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Attending Authors

23 Years Celebrating the Traditional Mystery
Guest of Honor
Carole
Nelson
Douglas
Message from the Chair
Verena Rose
The A-B-C’s of Malice 23
G
reetings and welcome to the 23rd annual Malice
Domestic convention. I trust you’re settled in
and are now taking the time to look through
your registration bag. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed because as usual our sponsors have been
most generous and you will find that your bag contains a wonderful assortment of books to add to what
I imagine are your ever-growing to-be-read piles. I
also hope that you’ve taken a bit of time to wander
around the hotel to familiarize yourself with the new
venue.
As you can see, it is much smaller than our former hotel, but we will essentially be the only group
in the hotel for this weekend. The Hyatt served
Malice Domestic well for eight of its first nine years
and we are very pleased to be bringing our convention back to Bethesda. I think you’ll find that you
will meet new friends and see old friends much more
easily in this new environment. A short wait for the
elevator or a seat in the restaurant is the perfect
opportunity to chat with your neighbor in line.
In addition to our new venue, Malice Domestic
23 has a few surprises for you throughout the weekend. At the very least there will be one major
announcement at the Agatha Banquet on Saturday
and, in addition to the sweets and savories at Tea on
Sunday, we have a wonderful program event for you
to enjoy as well.
Now moving on to what I’m affectionately calling
the A-B-C’s of Malice.... The ‘A’ stands for the Alphabet
mysteries created by this year’s Lifetime Achievement
Honoree, Sue Grafton. To date she has entertained us
with 21 letters of the alphabet, beginning with A is for
Alibi through her most recently released title U is for
Undertow. We take great pleasure in welcoming her for
the first time to Malice Domestic.
Birds are what the letter ‘B’ is all about for this
year’s Malice Domestic. Our honored Toastmaster,
Donna Andrews, writes a mystery series using birds
in titles ranging from Cockatiels to Swans with Peacocks,
Penguins and Puffins in between. Knowing her as I do,
you can expect to be wonderfully entertained this
entire weekend. The Malice Board is very pleased to
be honoring Donna this weekend and I look forward
to spending time with her on stage.
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I’m sure it will be no surprise that ‘C’ stands for
Cat and one cat in particular. Only the very sheltered
will not have heard of Midnight Louie, stellar feline
investigator. We can only hope that he is as pleased
as we are that his human, Carole Nelson Douglas,
is this year’s Guest of Honor. I personally am very
pleased that Carole is this year’s Guest of Honor
because some of my earliest memories of Malice
include my first meeting Carole Nelson Douglas and
having her sign copies of her Midnight Louie mysteries for me over the years. Anyone who has had her
sign their books knows that she takes great pains to
make each personalization unique and they are
always little works of art.
Also being honored this year are Janet Rudolph,
Editor of the Mystery Readers Journal, who will be presented with the Poirot award at the Agatha Awards
Banquet and Anne Murphy, one of the Malice
Faithful Few, who is this year’s Fan Guest of Honor.
Finally, we will be honoring the memory of one of
Malice’s own special authors, Lyn Hamilton. Lyn’s
friends, Rhys Bowen and Mary Jane Maffini, will be
accepting a special presentation in her honor at the
Agatha Awards Banquet on Saturday.
Please join with us in welcoming and congratulating all of this year’s wonderful honorees.
The Malice Domestic Board of Directors is
extremely proud of the work it does to present you
with a fabulously entertaining weekend of mystery
each year. We think you’ll agree that Malice Domestic
23 will go on record as one of the best ever. The Board
and I hope you have a very enjoyable time, make a
few new friends, meet a favorite author and go home
with many unforgettable memories.
With malicious regards,
— Verena Rose
Chair
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Table of Contents
Guest of Honor: Carole Nelson Douglas ......................3
Toastmaster: Donna Andrews ....................................10
Fan Guest of Honor: Anne Murphy ............................14
Lifetime Achievement: Sue Grafton ............................16
Poirot Award: Janet Rudolph ......................................22
Malice Remembers: Lyn Hamilton..............................26
Agatha Awards ............................................................32
A Brief History of Malice Domestic ............................38
William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic Grants ............40
Our Sponsors ................................................................42
Memories of Malice ......................................................43
General Information ....................................................44
Charity Auction ............................................................46
Convention Schedule ..................................................48
Attending Authors ........................................................58
Expert ............................................................................82
St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Contest..............83
Dealers ..........................................................................84
Malice Domestic Board of Directors............................86
ILLUSTRATION DEANE NETTLES
Pre-Registered Participants ........................................88
Friends of Malice ..........................................................91
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Malice Domestic, Ltd. or its Officers, Directors, Committee Members, Advisors and Employees.
©2011 Malice Domestic Ltd. Copyrights of all essays revert to authors. All rights reserved.
Malice Domestic 23 Program Book: Published April 29, 2011.
Editor: Rita Owen, malicepublications@verizon.net.
Design and production by Judith Barrett Graphics, Alexandria, Virginia.
Printed by HBP, Hagerstown, MD.
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Guest of Honor
Carole Nelson Douglas
Midnight Louie’s Mama
by Carolyn Hart
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maker of kaleidoscopes in the form of iconic skyscrapers and ray guns!” Carole recounts. “Our
artist/writer partnership stimulates creativity without
competition or conflict. He’s always been wise and
funny and keeps me sane. We met when he was 25
and I was reading The Lord of the
Rings. I told him he reminded me
of the elderly wizard Gandalf! Of
course, the trilogy has the truly
heroic character of Samwise, too.”
After a distinguished career as
a feature writer, reporter, and later
page designer and editorial writer,
attaining “first woman” status in
several of those endeavors, Carole
left The St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1984
to become a full-time writer of fiction. Her production since then has
been dazzling, featuring unforgettable characters such as Midnight
Louie, surely one of the most original cats in all of fiction; Irene Adler
who is so much more than what
Carole calls the “Victorian bimbo”
male writers after Doyle made her,
and now the girly-gritty, super clever, beat-‘em-tothe-punch paranormal investigator Delilah Street.
Carole never met a cat she didn’t like and
Midnight Louie is her tribute to the elegant and
mysterious creatures so many of us love. Louie is not
only a hairy-chested dude who always gets his man
in soon-to-be twenty-three entertaining books, but
he has held his own in the dark streets of Vegas with
élan and Damon Runyon wit. RT Book Reviews noted,
“Douglas’s 22nd Midnight Louie tale is just as twisty,
riveting and intriguing as the one that came before.
Even longtime fans are bound to say, ‘Wow, I never
saw that coming!’ to the very end.”
“Like many couples,” Carole says, “Louie and
I met in the newspaper classifieds. The big, black,
street-savvy, hep cat had crossed the owners of a
fancy Palo Alto motel by eating the expensive koi in
their pond. Headed from the pond to certain death
at the pound, Louie was flown to Minnesota by a
woman who took out a three-inch-long, thirty-dollar
Photo: Sam Douglas
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arole Nelson Douglas’s sunny smile and easy
warmth reflect a woman who understands
happiness and welcomes challenges. Carole has
insatiable curiosity, incredible energy, the enthusiasm
of a six-year-old in a candy store, devotion to all
creatures great and small — most
especially to elegant, mysterious,
fascinating cats, — and a passionate
love of writing.
Most authors are content to
master a particular kind of fiction.
Carole doesn’t believe in boundaries
and never accepts limitations. In
her amazing career she has written
more than sixty novels. Her novels
include mainstream, mystery,
thriller, Tolkienesque high fantasy,
science fiction, historicals, romance
and women’s fiction. After winning
or making the short list for more
than fifty writing awards, her critically acclaimed achievements are
celebrated now in her role as Guest
of Honor at Malice Domestic.
Carole wrote her first novel,
Amberleigh, while she was still in college. She created
the highly-original, post-feminist Gothic to counter
the weak women characters she found in Gothic
fiction.
“Since then I’ve merrily reformed fiction genres,
inventing women as realistic protagonists. Of course,
creating true women means creating true men as
partners and protagonists,” Carole said. “And I’ve
never had to look far for an understanding of a man
of integrity.”
Carole met Sam Douglas when they were in a
community theater production together and they’ve
been an artistic cottage industry all through their
marriage. A dedication in Six of Swords hails Sam as
“husband, best friend, sounding board, wailing wall,
perpetual adviser and unsung co-conspirator, unfailing partner and fellow creator, ever-ready shield and
sword. And my home.”
“Sam’s been an actor, folk singer, furniture and
stage set designer, museum exhibition director and
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Four Fascinating Facts from the Secret
Files of Carole Nelson Douglas
• Hollywood and Broadway director Garson
Kanin took Carole’s first novel to his
publisher.
• Marcie Muller and Carole were among 12
finalists in Vogue‘s annual Prix de Paris writing
competition for college seniors which was
earlier won by Jackie O.
• Carole was named a Pioneer of Publishing by
Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine.
• Top mystery cat: Cat Fancy magazine ranked
Midnight Louie #16 when listing 45 iconic
cats in all media.
classified ad to offer him to the right home for a dollar. My reporter instincts were twitching to know the
whole story and I put the resulting article in Louie’s
‘voice.’ He ended up lording it over a Minnesota
‘moo concession,’ but eight years later I was writing
full-time in Texas and his part-time narrative voice
returned loud and clear in a fanciful romance/mystery quartet set in Las Vegas.”
And then there is the unforgettable and richly
drawn Irene Adler, admired by Sherlock Holmes,
who comes to life as a complex and independent
woman. Always assumed to be the King of Bohemia’s
mistress, Carole’s Irene is “far too independent to
be anyone’s mistress but her own.” Readers will
be thrilled to know that Irene’s adventures are now
available in e-books. The last book in the series,
Spiders Dance, received this praise from Publishers
Weekly: “Witty, fast-paced and meticulously
researched, this sepia-tinted Victorian confection
also reflects a contemporary sensibility as it ponders
religious fanaticism and the challenges of a female
celebrity living by her own rules.”
Carole “had no idea” she was the first author to
make a woman from the Sherlockian Canon a protagonist. “I’d just seen another male-written Holmes
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spin-off novel and wondered why women didn’t write
in this field-founding classic mode. I didn’t even know
my book would be on mystery shelves. My first
thoughts skirted Adler because of the stereotyped
depictions. Then I reread A Scandal in Bohemia and realized that Doyle had left room for a completely fresh
and vital re-invention of the Irene Adler character.”
Critics took note. “Highly eclectic writer and literary adventuress Douglas is as concerned about genre
equality as she is about gender equity,” wrote Jo
Ellyn Clarey in The Drood Review of Mystery. “With
Good Night, Mr. Holmes Douglas ushered in a 1990s
explosion of women-centered history-mystery,
reschooling us about the ornery presence of women
in both social and literary history.”
Good Night, Mr. Holmes was a New York Times
Notable Book of the Year and won mystery and
romantic awards.
Carole’s newest exuberant character is paranormal investigator Delilah Street who can confront
vampires, dark secrets from ancient Egypt, and an
apocalyptically wild and dangerous 2013 Las Vegas
with aplomb. Here’s a fabulous review of the third
title, Vampire Sunrise, from Romance Junkies: “... a fun
paranormal romp of epic proportions ... Douglas does
an impeccable job of world-building and balancing
mystery, romance and humor. Fascinating and scary,
paranormal and urban fantasy lovers alike will love
Delilah Street.”
Carole wanted to make the mystery elements of
the noir urban fantasy genre clear. “Delilah Street is
obviously a play on Della Street. Perry Mason had a
recurring role as Delilah’s father figure; she was an
abandoned infant named for being found on Delilah
Street, but grew up in Wichita, Kansas where there is
no Delilah Street. Noir film figures from Sam Spade
to Nick and Nora Charles inhabit the series. These
Cinema Simulacrums, zombies blended with blackand-white film characters, are leased as tourist
attractions for the Inferno, Gehenna and Karnak
hotels. The CinSims pose all sorts of ethical issues,
but are Delilah’s friendly neighborhood CIs. I’m a
character-driven writer and Delilah gets to go up
against some lulus, including a creepy CS/TV
franchise mogul and a Howard Hughes who had
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made himself into a vampire to keep his financial
empire ... immortalizing the gaunt, unkempt
Nosferatu-like elderly Howard Hughes, not the
young dashing Hollywood womanizer.”
Looking back on a fabulous career, Carole
remembers the eclectic writings from the home
bookshelf that inspired her as a young reader:
Little Women, Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry, the Sherlock
Holmes stories, The Three Musketeers, The Last of the
Mohicans and the plays of Oscar Wilde. Neighbors she
was babysitting for in the eighth grade came home
stunned to find her halfway through the adult-rated
The Caine Mutiny. They offered Carole her first cup of
coffee (hated it) and sat down to ask what she
thought of the book (loved it). Imagination lifted her
then and now she shares the fruits of her wide-ranging interests, enthusiasms and creativity with readers
who know that when they pick up a book by Carole,
they will enter a world which will fascinate, thrill,
amuse and entertain them on a world-class level.
Carole speaks with her heart when she says, “A
story is its own magical form of transport and it will
accept aboard as many weary, tired, or hurting passengers as care to book passage.”
Line up now ... Get your ticket ... All Aboard....
(Carolyn Hart is the author of the Bailey Ruth Raeburn,
Death on Demand and Henrie O mysteries. Letter from
Home, Carolyn Hart’s World War II era novel set on the
home front, won the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel
of 2003.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Midnight Louie Playing Card Authorized
Prequels
The Cat and the King of Clubs (1999)
The Cat and the Queen of Hearts (1999)
The Cat and the Jill of Diamonds (2000)
The Cat and the Jack of Spades (2000)
Midnight Louie Series
Catnap (1992)
Pussyfoot (1993)
Cat on a Blue Monday (1994)
Cat in a Crimson Haze (1995)
Cat in a Diamond Dazzle (1996)
Cat with an Emerald Eye (1996)
Cat in a Flamingo Fedora (1997)
Cat in a Golden Garland (1997)
Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt (1998)
Cat in an Indigo Mood (1999)
Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit (1999)
Cat in a Kiwi Con (2000)
Cat in a Leopard Spot (2001)
Cat in a Midnight Choir (2002)
Cat in a Neon Nightmare (2003)
Cat in an Orange Twist (2004)
Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit (2005)
Cat in a Quicksilver Caper (2006)
Cat in a Red Hot Rage (2007)
Cat in a Sapphire Slipper (2008)
Cat in a Topaz Tango (2009)
Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme (2010)
Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta (2011)
Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator Series
Dancing with Werewolves (2007)
Brimstone Kiss (2008)
Vampire Sunrise (2009)
Silver Zombie (2010)
Virtual Virgin (2011)
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Irene Adler Series
Good Night, Mr. Holmes (1990)
The Adventuress (2003) [formerly Good Morning Irene
(1991)]
A Soul of Steel (2006), [formerly Irene at Large (1992)]
Another Scandal in Bohemia (2003) [formerly Irene’s Last
Waltz (1993)]
Chapel Noir (2001)
Castle Rouge (2002)
Femme Fatale (2003)
Spider Dance (2004)
ANTHOLOGIES
Edited by Carole Nelson Douglas
Marilyn: Shades of Blonde (1997)
Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives (1998)
White House Pet Detectives (2002)
NOVELS
SF Thrillers
Probe (1985)
Counterprobe (1988)
Historical Romance (*mystery)
*Amberleigh (1980, reprinted 1992)
Fair Wind, Fiery Star (1981), reprinted
*Lady Rogue (1983), reprinted
Mainstream
In Her Prime (1982)
Her Own Person (1982)
The Best Man (1983)
The Exclusive (1986)
Contemporary Romance
Azure Days, Quicksilver Nights (1985)
“Christmas Magic,” A Dreamspun Christmas, novelette
(1994)
“Catch a Falling Angel,” Angel Christmas, novelette
(1995)
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Sword and Circlet Fantasy Series
Six of Swords (1982)
Exiles of the Rynth (1984)
Keepers of Edanvant (1987)
Heir of Rengarth (1988)
Seven of Swords (1989)
Taliswoman Fantasy Series
Cup of Clay (1991)
Seed Upon the Wind (1992)
SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS
Midnight Louie Short Stories & Novellas
“The Maltese Double Cross,” Cat Crimes 2 (1992)
“Sax and the Single Cat,” Danger in D.C.: Cat Crimes in
the Nation’s Capital (1993)
“Coyote Peyote,” The Mysterious West (1994)
“Dog Collar,” Great Writers and Kids Write Mysteries
(1996)
“Iä Iä Iä Iä Cthulouie!” Cat Crimes for the Holidays
(1997)
“The Mummy Case,” Cat Crimes Through Time (1999)
“License to Koi,” Death Dines In (2004)
“Junior Partner in Crime,” Creature Cozies (2005)
“The Riches There That Lie,” Poe’s Lighthouse (2006)
Irene Adler Short Stories & Novellas
“Parris Green,” Malice Domestic 2, (1992)
“Dracula on the Rocks,” Celebrity Vampires (1995)
“The Thief of Twelfth Night,” Holmes for the Holidays
(1996)
“Mesmerizing Bertie,” Crime Through Time 2 (1998)
“A Baker Street Irregular,” Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives
(1998)
“The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes,” Sex, Lies, and
Private Eyes (2009)
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Delilah Street Short Stories & Novellas
“Bogieman,” Unusual Suspects (2008)
“Butterfly Kiss,” Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2
(2009)
“Monster Mash,” Chicks Kick Butt (2011)
“Snow Job,” Hex Symbol (2011)
The Year’s 25 Best/Finest Crime and Mystery
Stories
“The Maltese Double Cross” (1993)
“Parris Green” (1994)
“Peyote Coyote” (1995)
“Dirty Dancing” (1996)
“Cold Turkey” (1997)
“The Mummy Case” (2000)
“Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes” (2003)
NONFICTION ESSAYS
“My First Sci-Fi Fantasy,” How to Write a Romance and
Get It Published (1982)
“Who Reviews?” The Fine Art of Murder (1993)
“Shadows of My Father,” Fathers & Daughters (1999)
“Texas-bound,” Forever Texas: The Way Those Who Lived
It Wrote It (2001)
“I Love Stephie,” Perfectly Plum (2007)
“Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads
(2010)
Other Short Stories & Novellas
“The Mummy Case” reprinted in The World’s Finest
Mystery and Crime Stories I (2005)
“Junior Partner in Crime,” Wolf Woman Bay and 9 More
of the Finest Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year
(2007)
“Cold Turkey,” Wild Women (1993)
“Dirty Dancing,” Carolyn G. Hart Presents Malice Domestic
4 (1995)
“Sunset,” Marilyn: Shades of Blonde (1997)
“Night Owl,” Present Lives, Past Tense (1999)
“Alice Holds the Cards,” written with Jennifer
Waddell, First Lady Murders (1999)
“Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes,” Much Ado
About Murder (2002)
“A Cyber Christmas Carol,” Death by Dickens (2004)
“Special Surprise Guest Appearance by ...” Murder by
Magic: Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural
(2004)
“Strangers in a Strange Land,” Thou Shalt Not Kill
(2005)
“Lawn and Order,” Deadly Housewives (2006)
“Noah’s Ride,” chapter in collaborative western (2006)
“Truth or Consequences,” Twilight Zone: 19 Original
Stories on the 50th Anniversary (2009)
“Horse Trading,” More Tales of Zorro (2010)
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Toastmaster
Donna Andrews
Generous, Warm and Prolific
By Ellen Crosby
D
onna Andrews and I first met, most appropriately, at Malice Domestic. It was 2002 and
You’ve Got Murder, the first book in her
Turing Hopper series about a sentient computer, had
been nominated for an Agatha; that year it won as
Best Novel.
We were standing next to the
coffeepot in the hospitality room.
I introduced myself, an unknown
author with one book published
in the U.K. If you know Donna,
you know she always has time for
anyone trying to navigate the
publishing world labyrinth, so we
chatted. To this day I can’t say
why I’m so sure that meeting took
place next to the coffeepot —
Donna gets her caffeine buzz from
Diet Coke, even for breakfast —
but what I do remember is that it
was the beginning of what has
become a cherished friendship.
We talked books, agents, publishers — but we also spoke about
the fact that she had decided she’d
had enough of living in a condo
with a balcony view of a busy
street in Arlington, Virginia, and wanted a real house
with a yard and a garden. And she was looking to
move somewhere near where I lived. We began
swapping e-mails, discussing real estate, school districts, neighborhoods; by July she bought a house
about five minutes away, in the next town over from
me. The trip between our places involves traveling a
bucolic country road past a riding school and a lake
surrounded by a pine grove. It’s quite idyllic and we
both love it.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Donna moved to her new home that August and
our e-mails continued, along with phone calls and
lunches at a little restaurant nearby. I gave her the
name of my plumber, my heating and air-conditioning company and an electrician I’d used. I discovered
that she was an avid gardener like my husband,
so she reciprocated with a list of spring- and fall-
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blooming camellias and introduced us to the world
of hellebores, flowering plants that flourish in
wooded areas but, more importantly, happen to be
on the extremely short yuck list of greenery deer
won’t eat. I gave her extra cages when she decided
to go all-out growing heirloom
tomatoes. She brought gorgeous
roses she’d grown in containers
on her back patio over to our
house.
I soon learned that the
warmth and affection that infuse
Donna’s “Meg books” and the
world of the delightful-butslightly-wacky Langslow family
come from the close, loving relationships in her own family. A
devoted daughter, she often made
the drive to her hometown of
Yorktown, Virginia to visit her
parents. As her father’s health
deteriorated, the trips became
more frequent. Late at night
when she could get to a computer, I’d get e-mails with news
about the day’s visits to this or
that doctor and her escalating
worries about her beloved dad. When she wasn’t in
Yorktown, she would regularly hop a plane to Boston
to visit her brother and sister-in-law who were
expecting twins, the now seven-year-old nephews
who are the light of Donna’s life.
