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Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, and other novels. She lives in Chicago, where she co-chairs the crime fiction readers’ event … Continue reading →

Sue Parman is an anthropologist by profession and her studies include a Gaelic-speaking community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. She’s also an award-winning poet, short story writer, memoirist, and artist. Recently, she won the Travelers Tales’ Grand Prize for Best … Continue reading →

Tom Andes has had stories in a variety of literary journals and crime-fiction publications, including Best American Mystery Stories 2012. He also won the 2019 Gold Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. A musician as well … Continue reading →

Robin Kirman is a pychoanalyst as well as a writer and she weaves her interest in psychology into her fiction. Her books include The End of Getting Lost, which Booklist called “… a beautifully written novel.” Her first story for … Continue reading →

Anna Stolley Persky is a lawyer, journalist, and essayist who recently turned fiction writer. Her first published fiction, “The Jews on Elm Street,” will appear in EQMM’s September/October 2024 issue (on sale August 13 ), in the Department of First … Continue reading →

Shawn Reilly Simmons is the author of nine mystery novels and more than twenty-five published short stories, two of which have won the Agatha Award for best short story. She is also an Anthony Award-winning anthologist and the president and … Continue reading →

In EQMM’s upcoming September/October issue (on sale August 13), talented new writer Kai Lovelace has a story in the Department of First Stories. Entitled “Head Start,” it’s a scary Halloween tale of the psychological suspense variety. When he isn’t writing … Continue reading →

Andrew McAleer is the author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and coeditor (with Gay Toltl Kinman) of Edgar & Shamus Go Golden. He recently completed two books featuring his father John McAleer’s Golden Age detective Henry von Stray, which will be … Continue reading →

Essayist and short story writer Kevin Mims has contributed posts to this site on a number of different topics. This time he offers some thoughts about a classic, but sometimes overlooked,  TV crime drama. You may want to revisit the … Continue reading →