Contest
for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel
S
ince the early years of Malice Domestic,
St. Martin’s Press has been sponsoring this contest. Although Malice’s name is featured, the
contest is conducted solely by St. Martin’s Press. 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 St. Martin’s guidelines, and is not under contract
with a publisher for publication of a traditional
mystery.
Ruth Cavin, senior editor and associate publisher
of Thomas Dunne Books, says, “In 1988, when we
received word of the first Malice convention, Tom
Dunne, who with Bob Randisi of Private Eye Writers
of America had created the Best First Private Eye
Novel contest, quickly realized that we needed another
1990
1998
2006
The Winter Widow by Charlene
Weir
1999
2007
1992
2000
Piano Man by Noreen Gilpatrick
1991
The Man Who Understood Cats by
Michael Allen Dymmoch
1993
Something to Kill For by Susan
Holtzer
Murder with Peacocks by Donna
Andrews
Jackpot Justice by Marilyn Wooley
The Gripping Beast by Margot
Wadley*
2001
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia
Spencer-Fleming
1994
2002
1995
2003
1996
2004
1997
2005
Lie Down With Dogs by Jan Gleiter
Simon Said by Sarah Shaber
Final Closing by Barbara Lee
The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin
Hathaway
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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 just-enough formalized arrangement to make everyone happy. And
we still are.”
Additional information and guidelines for this
contest must be obtained from St. Martin’s Press.
The website link to the St. Martin’s Press/Malice
Domestic™ Contest is: http://us.macmillan.com/
Content.aspx?publisher=minotaurbooks&id=4933.
Previous winners are listed below. The year
shown is the year of the contest, with the books
usually published the following year.
Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg
Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
A Stranger Lies Here by Stephen
Santogrossi
Copy Cat Murders, retitled to Posted
for Murder by Meredith S. Cole
2008
Dead Posh, retitled to The Cold Light
of Mourning by Elizabeth J.
Duncan
2009
The End Game, by Gerrie FerrisFinger
*Sadly, Margot Wadley died in an auto
accident shortly after she won.
Eight of Swords by David Skibbins
Murder in Exile by Vincent O’Neal
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Dealers
The Book House
11 North U.S. Rt. 15, shop #5
Dillsburg, PA 17019
717-432-2720
[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.
Flying Coyote
Rue Morgue
87 Lone Tree Lane
Lyons, CO 80540
303-823-9699; Fax: 303-823-9799
[email protected]
www.ruemorguepress.com
Contact: Tom or Enid Schantz
Issues Murders from The Rue Morgue, a heavily
annotated catalog of new mysteries with an emphasis
on traditional, historical, English and literary mysteries, and publishes (under its own imprint) 15 to 20
reprints of classic traditional mysteries annually.
Catalogs of rare and out of print mysteries are issued
irregularly.
1307 Hornsbyville Road
Yorktown, VA 23692
757-898-1504
[email protected]
Contact: Phyllis White
Flying Coyote deals in hand-carved boxes, matted
images, objets d’art, and books relating to predators.
Scene of the Crime
Frozen Light
P.O. Box 442124
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-1325
[email protected]
www.SistersInCrime.org
The SinC mission statement: “To combat discrimination against women in the mystery field; educate publishers and the general public as to inequities in the
treatment of female authors; raise the level of awareness of their contributions to the field; and promote
the professional advancement of women who write
mysteries.”
4459 S. Gary Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74105
918-492-1212 or 1-918-381-4449
Contact: Mona Betz
Sells silk velvet shawls and ruanas with coordinating
dresses and pant sets along with sterling silver jewelry
gathered from all over the world.
Mystery Loves Company
202 S. Morris Street, Box 160
Oxford, MD 21654
410-226-0010 or 1-800-538-0042
www.mysterylovescompany.com
blog: www.mysterysalon.com
Contact: Kathy Harig.
Visit us in historic Oxford, on Maryland’s Eastern
Shore. We feature new, gently-used books, signed first
editions, and collectible mysteries. We host author
events, and do custom gift baskets. Or now you can
order online on our website. Follow us on Facebook.
