March 12-15, 2015 • Portland, Oregon

Welcome

reetings from your co-chairs and welcome to the 25th Left Coast GCrime convention! We have so many reasons to be excited about this year’s event that it’s hard to know where to begin. But we’re most eager to celebrate LCC’s anniversary Friday night with a fun-flled bash. Te party will feature appetizers, a continuous slide show with great photos from past conventions, fun stories, magic, and even a special Table of Contents song written for the occasion and sung by LCC committee members, Welcome ...... 1 plus a few other brave souls. We hope you’ll join us for the celebration Schedule ...... 3 at 6 pm in the main ballroom Panel Schedule ...... 5 We published our frst books and started attending mystery con- Praising (Chelsea) Cain ...... 11 ventions around the same time in 2007, so even though we feel like Conversations with we’ve been around LCC for a while, we’re still newcomers compared Timothy Hallinan ...... 13 to its quarter-century run. Still, we feel honored to have been granted Fan Guests of Honor: the opportunity to host this year’s event, and we think we’ve gathered Friends of Mystery ...... 17 some great committee members and Guests of Honor and planned a Toastmaster: convention you’ll enjoy and remember. Gar Anthony Haywood ...... 19 Special Guest: Phillip Margolin ...... 23 Among our program’s highlights are on-stage interviews with three incredible authors: two bestsellers from the great city of Portland— Crimelandia Charity: SMART ...... 25 Chelsea Cain and Philip Margolin—plus the talented and versatile The First Fifteen Years of Timothy Hallinan, who splits his writing and living between Tailand Left Coast Crime ...... 27 and California. At the banquet Saturday night, Phil and Tim will also Program Participants ...... 33 auction of a character name in their next novels, so get your check- Left Coast Crime Awards ...... 77 books ready. All auction proceeds will beneft SMART (Start Making Past Left Coast Crime Awards ...... 78 a Reader Today), which helps children throughout Oregon jumpstart Who’s Here From Where? ...... 83 their love of reading. The LCC 2015 Committee ...... 87 Te panel programming looks especially interesting this year and Acknowledgments ...... 87 was masterminded by the creative and talented Johnny Shaw, who’s Thank You to Our Sponsors ...... 87 also one of the nominees for the Rose Award for Best Novel. Be sure Book & Magazine Donations for to thank him when you see him! Book Bags ...... 87 The LCC National Committee ...... 87 Special thanks also to Stan Ulrich and Lucinda Surber, who dedi- Book Dealers ...... 88 cated countless hours to making sure this convention (and many oth- Hotel Floor Plan ...... 89 ers before it) stayed on track. We’re also grateful for the assistance of Kendra Elliot-Boucher for coordinating the Silent Auction, Lisa Alber Check the bulletin board for pulling together the Writers Workshop, Doc Macomber for flling by the Registration Table in everywhere, and Janet Rudolph for helping publicize Crimelandia. for latest news, programming Still curious about the Crimelandia name? It’s a play on the hit changes, announcements, etc. show Portlandia, based here in our host city. Tanks also to the doz- Look for opportunities to net- ens of volunteers who will make this convention run smoothly (we work and dine out with other hope!) and the hundreds of attendees who joined us this year. registrants.

—L.J. Sellers and Bill Cameron © Left Coast Crime, Inc., a 501(c) (3) organization.

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Schedule

All interviews, breakfasts, receptions, and the banquet will be in the Lloyd Center Ballroom. Check the hotel map inside the backcover for the locations of special events, panels, and more. Wednesday, March 11 9 am – 4 pm Writing Workshop with April Henry and Robert Dugoni (ticketed separately) 3 pm – 5 pm Registration, Doubletree Foyer Thursday, March 12 9:30 am – 4 pm Registration 11:30 am Panels Begin 4 pm – 5 pm Interview with Special Guest Phillip Margolin 6 pm Welcome Reception Friday, March 13 7:30 am – 9 am Continental Breakfast featuring New Writers—Hosted by Mike Befeler 8:30 am – 4 pm Registration 9 am – 3:30 pm Panels Continue 4 pm – 5 pm Interview with Guest of Honor Timothy Hallinan 6 pm Left Coast Crime 25th Anniversary Celebration Saturday, March 14 7:30 am – 9 am Sisters in Crime “Ask an Expert” Breakfast Te Harriet Vane Chapter of Sisters in Crime, established in 1994, is pleased to partner with National Sisters in Crime for a special “Ask an Expert” breakfast on Saturday, March 14. Catriona McPherson, President of the National Chapter of Sisters in Crime, Leslie Budewitz, Vice President, G.M. Malliet, Board Member At Large, and Simon Wood, head of SinC Publicity, will be there and so should you! 8:30 am – 4 pm Registration 9am – 3:30 pm Panels Continue 1:30 pm Awards Ballots must be deposited in Ballot Box near Registration Table by 1:30 PM 4 pm – 5 pm Interview with Guest of Honor Chelsea Cain 6 pm Cash Bar in the Doubletree Foyer 7 pm Awards Banquet Sunday, March 15 9:30 am – Noon Panels Conclude