It is a testimony to her strong family bonds that
a few years ago Stuart, Elke and the boys left
Massachusetts to relocate to Virginia, moving about
fifteen minutes away from her home, and that her
mom now lives in a nearby assisted-living center,
after Donna spent weeks doing research until she
found just the right place. Now acting as her mother’s
primary caregiver, Donna also makes sure she never
misses one of the twins’ school events or Little
League games.
A prolific author who produced 17 books in 11
years, she has been nominated for or received such
top mystery awards as the Agatha, Lefty, Dilys,
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Toastmaster
Donna Andrews
Anthony and Macavity (for a short story) and is a
three-time RT winner, scooping up Best First Novel
and Most Humorous Mystery. In addition to her busy
career, Donna generously gives back to the writing
community, finding time to serve as a volunteer
mentor of a Barnes & Noble writing group, second
term president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of
Mystery Writers of America, member of the MWA
National Board, Edgar Committee chair and co-editor
of the Sisters in Crime Chesapeake Chapter’s multiple
short story anthologies. Just reading that list leaves
me exhausted — and it’s possible I may have overlooked a couple of projects or activities.
As I recall, it wasn’t long after we met that I discovered another of Donna’s passions: she is a talented
photographer who rarely leaves home without her
camera. With a keen eye for detail, she finds beauty
or a unique way of seeing what seems plain vanilla
ordinary or goes unnoticed by most of us — a rake
pulled through autumn leaves, snow frosting the
posts of an old wooden gate, a couple of weathered
Adirondack rocking chairs grouped together next to
a garden in a nearby park.
Which brings me to Donna’s annual Christmas
gift, a photo calendar she puts together each
December for her friends and family. The moment I
receive mine, I flip through the pages to see which
twelve pictures she’s chosen as visual memories of
the past year. By now I recognize most of the scenes:
her beloved garden, an animal at the Omaha Zoo
where she makes an annual pilgrimage during
Mayhem in the Midlands and snapshots taken at
various conferences or while visiting bookstores we
both know. As I write this, January’s moody picture
of the woods behind her snow-covered backyard
hangs on the bulletin board above my desk.
And so almost a decade later, we have come full
circle back to Malice Domestic, and this time Donna
is Toastmaster. It’s a fitting honor since one thing I
didn’t mention in that list of volunteering, family
obligations and professional responsibilities is her
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long-standing service to Malice, especially as the
author liaison to the board, a position she’s held for
many years.
Yet as busy as she is with her Toastmaster obligations, I know she’ll still make time to reach out to
someone she doesn’t know, a would-be author trying
to get a first novel published and wondering how to
go about it.
Hang around the coffee pot. She’ll find you.
(Ellen Crosby is the author of a series of mysteries set in
Virginia wine country. Her latest, The Sauvignon Secret,
will be published by Scribner in August, 2011.)
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Bibliography
SERIES
Meg Langslow Series
Murder with Peacocks (1999)
Murder with Puffins (2000)
Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos (2001)
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (2002)
We’ll Always Have Parrots (2004)
Owls Well That Ends Well (2005)
No Nest for the Wicket (2006)
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (2007)
Cockatiels at Seven (July 2008)
Six Geese A-Slaying (October 2008)
Swan for the Money (2009)
Stork Raving Mad (2010)
The Real Macaw (July 2011)
Turing Hopper Series
You’ve Got Murder (2002)
Click Here for Murder (2003)
Access Denied (2004)
Delete All Suspects (2005)
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SHORT STORIES
“The Unkindness of Ravens,” The Mysterious North, ed.
Dana Stabenow (2002)
“The Birthday Dinner” Death Dines In, ed. Claudia
Bishop and Dean James, (2004)
“Night Shades,” Chesapeake Crimes, ed. Donna Andrews
(2004)
“Cold Spell,” Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow
(2004)
“A Rat’s Tale,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (2007)
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“Spellbound,” Unusual Suspects,” ed. Dana Stabenow
(2008)
“The Haire of the Beast,” Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, ed.
Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner (2008)
“Normal,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (May 2011)
ESSAYS
“Sex, Lies, and MRIs,” House Unauthorized, ed. Leah
Wilson (2007)
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Fan Guest of Honor
Anne Murphy
Malice’s Unofficial Memory
By Kay McCarty with input from Sheila Martin and Donna Beatley
W
hen first starting to write this biography,
a low and none-too-dulcet voice over my
shoulder kept saying that God was going to
get me. It was Anne, of course, telling me of retribution for 1) getting her involved in Malice in the first
place, 2) suggesting that belly
dance class at the Rockville
Senior Center would be fun
(we made our sixth and seventh
appearances on stage in March)
and 3) for introducing her to an
incredibly complete needlework
shop in Catonsville, Maryland.
The last was so she could crossstitch things for her granddaughters’ dollhouses.
The oldest of five children,
Virginia Anne Reilly Murphy
is a seventh-generation
Washingtonian whose family
included theater and concert
goers, writers, readers and those
actively involved in D.C.’s Irish
community. They all inspired
and encouraged her lifelong love
of books. She attended Sacred
Heart Elementary School, Holy
Cross Academy and the Catholic
University of America where she earned her degree
in elementary education. After graduation, she taught
in the D.C. public schools for nine years. After Anne
and her beloved Joe were married, they moved to the
suburbs where they spent the next 12 years raising
babies and Irish wolfhounds, teaching dog obedience
and running the 4-H Canine Study Club. A chance
encounter with their eldest son’s seventh grade
teacher led to Anne’s becoming the Saint Mary’s
Parochial School librarian for the next 22 years, during which time she was actively involved with the
Catholic Library Association and the annual celebrations of children’s literature at Montgomery College
and Loyola College of Maryland. She also serves on
the CLA committee that awards the Regina Medal.
She met Joe while at Catholic University when
they were guinea pigs (she said) in a Naval Research
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Lab Distance Early Warning Line experiment. Surely
their romance was not one of the expected outcomes
of the testing! Joe and Anne have three boys and five
grandchildren: Joseph and his wife Alison have one
son, Calvin Joseph; Tom is newly married to Jennifer;
and Kevin and his wife Colleen
have three daughters — Molly
Rose, Bridget Catherine and
Lillian Grace — and son, Jude
Patrick. All of them are much
loved and well supplied with
books.
Anne came into my life
through our good friend, Sheila
Martin, who is also a charter
Malice attendee. Sheila was
always referring to her friend
Anne who could not only
remember the names of books
but their authors, characters
and the plots. Sheila thought
that Anne would be interested
in attending the first Malice, and
the rest is history. Her phenomenal memory spans plays seen,
concerts heard and books (both
adult and children’s) read over
many years, and she has the
ability to quote playwrights, lyricists, prose authors
and poets at will. (Grouches might say ad nauseam.)
She also has the unfortunate capability of recalling in
excruciating detail stories about Malice that has lent
her the unofficial title of “The Corporate Memory.”
Like so many of us, Anne was introduced to mysteries through the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew and
Cherry Ames. She then proceeded through Gothics
(Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart) and on
to Phyllis Whitney and Barbara Michaels. Her reading
Ammie Come Home late at night in a back bedroom
that looked out toward Georgetown was NOT a good
idea! (KM note ... reading it while living there wasn’t
either.) An “oh that sounds interesting” encounter
with The Curse of the Pharaohs at the Rockville Public
Library introduced her to Elizabeth Peters, and she
has never looked back.
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Anne served with Sheila and me on the volunteer committee for Malice for several years under
the leadership of Marolyn Caldwell and Barbara
Allen. She assumed the chair position at the request
of Dr. Mertz-Michaels-Peters too many years ago
to count.
Through all of this we have had a wonderful time
reading, singing (loudly, not always in tune, but with
enthusiasm) songs from various musicals we and
our families have seen or been involved in, dining
together, and watching over each other and our
families and friends. Anne is a caring, generous
person and a devoted wife, mother, grandmother
and friend, throwing herself wholeheartedly into
whatever she has become involved.
(Kay McCarty is a charter member of Malice and survivor
of the Silver Spring Sheraton who has known Anne for
many years. Now retired, she is busier than ever with
church activities, the Rockville Senior Center and various
cultural events. Sheila Martin, also a charter member and
survivor, met Anne through a mutual friend at church and
introduced her to Kay. Sheila is currently running the
library at Mother of God Elementary School and enjoying
her five grandchildren. Donna Beatley became involved
with Malice through the Mertz-fest that was the forerunner
of what we have today. She works in the engineering
library at the University of Maryland, enjoys opera and
crocheting and attempts to bring order out of a house
dominated by her cat and toy poodle. All three ladies have
been Malice Fan Guests of Honor.)
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Lifetime Achievement
Sue Grafton
A Woman of Letters
By Hank Phillippi Ryan
‘M’ is for Millhone. How did
you pick that name? Is she your
pal? Your nemesis? Your self? And
M is for Mystery. And Malice.
(That all works out very nicely, don’t you think? What did
you think when you heard you were Malice’s Lifetime
Achievement honoree?)
I came across the name Kinsey in a copy of the
Hollywood Reporter in 1977 or so in a column listing
the name of babies born to various Hollywood couples. I have no idea who her parents were or what’s
happened to the ‘real’ Kinsey, but I loved the name
and tucked it in a mental file for later use. When I
began thinking about a female private eye, up the
name popped. Millhone, I came up with independently and I can’t remember the source now. Possibly
the phone book. I chose it because I liked the way it
sounded with Kinsey’s first name.
I was delighted when I’d heard I was to be so
honored! I haven’t attended Malice because it
generally falls right around Kentucky Derby time
and I have a house full of guests. Cleverly, Verena
Rose figured out that the Derby this year is a week
later than usual so here I am.
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‘A’ is for: Alphabet, of course. Looking back over the
decision you made — when? — to do your alphabet books,
do you just shake your head in
amazement at how one decision can
be so completely life changing?
The entire alphabet?! Was I
nuts? How did I know it would
work?! Looking back, it seems so
cheeky. When I started work on
‘A,’ I’d literally never written a
mystery novel in my life. The
notion that I might have the
endurance and imagination to
tackle twenty-six of the suckers
now seems ridiculous. On the
other hand, you have to do
something with your life. Often,
I explain that I write mysteries
because when I put my application for a job at Sears, the personnel department never called
me back.
Photo: Laurie Roberts
T
alk about a woman of letters. A, she’s amazing. B, she’s a best-seller. C, she’s the contemporary icon of mystery
authors. Dauntingly, extraordinarily, the flat-out genuine
heart of the industry.
Sue Grafton, too modest,
would deny it. But where
would the rest of us be without
her? No matter how you spell
it, her spirit, her skill, her generosity and her incredible talent light the way for any
mystery author. To get the
inside scoop on Sue, I had the
what-I-thought-was-brilliant
idea to ask her interview questions beginning with every
letter of the alphabet.
Sue had a better idea.
‘L’ is for Living in the past.
Kinsey does. You don’t. How does
that work? Are you ever tempted?
When I came up with the idea of using the
alphabet to teleport Kinsey Millhone through time,
it seemed smarter to have her age one year for
every three or four books. She was 32 when the
first book was published in 1982. By my humble
mathematical calculations, if she aged one year per
letter, she be 58 by the time I got to ‘Z.’ I thought
she’d look foolish jumping out from behind the
bushes, bashing bad guys with her little old lady
pocket book. Now, of course, I’m trapped in the
1980’s. I just can’t bring myself to jump her into the
present while keeping her the same age.
‘I’ is for Individual. What made you take the scary
step into writing by yourself?
I worked solo when I started writing novels in
the year oughty-ought. During my fifteen-year
detour into Hollywood, the work was always by
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stood why collaboration was necessary in the writing of film and television scripts, but I didn’t like it. I
wrote ‘A’ in large part because I knew if I didn’t get
back to writing on my own, I’d be ruined for life. It
was the only way I knew to redeem myself. What a
relief it’s been! Now no one has access to my work
until the book is done. After I type ‘the end,‘ I’m
open to suggestion ... not one minute before.
‘C’ is for Competition. Do you try to outdo yourself
every time with each new book? Is that a Challenge?
I think writing is all self-competition. I want
each book to be more clever, more complex and
more polished. My process has nothing to do with
anyone else. My job is to better myself. I keep elaborate charts for the novels I’ve written to date, and
before I begin a new one, I go back and review the
summaries of my past efforts. Over time, it’s very,
very tough not to repeat myself. Often I get excited
about a great idea I’ve had and I’m patting myself
on the back for coming up with something so new,
fresh and original. Then, Shadow taps me on the
shoulder and points out that it’s basically a story I’ve
written before, only decked out in different clothes.
I usually reject five or six ideas before I find one
that works.
‘E’ is for Ego. (Tell us about it. And Shadow.) Are you
still battling the “ego”? Who’s winning?
Ego is a writer’s enemy. I can’t write when I’m sitting there worried about my editor, wondering if the
critics will hate the book, wondering if my readers will
complain, wondering if my fans will be bored. All good
writing comes from Shadow, which is Ego’s opposite.
Shadow holds our intuition, energy, imagination,
insight and humor. Shadow also holds our rage, our
pettiness and our secret, mean-spirited responses to
the world. Shadow is the child in us and all She wants
to do is play. I have to remind myself over and over
that writing is not about money or sales or fame or
glory or recognition. Writing is about play. Writing is
an expression of our souls and our innermost selves.
That’s a lesson I have to learn anew every day when I
sit down at my computer. So far Shadow is winning out
over Ego, but I’m the one fighting to keep her on top.
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‘D’ is for Devoted. What’s the longest you’ve gone
without thinking about Kinsey? Is that — Delightful? Or
Depressing?
I’m always thinking about Kinsey who is, after
all, an extension of myself. The characters we create
are variations of our own personalities, attitudes,
opinions, thoughts and emotions. I think of writing
as an out-of-body experience ... a form of time
travel in my case, since Kinsey’s living in the 1980’s.
The task takes enormous focus and concentration.
When I’m writing, I want every day to look like the
day before because it’s the peace and quiet that
allow me to tap into Shadow. I’m a Taurus. I love
my rut.
‘O’ is for omens. Are you superstitious? Do you have
any rituals?
I do have rituals, the prime one being the selfhypnosis I invoke before each day’s work. I learned
about the practice from Julie Smith and I then read
two or three books on the subject so I’d understand
how to quiet the chatter in my head. I’m forever
grateful to her for the concept.
‘M’ is for Magic. Which does exist, right?
Magic is everywhere. Writing is a miracle. My
day is filled with failure and humiliation and I’ve
had to learn to be patient with myself. Failure and
humiliation are the by-products of Ego. We all want
to be praised and appreciated, but the work is about
letting go of the world at large and operating
out of our Dark Side. I’m sorry if this sounds like
California woo-woo talk, but there is mysticism
involved in the process. The magic is that suddenly
for no reason a plot move will fall into place or I’ll
find a way to pick a knot out of the thread.
Persistence counts.
‘E’ is for Exercise. Body and mind. How much
difference does it make in your life?
I walk four miles a day, five days a week ...
barring illness, bad weather, tours and laziness.
Three of the five days I walk with one of three
friends and this allows me to keep those relationships alive and well. The other two days I walk with
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my iPod and headphones, listening to Dr. Laura
Schlessinger wank and bang on callers for their bad
behavior. In my wildest imagination, I couldn’t
come up with some of the ‘problems’ people call in
with. She keeps me grounded. Also, amused.
‘S’ is for Satisfaction. Are there moments you look at
the computer and Smile — and say yes, I nailed this one?
I do indeed smile sometimes. A great idea comes
along or I fashion a sentence that comes out just as
it should, or a character sparks to life, or Kinsey
pokes me in the side with one of her wicked suggestions. It should be obvious by now that I’m crazy as
a loon, but I suspect all writers are. I’m an introvert.
I love being by myself. I work five or six hours a day
and after that, I can’t wait to escape from myself
and socialize with other people. The time I spend
writing is divine ... but only when it’s going well. If
I’m blocked or baffled, all I do is whine and wring
my hands and complain and tear my hair out. You
can imagine how popular this makes me with my
husband, my kids and my friends. Much eye-rolling
all around.
‘T’ is for Trust. I’ve heard you say “trust the process.”
How does that work?
Trusting the process is another lesson I have to
learn over and over. One line I live by is this: I don’t
tell the book ... the book tells me. When I begin
work on a book, I think I know what the story is
and where it should go. Most of the time I’m wrong
and I waste weeks stumbling down the wrong road.
Essentially, I write by trial and error so I do a lot of
backing up. My job is to get out of my own way ...
which is easier said than done.
‘I’ is for Introvert. You’re such a wild success, such an
Icon, and you must be recognized everywhere. Do you
struggle to present your “public” self?
This is an example of the magic, Hank, my dear,
because as I work my way through your questions,
it’s almost as though you anticipate where I’m going
with a question and what I’ve said. I have my ‘public’ personality ... the extroverted part of my nature.
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What helps is that I like people and I like making
connections, so the tour and conferences like Malice
provide places where I can hang out and be with
other writers. I don’t have an image I’m trying to
project. Staying out of Ego means that I’m willing to
be who I am instead of trying to impress other people. I mean, who really cares? I remember at one
point coming to the staggering realization that no
matter how nice and sweet and generous I might
(pretend to) be, there’s always going to be someone
out there who DOESN’T LIKE ME! That is so unfair.
Here I am trying to be so winsome....
‘C’ is for Cinema. It’s where you started, but you’ve
always said no to a movie Kinsey. Are you still saying no?
Remember when I mentioned my fifteen years
in Hollywood? What I forgot to say was that more
than hating to work by committee, I hate giving
anyone else a vote about my work. I don’t want
advice ... unless I’m stuck or blocked and begging
for help. I won’t sell the film or TV rights to Kinsey
Millhone because that would invite others to meddle and take over. You can’t imagine how cranky
I was by the end of those fifteen years. I finally
stopped and said to myself, “You know what,
Grafton? Nobody’s got a gun to your head. You
don’t like the work, don’t do it.” At that point, I
began to plan my escape. Kinsey Millhone was the
equivalent of a prison break.
C is also, of course, for Congratulations.
Lifetime achievement has a finality about it. It
shouldn’t. Luckily for her readers, we know there’s
still “V” to come (December of 2011, hurray), and
then W, X, Y and Z. And after that, only Sue
knows.
I went to a reading the other night, the Pulitzer
prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon discussing the
Muse. “If you believe in her,” he said, “there’s a
chance she’ll believe in you.” I’m not sure what
Sue Grafton would say about the Muse — maybe
we should ask her this Malice weekend — but I’m
certain of one thing. The Muse believes in Sue.
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Sue Grafton
(Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning investigative
reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is on the air at Boston’s
NBC affiliate. She’s won 26 EMMYs and dozens of other
journalism honors. Her debut, Prime Time, won the
Agatha. Drive Time is now an Agatha nominee for Best
Novel. She is on the NE board of SinC and national board
of MWA. She’s been a devoted fan of Sue Grafton ever
since “A.”)
✍
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Bibliography
NOVELS
Keziah Dane (1967)
The Lolly-Madonna War (1969)
SERIES
The Kinsey Millhone Private Eye Series
“A” is for Alibi (1982)
“B” is for Burglar (1985)
“C” is for Corpse (1986)
“D” is for Deadbeat (1987)
“E” is for Evidence (1988)
“F” is for Fugitive (1989)
“G” is for Gumshoe (1990)
“H” is for Homicide (1991)
“I” is for Innocent (1992)
“J” is for Judgment (1993)
“K” is for Killer (1994)
“L” is for Lawless (1995)
“M” is for Malice (1996)
“N” is for Noose (1998)
“O” is for Outlaw (1999)
“P” is for Peril (2001)
“Q” is for Quarry (2002)
“R” is for Ricochet (2004)
“S” is for Silence (2005)
“T” is for Trespass (2007)
“U” is for Undertow (2009)
“V” is for ... (December 2011)
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SHORT FICTION AND NONFICTION
Southern California Lit Scene
Wind
California Review
Articles on Writing
“Where Does A Novel Begin?,” The Writer (1970)
“The Creative Cycle,” The Writer (1977)
“Breaking and Entering,” The Writer (1983)
“How to Find Time to Write When You Don’t Have
Time to Write,” The Writer (1986)
“Recharging Your Batteries,” The Writer (2002)
Kinsey Millhone Short Stories
Kinsey and Me, Collected Short Stories (1992)
“She Didn’t Come Home” (1986)
“Murder Between the Sheets” (1986)
“The Parker Shotgun” (1986)
“Non Sung Smoke” (1988)
“Falling off the Roof” (1989)
“A Poison that Leaves No Trace” (1990)
“Full Circle” (1991)
“A Little Missionary Work” (1992)
“The Lying Game” (2003)
FILM AND TELEVISION
Screenplay, “Lolly-Madonna XXX,” MGM, 1973
Teleplay, A Caribbean Mystery, adapted from the novel
by Agatha Christie, with Steven Humphrey (1983)
Teleplay, A Killer in the Family, with Steven Humphrey
& Robert Aller (1983)
Teleplay, Sparkling Cyanide, adapted from the novel by
Agatha Christie, with Steven Humphrey & Robert
Malcolm Young (1983)
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AWARDS
Shamus Award, Best Hardcover Private Eye Novel of
1985
Anthony Award, Best Hardcover Mystery of 1985
Macavity Award, Best Short Story (1986)
Anthony Award, Best Short Story of 1986
1990
1994
Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence 2002, Readers
International Organization
HONORS
Distinguished Alumna, University of Louisville 1993
Alumna of the Year, University of Louisville, 1997
Mystery Masters Award, Magna Cum Murder, Ball
State University, 1998
Induction American Academy of Achievement,
Phoenix, Arizona, June 2000
Life Achievement Award, Private Eye Writers of
America, October 2003
Marlowe Award, Southern California Chapter MWA,
June 2004
Ross Macdonald Award, Santa Barbara Book Festival,
September 2004
Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2008, Crime Writers
Association
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Poirot Award
Janet Rudolph
Mystery Maven
By Kate Derie
J
anet Rudolph has clearly found the fountain of
youth. She has supported the mystery community for over twenty-five years: teaching, writing,
editing, producing events and organizing the first
international group for mystery readers across the
spectrum. Janet is a dedicated supporter and organizer of fan conventions, moderating many panels
including “Convention 101” for newcomers.