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St. Catharines
Ontario, Canada
www.murdermysteriesandmore.com
Scene of the Crime has been in business since 1996
specializing in signed first editions.
Sisters in Crime
Undiscovered Treasures
9619 Pierrpont Street
Burke, VA 22015
703-978-1959
[email protected]
Contact: Chris Cowan
Undiscovered Treasures specializes in jewelry and
curiosities for your taste and your budget including
silver, hand-strung semiprecious and pearl sets, amber
earrings and pendants, enamels on silver, and “costume” pieces, many one-of-a kind. “Curiosities” may
be anything: feather fans, boxes with lids with inset
geode-slices, bookmarks, and other “neat stuff.” And
I will be carrying “Nancybuttons’” famous slogan
buttons.
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Malice Board and Committees
Chair Verena Rose
Verena Rose is again serving as the Chair of the
Malice Domestic Board of Directors. After attending
her first Malice in 1995 she was hooked and within
three years was serving on the Board of Directors as
the Author Liaison for Malice Domestic XI. After a
one-year stint as Program Chair for Malice Domestic
XII she settled in as the Malice Domestic Treasurer for
the next five years. She then took over the Chair
position for Malice Domestic XVIII and served in that
position through Malice Domestic XX. She served as
the Agatha Awards Chair for last year’s Malice
Domestic 21. While being a part Malice Domestic and
reading mysteries are two very important passions,
Verena is also very dedicated to spending time with
her grandchildren Justin and Abbey Rose and raising
her two Ragdoll cats Jasper and Alice whom she
adopted right after Malice Domestic 21.
Grants Chair Harriette Sackler
Harriette Sackler considers “retirement” a silly
misnomer for that wonderful time when you can
finally do whatever you want. Since she left her fulltime profession, she’s busier than ever. She’s served
on the Malice Board for many years, loves her position as Grants Chair and feels like a mother hen
when one of her grants recipients is published. Aside
from spending more time reading and writing,
Harriette is the Vice President of House with a Heart
Senior Pet Sanctuary and derives tremendous joy
working with the senior critters. She currently spends
time in the world of adolescent mental health as a
juvenile forensic competency instructor. Harriette and
husband Bob live in the D.C. suburbs with their five
dogs. They have two beautiful daughters and two
terrific sons-in-law. She is a former Agatha Award
nominee for Best Short Story.
Secretary Janet Blizard
Janet survived law school by reading mysteries.
In her day job, Janet is a disability rights lawyer who
works for a federal agency.
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. A civil servant working for the
Department of Defense (DoD) for the last 33 years,
she has spent the past 8 of those years working in the
Voluntary Campaign Management Office (VCMO).
The VCMO handles all special programs for DoD like
savings bonds, blood drives, emergency disaster relief
and primarily the Combined Federal Campaign (an
annual solicitation for charities within the federal
government). During her tenure with this office, she
has helped raise almost $200 million dollars from
DoD within the National Capital Area and DoD
Overseas. Having served as a volunteer for the last
few years at Malice, she was elected to the Board in
2007 and currently serves as the Hotel Liaison.
Treasurer Marian Lesko
Marian Lesko has been with the Malice Board for
about five years and thoroughly enjoys being part of
the process to bring this wonderful convention to
mystery fans. Marian discovered the Malice convention many years back and has been an avid mystery
reader since then. In addition to the volunteer work
on the Board, Marian has a full time job with a CPA
firm and also enjoys cooking and visiting family
when not reading.
Convention Events Chair
Tonya Spratt-Williams
Tonya is a devoted mystery fan. Her appreciation
goes out to her wonderful and patient husband,
Cornelius, and her handsome and funny son, Aaron,
for allowing her to have a mysterious life of her own.
Through her efforts, she hopes to honor the memories of her dear Malice friends Louise Leftwich, Carole
Anne Nelson, and William F. Deeck.
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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 (a
teacher) 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, three cats, a tank
full of fish, 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 St. Martin’s Press, 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. A member of MWA, 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 revenge. She’s explored it in
several of her short stories, including “The Worst
Noel” in The Gift of Murder anthology, which is nominated this year for the Agatha Award. Barb’s stories
have also appeared in the second, third, and fourth
volumes of the Chesapeake Crimes anthology series.