On the side she hosts a long-running weekly
mystery reading group, and holds literary salons with
authors in her own home. She had one of the first
websites for mystery readers, and continues to
remain in the social networking vanguard with her
blogs, Twitter posts and Facebook.
Even Janet’s day job is
mystery-oriented, as she runs
Murder on the Menu, producing customized, interactive
events for parties, meetings
and corporate clients. Excuse
me while I fall back on my
fainting couch, as I am
exhausted by merely writing
about her activities.
A Philadelphia native,
Janet came to Berkeley for
graduate school and never left. Her husband,
Frank Price, a former teacher and Peace
Corps volunteer, runs TeamBuilding
Unlimited, the non-mystery events division
of Murder on the Menu. They live in the
Berkeley hills and are assisted by two cats, a
golden retriever and a visiting peacock.
Like many of us, Janet got her start in mystery
fiction from her family. As she puts it, “I read all of
my mother’s blue Nancy Drew mysteries the summer
I was eight. Also read all the Judy Bolton mysteries
that my sister [also named] Judy had. Then I began
reading my father’s Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines,
and one thing led to another.” She studied creative
writing in high school and college, even taking a
course from Philip Roth. This was solid preparation
for her current career, as Janet writes every script for
Murder on the Menu mystery plays.
Janet continued down the slippery slope to mys-
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tery addiction by attending library mystery conferences and writing workshops. After completing her
advanced degrees in art history, religion and literature, she taught mystery fiction at the University of
California and other Bay Area colleges. Her courses
often centered on a special interest such as women
writers, historical mysteries or culinary crime (more
on that later). Eventually some of Janet’s regular students began meeting in her home as a book group,
and the rest is history. These are dedicated readers —
they cover a book a week in ten-week thematic sessions, and meet for discussion every Tuesday from
September to June.
That group inspired Janet to start Mystery
Readers of America, the first association for fans that
was not focused on a single author. Before long,
membership crossed the border and MRA became
Mystery Readers International, with local chapters in
various locations. Their Macavity Awards, named
after T.S. Eliot’s elusive feline, continue to be significant recognition of excellence in mystery fiction.
Janet’s favorite experiences with MRI have been
her “At-Homes” with mystery authors. She welcomes
authors and fans into her living room for relaxed conversations about the writer’s work and life. Guests of
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comers to multiple award winners, coming from as
close as San Francisco to as far away as South Africa.
Janet retains her thematic approach for the
Mystery Readers Journal, the quarterly publication of
MRI, where each edition focuses on a single subgenre
or geographical area. Over the years, subjects have
ranged from the popular — gardening, art, music
and sports — to the more specialized, such as technological and paranormal mysteries. Another unique
touch is that mystery authors write most of the articles, talking about how the topic influences their
work. From the first, Janet included reviews and letters, and her “Mystery Mayhem” column was a major
source of news for the mystery community in the
pre-Internet era.
Janet has written recurring columns for most
of the major mystery periodicals, in addition to
MRJ. Now she regularly posts mystery news,
award nominations, upcoming events and
general musings at her Mystery Fanfare blog,
www.mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com, with reader
comments encouraged. Janet particularly enjoys
holiday mysteries, and is sure to feature a related
reading list on every holiday at her blog. Meanwhile,
MRJ marches on into the 21st century with PDF
editions of current issues available to buy and
download online.
International crime fiction has always been a special interest for Janet, who is a member of the
International Association of Crime Writers. She has
attended the Semana Negra celebration in Spain and
an unforgettable IACW conference in Cuba. Keep an
eye on MRJ for the next trend in worldwide mystery.
Janet was clairvoyant in featuring Scandinavian mysteries even before The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and
more recently has published issues looking at Ireland
and at Africa.
A natural entrepreneur, Janet got the idea for
Murder on the Menu when she happened to be
on a radio talk show discussing mystery fiction.
Another guest was an event planner who was
scheduled to produce some mystery weekends, but
had no idea how to put on an interactive whodunit
event. Janet was in the right place at the right time
to create some scripts for him, and she realized that
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this was a perfect fit for her talents.
For her events, Janet interviews the client and
ensures the interactive drama incorporates the reason for the get-together, jargon and in-jokes and
information on specific audience members. Then she
coordinates the venue, the caterer, the actors, director and audio-visual support, and all the myriad
details that go into making a memorable production.
Janet produces events at venues all around the Bay
Area and across the U.S. Once, she faced the challenge of staging an event at a mountain location,
accessible only by steam train, where her only
electrical outlet was in a tree. Sounds like a perfect
mystery to me.
Remember the mention of culinary crime? Janet
finds mystery cookbooks irresistible, and they are a
large part of her collection of hundreds of literary,
art and movie/TV theme cookbooks. (Yes, she does
have Cooking with Malice.) She doesn’t have time to
try many recipes herself, but she has hosted events
where restaurants prepared Lord Peter Wimsey and
Nero Wolfe dinner menus. She taught a course
where she prepared the poisoned food from each
book — sans poison. Janet was pleased to contribute
to the A Taste of Murder cookbook, as well as other
recipe collections.
Believe it or not, Janet does have some unmysterious hobbies. Right now, chocolate takes center
stage, as Janet writes the Dying for Chocolate blog,
including lots of yummy recipes. She is a regular
judge at the San Francisco International Chocolate
Salon — a tough job but somebody has to do it.
Janet enjoys gardening, caring for roses, camellias
and irises in spite of marauding deer. She hopes to
get back to botanical illustration one day, and misses
working in pottery. Meanwhile her home is a work
of art, decorated with her collections of Americana,
embroideries and rugs.
Janet has been a long-time supporter of Malice
Domestic since attending the very first convention,
and she was Fan Guest of Honor at the third. Of
Malice, she writes, “Everyone was so friendly! ... It
was wonderful to ‘come home’ every year to the
same property, same people (and new people).”
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Poirot Award
Janet Rudolph
She was one of the founders of Left Coast Crime
and was their Fan Guest of Honor last year in Los
Angeles. She has also worked on at least four (she
can’t remember exactly) organizing committees for
Bouchercon. One of Janet’s most cherished convention memories is winning the Don Sandstrom Award
for lifetime fan activity and an Anthony Award for
Special Service to the field at the 2006 Bouchercon.
It would be hard to find any individual outside
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the book industry who has done more than Janet
Rudolph to celebrate and encourage mystery and
crime fiction reading. She is truly deserving of the
honor of the Poirot Award.
(Kate Derie has been associate editor of Mystery Readers
Journal for fifteen years. She is the former director of
Cluelass.com and publisher of the Deadly Directory.)
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Malice Remembers
Lyn Hamilton
A Tribute to Lyn Hamilton
By Mary Jane Maffini and Rhys Bowen
L
yn Hamilton should have been here with us this
Malice Domestic weekend, celebrating and being
celebrated. She always enjoyed Malice and,
without a doubt, she would have been dressed to kill.
Lyn knew how to wear a jacket like nobody else. The
mystery community continues to
reel at her loss. When people speak
of Lyn they use words like charming, intelligent, elegant, stylish, kind,
high energy, witty, mentor, teacher,
inspiration, role model, sterling
travel companion and, of course,
fierce and loyal friend. She was all of
that and more. She is missed by so
many, not only her colleagues but
also her readers. We remember her
wit, her personality, her books and
that great laugh.
Who was she, this red-headed
Canadian writer with the bearing of
a royal, the curiosity of an archaeologist, the tactics of a general and the
heart of a lion? So many people in
one. Lyn Hamilton was a true
Renaissance woman. Writing mystery novels was just one of many
successful careers in a life that ended far too early.
You would never doubt that Lyn could manage any
of the exploits of her likeable protagonist Lara
McClintoch, antiques dealer and amateur sleuth. For
one thing, as soon as Lyn had a new idea for a setting, she began to research the culture. Each book
explored an ancient civilization, revealed through a
human story that ran in parallel with the contemporary mystery featuring Lara. Lyn never chose a location unless she had already visited it. Even so, she
would always plan another trip to check out the
modern day setting before writing the book. She got
those details right. Distance was no impediment.
The book would be set in China? Off she’d go.
Lyn sometimes traveled on her own, but she also
loved to travel with her friends and with her beloved
sister, Cheryl. You could frequently find her packing
to head off to Thailand, Tunisia or Hungary. Easter
Island? No problem. Peru? Piece of cake. You knew
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she would never stick to the regular tourist paths, but
would head to where the archaeological action was.
Then when she had a bit of downtime, she might be
found leading a tour in Malta, something the participants will always treasure.
She brought experience, intelligence and wit to everything that
interested her. And her interests
were wide and varied. Lyn’s passion
for ancient cultures and fascination
for their artifacts led to many reallife adventures that no doubt later
appeared in the Lara books.
Lyn was involved in a car crash
and a terrifying encounter with the
power of the military while off the
beaten track in China. She was
offered sex on the altar of the goddess in Malta. She was almost
trampled to death by a stampede of
wild horses on Easter Island. All of
these events found their way into
her books and made for excitement
that it would be impossible to
invent. Lyn WAS Lara and relived
her own adventures through her
heroine. In real life, Lyn always traveled light,
emerged looking great, got to know the locals, the
history, the sense of place, the telling details — all
ready to pass on to the eager readers.
From the time she finished university and headed
on her own to Los Angeles, Lyn’s career was varied
and exciting. She held down demanding and senior
jobs in the private sector and cultural sectors and in
the Ontario government for many years. Yet, she still
managed to give Lara many serious outings and
adventures while writing on Sundays. Her friends
learned quickly not to mess with this priority
schedule. Her legions of fans were grateful. The
pace continued when Lyn worked as Director of
Communications for the Canadian Opera Company,
a job she was passionate about. They needed a new
opera house and she was ready to put her shoulder
to the wheel to make that happen. Today, that opera
house is a splendid Toronto landmark. Despite the
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travel and long hours of the day job, Lyn never failed
to meet a book deadline.
In the course of these years, she was nominated
for the Arthur Ellis awards for best first novel (The
Xibalba Murders) and for best novel (The Magyar
Venus). The Celtic Riddle was adapted for television as a
Murder She Wrote television movie starring Angela
Lansbury. Lyn’s works were translated into many languages and appreciated around the world. Her body
of work brought something enduring and unique to
crime writing.
Lyn gave much to the mystery community. She
was writer-in-residence at two of Canada’s largest
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libraries: North York Library in 2003 and Kitchener
Public Library in 2004. She met and offered encouragement and support to many new mystery writers.
She was willing to go the extra distance and often
stayed in touch with her students. She was generous
with her time, advice and encouragement.
Lyn faced her illness with pride, control and dignity. She was stylish, intelligent, funny and brave to
the last. Lucky for us, she lives on in her eleven wonderful books, her protagonist, Lara McClintoch, by
no coincidence having the same characteristics that
endeared her creator to us. Through her books, and
in our hearts, Lyn still climbs her mountains, explores
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caves and ruins and gives a voice to long-lost civilizations, and she keeps her friends enthralled with her
personality, wit and storytelling. She delighted audiences wherever she went and in the words of her
colleague Elaine Viets, “There was a woman who
could light up a room ... a whole auditorium!”
Not a day goes by that we don’t think of our
friend, Lyn. Our weekly telephone calls were an
entertainment as well as an education. If there was a
snippet of political news or cultural news, Lyn would
have a delicious bit of background information about
the players, or else an opinion more eloquent and
insightful than any of the pundits. Now when reading the paper or listening to the news, we can still
imagine her comments. We will even miss her phone
calls to say, “I have bought a fabulous new pair of
shoes and you are going to be just sick with jealousy!” And, sure enough, we would be.
We are so grateful that her life and work are
being honored and thank Malice for allowing us to
share Lyn’s story.
Bibliography
LARA MCCLINTOCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL
MYSTERIES
The Xibalba Murders (1997)
The Maltese Goddess (1998)
The Moche Warrior (1999)
The Celtic Riddle (2000)
The African Quest (2001)
The Etruscan Chimera (2002)
The Thai Amulet (2003)
The Magyar Venus (2004)
The Moai Murders (2005)
The Orkney Scroll (2006)
The Chinese Alchemist (2007)
(Mary Jane Maffini rides herd on three mystery series and
nearly two dozen short stories. Her latest book is The Busy
Woman’s Guide to Murder (Berkley Prime Crime) and
she is an Agatha nominee for best short story this year. Rhys
Bowen writes the Molly Murphy and Royal Spyness mysteries, both featuring strong, independent women. Rhys’s books
have won Agatha, Anthony and MacAvity awards among
others. Rhys Bowen and Lyn developed an immediate close
friendship in spite of distance, and were touring partners
until Lyn’s illness made this impossible.)
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Agatha Awards
2009
2005
Best Novel: The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie,
Alan Bradley
Best Nonfiction: Dame Agatha’s Shorts, Elena
Santangelo
Best Short Story: “On the House,” Hank Phillippi
Ryan, Quarry
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: The Hanging Hill,
Chris Grabenstein
Best Novel: The Body in the Snowdrift, Katherine Hall
Page
Best First Novel: Better Off Wed, Laura Durham
Best Nonfiction: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the
Women Who Created Her, Melanie Rehak
Best Short Story: “Driven to Distraction,”
Marcia Talley
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction:
Down the Rabbit Hole, Peter Abrahams
Flush, Carl Haissen
2008
Best Novel: The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: Death of a Cozy Writer, G.M. Malliet
Best Nonfiction: How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries,
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Best Short Story: “The Night Things Changed,” Dana
Cameron
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: The Crossroads,
Chris Grabenstein
2007
Best Novel: A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny
Best First Novel: Prime Time, Hank Phillippi Ryan
Best Nonfiction: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Jon
Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley
Best Short Story: “A Rat’s Tale,” Donna Andrews
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction: A Light in the
Cellar, Sarah Masters Buckey
2006
Best Novel: The Virgin Of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel: The Heat of the Moon,
Sandra Parshall
Best Nonfiction: Don’t Murder Your Mystery,
Chris Roerden
Best Short Story: “Sleeping with the Plush,”
Toni L.P. Kelner
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction:
Pea Soup Poisonings, Nancy Means Wright
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2004
Best Novel: Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear
Best First Novel: Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak
Best Nonfiction: Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady
Detectives, Jack French
Best Short Story: “Wedding Knife,” Elaine Viets
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel: Chasing
Vermeer, Blue Balliett
2003
Best Novel: Letter From Home, Carolyn Hart
Best First Novel: Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
Best Nonfiction: Amelia Peabody’s Egypt:
A Compendium, edited by Elizabeth Peters and
Kristen Whitbread; designed by Dennis Forbes
Best Short Story: “No Man’s Land,” Elizabeth Foxwell
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel:
The 7th Knot, Kathleen Karr
2002
Best Novel: You’ve Got Murder, Donna Andrews
Best First Novel: In The Bleak Midwinter,
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Best Nonfiction: They Died in Vain: Overlooked,
Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited
by Jim Huang
Best Short Story: “The Dog That Didn’t Bark,”
Margaret Maron and “Too Many Cooks,” Marcia
Talley
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel: Red Card:
A Zeke Armstrong Mystery, Daniel J. Hale and
Matthew LaBrot
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1996
Best Novel: Murphy’s Law, Rhys Bowen
Best First Novel: Bubbles Unbound, Sarah Strohmeyer
Best Nonfiction: Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir, Tony
Hillerman
Best Short Story: “The Would-Be Widower,”
Katherine Hall Page
Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel:
The Mystery of the Haunted Caves, Penny Warner
Best Novel: Up Jumps the Devil, Margaret Maron
Best First Novel: Murder on a Girl’s Night Out,
Anne George
Best Nonfiction: Detecting Women 2, Willetta Heising
Best Short Story: “Accidents Will Happen,”
Carolyn Wheat
2000
Best Novel: Storm Track, Margaret Maron
Best First Novel: Death on a Silver Tray,
Rosemary Stevens
Best Nonfiction: 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century, Jim
Huang, editor
Best Short Story: “The Man in the Civil Suit,”
Jan Burke
1999
Best Novel: Mariner’s Compass, Earlene Fowler
Best First Novel: Murder, With Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Best Nonfiction: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan
Doyle, Daniel Stashower
Best Short Story: “Out of Africa,” Nancy Pickard
1998
Best Novel: Butcher’s Hill, Laura Lippman
Best First Novel: The Doctor Digs a Grave,
Robin Hathaway
Best Nonfiction: Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide:
Washington, D.C., Alzina Stone Dale
Best Short Story: “Of Course You Know that Chocolate
is a Vegetable,” Barbara D’Amato
1997
Best Novel: The Devil in Music, Kate Ross
Best First Novel: The Salaryman’s Wife, Sujata Massey
Best Nonfiction: Detecting Men Pocket Guide,
Willetta Heising
Best Short Story: “Tea for Two,” M. D. Lake
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1995
Best Novel: If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him, Sharyn
McCrumb
Best First Novel: The Body in the Transept, Jeanne Dams
Best Nonfiction: Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: Chicago,
Alzina Stone Dale
Best Short Story: “The Dog Who Remembered
Too Much,” Elizabeth Daniels Squire
1994
Best Novel: She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb
Best First Novel: Do Unto Others, Jeff Abbott
Best Nonfiction: By A Woman’s Hand, Jean Swanson
and Dean James
Best Short Story: “The Family Jewels,”
Dorothy Cannell
1993
Best Novel: Dead Man’s Island, Carolyn G. Hart
Best First Novel: Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr
Best Nonfiction: The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery,
Barbara D’Amato
Best Short Story: “Kim’s Game,” M. D. Lake
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
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Agatha Awards
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
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)
Donna Andrews
Anne Murphy
Malice 24 (April 27–29, 2012)
Join us at the Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD — April 27, 2012–April 29, 2012
* A special category for Malice XVI honored Special Malice Remembers, Carole Anne Nelson
** International Guest of Honor
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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
Lyn Hamilton
Sue Grafton
Janet Rudolph
Verena Rose
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Grants
The William F. Deeck — Malice Domestic
Grants for Unpublished Writers, 1994–2011
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.
Winners and Titles of Submitted Manuscripts
2011
Robin Templeton, Double Exposure
2010
Patricia A. Gouthro, Lies My Professor Told Me
Stephanie Evans, Standing on the Promises
2005
Hilary McGowan, A Cottage with a View
Stacy Leigh Juba, Sign of the Messenger
2004
2009
Kimberly Gray, Ghost of a Chance
Shirley Folwarski (writing as Clarissa Miller),
Blood Is Stickier Than Holy Water
Heidi Vornbrock Roosa (writing as McLean
Jacobson), Hypothesis for Murder
2008
2003
Robin Hewitt, One Sweet Pickle
Linda Reeder, Bricks and Murder
Thomas E. Bonsall, Lilac Time
Martha Crites, She Who Listens
G. M. Malliet, Death of a Cozy Writer
2007
2002
(GRANT SPONSORED BY DONATION IN MEMORY OF DEAN BARTH)
Dawn Dixon Cotter, Faux Finish
Gigi Morrissett Pandian, Artifact
Elizabeth Berry, Inn Sight
2006
Terry Hoover, Sweet Alice
Kyle Z. Bell, George Washington Died Here
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)
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2001
2000
Susan Wrona Gall (writing as Wrona Gall),
Canvas Shroud
Carolyn Kourofsky, Through a Shooter’s Eye
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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.
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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
Grants
Carol Hauswald, Avenging Angels
1996
Joan C. Curtis, The Internet Murderer
Sujata Massey, The Salaryman’s Wife
1995
LeeAnna Lawrence, A Cousin Once Removed
1994
Jeffrey Marks, The Scent of Murder
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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”!
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OBSIDIAN MYSTERIES
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NEW AUTHORS BREAKFAST
MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE
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Memories of Malice
Absent Friends
The Faithful Few
Malice remembers the following individuals
who have enriched the Malice Domestic genre
and the mystery world in general. May they
rest in peace.
The following 16 participants survived Malice I
in Silver Spring and have returned for every
Malice since — truly the triumph of hope over
experience!
Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author
Donna Beatley
Lee Mewshaw
Stephen J. Cannell, Author
Lenore Boehm
Anne Murphy
Ruth Cavin, Editor
Jack Cater
C. W. Pollard
Maury Chaykin, Actor
Judy J. Cater
Anne Reece
Richard Timothy Conroy, Author
Anna S. Jeffrey
Patricia Schutz
Claire Curzon, Author
Sheila J. Martin
Janine Seitz
Ariana Franklin, Author
Kay McCarty
Gordon M. Shaw
Joe Gores, Author
Liz Mellett
Ruth C. Shaw
Brian Jacques, Author
Emyl Jenkins, Author
Dolores Johnson, Author
H. R. F. Keating, Author
James MacArthur, Actor
Darren McGavin, Actor
Edith (Edie) S. Embler, Fan
Dorothy Sucher, Author
David Thompson, Book Dealer
Ann Waldron, Professor
Peter Yates, Director
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General Information
“No Smoking” Policy
The hotel does not permit smoking.
Hotel Check-in/out
Check-in time at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda,
is 4 p.m. If rooms are available, you can check-in earlier. Check-out time is 12 noon. Late check-out is
available on request on a space-available basis.
Attended luggage storage is available at the bell
stand.
To Help Us Keep Things Running
Smoothly
We request that you do not corner authors and panelists immediately after a program session. This keeps
them from proceeding to their next session or signing, prevents the next panel from starting on time,
and generally disrupts the flow of events. Please help
us stay on schedule.
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. Limited complimentary tea and
coffee service will be available.
The Hospitality Lounge is also where you’ll find
the “volunteers” table. In addition to being the place
where you sign up to volunteer your services, here
is where you turn in your Agatha ballot (on time,
please!), and turn in your evaluation form. (Yes, we
read them.)
You’ll also find the Silent Auction items in their
own special section. Look for the display about
Malice with information covering this year’s special
activities and Malice 24’s honorees (after they are
announced at the banquet).
Green Room
Moderators and panelists are welcome to gather in
the Hotel's Executive Boardroom, which has been
designated as the Green Room, about 15 minutes
prior to the start time for their panels unless they’ve
made other arrangements in advance.
Volunteers
Volunteers should check in and pick up materials for
their assignments at the “volunteers” table in the
Hospitality Lounge. Anyone wishing to volunteer,
who did not do so before the convention, can sign up
on the chart for available slots. Volunteers who contribute four hours receive a special gift not available
to others at Malice 23. 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 24
Save time and money! Register for next year’s
Malice while you’re here. A registration form with a
discounted on-site convention rate will be available
at the registration desk. Register now for Malice 24
and SAVE!
We accept cash, check or credit cards while the
registration desk is open. The registration desk will be
open through the Closing Ceremonies, and this will
be the last opportunity to take advantage of the onsite rate.
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Charity Auction
Facts and Frequently Asked Questions
Live Auction
Silent Auction
How do I register?
Starting this year with Malice Domestic 23, we are
simplifying the live auction registration process by
assigning each attendee a number in our computer
system. That number will also be the attendee’s
Bid card number for the live auction. Attendees
will receive their bid card at the time they sign in
at registration on Thursday or Friday. There is no
requirement to attend the live auction; however,
the bid numbers are nontransferable. All on-site
registrants will be assigned a number and given a bid
card at the registration desk.
When and where will the auction be held?
The Malice Domestic 23 Silent Auction will be open
on Friday, April 39, 2011, from 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
and on Saturday, April 30, 2011, 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 Lalique beginning at
9:00 p.m. on Friday evening, April 29, 2011.
What organization will be
receiving the auction proceeds?
The John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children
and Adolescents has been chosen as Malice Domestic
23’s auction recipient. JLG-RICA is a communitybased public educational treatment and day/residential
facility serving children and adolescents, ages 10–18
with severe emotional disabilities. It is located in
Rockville, Maryland. Funds will be used to develop
and support residential literacy programs.
If I am the winning bidder
how do I claim my item?
You must claim your item(s) immediately following
the auction at the auction check-out table. If you are
unable to remain for the entire auction, please let
one of the auction volunteers know before you leave
the room.
What organization will
be receiving the auction proceeds?
As with the live auction, the John L. Gildner
Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents will
be the recipient of the proceeds from the silent auction. Proceeds from this auction will be used to fund
a Malice Domestic Scholarship for Graduating
Seniors.
How do I claim my item(s)?
Winning bidders must report to the Hospitality
Lounge Silent Auction check-out table between
2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, 2011.
A list of winning bidders will be posted in the hallway outside the Hospitality Lounge.
How can I pay?
You may pay for your item(s) with credit card, cash or
check. Receipts will be available at time of payment.
When and how will I receive my
donor receipt?
Starting this year, the committee will have receipts
prepared and ready for distribution shortly after the
conclusion of the auction. For any donors who are not
at the convention, we will either e-mail or mail their
receipts.
How can I pay?
You may pay for your item(s) with credit card,
cash or check. Receipts will be available at time
of payment.
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Convention Schedule
Thursday, April 28
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Early Bird Registration
Friday, April 29
8:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Registration
9:00–9:30 a.m.
2:10–3:00 p.m.
You’ve Got Fan Mail:
Honored Guests Discuss Mail from Fascinating Fans
Verena Rose — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Sue Grafton
3:10–4:00 p.m.
Confessions of a Chocoholic:
Poirot Honoree Janet Rudolph interviewed by
Louise Penny
Malice 101:
An Introduction to Malice
For First-time Attendees
Judy Cater
4:10–5:00 p.m.
9:30–9:45 a.m.
5:15–5:45 p.m.
Volunteers 101: Important Information
For Attendees Who Want to Help Out
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hospitality Lounge & Silent Auction
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Dealers
10:00–11:30 a.m.
A Toast to Donna Andrews:
Toastmaster Donna Andrews interviewed by
Daniel Stashower
Opening Ceremonies
5:45–6:30 p.m.
Opening Reception
6:30 p.m.
Dinner Break
8:00–8:50 p.m.
Lunch Break
Simply the Best: Agatha Best Novel Nominees
Harriette Sackler — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Louise Penny
Nancy Pickard
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Heather Webber
12:30–1:20 p.m.
9:00–10:30 p.m.
The Poison Lady Presents Elemental Murder:
Death by the Periodic Table
Luci Zahray, The Poison Lady
Live Charity Auction
Auctioneers: Katherine Hall Page
and Hank Phillippi Ryan
Malice Go Round:
It’s Like Speed Dating — with Authors
Judy and Jack Cater — Moderators
11:30 a.m.
1:30–2:00 p.m.
Lyn Hamilton Remembered:
Honoring a Beloved Malice Alum
Rhys Bowen and Mary Jane Maffini
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Saturday, April 30
7:30–8:30 a.m.
New Authors Breakfast:
Fans Eat while New Authors Talk About Their Books
Host: Cindy Silberblatt
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.–5:30 p.m.
Dealers
8:45–9:35 a.m. — PANELS
All in the Family:
When Murder Accusations Hit Too Close to Home
Joan Boswell — Moderator
Kay Finch
Kaye George
Kris Neri
Maggie Toussaint
Make It Snappy: Agatha Short Story Nominees
Mary Ann Corrigan — Moderator
Dana Cameron
Sheila Connolly
Barb Goffman
Mary Jane Maffini
Elizabeth Zelvin
Haunted Spots, Paranormal Plots:
When Ghosts Settle in For the Long Haul
Becky Hutchison — Moderator
Juliet Blackwell
E.J. Copperman
Victoria Laurie
Sarah Smith
Happy Holidays?: Festive Days Marred by Murder
Trish Carrico — Moderator
Krista Davis
Sally Goldenbaum
Betty Hechtman
Katherine Hall Page
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Deadly:
Murder Among the Upper Crust
Ellery Adams — Moderator
Rachel Brady
Vicki Doudera
Carolyn Haines
P.J. Parrish
9:45 a.m.
Signings on the Concours Terrace
See Signing Schedule in At-A-Glance
10:15 a.m.–11:05 a.m. — PANELS
Better Together:
Amateur Sleuths Who Work with the Police
James Lincoln Warren — Moderator
Jane Cleland
Paul L. Gaus
B.K. Stevens
Leann Sweeney
Town and Country: How Setting Affects the Story
Valerie O. Patterson — Moderator
Donald Bain
Meredith Cole
Molly MacRae
Renee Paley-Bain
Penny Warner
Shot At, Robbed, Hypothermic and More:
Travails Authors Endure to Get it Right
Toni L.P. Kelner — Moderator
Sandi Ault
JoAnna Carl
Vicki Delany
Beth Groundwater
My Idol: Authors Discuss Other Authors Who’ve
Influenced Their Work
Dina Willner — Moderator
Ellen Crosby
Liz Osborne
Marcia Talley
L C Tyler
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10:15 a.m.–11:05 a.m. — PANELS (cont.)
New Kids on the Block: Agatha First Novel Nominees
Margaret Maron — Moderator
Avery Aames
Laura Alden
Amanda Flower
Sasscer Hill
Alan Orloff
11:15 a.m.
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Hup, Two, Three, Four: Mysteries Affected by War
Jack Bludis — Moderator
Frankie Y. Bailey
Dana Cameron
Michael Dymmoch
Monica Ferris
Charles Todd
Taboo: Authors Who Tackle Difficult Subject Matter
B.K. Stevens — Moderator
Julie Hyzy
Toni L.P. Kelner
Joanna Campbell Slan
Jeri Westerson
Things We Wish We Hadn’t Written:
Authors with Belated Second Thoughts
Joanna Campbell Slan — Moderator
Dorothy Cannell
Margaret Maron
Nancy Pickard
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Elaine Viets
Gumshoes with Gams: Female PIs on the Job
Con Lehane — Moderator
Laura DiSilverio
Sue Grafton
Jess Lourey
Cathi Stoler
12:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:00 p.m.
3:15–4:00 p.m.
Agatha Voting Deadline
1:30 p.m.
Silent Auction Bid Deadline
1:45–2:35 p.m. — PANELS
It’s Not Easy Being Green:
Murder in the Garden and on the Farm
Christina Freeburn — Moderator
Sheila Connolly
Rosemary Harris
Gail Oust
Paige Shelton
Not Your Grandmother’s Sleuth:
Mysteries with Diverse Protagonists
Bernadine Fagan — Moderator
Allan Ansorge
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Greg Lilly
Sandra Parshall
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2:45 p.m.
It’s an Honor: Guest of Honor Carole Nelson Douglas
interviewed by Nancy Pickard
4:10–5:00 p.m. — PANELS
Book ‘Em!: Mysteries Involving the Book World
Doris Ann Norris — Moderator
Ellery Adams
Raymond Buckland
Kate Carlisle
Miranda James
The Truth is Out There:
Agatha Best Nonfiction Nominees
Jacquelynn Morris — Moderator
Deborah Blum
John Curran
Steven Doyle
Katherine Hall Page
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Convention Schedule
4:10–5:00 p.m. — PANELS (cont.)
8:45–9:35 a.m. — PANELS
World Building: Making the Past Come Alive
Sally Fellows — Moderator
Amy Corwin
Andrea Penrose
Elena Santangelo
Elizabeth Zelvin
Psychic Cats, Angels, and Bats:
Books That Put the Ooh in Woo Woo
John Betancourt — Moderator
Kate Collins
Julie Smith
Mary Stanton
Fatal Fashionistas: Do Clothes Make the Murderer?
Peggy Ehrhart — Moderator
Juliet Blackwell
Ellen Byerrum
Jane Cleland
Elaine Viets
Funny Gals, Dark Books:
An Intellectual Look at Humor in Mysteries
Cathy Pickens — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Jess Lourey
Judi McCoy
Lois Winston
5:10 p.m.
6:15 p.m.
Reception
7:00 p.m.
Agatha Awards Banquet
Sunday, May 1
8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Dealers
8:30 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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Welcome to the Dark Side:
Different Approaches to Dark Topics
Bonner Menking — Moderator
Lorraine Bartlett
Debbi Mack
Larry Mild
Rosemary Mild
Roberta Rogow
Here Comes the Corpse: Wedding-Themed Mysteries
Ilene Schneider — Moderator
Rhys Bowen
Mary Jane Clark
Tracy Kiely
Deborah Sharp
This Job’s a Killer:
Some Jobs Are Safe, Others Are Murder
Harriette Sackler — Moderator
Sue Grafton
Mary Jane Maffini
Nora McFarland
Victoria Thompson
Murder With a Little Education on the Side:
Mysteries That Tackle Social Issues
C. Ellett Logan — Moderator
Michael Allan Mallory
Louise Penny
Cynthia Riggs
Leslie Wheeler
9:45 a.m.
10:15–11:05 a.m. — PANELS
Indiana Jones Who?: Adventure Mysteries
Carolyn Mulford — Moderator
Aileen Baron
Robin Hathaway
Maria Hudgins
Sarah Wisseman
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Convention Schedule
10:15–11:05 a.m. — PANELS (cont.)
Tales with Tails: Roles Animals Play in Mysteries
Sandra Parshall — Moderator
Rebecca M. Hale
Linda O. Johnston
Linda Lombardi
Hannah Reed
Behind the Curtain:
An Inside Look at Unusual Settings
John Billheimer — Moderator
Kathleen Ernst
Janice Hamrick
James Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Clare O’Donohue
Tea, Scones and Death:
Murder in the English Countryside
Molly Weston — Moderator
Dorothy Cannell
Jeanne M. Dams
Hannah Dennison
Elizabeth Duncan
Town and Gown: Authors Who Write
Academic-Themed Mysteries and More
Patti Ruocco — Moderator
Donna Andrews
Maggie Barbieri
Joelle Charbonneau
Wendy Lyn Watson
J.L. Wilson
11:15 a.m.
11:45–12:35 p.m. — PANELS
Keeping It Real:
When Real People Become Fictional Characters
Art Taylor — Moderator
Casey Daniels
J.J. Murphy
Daniel Stashower
Nancy Means Wright
Cold Winters, Deadly Nights:
Murder in New England
Erika Chase — Moderator
Sharon Love Cook
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Lea Wait
Heather Webber
Lights, Camera, Murder!:
Murder in the Entertainment Industry
Judi McCoy — Moderator
Peggy Ehrhart
Irene Fleming
Vincent H. O’Neil
Sheila York
Cops Versus Amateurs: Who Makes the Better Sleuth?
Shawn Reilly Simmons — Moderator
Barbara Graham
Barbara Ross
Maggie Sefton
Cheryl Solimini
Grannies with Guns and Trash-Talking Nuns:
Characters Who Defy Stereotypes
Chris Roerden — Moderator
Rhys Bowen
Chris Grabenstein
Parnell Hall
Alice Loweecey
12:45 p.m.
12:45 p.m.
Malice Board of Directors Business Meeting
Open to All Interested Convention Attendees
Until 1:45 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:45-2:30 p.m.
Interview of a Lifetime: Lifetime Achievement
Honoree Sue Grafton interviewed by Julie Smith
2:30 p.m.
Agatha Tea and Closing Ceremonies
John Curran interviewed by Charles Todd
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Attending Authors
Avery Aames
Avery Aames
Lucy Arlington
Avery Aames, author of A Cheese Shop
Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime,
is the pseudonym for Daryl Wood Gerber.
Daryl created the format for the popular
sit-com, “Out of this World” and has won
awards for her screenplays. Daryl also
writes thrillers and short stories. Both Avery
and Daryl like to read, cook and garden.
Avery blogs at Mystery Lovers Kitchen,
for foodies who love mysteries.
Website: www.averyaames.com
Lucy Arlington is an avid reader, cook and
gardener. If she had her way, she’d divide
her time between preparing delectables
in her kitchen, traveling the globe on her
scooter, and sitting in a comfortable chair
with a cup of coffee and a paperback until
her legs cramped. Lucy is devoted to her
husband and children. Lucy’s first cozy mystery, set in a North Carolina literary agency
called A Novel Idea, will debut early 2012.
Website: www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
Lucy Arlington
Ellery Adams
Ellery Adams
Ellery Adams grew up on a beach near the
Long Island Sound. Having spent her adult
life in a series of landlocked towns, she cherishes her memories of open water, violent
storms and the smell of the sea. Ms. Adams
has held many jobs including caterer, retail
clerk, car salesperson, teacher, tutor, and
tech writer, all the while penning poems,
children’s books, and novels. She now
writes full-time from her home in Virginia.
Website: www.elleryadamsmysteries.com
Sandi Ault
Sandi Ault
Laura Alden
Laura Alden
After years of nodding when anyone said
“write what you know,” Laura Alden
published Murder at the PTA. Oddly enough,
she’s never had children or been a PTA
member. But she was a child once and
knows many PTA parents, so she’s thinking
about revising the saying to “write what
you know at least a little something about.”
Laura lives in northern Michigan with her
husband and two very strange cats.
Website: www.lauraalden.com
Frankie Y. Bailey
Frankie Y. Bailey
Allan E. Ansorge
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Raised in a Wisconsin farming community
Allan did not see a library until he got off a
bus to attend high school. There he found
Holmes and Christie. After business ownership he returns to writing, spreading imagination and the humor of his “Bay Harbour”
mysteries to the enjoyment of we who wait
to see, What Happens Next?
Website: www.aeansorge.com
Sandi Ault is author of the WILD Mystery
Series, including Wild Indigo (winner: Mary
Higgins Clark Award), Wild Inferno (WILLA
and Colorado Book Award Finalist and on
Publishers Weekly’s & Library Journal‘s Best
Books of 2008 lists), Wild Sorrow (winner:
WILLA Award and SPUR Finalist) and Wild
Penance (current nominee: Mary Higgins
Clark Award, Watson and Hillerman Sky
Award). Sandi lives high in the Rocky
Mountains with wild companions: her
hunky husband, wolf and wildcat.
Website: www.SandiAult.com
Frankie Y. Bailey is a criminal justice professor in Albany, NY. Her nonfiction books
include African American Mystery Writers: A
Historical and Thematic Study (2008). Forty
Acres and a Soggy Grave (2011), fifth of her
mysteries featuring crime historian Lizzie
Stuart, is set on the Eastern Shore of
Virginia. Frankie has completed the first
book in a near-future police procedural
series. A past EVP of MWA, Frankie is the
2011 VP of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.frankieybailey.com
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Donald Bain
Donald Bain
Lorraine Bartlett
Donald Bain is the author/ghostwriter of
over 100 books, including the best-selling
“Murder, She Wrote” series of 37 mysteries,
and Coffee, Tea or Me? which sold more than
5 million copies worldwide. His autobiography, Murder HE Wrote: A Successful Writer’s
Life, was published in 2006 (Purdue
University Press). He is a member of the
International Association of Media Tie-In
Writers, the Mystery Writers of America,
the National Academy of Television Arts &
Science and the Authors Guild.
Website: www.donaldbain.com
Lorraine Bartlett also masquerades as
L.L. Bartlett and Lorna Barrett, writing
the Victoria Square Mysteries, Jeff Resnick
Mysteries and the New York Times
Bestselling Booktown Mysteries.
Website: www.LorraineBartlett.com
Blog: www.LornaBarrett.blogspot.com
Lorraine Bartlett
John Betancourt
Maggie Barbieri
Maggie Barbieri
Maggie Barbieri is the author of the Murder
101 series and a freelance college textbook
editor. The series features college professor
Alison Bergeron and her New York City
Detective boyfriend, Bobby Crawford. Love,
murder and mystery combine to make this
couple a modern-day Nick and Nora. Third
Degree, the fifth installment in the series,
was published in November of 2010.
Website: www.maggiebarbieri.com
Blog: www.thestilettogang.blogspot.com
John Betancourt
John Billheimer
Colleen Barnett
Colleen Barnett is author of “Mystery
Women” series, which covers 150 years of
mysteries featuring women sleuths in three
separate volumes. The updated Mystery
Women, Volume 3 (1990-2000) was published
by Poisoned Pen Press December, 2010.
Colleen resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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.
John Billheimer
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, including the most recent,
Stonewall Jackson’s Elbow, explore various
Mountain State scams and scandals.
Website: www.johnbillheimer.com
Colleen Barnett
Juliet Blackwell
Aileen G. Baron
Aileen G. Baron
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A retired Near Eastern archaeologist, Aileen
G. Baron is the author of the Lily Sampson
series, set in the Middle East during WW II,
featuring archeologist Lily Sampson. Her
latest books are The Scorpion’s Bite, the third
book in the Lily Sampson series in which
Lily is doing an archaeological survey of
Trans-Jordan for the OSS, and The Gold of
Thrace, a stand-alone, about the intrigue
and deceit in the antiquities trade.
Website: www.aileengbaron.com
Juliet Blackwell
Juliet Blackwell is the nationally bestselling
author of the Witchcraft Mystery series,
which features a misfit witch with a vintage
clothing store in San Francisco’s Haight
Ashbury (Secondhand Spirits, A Cast Off
Coven). Her new Haunted Home Renovation series began with If Walls Could Talk,
also a national bestseller. As Hailey Lind,
Juliet penned the Art Lover’s Mystery
series — including the Agatha-nominated
Feint of Art. Arsenic and Old Paint was
released September, 2010.
Website: www.julietblackwell.net
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Jack Bludis
Deborah Blum
Jack Bludis
Joan Boswell
Jack Bludis has sold sixty novels and novellas and more than 400 stories in various
genres using many pseudonyms. His best
works bear his own name, including the
Shamus-nominated Shadow of the Dahlia,
The Big Switch, The Deal Killer and the
recently-released The Last Sellout. His story
“Munchies” was nominated for both the
Shamus and the Anthony Awards. A
volume of his stories is due out shortly.
Joan Boswell co-edited four of the seven
Ladies’ Killing Circle anthologies. Her Hollis
Grant mysteries are Cut Off His Tale, Cut to the
Quick, Cut and Run and Cut to the Bone, scheduled for the fall of 2011. In 2000 she won
the $10,000 Toronto Star‘s short story contest. Joan lives in Toronto where three flatcoated retrievers run her life.