The story in volume two was nominated for the 2005
Agatha Award. Barb’s most recent story, “Volunteer
of the Year,” appears in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It
Comin’, of which she also is a coordinating editor. In
her spare time, Barb reads and reads. She is a past
president of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in
Crime. She lives in Herndon, Virginia, with her lovable but money-sucking miracle dog, Scout. Learn
more at www.barbgoffman.com.
Auction Sky Benson
Sky is fairly new to Malice and she is thrilled
with the opportunity to interact with so many other
mystery fans and to actually meet her favorite
authors. After working for many years in the fields of
mutagenicity and genetic toxicology, her wonderful
husband allowed her to take ‘early retirement’. She
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now devotes her time to reading (mostly mysteries,
of course), gardening, grandchildren, charitable activities and taking care of a houseful of kitties. A former
Texan, she has been in the Washington area for over
thirty years and lives in northern Virginia.
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 (unpublished but satisfying), folk music, and
friends and family. She currently lives in New Jersey,
where she teaches quilting and designs original quilts.
She has been providing signage support to Malice for
five years and publications for two years. Her favorite
saying is: “There aren’t enough hours in the day to
do all the things I love.”
Volunteers Anne Murphy
Anne and her retired nuclear engineer husband
Joe have three wonderful sons, two marvelous
daughters-in-law, three gorgeous granddaughters
(one of whom has started reading mysteries), two
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 would have been like
had she ignored Sheila Martin and Kay McCarty
when they insisted “This Malice Domestic thing
sounds like fun. Let’s go!”
Public Relations/Registration Services Shawn Reilly
Shawn Reilly 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 at College Park with a
degree in English Literature, she then moved to New
York City where she worked in sales and marketing
for a Fortune 500 company. Shawn now does freelance editing and works for News Post Media, the
Washington Post company. Shawn lives in Frederick,
Maryland with her husband and three English
Bulldogs. They are expecting a baby this summer.
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Pre-Registered Participants
(Authors in bold)
Avery Aames
Al Abramson
Miriam Aiken
Judith Akers
Karen Albeck
Gloria Alden
Annamaria Alfieri
Carolyn Allen
Lisa Ambrusko
Donna Andrews
Allan E. Ansorge
Suzanne Arruda
Patsy Asher
Doris Austin
Ann Bailey
Frankie Y. Bailey
Irma Baker
Mary K. Balintfy
Maggie Barbieri
Colleen A. Barnett
Vonne M. Barnett
Elizabeth Barrett
Lorna Barrett
Beverly Battillo
Donna Beatley
Paula Benson
Sky Benson
Janine Benton
Dorothy Bermudez
Carol Bessette
John Betancourt
John Billheimer
Faith Black
Les Blatt
Peter Blau
Janet Blizard
Lenore Boehm
Janet Bolin
Nikki Bonanni
Lisa Bork
Joan Boswell
Rhys Bowen
Rachel Brady
Debby Buchanan
Sarah Masters Buckey
Maxine Buckles
Jessica Busen
Elizabeth Kane
Buzzelli
Ellen Byerrum
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Austin S. Camacho
Dana Cameron
Janice Campbell
Laura Campos
Dorothy Cannell
Jackie Cantor
Diane Card
JoAnna Carl
Lillian Stewart Carl
Kate Carlisle
Trish Carrico
Thomas Carroll
Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Judy B. Castell
Jack Cater
Judy Cater
C. S. Challinor
Cathy Chatham
Lexa Christopher
Anne Clark
Carol Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark
Patricia Clark
Jane K. Cleland
Penny Clifton
Jane Cohen
Jeffrey Cohen
P. J. Coldren
Meredith Cole
Tom Colgan
Kate Collins
Maureen Collins
Suzanne Combs
Sheila Connolly
Maya Corrigan
Ayesha Court
Chris Cowan
Patricia Craft
Caroline Craig
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Susan Crawford
Barbara D’Amato
Jeanne M. Dams
Casey Daniels
Lila Dare
Christine L. Davis
Krista Davis
Nancy M. Davis
Vicki Delany
Jane Delligatti
Hannah Dennison
Janet Desjardins
Mary Elizabeth Devine
Louise Dietz
Jenny Dietzel
John F. Dobbyn
Lois M. Dobbyn
Joanne Dobson
Gina Dolin
Vicki Doudera
Carole Nelson Douglas
Laney Doyle
Pat Drucker
Ann Duff
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Jeanne Durrer
Pam Edmondson
Peggy Ehrhart
Sheryl Ehrlich
Aaron Elkins
Edie Embler
Tom Embler
Barbara Ernst
Kathleen Ernst
Karen Esibill
Christy Evans
Donna Evans
Sue Evans
Anita Fahringer
Sally A. Fellows
Margaret Fenton
Gerrie Ferris-Finger
Nancy Fifield
Kendel Flaum
Irene Fleming
Amanda Flower
Pamela Flower
Kaye George
Jan Giles
Molly Gilmore
Donna Glaser
Martha Glock
Barb Goffman
Sally Goldenbaum
Nadia Gordon
Chris Grabenstein
Barbara Graham
Kim Gray
Qiana Gray
Douglas Greene
Connie Gregory
Beth Groundwater
Elizabeth Gwiazdowski
Lyn Hall
Parnell Hall
Janet S. Hamlet
Kathy Harig
Thomas Harig
R. J. Harlick
Linda M. Harris
Rosemary Harris
Carolyn Hart
Ellen Hart
Robin Hathaway
L. C. Hayden
Judith Koll Healey
Betty Hechtman
Maureen Heedles
Freda Heisser
Anita Herbert
Gabriella Herkert
John Herring
Peg Herring
Joan Hess
Elbert Hill
Marion Moore Hill
Sasscer Hill
Charlotte Hinger
Aimee Hix
Angie Hogencamp
Christina Hogrebe
Susan Hooker
Bill Hopkins
Sharon Hopkins
Sue Horowitz
Maria Hudgins
Janet Hutchings
Becky Bartlett Hutchison
Sue Ann Jaffarian
Smita H. Jain
Diana James
Anna S. Jeffrey
Nancy Jemiola
Ilse L. Jetty
Velma (V.G.) Jordan
Susan Kandel
Jan Kargol
schuyler kaufman
Thomas Kaufman
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Pre-Registered Participants
Peg Kay
Kathleen Kearns
Toni L. P. Kelner
M. E. Kemp
June Kennedy
Tracy Kiely
Kerry Kilburn
Judith Kindell
Joanne Klase
Larry Klase
Leslie A. Koch
Virginia F. Koch
Robert Kresge
Jan Kurtz
Norma Kurtz
Shirley J. Landes
Terry Lange
Joni Langevoort
Clare Langley
Hawthorne
Jim Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Cheryl Leathers
Laurie Leff
Con Lehane
Kit Leider
Marian Lesko
Kelly Letourneau
Marilyn Levinson
Judy Levitan
Vera Libeau
Audrey Liebross
Greg Lilly
Maria Lima
Bill Link
Clyde Linsley
C. Ellett Logan
Donald Longmuir
Jennifer Longmuir
Dru Ann Love
Wendy Lutz
Debbi Mack
Mary Jane Maffini
G.M. Malliet
Jeff Markowitz
Sherry Markowitz
Rosemary MarloweDziuk
Margaret Maron
Diane Martin
Sheila J. Martin
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Sylvia May
Sherri Mayer
Daniel McCarty
Kay McCarty
Ruth M. McCarty
Daisy McClelland
Greg McClure
Maureen (Mary)
McKenna
Jaime McLellan
Liz Mellett
Bonner Menking
Lea Mesner
Gail A. Metzgar
Marvin E. Metzgar
Lee Mewshaw
Joan Meyers
Larry Mild