Website: joanboswell.ca
Blog: mysterymavencdn.blogspot.com
Joan Boswell
Deborah Blum
Rhys Bowen
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-Prize winning
science writer and author of five books,
including Agatha nominee The Poisoner’s
Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic
Medicine in Jazz Age New York, a New York
Times paperback bestseller. She is a past
president of the National Association of
Science Writers (U.S.) and sits on the World
Federation of Science Journalists board. She
lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with husband,
sons, rescued Labrador, two ferrets and a
very energetic pet mouse.
Website: http://deborahblum.com
Blog: blogs.plos.org/speakeasy science
Rhys Bowen is a transplanted Brit who
divides her time between California and
Arizona. She currently writes two mystery
series: the Agatha-award winning Molly
Murphy mysteries set in 1900s New York
and the lighter, bestselling Royal Spyness
mysteries, featuring a minor royal in 1930s
Britain. Rhys’s work has been nominated for
every major mystery award. She had great
fun as toastmaster at last year’s Malice.
Website: www.rhysbowen.com
Blog: www.rhysbowen.blogspot.com
Rhys Bowen
Rachel Brady
Janet Bolin
Janet Bolin
Janet Bolin writes the Threadville Mystery
series for Berkley Prime Crime. In Dire
Threads, Willow Vanderling’s machine
embroidery boutique is the newest shop in
Threadville, a dream village of stores for
crafty people, fabriholics and textile artists.
But a bullying politician picks a fight with
Willow and ends up dead in her yard... Like
Willow, Janet plays with machine embroidery and a pair of rescued dogs on the
shores of Lake Erie.
Website: www.ThreadvilleMysteries.com
Blog: www.KillerCharacters.com
Rachel Brady
Sandra Brannan
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Rachel lives in Houston, Texas, where she
works as an engineer at NASA. Her interests include health and fitness, acoustic
guitar and books of all kinds. Final Approach
and Dead Lift are the first installments in
her Emily Locke mystery series, which
bases each story in a different sports
community.
Website: www.rachelbrady.net
Blog: writeitanyway.blogspot.com
In The Belly of Jonah is September 2010
ABA’s Indie Next Pick Notable. Author
Sandra Brannan, much like her character
Liv Bergen, has spent her career in the
mining business. Her mystery thriller series
is inspired by real-life experiences that
include 25 years spent building her career
from day-laborer in the mining company
her grandfather founded to a top executive
in the family business. Lot’s Return to Sodom,
second in Liv Bergen series, in stores 6/1/11.
Website: www.sandrabrannan.com
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Duffy Brown
Duffy Brown
Dana Cameron
Duffy Brown writes for Berkley Prime
Crime. Her new series is titled Consignment:
Murder. Aka Dianne Castell she is a USA
Today Bestseller, won the Romantic Times
Reviewers Choice Award, HOLT-Medallion
Award 2010, been on the cover of Romantic
Times Magazine, included in Rhapsody
and Doubleday Book Clubs, and made the
Waldenbooks Bestseller list. Duffy lives in
Cincinnati with her two cats and loves killing
people off for fun and profit.
Website: DuffyBrown@DuffyBrown.com
Dana Cameron’s colonial noir short story,
“Femme Sole,” was nominated for the
Agatha, Edgar, Anthony and Macavity
awards. Two more Anna Hoyt stories will
appear in June. Her second Fangborn story,
“Swing Shift,” appears in Crimes by Moonlight
(and has been nominated for a 2010
Agatha!); a third, “Love Knot,” will be published in August. While dividing her time
between the dark colonial past and the
hopeful lycanthropic present, Dana lives in
Massachusetts, with her husband and two
ferocious tabbies.
Website: www.danacameron.com
Dana Cameron
Raymond Buckland
Raymond
Buckland
Raymond Buckland is the author of seven
novels and almost sixty nonfiction books,
translated into seventeen foreign languages.
His first book was published in 1969. His
latest novel is Golden Illuminati, a standalone Victorian occult mystery-thriller. He is
presently working on a new Victorian cozy
series, The Penny Court Enquirers. An ex-Brit,
he says that he loves the Victorian era and
finds the research side of his writing to be
fascinating.
Website: www.raybuckland.com
Dorothy Cannell
Dorothy Cannell
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.
Ellen Byerrum
Ellen Byerrum
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Author of the Lacey Smithsonian Crime of
Fashion Mysteries, Ellen Byerrum is happy
that she is back on the publishing scene
with Shot Through Velvet, the latest book in
the series. Her other books include Armed
and Glamorous, Grave Apparel, Raiders of the
Lost Corset, Hostile Makeover, Designer Knockoff
and Killer Hair. Ellen has experience as a
reporter, a playwright, and she holds a
Virginia PI registration.
Website: www.ellenbyerrum.com
Karen Cantwell
Karen Cantwell
Karen Cantwell’s short story “The
Recollections of Rosabelle Raines” was published in the mystery anthology Chesapeake
Crimes: They Had it Comin’ (Wildside Press,
2010). Her first novel, Take the Monkeys and
Run, is a comedy-mystery, featuring soccermom/female sleuth Barbara Marr and is
available on Kindle and in paperback. She
is currently working on her second Barbara
Marr Mystery novel, Citizen Insane, as well
as co-authoring a chick-lit novel with a
vampire twist called Foxy’s Tale.
Website: www.karencantwell.com
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Attending Authors
JoAnna Carl
JoAnna Carl
Erika Chase
JoAnna Carl writes the Chocoholic mysteries. In these a young woman who is business
manager for her aunt’s chocolate company
solves mysteries in a Lake Michigan resort
community. The lighthearted traditional
mysteries also feature lore, or information
about history, science and trivia of
Chocolate. Carl is a pseudonym for Eve K.
Sandstrom, who earlier published six
mysteries under her own name. She has
attended Malice Domestic for twenty years.
A former mystery bookstore owner in
Ottawa, Canada, Linda Wiken will have
her first mystery novel for sale in 2012
from Berkley Prime Crime, writing as Erika
Chase. Her short stories have been published in the seven Ladies’ Killing Circle
anthologies and mystery magazines, and
she’s been short-listed for an Arthur Ellis
Award from Crime Writers of Canada.
Website: www.erikachase.com
Erika Chase
Mary Jane Clark
Kate Carlisle
Kate Carlisle
New York Times bestselling author Kate
Carlisle worked in television production for
many years before turning to writing. A
lifelong fascination with the art and craft of
bookbinding led her to write the Bibliophile
Mysteries, featuring Brooklyn Wainwright,
whose bookbinding and restoration skills
invariably uncover old secrets, treachery
and murder. Kate also writes romance for
Harlequin Desire.
Website: katecarlisle.com
Blog: romancebandits.blogspot.com
Mary Jane Clark
Mary Jane Clark’s books have appeared on
the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers
Weekly and other national bestseller lists.
They have been published in 23 languages.
“A literary magician,” the Associated Press
says. “Her novels are like Agatha Christie’s
whodunits...She is one of the most talented
story tellers around.” After writing 12 KEY
News media thrillers, To Have and to Kill is
Mary Jane’s first book in her new Wedding
Cake Mystery series.
Website: www.maryjaneclark.com
Jane K. Cleland
Trish Carrico
Trish Carrico
Trish Carrico has been fascinated by words
since she learned to read at age three. As a
girl, she went from rewriting the endings of
her favorite books to reviewing books for
her high school paper. Later on, after a stint
in the theater and public service, she was
an editor and wrote freelance articles for
the Washington Post. Her story, “Death near
the Rim of Heaven,” appeared in Chesapeake
Crimes: They Had It Comin’.
Joelle Charbonneau
Joelle
Charbonneau
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Jane K. Cleland
Jane K. Cleland’s multiple award-nominated
Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series [St.
Martin’s Minotaur] has been reviewed as
an Antiques Roadshow for mystery fans.
“Josie” stories have also appeared in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Jane chairs the
Wolfe Pack’s literary awards, which include
the Nero Award and the Black Orchid
Novella Award, granted in partnership with
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. She
is a past chapter president of the Mystery
Writers of America/New York Chapter.
Website: www.janecleland.net
Joelle Charbonneau is a storyteller at heart.
She’s performed in a variety of operas, musical theatre and children’s theatre productions
across Chicago. She now uses that theatrical
background to create characters for her mysteries. Joelle’s first Rebecca Robbins mystery,
Skating Around the Law (St. Martin’s/
Minotaur), which Kirkus Reviews called
“Funny and sexy,” is on shelves now. The
second book in the series, Skating Over the
Line, will be released September 27th.
Website: www.joellecharbonneau.net.
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Attending Authors
Jeffrey Cohen
Jeffrey Cohen
Sheila Connolly
Jeffrey Cohen writes the Haunted
Guesthouse mystery series (An Uninvited
Ghost, Night of the Living Deed) under the
name E.J. Copperman. As himself, he
writes the Double Feature Mystery series
(Some Like It Hot-Buttered, A Night at the
Operation) and the Aaron Tucker Mystery
series (For Whom the Minivan Rolls, As Dog Is
My Witness). He lives in New Jersey and
considers himself relatively normal.
But then, it’s all relative, isn’t it?
Website: www.ejcopperman.com
Blog: heydeadguy.typepad.com/heydeadguy/
Sheila Connolly, former art historian,
investment banker, political staffer, genealogy consultant, and non-profit fundraiser,
gave them all up to become a full-time
mystery writer. Her first book, Through a
Glass, Deadly (written as Sarah Atwell), was
an Agatha nominee for Best First Novel.
Currently she writes the Orchard Mystery
series and the Museum Mystery series for
Berkley Prime Crime, and she is also planning another series set in Ireland.
Website: www.sheilaconnolly.com
Sheila Connolly
Sharon Love Cook
Meredith Cole
Meredith Cole
Meredith Cole started her career as a screenwriter and filmmaker. She was the winner
of the St. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic
competition. Her first book Posed for Murder
(2009) was nominated for an Agatha Award
for Best First Mystery Novel. Her second
book Dead in the Water (2010) continues
the adventures of photographer Lydia
McKenzie in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She
teaches writing at the University of Virginia.
Website: www.culturecurrent.com/cole
Blog: 7criminalminds.blogspot.com=
Sharon Love Cook’s mystery novel, A
Nose for Hanky Panky, was released by
Mainly Murder Press. An art school and
Bennington College grad, Cook illustrated
the cover. The book’s setting, Granite Cove,
a “sleepy fishing village,” was inspired by
Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she grew
up and worked at a fishery. “I'd rather
Sharon Love Cook write about fish than pack it.” Cook, a
cartoonist, also writes a humor column
for a local newspaper.
Website: www.sharonlovecook.com
Mary Ann Corrigan
Kate Collins
Kate Collins
Kate Collins is the author of the popular
Flower Shop Mysteries. Her books have
made the New York Times Bestseller
extended list, Barnes & Noble mass market
mystery bestsellers lists, the Independent
Booksellers lists, and are available in large
print editions in the U.S. and the UK. Kate’s
12th book in the series, To Catch a Leaf, will
be a November, 2011, release.
Website: www.katecollinsbooks.com
Mary Ann (Maya) Corrigan has taught writing,
drama, and detective fiction at Georgetown
University and other colleges. Her essays on
drama have appeared in five anthologies. Her
latest mystery story, “Delicious Death,” was
published in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It
Comin’ (2010).
Mary Ann Corrigan
Amy Corwin
Amy Corwin
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Award-winning author, Amy Corwin, published her first historical mystery, I Bid One
American, in 2008 and has since published
two more historical mysteries featuring the
Archer family. In 2012, Amy’s first cozy
contemporary mystery, Whacked, will be
released. She writes for The Wild Rose Press
and Five Star/Gale. “This first novel by Ms.
Corwin revealed her abilities to grip the
reader’s attention ...” — The Romance Studio.
Website: www.amycorwin.com
Blog: amycorwin.blogspot.com
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Attending Authors
Carla Coupe
Carla Coupe
Jeanne M. Dams
Carla Coupe is a member of both Sisters in
Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Two
of her short stories — “Rear View Murder”
in Chesapeake Crimes II and “Dangerous
Crossing” in Chesapeake Crimes 3 — were
nominated for Agatha Christie Awards. Her
Sherlock Holmes pastiches, “The Adventure
of the Elusive Emeralds” and “The
Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes” appear
in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine.
Jeanne writes “cheerful mysteries” in two
series. Her protagonist Dorothy Martin is
a sixtyish American, living and sleuthing
in contemporary England. (The first
“Dorothy” book won the 1995 Agatha.)
Hilda Johansson, by contrast, is a young
Swedish immigrant in South Bend,
Indiana in the early 1900s, housemaid to
the wealthy Studebaker family. The new
Dorothy, A Dark and Stormy Night, is just
out, and a new Hilda, Murder in Burnt
Orange, is scheduled for fall.
Jeanne M. Dams
Ellen Crosby
Ellen Crosby
John Curran
Ellen Crosby is the author of a series of
six mysteries set in Virginia wine country,
including her most recent novel The
Sauvignon Secret (Scribner, August 2011).
She has also written Moscow Nights, a
standalone novel published in the U.K.
Previously she worked as a freelance
reporter for The Washington Post, Moscow
correspondent for ABC News Radio and
an economist at the U.S. Senate. Crosby
lives in Virginia with her family.
Website: www.ellencrosby.com and
Facebook and Twitter.
Casey Daniels
Casey Daniels
Casey Daniels once applied for a job as a
cemetery tour guide. She didn’t get it, but
she did get the idea for Pepper Martin, her
tour guide/detective heroine who investigates for the ghostly residents of her cemetery. The seventh book in the series, A Hard
Day’s Fright, was published in April. In addition, writing as Kylie Logan, she writes the
new Button Box Mystery series starting this
September with Button Holed.
Website: www.caseydaniels.com
John Curran
Krista Davis
John Curran is the Edgar-nominated author
of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and the
forthcoming (September 2011) Agatha
Christie’s Notebooks and Beyond. For many
years he edited the Agatha Christie
Newsletter and acted as consultant to the
National Trust during the renovation of
Christie’s former home, Greenway House in
Devon. A life-long crime-fiction enthusiast,
he is currently writing a PhD thesis on
Christie and The Golden Age of Detection at
Trinity College, Dublin where he lives.
Website: www.johncurran.info
Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva
mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime.
Her first novel, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme,
was nominated for an Agatha. A life-long
mystery fan, Krista feels incredibly lucky to
be writing mysteries and has fun developing and tasting new recipes. She blames
her need to diet on her cooking sleuth,
Sophie, and plans to retaliate by forcing
Sophie to join her.
Website: divamysteries.com
Blog: mysteryloverskitchen.com
Krista Davis
Barbara D’Amato
Barbara D’Amato
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Barbara D’Amato has won the Mary
Higgins Clark Award, the Anthony, the
Agatha, the Macavity, the Carl Sandburg
Award for Fiction and several Lovies. She
is a past president of Mystery Writers
of America and of Sisters in Crime
International. Her new book is Other Eyes
(Forge 2011).
Website: www.barbaradamato.com
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Attending Authors
Vicki Delany
Vicki Delany
Vicki Doudera
Vicki Delany writes the Constable Molly
Smith books, a traditional village/police procedural series set in the mountains of British
Columbia (In the Shadow of the Glacier,
Negative Image), a light-hearted historical
series (Gold Digger, Gold Fever) set in the raucous heyday of the Klondike Gold Rush, as
well as standalone novels of psychological
suspense (Scare the Light Away). Vicki lives in
rural Prince Edward County, Ontario,
where she rarely wears a watch.
Website: www.vickidelany.com
Acclaimed author Vicki Doudera writes
page-turners about a red-hot Realtor making multimillion dollar deals while solving
bloody crimes. First in the Darby Farr
Mystery Series is A House to Die For, chosen
by Suspense Magazine as a top read of 2010;
Killer Listing debuts in April. Vicki belongs
to MWA, serves on the board of SinC New
England, and is President of her local
Habitat for Humanity, a cause she supports
through her book sales.
Website: www.vickidoudera.com
Vicki Doudera
Hannah Dennison
Born in England, Hannah moved to
California to pursue a screenwriting career.
Along the road to publication she has served
as an obituary reporter, antique dealer, private jet flight attendant and Hollywood story
analyst. Her fourth book in the Vicky
Hill Mysteries, Thieves! (Berkley Prime
Crime/Penguin USA), was published in
Hannah Dennison January 2011. Hannah teaches mystery writing at UCLA in Los Angeles and still works
full time for a west coast advertising agency.
Website: www.hannahdennison.com
Steven Doyle
Steven Doyle
Steven Doyle has been a Sherlockian since
the age of 14, when his parents gave him a
copy of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for
Christmas. He is a member of The Baker
Street Irregulars, as well as co-founder of
Wessex Press/Gasogene Books, the world’s
premier Sherlockian publishing house.
Currently, he is the publisher of The Baker
Street Journal. Sherlock Holmes for Dummies is
his fifth book about The Great Detective.
Website:
www.facebook.com/pages/SherlockHolmes-for-Dummies/129581877077394
Laura DiSilverio
Laura DiSilverio
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Laura DiSilverio spent 20 years as an Air
Force intelligence officer before retiring to
parent and write full time. With the release
of Swift Justice and a mall cop series in the
works, the writing’s going great. The jury’s
still out on the parenting — check back in,
oh, 30 years. She resides in Colorado with
her hubby, tweenage daughters and dog,
and is currently working on the second
Charlie Swift book.
Website: www.lauradisilverio.com
Elizabeth Duncan
Elizabeth Duncan
Elizabeth J. Duncan’s first book, The Cold
Light of Mourning, won the St. Martin’s/
Malice Domestic Award for best traditional
mystery. It was nominated for an Agatha
Award (US) and an Arthur Ellis Award
(Canada). Her second novel, A Brush with
Death, continues the Penny Brannigan traditional mystery series. Elizabeth lives in
Toronto with her dog, Dolly, and spends
several weeks each year in North Wales
where the books are set.
Website: elizabethjduncan.com
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Attending Authors
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Bernadine Fagan
Kaitlyn Dunnett is the author of the Liss
MacCrimmon Scottish-American Heritage
Mysteries. The latest entry is The Corpse Wore
Tartan (2010). Kaitlyn lives on a Christmas
tree farm in Maine with her husband and
three cats. Under her real name, Kathy
Lynn Emerson, she is the Agatha awardwinning author of How to Write Killer
Historical Mysteries and the Face Down Series
featuring 16th century herbalist and sleuth,
Susanna Appleton.
Website: KaitlynDunnett.com
Website: www.KathyLynnEmerson.com
Bernadine Fagan is the author of Murder by
the Old Maine Stream, a recently published
e-book. She particularly enjoys writing the
humorous sections of her books and has
been known to laugh out loud (loudly)
while in front of her computer. She has
written several short stories for Woman’s
World and other magazines, is vice-president
of the Long Island chapter of Sisters in
Crime, and is a former science teacher.
Website: www.bernadinefagan.com
Bernadine Fagan
Monica Ferris
Peggy Ehrhart
Peggy Ehrhart
Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor
who writes mysteries and plays blues guitar.
As Margaret J. Ehrhart, she has published
in the field of medieval literature. She is a
longtime member of Mystery Writers of
America and Sisters in Crime. As a guitar
player, she performs with the Still Standing
band. She is the author of the Maxx
Maxwell blues mysteries, Sweet Man Is
Gone and Got No Friend Anyhow (Five
Star/Gale/Cengage).
Website: www.PeggyEhrhart.com
Monica Ferris
Kay Finch
Kathleen Ernst
Kathleen Ernst
Kathleen Ernst’s latest project taps into the
decade she spent as a curator at a large
historic site. Old World Murder is the first
Chloe Ellefson/Historic Sites mystery, and
The Heirloom Murders will be published in
September. Kathleen’s fiction for young
readers includes eight historical mysteries.
Honors for her work include Agatha and
Edgar nominations. Kathleen lives and
writes in Wisconsin, but takes great
pleasure in research trips to new locales!
Website: www.kathleenernst.com
Kay Finch
Kay Finch doesn’t investigate murders in
real life, but in her paralegal work on highdollar divorces she encounters many
motives for murder. Her family law experience inspired the novels Final Decree and
Final Cut in the Corie McKenna PI series.
The first of her Klutter Killer series from
Avalon Books, Relative Chaos, features professional organizer Poppy Cartwright.
Website: www.kayfinch.com
Irene Fleming
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Mary Monica sold her first short story to
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine in 1983.
Her first novel, Murder at the War, appeared
from St. Martin’s Press in 1987. In 1998,
writing as Monica Ferris, she began writing
a new series for Berkley featuring a needleworking sleuth. The first was called Crewel
World, the fourteenth, Buttons and Bones.
She has finished Threadbare, and is thinking
about And Then You Dye.
Website:www.Monica-Ferris.com
Irene Fleming has worked as a store clerk,
a computer programmer, a technical writer
and a museum docent. As Kate Gallison,
she has published three private eye novels
and five traditional mysteries. As Irene
Fleming, she writes a series about silent
movie production in the early twentieth
century. The Edge of Ruin was the first. The
second one, The Brink of Fame, comes out in
August. She is descended from a convicted
Salem witch.
Website: www.irenefleming.com
Blog: kategallison.blogspot.com
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Attending Authors
Amanda Flower
Amanda Flower
Barb Goffman
Maid of Murder (June 2010) is Amanda
Flower’s debut novel and the first in a series
featuring librarian-sleuth India Hayes. In
the novel, India juggles her quirky family,
an eccentric neighbor, warring cats and
murder. Kirkus Reviews called the mystery,
“The first bud in a new series that fans
of Donna Andrews’s lighthearted Meg
Langslow mysteries will be eager to see
bloom.” Like her protagonist, Amanda is a
librarian for a small college near Cleveland.