Rosemary Mild
Mark Miller
Meribeth Miller
Gwynyth Mislin
Patricia Mitchell
Lynn Molitor
Jacquelynn Morris
Susan Morrison
Helen Morse
Carolyn Mulford
Melinda Mullet
Anne Murphy
Elaine Naiman
Elaine C. Neal
Richard Neal
Karen Neary
Margery Nelson
Kris Neri
Sharan Newman
Kathleen Nordstrom
Doris Ann Norris
Marie O’Day
Tom O’Day
James O’Keefe
Vincent H. O’Neil
Alan Orloff
Rita Owen
Katherine Hall Page
Sandy Page
Mary Faith Pankin
Jayne Parker
Jerry Parshall
Sandra Parshall
Valerie O. Patterson
Louise Penny
Caroline Petrequin
Donna Jeanne Phillips
Nancy Pickard
Cathy Pickens
Stefanie Pintoff
C. W. Pollard
Janet Powell
Sally Powers
Sherry Prather
Rebecca Preston
Carol Puckett
James Puckett
John Quin-Harkin
Twyla Racz
Kelley Ragland
Maggie Range
Pam Rau
Anne Reece
Janet Reid
Shawn Reilly
Mary Reinhard
Audrey Reith
Pat Remick
Cynthia Riggs
Norine Ripple
Dennis Rochford
Maria Rochford
Dianne Rodman
Janet M. Rogerson
Roberta Rogow
Verena Rose
Natalee Rosenstein
Margaret Ruley
Patti Ruocco
Sammi Russell
Stephanie Russo
Linda Rutledge
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Harriette Sackler
Elena Santangelo
Anne Marie Santos
Peggy Rae Sapienza
Mary Saums
Sinya Schaeffer
Ilene Schneider
Patricia Schutz
Helen Schwartz
Maggie Sefton
Janine Seitz
Deborah Sharp
Gordon Shaw
Ruth C. Shaw
Judy Sheard
Kay Shelton
Joanna Campbell Slan
Gerry Smithson
C. Solimini
Beth Sorensen
Tonya Spratt-Williams
Beth St. Clair
Denise Stablein
Jennifer Stanley
Daniel Stashower
Steven Steinbock
Charlotte Steinecke
Helen Steinecke
Nancy Steinecke
Bonnie K. Stevens
Dennis G. Stevens
Sylvia A. Straub
Verna Suit
Patricia Summers
Leann Sweeney
Marcia Talley
Mike Taylor
Robin Templeton
Victoria Thompson
Sheila M. Tierney
Charles Todd
Maggie Topkis
Mary Margaret Trevathan
Arleen Trundy
Ann Tyler
L C Tyler
Elizabeth Vaccaro
Robert Vaccaro
Patricia Valoon
Donna Van Dyke
Mary Van Dyke
Polly Van Hyning
Susan E. Van Hyning
Elaine Viets
Terri von Loewe
Kathryn R. Wall
Penny Warner
Beth Wasson
Wendy Lyn Watson
Carole Weakley
Heather Webber
Susan Werner
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Nancy Glass West
Molly Weston
Anne White
Phyllis White
Michael Whitehead
Pam Wieland
Dina S. Willner
J L Wilson
Sarah Wisseman
Beverly Wolov
Nancy Means Wright
Marijo Yates
Eric Yoder
Sheila York
Marisa Young
Lucy Zahray
Elizabeth Zelvin
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Friends of Malice
Julie Hyzy
Gay Toltl Kinman
Chris Lanphere
Hulda McLachlen
Gail Oust
Lee Sauer
Sandy Sechrest
Richard Steelman
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See you next year at
Malice Domestic 23!
April 29 – May 1, 2011
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):
$275 until 12/31/2010 – $300 1/01 – 4/15/2011 if space is available
Basic Registration (no Banquet):
$225 until 12/31/2010 – $250 1/01 – 4/15/2011 if space is available
Deadline all registrations: 4/15/2011 if space is available
www.MaliceDomestic.org
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KrisNeri
Announcing the newest release in
the TRACY EATON MYSTERY series
“Wacky,
witty,
wise, and
wonderful.”
— Hank Phillippi Ryan,
Agatha-winning author of
Prime Time
Coming July 2010 from
Cherokee McGhee, the new
Derek Mason Mystery
by Greg Lilly
Previous books in the
TRACY EATON MYSTERY series:
Cherokee M cG h e e . c om