Website: www.amandaflower.com
Barb Goffman is thrilled to have received
her third Agatha Award nomination this
year for her short story “Volunteer of the
Year,” which was published in Chesapeake
Crimes: They Had It Comin’. Barb solely writes
short mystery fiction and had four new
short stories published in 2010. She’s a
member of the national board of Sisters
in Crime, a past president of the SinC
Chesapeake Chapter, and is program chair
of Malice Domestic.
Website: www.barbgoffman.com
Barb Goffman
Christina Freeburn
Christina Freeburn
Christina Freeburn’s romantic suspense
series that features a skip-tracing business
that specializes in relocating abused and
stalked women will be published by Desert
Breeze Publishing. The first book, Lost Then
Found, will be released November 2011. The
second, Led Astray, will come out May 2012
with three other books scheduled to follow.
Websites: www.chrisfreeburn.com
www.theselfrescueprincess.wordpress.com
Sally Goldenbaum
Sally Goldenbaum is the author of 35 published novels — nine of those mysteries. The
fifth book in the Seaside Knitting Mystery
series, The Wedding Shawl, will be published
this May. In addition to writing and
researching the most comfortable coffee
shops with the best ambiance in Kansas
City, Sally hikes, bikes, and — along with
Sally Goldenbaum her husband — works diligently at spoiling
four amazing grandbabies.
Website: www.sallygoldenbaum.com
Paul L. Gaus
Paul L. Gaus
Paul L. Gaus is the author of six novels
in The Amish-Country Mysteries series,
published by Plume (a division of Penguin
Group USA). He lives with his wife
Madonna in Wooster, Ohio, just a few miles
north of Holmes County, where the world’s
largest settlement of Amish and Mennonite
people is found. Paul lectures widely about
the Amish people he has met and about
the lifestyles, culture and religion of this
remarkable community of Christian pacifists.
Website: www.plgaus.com
Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein’s Haunted Mystery series
for middle grades readers (The Crossroads,
The Hanging Hill, The Smoky Corridor) have
won Agatha and Anthony Awards. Chris’s
new middle grades caper series, Riley Mack
and the Other Known Troublemakers will debut
in 2012 from HarperCollins. Chris also
writes the Anthony award-winning John
Ceepak Jersey Shore mysteries for adults.
His dog Fred has better credits: Fred starred
on Broadway in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Website: www.ChrisGrabenstein.com
Kaye George
Kaye George
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Kaye George, an Agatha nominated short
story writer, is the author of Choke, Mainly
Murder Press, May 2011, as well as
A Patchwork of Stories, a collection of her
previously published stories. She reviews
for “Suspense Magazine,” and writes for
several newsletters and blogs. She, her
husband and a cat named Agamemnon
live together in Texas, near Austin.
Website: KayeGeorge.com
Blog: TravelsWithKaye.blogspot.com
Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham began making up stories
in the third grade instead of learning math.
Always a “book nut” and later a “quilting
nut” she combines the two sides of her personality in her Quilted Mystery series. The
third book in the series, Murder by Music:
The Wedding Quilt releases October 2011.
Website: www.bgmysteries.com
Barbara Graham
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Attending Authors
Beth Groundwater
Beth Groundwater
Janice Hamrick
Beth Groundwater writes the Claire Hanover
gift basket designer mystery series (A Real
Basket Case, a 2007 Best First Novel Agatha
Award finalist, and To Hell in a Handbasket,
2009) and the Rocky Mountain Outdoor
Adventures mystery series starring whitewater
river ranger Mandy Tanner. The first, Deadly
Currents, was just released in March, 2011.
Beth lives in Colorado and enjoys its many
outdoor activities, including skiing and whitewater rafting, and loves talking to book clubs.
Website: www.bethgroundwater.com
Blog: www.bethgroundwater.blogspot.com
Janice Hamrick is the winner of the 2010
Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur
Books First Crime Novel competition for
Death on Tour, the first novel in a series
starring Texas high school history teacher
Jocelyn Shore. Born in Oklahoma and
raised in Kansas, Janice now lives in Austin,
Texas, with her two daughters. When she is
not writing, she spends her time traveling,
planning to travel, or plotting murders
(usually fictional).
Website: www.janicehamrick.com
Janice Hamrick
Rosemary Harris
Carolyn Haines
Carolyn Haines
Rebecca M. Hale
The 2010 recipient of the Harper Lee Award
for Distinguished Writing, Carolyn Haines
is the author of the Sarah Booth Delaney
Mississippi Delta mysteries. The latest book
in the series, Bone Appetit, is the 10th featuring the characters of Zinnia, Mississippi. A
former journalist and photographer, Haines
currently teaches fiction writing at the
University of South Alabama. She is also an
advocate for animal rights. She lives on a
farm with 21 critters.
Website: www.carolynhaines.com
Rebecca M. Hale
Robin Hathaway
Rebecca M. Hale is the author of the San
Francisco based Cats and Curios mystery
series, featuring the New York Times
Bestseller, How to Wash a Cat. The next
installment, How to Moon a Cat, will be out
this summer. She is also working on a mystery novel set in the US Virgin Islands called
The Water Taxi. Rebecca and her cats Rupert
and Isabella live in Western Colorado.
Website: www.HowtoWashaCat.com
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
Parnell Hall
Parnell Hall is the author of the Puzzle Lady
crossword puzzle mysteries, the Stanley
Hastings private eye novels, and the Steve
Winslow courtroom dramas. His music
video, Signing in the Waldenbooks, filmed last
year at Malice, has had over 50,000 hits on
YouTube.
Parnell Hall
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Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris writes the Agatha-nominated Dirty Business books featuring amateur sleuth Paula Holliday. Her newest
release is Slugfest, the story of horticultural
sabotage, homicide and something called
“the Javits Curse” at a legendary northeast
flower show. Her latest paperback, Dead
Head, was given four stars by RT Magazine
and was called “a perfect summer read” by
NPR (CT.) She lives in NY and CT with her
husband and a sloppy golden retriever
named Max.
Website: www.rosemaryharris.com
Robin Hathaway
Betty Hechtman
Betty Hechtman is the author of the
best-selling Berkley Prime Crime crochet
mystery series featuring Molly Pink and the
Tarzana Hookers. She lives in Southern
California with her family and ever growing
stash of yarn.
Website: www.BettyHechtman.com
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Attending Authors
Betty Hechtman
Sasscer Hill
Sara Sue
Hoklotubbe
Sasscer Hill
Coco Ilhe
Sasscer Hill lives on a Maryland farm and
has bred racehorses for many years. A
winner of amateur steeplechase events, she
has galloped her horses on the farm and
trained them into the winner’s circle. She
is the author of several mysteries in the
Chesapeake Crimes anthology series, and her
articles have appeared in numerous magazines. Full Mortality is her first novel. Blog:
sasscerhill.blogspot.com
Blog: fullmortality.blogspot.com
Coco Ihle, a product of foster care and
adoption, spent over fifty years searching
for her sister, whom she found in 1994. She
discovered Scottish roots and plays harp and
bagpipes, along with piano and cello. Her
debut mystery, She Had to Know, premièred in
April 2011. Coco is a member of MWA; SinC;
FWA; The Alma Society, for family searches;
the DorothyL Digest and the Scottish St.
Andrew’s Society.
Website: www.cocoihle.com
Coco Ilhe
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Miranda James
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe is a Cherokee citizen
who loves to transport readers into modern-day Cherokee life by using her childhood home in Oklahoma as the setting for
her mystery novels. Her latest mystery,
The American Café, is the second in the Sadie
Walela Mystery Series. Her first mystery,
Deception on All Accounts, garnered Sara the
“Writer of the Year” award by Wordcraft
Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
Sara and her husband live in Colorado.
Website: www.hoklotubbe.com
Dean James is a multi-award-winning author
of over twenty books of mystery fiction and
nonfiction. He has written as Jimmie Ruth
Evans and Honor Hartman. Writing as
Miranda James, he is the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Past Due (Berkley
Prime Crime 2010) and Classified as Murder
(Berkley Prime Crime 2011). This new series
features widowed librarian Charlie Harris
and his Maine coon cat, Diesel.
Website: www.catinthestacks.com
Miranda James
Linda O. Johnston
Maria Hudgins
Maria Hudgins
Maria Hudgins writes the Dotsy Lamb Travel
Mysteries. Book three, Death on the Aegean
Queen, was published by Five Star/Cengage
in 2010. Death of an Obnoxious Tourist and
Death of a Lovable Geek also starred sixtysomething Dotsy and best friend, Lettie
Osgood. Setting each story in a different
country, Maria first visits the place and looks
for good places to commit a murder. Her last
trip was to Istanbul, Turkey, the setting for
her current work-in-progress.
Website: www.mariahudgins.com
Linda O. Johnston’s first published fiction, in
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, won the Robert
L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery
Short Story of the year. Linda now writes
romance and mystery novels. Linda’s new Pet
Rescue Mysteries, a spinoff from her Kendra
Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter series for Berkley Prime
Crime, features Lauren Vancouver, a deterLinda O. Johnston mined pet rescuer who runs a no-kill shelter.
In this cozy series, “no-kill” refers to animals,
not people.
Website: www.LindaOJohnston.com
Tammy Kaehler
Julie Hyzy
Anthony and Barry Award winning author
Julie Hyzy writes both the White House
Chef Mystery series and the Manor House
Mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime.
She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and three daughters. Julie is a regular
contributor at MysteryLoversKitchen.com
Tammy Kaehler
Julie Hyzy
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Before trying her hand at fiction, Tammy
Kaehler established a career writing marketing
materials, feature articles, executive speeches,
and technical documentation. A fateful stint in
corporate hospitality introduced her to the world
of automobile racing, which inspired the first
Kate Reilly racing mystery. Tammy works as a
technical writer in the Los Angeles area, where
she lives with her husband and many cars.
Website: www.tammykaehler.com
Blog: tammykaehler.blogspot.com
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Attending Authors
schuyler kaufman
In 2001, schuyler kaufman launched her
murder mystery Dear Mouse ... Since then,
she’s been working on stories of a historical
figure in 17th-century London’s criminal
underworld. Moll Cutpurse (1586-1659) had
both booted feet in the criminal world, and
both trousered buttocks on an ad-hoc magistrate’s seat during that tumultuous, underschuyler kaufman researched period. Because eating, rent, and
printers demand attention, schuyler edits fiction for Ingalls Publishing Group and international biblical interpretation scholarship for
Appalachian State University.
Victoria Laurie
Victoria Laurie
Professional Psychic, Victoria Laurie has
been predicting the future and talking to
the dead for most of her life. In 2003 she
decided to borrow from her rather unusual
career and began writing the Psychic Eye
Mysteries and Ghost Hunter Mysteries. In
2008 she also started a paranormal series
aimed at middle-grade children, Oracles of
Delphi Keep. Her next book featuring police
psychic Abby Cooper, Vision Impossible, will
be released in hardcover July 2011.
Website: www.victorialaurie.com
Jim Lavene
Toni L.P. Kelner
Toni L.P. Kelner
Toni L.P. Kelner doesn’t have time to get
bored. She writes the “Where are they
now?” mysteries featuring Boston-based
freelance entertainment reporter Tilda
Harper (the latest is Blast From the Past),
co-edits urban fantasy anthologies with
Charlaine Harris (their most recent is the
NYT bestseller Death’s Excellent Vacation), and
sneaks in short stories (about PIs, zombies,
and demonic phone calls.) Kelner lives
north of Boston with author/husband
Stephen P. Kelner, two daughters, and
two guinea pigs.
Website: www.tonilpkelner.com
Jim Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Tracy Kiely
Tracy Kiely
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Tracy Kiely was raised in Northern Virginia,
an only child born to two only children.
Family reunions were held in a broom
closet. A die-hard fan of both Jane Austen
and Agatha Christie, she decided to morph
the two into a humorous update of the
classic English cozy. The results so far are
Murder at Longbourn and Murder on the
Bride’s Side.
Website: www.tracykielymysteries.com
Joyce and Jim Lavene are a married writing
couple who live in North Carolina with
their family. They get help from their cat,
Quincy, and their big puppy, Rudi, who
they rescued in 2010. They have been writing together since 1994 and published since
1999. Last year marked their 52nd book in
print. They enjoy writing mysteries but are
at home with fantasy, romance and nonfiction too. The couple both work for their
small, hometown newspaper, The Weekly
Post. They are active in Sisters-in-Crime and
Mystery Writers of America.
Joyce Lavene
Joyce and Jim Lavene are a married writing
couple who live in North Carolina with
their family. They get help from their cat,
Quincy, and their big puppy, Rudi, who
they rescued in 2010. They have been writing together since 1994 and published since
1999. Last year marked their 52nd book in
print. They enjoy writing mysteries but are
at home with fantasy, romance and nonfiction too. The couple both work for their
small, hometown newspaper, The Weekly
Post. They are active in Sisters-in-Crime and
Mystery Writers of America.
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Attending Authors
Con Lehane
Con Lehane
C. Ellett Logan
Con Lehane has published three mysteries
featuring New York City bartender Brian
McNulty. You can read reviews of them at
www.conlehane.com/reviews.html. He has
recently completed a new mystery novel,
featuring New York City librarian Raymond
Ambler (who happens to be a friend of the
aforementioned McNulty), that he hopes is
the beginning of a new series. Over the
years, he has worked as a college professor,
a union organizer, a labor journalist, and
bartender.
C. Ellett Logan spent the first half of her
life in the Deep South, an experience that
informs her fiction settings, and troubles
her characters, Southern-Gothic-style.
Currently Vice President of the Chesapeake
Chapter of Sisters in Crime in Northern
Virginia, her stories “Backseat” and
“Anchors Away” appear in the Chesapeake
Crimes anthology series. Her novel, Miasma,
is set in Georgia’s low country.
Website: www.celogan.com
C. Ellett Logan
Linda Lombardi
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.
Linda Lombardi
Audrey Liebross
Greg Lilly
Greg Lilly
Greg Lilly writes the Derek Mason Mystery
series. The newest release Scalping the Red
Rocks (Cherokee McGhee, July 2010) is
nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.
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 workshop presenter, freelance writer,
magazine editor, and publishing house
representative. He writes and lives in the
Tidewater area of Virginia.
Website: www.GregLilly.com
Jess Lourey
Jess Lourey
Clyde Linsley
Clyde Linsley is the author of three historical mysteries set in pre-Civil War America,
featuring Josiah Beede, a New England
lawyer and farmer who was a “hero” of
the Battle of New Orleans. Linsley and his
wife live in the Virginia suburbs of
Washington, D.C.
Jess Lourey is the author of the Booklist starreviewed Murder-by-Month comic caper
mysteries. Octoberfest, the sixth in the series,
hits bookshelves May 2011. Jess is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters
in Crime, the Loft, and a founding faculty
member of the Mystery Writers of
America’s MWA University. She lives in
Minnesota, where she is a professor of
writing and sociology.
Website: www.jesslourey.com
Alice Loweecey
Clyde Linsley
Alice Loweecey
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As a child Linda Lombardi played with
a basketful of plastic animals instead of
human dolls. Later she left a tenured professorship for a zookeeping job and wrote a
pets column for the Associated Press. Her
mystery The Sloth’s Eye draws on that experience. Her next book, Animals Behaving
Badly (Perigee, Fall 2011) takes humorous
revenge on her fellow creatures by exposing
why animals aren’t as cute as they want
you to think.
Website: www.lindalombardi.com
Blog: animalsbehavingbadly.blogspot.com/
Alice Loweecey is a former nun who went
from the convent to playing prostitutes on
stage to accepting her husband’s marriage
proposal on the second date. Her teenage
sons clamor for dramatic cameos in future
books, but she thinks they’ll make good
Redshirts. She is a member of Mystery
Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.
Force of Habit is her first novel.
Website: www.aliceloweecey.com
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Attending Authors
Molly MacRae
Molly MacRae
Molly MacRae’s Lawn Order was hailed by
The Boston Globe as “murder with a dose of
drollery” and by Publishers Weekly as “the
witty first of a new cozy series.” Her short
stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine since 1990. She recently
signed a three book contract with
Penguin/NAL. MacRae spent twenty
years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. She now lives with her family
in Champaign, Illinois.
Website: www.mollymacrae.com
Michael Allan Mallory’s latest book, Killer
Instinct, sends zoologist Lavender “Snake”
Jones to the North Woods of Minnesota to
investigate a wild wolf killing that escalates
into the murder of a key suspect . Michael’s
short story “BOO!” will be out this fall in
Deadly Treats, Anne Frasier’s invitation-only
Halloween anthology. Michael lives in
Minnesota with his wife and an elderly
and bodacious Maine Coon cat.
Website: www.snakejones.com
Michael Allan
Mallory
Margaret Maron
Debbi Mack
Debbi Mack
Debbi Mack is the author of two hardboiled
mystery novels: Identity Crisis and the
sequel Least Wanted, featuring her lawyer
protagonist Sam McRae. She’s a 2010
Derringer nominee for her short story
“The Right to Remain Silent.” Debbi’s short
stories have appeared in Chesapeake Crimes,
The Back Alley Webzine and Chesapeake Crimes:
They Had It Comin’. A former attorney, Debbi
has also worked as a journalist, librarian
and freelance writer/researcher.
Website: www.debbimack.com
Margaret Maron
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 around Canada’s capital, and Fiona
Silk is definitely the most reluctant sleuth
in West Quebec. Before turning to crime,
Mary Jane had lots of mysterious fun as a
librarian
and a mystery bookseller. She lives
Mary Jane Maffini
and plots in Ottawa, Ontario with her
long-suffering husband and two princessy
dachshunds.
Websites: www.maryjanemaffini.com,
www.killercharacters.com
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Margaret Maron has served as national
president of SinC, American Crime Writers
League, and MWA. Winner of several
awards, including the Edgar, Agatha,
Anthony, Macavity, her Judge Deborah
Knott mysteries are the pegs upon which
she hangs her love and concern for North
Carolina as it transitions from its rural
agricultural past to a more urban hi-tech
future. Her first series, set against the NYC
art world (now an eBook), featured Lt.
Sigrid Harald, NYPD.
Website: www.MargaretMaron.com
Judi McCoy
Judi McCoy
Judi McCoy, author of 17 novels, teaches
the two-day aspiring author course at the
RT Booklover’s convention. Her new series,
the dog walker mysteries, features Ellie
Engleman, a dog walker on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan who solves mysteries
with the help of her dogs. These fun, innovative books have made her a National
Best-Selling Author, while her first book,
Hounding the Pavement, received a starred
review in Publishers Weekly.
Website: www.judimccoy.com
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Attending Authors
Nora McFarland
Nora McFarland
Carolyn Mulford
Nora McFarland’s debut mystery A Bad Day’s
Work, follows the adventures of TV news photographer Lilly Hawkins as she attempts to
shoot great video, dodge the police, fall in
love, and solve a murder-all in one day. Hot,
Shot, and Bothered, the second in the series,
will be published in August of 2011. Nora has
worked in national news at CNN and has an
MFA from USC’s school of cinematic arts.
Website: www.noramcfarland.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
Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay
Bonner Menking
Jenn McKinlay is a dessert-freakosaurus.
She is known for eating leftover birthday
cake for breakfast and the frozen top of her
wedding cake didn’t stand a chance of seeing its first anniversary. Writing a New York
Times best-selling mystery series based upon
her favorite food (cupcakes) is as enjoyable
as licking the beater. She also writes under
the name “Lucy Lawrence” and lives in
Arizona in a house overrun with kids, pets
and guitars.
Website: www.jennmckinlay.com
J.J. Murphy
When not writing the Algonquin Round
Table Mysteries, J.J. Murphy is an awardwinning health care writer and very busy
parent of twin daughters in suburban
Philadelphia.
Website: www.RoundTableMysteries.com
J.J. Murphy
Bonner Menking
Kris Neri
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. If that doesn’t
sound too thrilling, remember — half her
clients are already dead and the other half
are busy writing motives. Bonner’s short
story “Climacophobia” was published in last
year’s anthology, Chesapeake Crimes: They
Had It Comin’.
The latest adventure in Kris Neri’s Agatha,
Anthony, Macavity Award-nominated Tracy
Eaton mysteries, Revenge for Old Times’ Sake,
received a 2011 Lefty Award nomination
for Best Humorous Mystery. The first book
in her paranormal series, High Crimes on the
Magical Plane, was also a Lefty Award nominee. 2011 will see the publication of her
next funny paranormal, Magical Alienation.
Also a bookseller, Kris owns The Well Red
Coyote bookstore in Sedona, AZ. Blog:
femmesfatales.typepad.com/my_weblog
Kris Neri
Rosemary and Larry Mild
Rosemary and
Larry Mild
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Rosemary and Larry Mild’s new novel is
Cry Ohana, Adventure and Suspense in Hawaii,
where murder, blackmail and passion thrust
a Hawaiian family into the tentacles of
Honolulu’s dark side. They also coauthor
the Paco and Molly Mysteries: Boston Scream
Pie, Locks and Cream Cheese and Hot Grudge
Sunday, and teach “Mystery and Thriller
Writing” at Anne Arundel Community
College in Arnold, Maryland. They’re members of both Chessie and Hawaii chapters of
Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.magicile.com
Clare O’Donohue
Clare O’Donohue
Clare O’Donohue is the author of the Someday Quilts Mysteries and the Kate Conway
Mysteries. Clare worked for more than a
decade as a television producer on HGTV’s
Simply Quilts, truTV’s Forensic Files and shows
on The History Channel, Food Network, A&E
and others. In 2007, Clare wrote The Lover’s
Knot. She has since written The Drunkard’s
Path, The Double Cross, and Missing Persons, to be
published in June 2011.
Website: www.clareodonohue.com
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Attending Authors
Vincent H. O’Neil
Vincent H. O’Neil
Katherine Hall Page
Vincent H. O’Neil is the Malice Award-winning author of the Frank Cole mysteries. His
latest novel, Death Troupe, is the first book in
a new series featuring a high-end mystery
theater troupe that comes together once a
year, each year in a different town. This
year’s a little different, though: Their playwright is dead, a phantom is stalking them,
and their new writer isn’t sure he’ll be alive
when the troupe finally comes to town.
Website: www.vincenthoneil.com
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. The Body
in the Gazebo, the 19th book in the series,
and Have Faith in Your Kitchen: a Faith
Fairchild Cookbook are out now.
Katherine Hall
Page
Renée Paley-Bain
Alan Orloff
Alan Orloff
Liz Osborne
Gail Oust
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Alan Orloff’s latest release is Killer Routine, a
Last Laff Mystery, featuring Channing
Hayes, a stand-up comic with a tragic
past (Midnight Ink). His debut mystery,
Diamonds for the Dead (also from Midnight
Ink), came out last April. A former engineer, marketing manager, and newsletter
editor, he lives in Northern Virginia with his
wife and two children. He’s also Treasurer
of the MWA Mid-Atlantic chapter.
Website: www.alanorloff.com
Blog: www.alanorloff.blogspot.com
Renée Paley-Bain
Renée Paley-Bain collaborates with her
husband Donald Bain on the “Murder, She
Wrote” series of original mysteries. She is
also a freelance nonfiction book doctor.
Earlier in her career, she worked as a public
relations professional, newspaper editor and
reporter, and advertising and speech writer.
She is a member of the International
Association of Media Tie-In Writers, the
Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime, the Romance Writers of America,
and the Authors Guild.
Website: www.donaldbain.com
Liz Osborne
P.J. Parrish
Liz Osborne writes the Robyn Kelly mystery
series based on her own experiences as a
patient relations manager for a large healthcare organization. Publishers Weekly called
Dirty Laundry, the second book in the
series, a “delightful ... clean-as-a-whistle
cozy.” An avid gardener and genealogist,
she lives in Western Washington with her
husband and Brittany spaniel.
Website: www.lizosborne.com
P.J. Parrish (sisters Kelly Nichols and Kris
Montee) is the author of the Louis Kincaid
and Joe Frye books, which have appeared
on the New York Times and USA Today best
seller lists. Their books have won two
Shamus Awards, an Anthony and Thriller
award and been nominated for the Edgar.
Their first stand-alone thriller, The Killing
Song, will be published this July.
Website: www.pjparrish.com
P.J. Parrish
Gail Oust
Sandra Parshall
Gail Oust is the author of the Bunco Babe
Mysteries for Obsidian (NAL.) While working
as a nurse/vascular technologist, she had nine
historical romances published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Turner. But it wasn’t until
she and her husband retired to South Carolina
that inspiration struck for a mystery. She remembers distinctly when her partner smelled
something foul in the underbrush and uttered
the immortal words, “Maybe it’s a dead body.”
Gail’s imagination took off running.
Website: www.gailoust.com
Sandra Parshall writes the Rachel Goddard
mysteries and won the Agatha Award for
Best First Novel with her debut, The Heat of
the Moon. Her current release is Broken
Places, and her next, Under the Dog Star, will
be out September 1. She lives in Northern
Virginia.
Website: www.sandraparshall.com
Blog: www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com
Sandra Parshall
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Attending Authors
Valerie O.
Patterson
Louise Penny
Valerie Patterson
Nancy Pickard
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, and nominated for an
Agatha last year. She has 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
Nancy Pickard loves teapots. Especially
the ones she won for Bum Steer, I.O.U., The
Virgin of Small Plains, and a short story, “I
Had a Farm in Africa.” Teapots are her very
favorite collectible. She would hug them
if they didn’t look a little scary with those
skull and crossbones on them. She also
loves Malice Domestic, and wishes it success
for years to come. Her latest book is The
Scent of Rain and Lightning, and she’s working on the next one.
Website: www.NancyPickard.com
Nancy Pickard
Louise Penny
Cathy Pickens
In Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead, Chief
Inspector Gamache is in Quebec City to
recover from a devastating event. There he
investigates a 400-year-old mystery and
realizes the past holds the key to a murder,
and his own healing. Bury Your Dead has
been named Best Mystery by the American
Library Association and a top crime novel
for 2010 by Amazon, Kirkus, Publishers
Weekly among others. She lives in Quebec
with her husband Michael.
Website: www.louisepenny.com
Blog: louisepenny.blogspot.com
Publishers Weekly called Southern Fried (St.
Martin’s Malice Domestic Award winner)
an “assured debut, a cozy with some sharp
edges.” Can’t Never Tell is the 5th in the
series. Cathy is also president of Sisters in
Crime, on the national board for Mystery
Writers of America, and president of the
Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program
(collaborative for evidence collection and
preservation training). She teaches graduate
courses in both law and creativity at
Queens University in Charlotte.
Website: www.cathypickens.com
Blog: southernauthors.blogspot.com
Cathy Pickens
Andrea Penrose
Andrea Penrose
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Andrea Penrose made her debut into the
world of historical mystery this spring with
Sweet Revenge, the first book in a Regencyset series featuring two unconventional
aristocrats as amateur sleuths. She also
writes historical romance under the pen
name Cara Elliott, and recently co-taught
an undergraduate seminar on Regency
Romance Novels at Yale. A graduate of Yale,
she has an MFA in Graphic Design from the
Yale Art School, and resides in southern
Connecticut.
Website: www.andreapenrose.com
Blog: www.wordwenches.typepad.com
Hannah Reed
Hannah Reed
Hannah Reed (aka Deb Baker) writes the
Queen Bee Mystery series — Buzz Off
(9/2010), Mind Your Own Beeswax (5/2011).
(Number 3 is due out 2/2012.) As Deb, she
writes the award-winning Gertie Johnson
Backwoods series. Look for book number 4
in the series soon. When not struggling
with her split personality, she is busy writing, gardening, and enjoying life in the
rolling wooded hills of Southeastern
Wisconsin.
Website: www.debbakerbooks.com
Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
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Attending Authors
Cynthia Riggs
Cynthia Riggs
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Cynthia Riggs lives on Martha’s Vineyard
in her family homestead, now a bed-andbreakfast catering to poets and writers.
She has a degree in geology from Antioch
College, an MFA from Vermont College,
and holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters
License (100-ton). The Bee Balm Murders
is her 10th book.
Website: www.cynthiariggs.com
Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning
reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is on the air at
Boston’s NBC affiliate. She’s won 26 EMMYs
and other journalism honors. Her debut,
Prime Time, won the Agatha. Face Time is
a BookSense Notable Book; Air Time an
Agatha and Anthony nominee. Drive Time
(Feb. 2010) is her latest. Hank’s story “On
the House” won the Agatha, Anthony and
Macavity. On the NE board of SinC and
national of MWA.
Website: www.HankPhillippiRyan.com
Hank Phillippi
Ryan
Chris Roerden
Chris Roerden
Chris received the Agatha Award for
Don’t Murder Your Mystery (Macavity and
Anthony finalist), later revised as the nongenre Don’t Sabotage Your Submission (2009
Benjamin Franklin Award winner).
Coming soon as e-book chapters. She’s
edited authors published by Berkley Prime
Crime, Harlequin, Intrigue, Midnight Ink,
Oceanview, Perseverance, Rodale, St.
Martin’s, Viking, and the 1995 Agatha Best
First Novel from Walker & Co. She’s been
invited to teach more than 300 workshops
in 3 countries.
Website: writersinfo.info
Harriette Sackler
Harriette Sackler
Roberta Rogow
Elena Santangelo
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.
Elena Santangelo won the Agatha Award for
Best Nonfiction of 2009 with Dame Agatha’s
Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion.
She also pens the Possessed Mystery series,
which begins with Agatha Award finalist By
Blood Possessed. Her latest novel, Fear Itself, will
be out this spring and features ghosts from the
Great Depression, murder in Pat’s hometown,
a cat with more than nine lives, and a dog
who only understands Czech.
Website: www.elenasantangelo.com
Roberta Rogow
Elena Santangelo
Barbara Ross
Barbara Ross
Barbara Ross’ first mystery novel, The
Death of an Ambitious Woman, was published
by Five Star/Gale/Cengage in August
2010. Also in 2010, Barbara became one of
the co-editor/co-publishers of Level Best
Books, which released its eighth anthology,
Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England
Writers in November 2010.
Website: www.barbaraannross.com
Blog: www.levelbestbooks.com/thin-ice-authors
Ilene Schneider
Ilene Schneider
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Harriette Sackler is a longtime member of
the Malice Domestic Board of Directors and
serves as Grants Chair. She is a former
Agatha nominee for her short story, “Mother
Love.” Harriette is currently working on a
book about her experiences with abandoned
and neglected dogs at a senior pet sanctuary.
She lives in the D.C. suburbs with her husband and five pups. She has two married
daughters and looks forward to thoroughly
spoiling Ethan, her first grandchild.
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 has completed her second Rabbi
Aviva Cohen mystery, Unleavened Dead.
Website: www.rabbiavivacohenmysteries.com
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Attending Authors
Maggie Sefton
Maggie Sefton
Joanna Campbell Slan
Maggie Sefton is the New York Times
Bestselling author of the Berkley Prime
Crime Knitting Mysteries. Skein of the
Crime, 6/2010, was Barnes & Noble’s #5
Bestselling Hardcover Mystery and on their
Bestseller list five months. An anthology
entitled Double Knit Murders came out
11/2010. 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,
www.killercharacters.com
Joanna Campbell Slan is the author of a
mystery series featuring Kiki Lowenstein, a
spunky single mom who is an expert scrapbooker. Paper, Scissors, Death (Midnight Ink)
was an Agatha Award finalist. Photo, Snap,
Shot has been praised as “a cut above the
usual craft-themed cozy.” Make, Take,
Murder has just been released in time for
Malice!
Website: www.JoannaSlan.com
Joanna Campbell
Slan
Julie Smith
Deborah Sharp
Deborah Sharp
Deborah Sharp left her reporting job at USA
Today to write funny fiction. She sets her
Mace Bauer Mysteries in a Southern-fried
slice of her native Florida. Think Stephanie
Plum, if she trapped alligators and had a
couple of cousins named Bubba. On NBC’s
Today show, Deborah talked about becoming a bit too involved in her character’s fifth
wedding for Mama Gets Hitched. Book No. 4,
Mama Sees Stars, comes out this fall.
Deborah lives in south Florida with her
husband, TV reporter Kerry Sanders.
Website: www.DeborahSharp.com
Blog: ask-mama.blogspot.com
Julie Smith
Sarah Smith
Paige Shelton
Paige Shelton
Paige Shelton is the best-selling author of
Farm Fresh Murder and Fruit of All Evil, the
first two books in the Farmers’ Market
mysteries. The third book of the series,
Crops and Robbers, will publish December
2011. She also writes the Gram’s Cooking
School mysteries, the first of which, If Fried
Chicken Could Fly, will publish January
2012.
Website: www.paigeshelton.com
Sarah Smith
Sarah studied English at Harvard (and hid
out in the library reading mysteries). She is
the bestselling author of an adult mystery
series set in Edwardian Boston and Paris;
The Vanished Child is being made into a
musical. The Other Side Of Dark, her first YA,
is inspired by her multicultural relatives and
her love of ghost stories. She’s thrilled that
it’s nominated for an Agatha! See her on
Facebook and Twitter @sarahwriter.
Website: www.sarahsmith.com
Cheryl Solimini
Cheryl Solimini
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Julie Smith is the author of twenty-odd
novels, most of them set in New Orleans
(where she lives) and starring one of her
detective heroes, a cop named Skip
Langdon, and a PI named Talba Wallis.
(Both female, both tough and wily.) Her
latest book is Cursebusters! for young adults.
She’s also the founder of a new digital publishing venture, www.booksbnimble.com.
Her novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the
Edgar for best novel.
C. (Cheryl) Solimini’s novel, Across the River,
was published by Deadly Ink Press in 2008.
Featuring Baby Boomer tabloid reporter
Andie Rinaldi, ATR was a Best First Novel
finalist at the 2009 Next Generation Indie
Book Awards. (Yes, it’s an honor just to be
finalized!) A former Features Editor of Mary
Higgins Clark Mystery, Cheryl is currently a
Mystery Scene Consulting Editor, and profiles
bestselling authors such as Michael
Connelly, Lisa Lutz and Sara Paretsky.
Website: www.acrosstheriver.info
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Attending Authors
Mary Stanton
Sylvia A. Straub
Mary Stanton is the author of the Beaufort
and Company mystery series. She has just
turned the fifth one, Angel Condemned, to
Berkley Prime Crime. As Claudia Bishop,
she writes the popular Hemlock Falls mystery series. She is hard at work on the eighteenth in that series, Dread On Arrival.
Sylvia A. Straub’s short story, “Dog’s Best
Friend,” was published in the anthology
A Shaker of Margaritas, Mozark Press, 2010.
Straub turned to mystery writing following
careers in academia and non-profit management. An earlier version of her novelin-progress Blood of the Shepherd earned a
second-place award in Shepherd
University’s writing competition.
Mary Stanton
Sylvia A. Straub
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
Lady and The Liar. She lives in Texas with
her husband, three inspirational cats and a
dog that thinks she’s a cat.
Website: www.leannsweeney.com
Leann Sweeney
Marcia Talley
B.K. Stevens
B.K. Stevens
B.K. (Bonnie) Stevens recently published a
novella, One Shot, with Untreed Reads. This
online whodunit takes a satirical look at
issues ranging from gun control to reality
shows. Over thirty-five of Bonnie’s stories
have appeared in print, most in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; her latest was
“Death in Rehab” (May). Some stories are
reprinted in the Women of Mystery anthologies. Bonnie and her husband, Dennis, live
in Virginia, where Bonnie teaches at
Lynchburg College.
Website: www.bkstevensmysteries.com
Marcia Talley
Art Taylor
Cathi Stoler
Cathi Stoler
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Cathi Stoler was an award-winning advertising copywriter. Telling Lies, her first mystery/suspense novel, takes on the subject of
stolen Nazi art. Other novels in this series
will include Keeping Secrets, which delves
into the subject of hidden identity, and, The
Hard Way, a story about the international
diamond trade. She is a member of Mystery
Writers of America and the New York
Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.cathistoler.com
Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony
award-winning author of A Quiet Death and
nine previous mysteries featuring survivor
and sleuth, Hannah Ives. Marcia’s short
stories appear in more than a dozen collections, including “Can You Hear Me Now?”
in Two of the Deadliest edited by Elizabeth
George. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland
with a husband who loves to sail and a cat
who doesn’t.
Website: www.marciatalley.com
Art Taylor
Art Taylor’s short fiction has appeared in
several national magazines (including Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine and North American
Review), online at Fiction Weekly, Prick of the
Spindle, and SmokeLong Quarterly, and in various regional journals/newspapers. His story
“A Voice from the Past” was short-listed for
the 2010 Best American Mystery Stories
anthology. He regularly reviews mysteries
and thrillers for the Washington Post Book
World and contributes frequently to Mystery
Scene and other publications.
Website: www.arttaylorwriter.com
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Attending Authors
Victoria Thompson
Edgar Nominated author Victoria
Thompson writes the Gaslight Mystery
series set in turn-of-the-century New York
City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt
and detective Frank Malloy. Her latest is
Murder on Lexington Avenue, June 2010, and
the twelfth book in the series will be Murder
on Sisters’ Row, June 2011. A popular
Victoria Thompson 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
Caroline Todd
Maggie Toussaint
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Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets writes two national bestselling
mystery series. In her tenth Dead-End Job
mystery, Pumped for Murder, Helen
Hawthorne investigates extreme bodybuilding and a death from South Florida’s
cocaine cowboy days. Elaine’s second series
features St. Louis mystery shopper Josie
Marcus. An Uplifting Murder is the sixth
book. Elaine has won the Agatha, Anthony
and Lefty Awards and has been praised
in the New York Times. She blogs for The
Lipstick Chronicles and the Femmes Fatales.
Website: www.elaineviets.com
Caroline Todd
Lea Wait
Charles Todd is author of the best-selling
Inspector Ian Rutledge series, set in 1919
England after the Great War, and the new
Bess Crawford series, set during the fierce
fighting of that war. The only mother and
son team of mystery writers, Caroline and
Charles live on the East Coast, and travel
to England as often as possible. And when
they aren’t traveling, they enjoy meeting
their many fans. Caroline returns to Malice
this year.
Website: www.charlestodd.com
Maine author and antique dealer Lea Wait
writes the Shadows Antique Print Mystery
Series starring protagonist Maggie Summer.
Shadows at the Fair was honored by a
“best first” Agatha nomination. Her latest,
Shadows of a Down East Summer, finds
Maggie back in Maine, finding clues to a
current murder in the diary of a young
woman who posed for Winslow Homer in
1891. Lea also writes historical novels for
ages 8-14.
Website: www.leawait.com and on FB.
Lea Wait
Maggie Toussaint
Penny Warner
Maggie Toussaint is the author of the popular Cleopatra Jones cozy mystery series, In
for a Penny and On The Nickel. She also writes
romantic suspense with her first book, House
of Lies, winning Best Romantic Suspense
from the 2007 National Readers Choice
Awards. She’s a member of Southeastern
Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, Sisters In Crime, and Guppies. She’s a freelance reporter in coastal
Georgia and enjoys yoga.
Website: maggietoussaint.com
Blog: mudpiesandmagnolias.blogspot.com
Penny Warner’s new mystery series features
event planner Presley Parker, and includes
How To Host A Killer Party, set on Treasure
Island and Alcatraz in the San Francisco
Bay Area, How To Crash A Killer Bash, set at
the de Young Museum, and How To Survive
A Killer Séance, set at the Winchester
Mystery House (Penguin). Her nonfiction
book, The Official Nancy Drew Handbook,
was nominated for an Agatha Award.
Website: www.pennywarner.com
Penny Warner
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Attending Authors
James Lincoln
Warren
Wendy Lyn
Watson
James Lincoln Warren
Jeri Westerson
James Lincoln Warren is the author of the
Treviscoe of Lloyd’s series of 18th century
mystery stories (one of which, “Black
Spartacus,” was featured in Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime
and Suspense) and of the Cal Ops series concerning a multiracial Beverly Hills detective
agency. He is the founder and editor of
“Criminal Brief: The Mystery Short Story
Web Log Project” (www.criminalbrief.com),
and a past President of MWA’s SoCal
Chapter.
Website: www.swordquill.com
Jeri Westerson writes an acclaimed
medieval mystery series. Her protagonist
Crispin Guest is an ex-knight turned private
eye, plying his trade on the mean streets of
fourteenth century London. The third in
the series, The Demon’s Parchment, was
released by St. Martin’s Press last October.
She also writes a gay mystery series under
the name Haley Walsh. Foxe Tail, featuring
gay English teacher Skyler Foxe, was also
released last October by MLR Press.
Websites: www.JeriWesterson.com and
www.SkylerFoxeMysteries.com
Jeri Westerson
Wendy Lyn Watson
Leslie Wheeler
Wendy Lyn Watson writes deliciously funny
cozy mysteries with a dollop of romance.
Her Mysteries a la Mode 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
An award-winning author of American
history books, Leslie Wheeler writes the
Miranda Lewis “living history” mystery
series, including Murder at Spouters Point,
released last fall. Previous titles are: Murder
at Plimoth Plantation and Murder at
Gettysburg. Leslie’s short crime fiction has
appeared in five anthologies published by
Level Best Books, to which she recently
became a contributing editor. A member of
MWA and SinC, she is Speakers Bureau
Coordinator of the New England chapter.
Website: www.lesliewheeler.com
Leslie Wheeler
Heather Webber
Heather Webber
Former Agatha nominee Heather Webber
is the author of the humorous Nina Quinn
landscaping mystery series (A Hoe Lot of
Trouble, et al.), and also the popular romantic mystery series featuring psychic Lucy
Valentine that includes recent titles Truly,
Madly; Deeply, Desperately; and Absolutely,
Positively (St. Martin’s Press). Heather’s next
release, It Takes a Witch, a mystery written
under the pen name Heather Blake, will
debut in January 2012 from NAL.
Websites: www.heatherwebber.com
www.heatherblakebooks.com
Cathy Wiley
Cathy Wiley
Cathy Wiley is happiest when plotting
stories in her head or on the computer,
or when she’s delving into research. She
draws upon her experience as a human
resources manager to show the lighter,
quirkier side of people and upon her own
morbid mind to show the darker side. She
lives outside of Baltimore, Maryland, with
two very spoiled cats.
Website: www.cathywiley.com
J. L. Wilson
J. L. Wilson
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J. L. Wilson is a Midwestern author 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
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Attending Authors
Lois Winston
Lois Winston
Sheila York
Award-winning author Lois Winston writes
the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries
series featuring magazine crafts editor and
reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack.
Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun, a January
2011 release, is the first book in the series
and was dubbed “North Jersey’s more
mature answer to Stephanie Plum” by
Kirkus Reviews. Lois is also published in
women’s fiction, romantic suspense, and
nonfiction as well as being an awardwinning crafts and needlework designer.
Website: www.loiswinston.com
Blog: www.anastasiapollack.blogspot.com
Sheila enjoyed a long career in radio and
television, and occasionally as an actress,
before she began her Lauren Atwill screenwriter series, set in the glamorous, dangerous Hollywood of the late 1940s. Publishers
Weekly called her latest, A Good Knife’s Work,
“(A) snappy puzzler ... this crime caper is as
much fun as a good game of Clue.” She
serves as treasurer of the New York regional
chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
Website: sheilayork.com
Sheila York
Elizabeth Zelvin
Sarah Wisseman
Sarah Wisseman
Archaeologist Sarah Wisseman writes the
Lisa Donahue Archaeological Mysteries.
Lisa, like her creator, is an archaeologist and
museum curator who works in a creepy old
attic museum in Boston. Book 3, The Fall of
Augustus (Wings Press 2009) is set in Boston,
while Book 4, The House of the Sphinx
(Hilliard and Harris 2009) is set in Egypt.
Sarah is currently working on a historical
mystery set in Prohibition-era central
Illinois.
Website: www.sarahwisseman.com
Elizabeth Zelvin
Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City psychotherapist whose new mystery, Death Will
Extend Your Vacation, comes out next year.
The series includes Death Will Get You Sober
and Death Will Help You Leave Him. Three of
Liz’s short stories have been nominated for
Agathas. They have appeared in Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine and in various
anthologies and e-zines. Liz is writing a YA
novel about the characters in “The Green
Cross,” the current nominee.
Website: www.elizabethzelvin.com
Blog: www.poesdeadlydaughters.blogspot.com
Nancy Means Wright
Nancy Means
Wright
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Nancy Means Wright is the author of 16
books, including 5 mysteries from St.
Martin’s Press-now ebooks. An historical
novel, Midnight Fires, came out in 2010; a
sequel, The Nightmare, is forthcoming this
fall. She won an Agatha Award, and Agatha
nomination, for her children’s mysteries,
and has published stories in Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine, in Level Best Books’
anthologies, and elsewhere. She lives in
Vermont with her spouse and two Maine
Coon cats.
Website: www.nancymeanswright.com
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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.
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Contest
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, said, “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
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.”
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.
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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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
Mystery Loves Company
Sisters in Crime
11 North U.S. Rt. 15, shop #5
Dillsburg, PA 17019
717-432-2720
202 S. Morris Street
Box 160
Oxford MD 21654
410-226-0010 or 1-800-538-0042
P.O. Box 442124
Lawrence, KS 66044
785-842-1325
ljsbookhouse@earthlink.net
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
Felony & Mayhem Press
156 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10014
Fax: 212-656-1227
Contacts: Maggie Topkis
(books@felonyandmayhem.com)
Julia Musha
(jmusha@felonyandmayhem.com)
Felony & Mayhem publishes “the best in
intelligent mystery fiction,” with a definite
tilt toward the literary end. We offer
reprints of titles that had previously —
and inexplicably — gone out of print; first
paperback editions of books previously published in hardcover; and first U.S. editions
of books previously published overseas.
Look for our first original title next year.
Flying Coyote
1307 Hornsbyville Road
Yorktown, VA 23692
757-898-1504
flyingcoyote@earthlink.com
Contact: Phyllis White
Flying Coyote deals in matted images,
objets d’art, and books relating to predators.
Frozen Light
4459 S. Gary Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74105
918-492-1212 or 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.
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www.mysterylovescompany.com
blog: www.mysterysalon.com
Contact: Kathy Harig
Visit us in historic Oxford, on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore. We feature new, gentlyused books, signed first editions, and collectible mysteries. We host author events,
and do custom gift baskets. Or now you
can order online on our website. Follow us
on Facebook.
Novel Places
23341 Frederick Road
Clarksburg, MD 20871
301-442-4972
www.novelplacesusa.com
pat@novelplacesusa.com
Contact: Patrick Darby
Located in the original John Clark Trading
Post of Clarksburg’s Historic District, Novel
Places offers a wide variety of new and
used books. We specialize in children, mystery, and science fiction categories. Stop by
and be a part of the family with vintage
service, where we find books a good home.
Scene of the Crime Books
20 Hawthorne Avenue
St. Catharines Ontario Canada
L2M 6A9
905-646-0214
www.murdermysterybooks@yahoo.ca
http://www.alibris.com/stores/crimesce
ne?slr_ref=crimescene
Contact: Don or Jenn Longmuir
We’ve been selling books online for 15
years primarily on ABE but you can also
find us on Alibris, Amazon.com, Ebay and
Biblio. In 2004, we opened a brick and
mortar store where authors such as Linwood Barclay and Kelley Armstrong had
regular signing events. But in 2006 we
closed the store and moved everything
home. We specialize in signatures and first
editions. If you’re ever in the area please
give a call — we are home most days.
sinc@sistersincrime.org
www.SistersInCrime.org
Sisters in Crime (SinC) is an international
organization founded in 1986 to promote
the professional development and
advancement of women writing crime fiction. Today, SinC is made up of more than
3,000 members in 48 chapters worldwide
— authors, readers, publishers, agents,
booksellers, librarians, and others who love
mysteries. This year, we’re celebrating 25
years of opening doors to strengthen the
voice of women in the mystery field. We
hope you’ll join us. For more information,
Sisters in Crime is online at www.sistersincrime.org. SinC into a great mystery!
Undiscovered Treasures
9619 Pierrpont Street
Burke, VA 22015
703-978-1959
cowanc1028@earthlink.net
Contact: Chris Cowan
Undiscovered Treasures carries jewelry
ranging from hand-strung semiprecious/
pearl sets and silver through “costume”
pieces.
Wildside Press
9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234
Rockville MD 20850
(301) 762-1305 phone
(301) 762-1306 fax
www.wildsidebooks.com
wildsidepress@gmail.com
Contacts: John Betancourt, Carla Coupe
Wildside Press is an independent publishing
company with more than 11,000 books in
print in a variety of genres, including Mystery, Science Fiction, and Classics.
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Malice Board and Committees
Board of Directors
Chair Verena Rose
Malice Domestic 23 marks Verena Rose’s 13th year of
service on the Board of Directors. In the past she’s served
in several positions and also Chaired the first Malice
Domestic sponsored Charity Auction ten years ago. For
Malice Domestic 23, she continues to serve as the Chair
of the Board of Directors. Additionally, she is also CoChairing the Charity Auction along with the Treasurer,
Angel Trapp. While she happily spends a great deal of her
free time working on the Malice Domestic Board, Verena
also enjoys spending time with her very active grandchildren. That is, when they can fit her into their schedules.
She also very much enjoys the company of her wonderful Ragdoll cats, Jasper and Alice, who recently appeared
in the newest Domestic Diva novel by Krista Davis.
Secretary Janet Blizard
Janet recently retired after a 40-year career with
the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice. For the last 20 years, she was actively
involved in the implementation of the Americans
with Disabilities Act. Janet survived law school by
reading mysteries. She “discovered” mystery conventions at Malice Domestic II, has attended almost every
Malice since then, and has been a member of the
Board for the last 10 years. When she is not reading,
Janet is an avid fan of the Boston Red Sox and a loyal
employee of the Siamese cat who runs her home.
ward to the rewarding challenges of the position.
When not performing the tasks required for Malice,
Marian is employed full-time with a local Maryland
CPA firm. In addition to reading mysteries, Marian
enjoys cooking, travel and time spent with family.
Grants Chair Harriette Sackler
Harriette Sackler 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. They are the proud grandparents
of one beautiful grandson and have another grandchild on the way. She is a former Agatha Award
nominee for Best Short Story.
Treasurer Angel Trapp
Angel is fairly new to Malice and is the newest
addition to the Malice Board. She is very excited
about functioning as both Treasurer and Co-Auction
Chair. Angel has her own accounting company and
enjoys working closely with her clients. Angel is
actively working with and contributing to KEEN
Greater D.C., a local nonprofit volunteer-led organization that provides one-to-one recreational opportunities for children and young adults with developmental
and physical disabilities. Angel loves to travel with her
husband, Jason, and she is also looking forward to
meeting everyone at Malice and getting more
immersed into the Malice community.
Hotel Liaison Caroline L. Craig
Caroline Craig is a third-generation native of the
Washington D.C. area and has been an avid reader
since the age of four. Retired after 35 years as a civil
servant, she worked as a comptroller for the Department of Defense (DoD), the last 24 years for the
Missile Defense Agency (formerly Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization). She attended Arlington
County Public Schools and graduated from Madison
College (now James Madison University) with a double major of Russian language and political science
and a minor in Soviet studies. She has two sisters and
two brothers-in-law who also live in the D.C. area. A
long-time mystery reader, she was a volunteer at Malice for several years before being elected to the Board
in 2007 and currently serves as the Hotel Liaison.
Convention Events Coordinator Marian Lesko
Marian Lesko has served as Treasurer on the Malice Board for the last five years. Starting with Malice
Domestic 23 Marian has taken on the position of
Agatha Chair and Dealer Liaison and is looking for-
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
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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. The most recent, Stork Raving Mad, was released
in July 2010, and The Real Macaw will be released in
July 2011. 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
Being Malice program chair is perfect for shortstory author Barb Goffman, as she believes the best
crime stories are those of the domestic variety. Mothers. Husbands. Sisters. All are fair game when Barb
chooses her victims, including the one in “Volunteer
of the Year,” which has been nominated this year for
the Agatha Award. Barb’s stories have appeared in
several anthologies, and two others have been past
nominees for the Agatha Award. In her spare time,
Barb works as an attorney, serves on the national
board of Sisters in Crime, and is a co-coordinating editor of the upcoming Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder (Wildside Press 2012). She lives in Virginia with
her miracle dog, Scout (a three-time cancer survivor!).
Website: www.barbgoffman.com
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Publications Rita Owen
Rita Owen retired after a career in human
resources and Six Sigma. A native of Washington,
D.C., her passions include reading (mysteries, of
course), quilting, family history and genealogy, writing, folk music, and friends and family. She lives in
New Jersey, where she teaches quilting and designs
original quilts. She has been providing signage support
to Malice for six years and publications for three
years. She’s delighted to be aunt and great-aunt to
seven nieces and nephews and seven great-nieces and
great-nephews. She’s also hooked on her Kindle.
Volunteers Anne Murphy
Anne and her retired nuclear engineer husband
Joe have three wonderful sons, three beautiful daughters-in-law, three gorgeous granddaughters, 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 might have been like had she
ignored Sheila Martin and Kay McCarty when they
insisted, “This Malice Domestic thing sounds like fun.
Let’s go!”
Registration Services Shawn Reilly
Shawn Reilly Simmons has been working with
Malice since 2003, starting out as PR Chair and then
moving on to the position of Registrar. She now handles Registration Services and Malice PR. Graduating
from the University of Maryland with a degree in
English Literature, she then moved to New York City
and worked in sales and marketing. Shawn now does
freelance editing and works for News Post Media, the
Washington Post company. She lives in Frederick,
Maryland with her husband, son and two English
Bulldogs. Shawn’s editing website is www.GroundFloorPromotions.net.
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Pre-Registered Participants
(Authors in bold)
Avery Aames
Ellery Adams
Judith Akers
Gloria Alden
Laura Alden
Carolyn Allen
Sheila Anderson
Donna Andrews
Allan Ansorge
Jim Archambault
Kris Archambault
Lucy Arlington
Sandi Ault
Doris Austin
David Autry
Frankie Y. Bailey
Donald Bain
Irma Baker
Mary K. Balintfy
Maggie Barbieri
Tammy Barker
Colleen Barnett
Vonne Barnett
Aileen G. Baron
Elizabeth Barrett
Lorraine Bartlett
Beverly Battillo
Donna Beatley
Paula Benson
Sky Benson
Barbara Berman
Dorothy Bermudez
Carol Bessette
John Betancourt
Mona Betz
John Billheimer
Jane Bird
Terri Bischoff
Debbie Bishop
Juliet Blackwell
Les Blatt
Leslie Blatt
Peter Blau
Janet Blizard
Jack Bludis
Deborah Blum
Lenore Boehm
Janet Bolin
Nikki Bonanni
Joan Boswell
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Rhys Bowen
Rachel Brady
Sandra Brannan
Duffy Brown
Sarah Brown
Deborah Buchanan
Raymond Buckland
Maxine Buckles
Ellen Byerrum
Valerie Caires
Dana Cameron
Laura Campos
Dorothy Cannell
Karen Cantwell
Diane Card
JoAnna Carl
Kate Carlisle
Trish Carrico
Anita Carter
Judy Castell
Jack Cater
Judy Cater
Mary Chamberlain
Joelle Charbonneau
Erika Chase
Cathy Chatham
Lexa Christopher
Debbie Clark
Mary Jane Clark
Nancy Jo Clark
Jane Cleland
Penny Clifton
Jeff Cohen
Jayne Colangelo
Mary Beth Cole
Meredith Cole
Kate Collins
Maureen Collins
Sheila Connolly
Sharon Love Cook
Mary Ann Corrigan
Amy Corwin
Carla Coupe
Chris Cowan
Caroline Craig
Ellen Crosby
Rebecca Crowley
John Curran
Barbara D’Amato
Jeanne M. Dams
Patrick Darby
Laura DiSilverio
Christine Davis
Krista Davis
Nancy M. Davis
Vicki Delany
Hannah Dennison
Mary Elizabeth Devine
Louise Dietz
Jenny Dietzel
Susan Dill
Deborah Dingboom
Gina Dolin
Vicki Doudera
Steven Doyle
Pat Drucker
Susan Duchek
Ann Duff
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Kaitlyn Dunnett
Jeanne Durrer
Michael Dymmoch
Claire Eddy
Pam Edmondson
Peggy Ehrhart
Sheryl Ehrlich
Barbara Ernst
Kathleen Ernst
Karen S. Esibill
Donna Evans
Sue Evans
Bernadine Fagan
Sally Fellows
Monica Ferris
Nancy Fifield
Kay Finch
Lola Troy Fiur
Kendel Flaum
Irene Fleming
Amanda Flower
Christina Freeburn
Suzanne Frisbee
Irene Fleming
Eileen Garforth
Pauline Gary
Madonna Gaus
Paul L. Gaus
Dawn Gentner
Kaye George
Jan Giles
Anne Godden-Segard
Barb Goffman
Sally Goldenbaum
Phyllis Gonigam
John Gordon
Chris Grabenstein
Sue Grafton
Barbara Graham
Kimberly Gray
Douglas Greene
Patricia Griffith
Beth Groundwater
Elizabeth Gwiazdowski
Rose Hackman
Nicole Hagood
Carolyn Haines
Rebecca M. Hale
Parnell Hall
Janet Hamlet
Janice Hamrick
Marji Hankins
Kathy Harig
Tom Harig
Linda Harris
Nancy Harris
Rosemary Harris
Sherry Harris
Robin Hathaway
Mary Hawkes
Betty Hechtman
Maureen Heedles
Shirley Heintz
Freda Heisser
Anita Herbert
Sasscer Hill
Lois Foster Hirt
Aimee Hix
Judy Hogan
Angie Hogencamp
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Sue Horowitz
Maria Hudgins
Elizabeth Hunt
Becky Bartlett Hutchison
DiAnna R. Hyre
Julie Hyzy
Coco Ihle
Teresa Inge
(continued)
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Pre-Registered Participants
Smita H. Jain
Miranda James
Anna S. Jeffrey
Linda O. Johnston
Velma V. G. Jordan
Tammy Kaehler
schuyler kaufman
Kathleen Kearns
Toni L. P. Kelner
Kaitlyn Kennedy
Tracy Kiely
Judith Kindell
Margaret L. Kramer
Jan Kurtz
Norma Kurtz
Shirley J. Landes
Joni Langevoort
Chris Lanphere
Victoria Laurie
Casey Daniels
Jim Lavene
Joyce Lavene
Alan Leathers
Cheryl Leathers
Laurie Leff
Con Lehane
Amanda Lemire
David Lemire
Penny Lemire
Marian Lesko
Kelly Letourneau
Marilyn Levinson
Judy Levitan
Vera Libeau
Audrey Liebross
Greg Lilly
Clyde Linsley
C. Ellett Logan
Linda Lombardi
Don Longmuir
Jennifer Longmuir
Jess Lourey
Dru Ann Love
Alice Loweecey
Kathleen Lyons
Debbi Mack
Molly MacRae
Mary Jane Maffini
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Colleen Manning
Sherry Markowitz
Rosemary MarloweDziuk
Margaret Maron
Sheila J. Martin
Edith Maxwell
Sherri Mayer
Kay McCarty
Daisy McClelland
Greg McClure
Judi McCoy
Nora McFarland
Maureen McKenna
Jenn McKinlay
Julie McKuras
Hulda McLachlen
Jaime McLellan
Liz Mellett
Carolyn Melvin
Bonner Menking
Lea Mesner
Gail A. Metzgar
Marvin E. Metzgar
Lee Mewshaw
Joan Meyers
Larry Mild
Rosemary Mild
Gwynyth Mislin
Jacquelynn Morris
Susan Morrison
Helen Morse
Barbara K. Mueller
Carolyn A. Mulford
Melinda Mullet
Anne Murphy
J. J. Murphy
Elaine Naiman
Elaine C. Neal
Richard G. Neal, Jr.
Karen E. Neary
Mary Nelson
Kris Neri
Kathleen A. Nordstrom
Doris Ann Norris
Jennifer Waddell Null
Betty Occhiogrosso
Francesca Occhiogrosso
Marie O’Day
Tom O’Day
Clare O’Donohue
Vincent H. O’Neil
Alan Orloff
Liz Osborne
Gail Oust
Kathleen Owen
Rita Owen
Katherine Hall Page
Renee Paley-Bain
Mary Faith Pankin
P. J. Parrish
Sandra Parshall
Valerie Patterson
Louise Penny
Andrea Penrose
Jackie Petersen
Caroline Petrequin
Donna Jeanne Phillips
Nancy Pickard
Cathy Pickens
Deanna Pivoroff
Lynn Pixley
Toni Plummer
Louise Pohl
C. W. Pollard
Janet Powell
Frank Price
Greg Puhl
Linda Randig
Maggie Range
Pam Rau
Anne Reece
Hannah Reed
Judy Reese
Audrey Reith
John Reisinger
Cynthia Riggs
Norine Ripple
Dianne Rodman
R. Rodriguez de Williams
Chris Roerden
Janet M. Rogerson
Roberta Rogow
Verena Rose
Natalee Rosenstein
Barbara Ross
Janet Rudolph
Patti Ruocco
Dodie Ruskie
Sammi Russell
Linda Smith Rutledge
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Margaret Ryan
Harriette Sackler
Nancy Sampson
Christine Sannerud
Elena Santangelo
Anne Marie Santos
Peggy Rae Sapienza
Sinya Schaeffer
Ilene Schneider
Patricia Schutz
Sandy Sechrest
Maggie Sefton
Janine Seitz
Deborah Sharp
Gordon Shaw
Ruth Shaw
Judy Sheard
Mary Jane Sheffet
Paige Shelton
Ruth Sickafus
Shawn Reilly Simmons
Brian Skupin
Joanna Slan
Ardis Smith
Julie Smith
Sarah Smith
Geraldine Smithson
Cheryl Solimini
Beth Sorenson
Beth St. Clair
Denise Stablein
Mary Stanton
Daniel Stashower
B. K. Stevens
Dennis Stevens
Mimi Stevens
Kate Stine
Cathi Stoler
Sylvia A. Straub
Verna Suit
Donnetta Summers
Patricia Summers
Leann Sweeney
Marcia Talley
Art Taylor
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Maureen Taylor
Mike Taylor
Robin Templeton
Victoria Thompson
Sheila M. Tierney
Caroline Todd
Maggie Toussaint
Angel Trapp
Arleen Trundy
Mary Turner
Elizabeth Vaccaro
Robert Vaccaro
Patricia Valoon
Donna Van Dyke
Mary Van Dyke
Polly Van Hyning
Susan E. Van Hyning
Pat Vasaio
Elaine Viets
Lea Wait
Penny Warner
James Lincoln Warren
Wendy Lyn Watson
Heather Webber
Susan Werner
Jeri Westerson
Molly Weston
Leslie Wheeler
Kathy Whelan
Michael Whitehead
K. G. Whitehurst
Pam Wieland
Cathy Wiley
Dina S. Willner
J. L. Wilson
Lois Winston
Sarah Wisseman
Beverly Wolov
Anne Woodman
MaryLee Woods
Nancy Means Wright
Sharon Yamasaki
Sheila York
Marisa Young
Luci Hansson Zahray
Elizabeth Zelvin
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Friends of Malice
Sarah Masters Buckey
Maureen Grace Burns
John F. Dobbyn
Lois M. Dobbyn
Gerrie Ferris-Finger
Arlene Gagnon
Nancy Gill
Carolyn Hart
L. C. Hayden
Marion Moore Hill
Dorothy Howell
Judy Ilkena
June Kennedy
Rhonda Lane
G. M. Malliet
Diane Martin
Peg Ross
Richard Steelman
Robert Steventon
Bonnie Vanaman
Kathryn R. Wall
Nancy Glass West
Valerie Wolzien
www.MaliceDomestic.org
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See you next year at
Malice Domestic 24!
April 27–29, 2012
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 12/31/2011 — $300 1/01 – 4/15/2012 if space is available
Basic Registration (no Banquet):
$225 until 12/31/2011 — $250 1/01 – 4/15/2012 if space is available
Deadline all registrations: 4/15/2012 if space is available
www.MaliceDomestic.org
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