ρ Registration: Doubletree Foyer. Hours: Wednesday, ρ New Writers and Sisters in Crime Breakfasts: Please 3 pm - 5 pm: Tursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm: Friday & note that seating is limited. Saturday 8:30 am - 4 pm. ρ Hospitality: Te Hospitality Room, hosted by LCC ρ Book Signings follow each panel session in the Volunteers, is located in the rear of the Gather Lounge. Doubletree Foyer. Hours: Tursday: 1 pm - 4 pm, Friday & Saturday: 10 ρ Silent Auction is ongoing in the Book Room (Wil- am - 4 pm, Sunday, 8:30 am - 10:30 am. lamette Ballroom), starting Tursday and continuing ρ Book Dealers are in the Willamette Ballroom on the through the pre-banquet cocktail party on Saturday. main foor. Hours: Tursday, 1 pm - 5 pm; Friday & ρ Volunteers: If you’d like to help out, check in at the Saturday, 9 am - 5 pm; Sunday, 9 am - noon. Registration Table in the Foyer. ρ Don’t forget to vote! Your LCC Awards Ballot is in- ρ Book Exchange: Please use the table marked “Book cluded in your registration packet. Awards Ballots must Exchange” to trade books and magazines. be deposited in Ballot Box near Registration Table by ρ Promotions: Please use the table marked “Promotions” 1:30 pm on Saturday. for bookmarks, postcards, and other publicity.

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 3 CONGRATULATIONS to BEST FIRST MYSTERY nominees ALLEN ESKENS and LORI RADER-DAY!

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WHERE FICTION IS A CRIME • WWW.SEVENTHSTREETBOOKS.COM Panel Schedule ALASKA It Takes Two To Tango: Tango: To Two Takes It Couples Crime-Solving Whittle (M) Tina Crow Black Dorothy Delaney Wendy Lori L. Lake Staab Rochelle What Every Media: Social to Know Needs Author (M) Trowbridge Sue Ki f er Brown Cochran Stacey f Go Victoria Chantelle Aimée Osman Outside?: Go To I Have Do & in the at the Desk Research Field (M) Odell Terry Erickson Jack Giambanco V.M. Hornsby Wendy E. Kaufman Andrew OREGON e Art of the Size T e Art Matters: StoryShort (M) Richardson Travis Kirchner Bharti J Ledford Deborah Lopresti Robert T ornton Brian CulinaryWinos: & Foodies Mysteries (M) Haven Heather Kathy Aarons R.M. Cartmel Cates Bailey MacInerney Karen To How Fresh: Stay Gotta Getting from a Series Keep Stale (M) Delany Vicki Berkom D.V. Clark Becky Donlay Philip Lawson Mike BROADWAY Introduction to LCC Introduction Rudolph Janet Romantic and Roses: Guns Fiction in Crime Elements Ann Bell Donnell Dusenbury Patricia Elliot Kendra Kohano Yvonne Price Carole & Jobs Odd a Living: It’s Professions Strange (M) f e Hull Linda Jo Kaehler Tammy Camille Minichino S. Napier Robert Vallere Diane the the Scalpel: Getting Pass & Science Right Medicine (M) Burley John Anderson Van Richard H.S. Clark Lyle (Doug) D.P. Liz Osborne MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY e First Time: Writing Writing Time: T e First I Had Wish Lessons I Learned A Lot Earlier Chance (M) Maia Buckingham Royce Chercover Sean Crouch Blake Goldman Joel the Writing Yesterday: Just 20th Century Historical Novel Dawson Janet Burgess Timothy Drew Cynthia Gulley Patricia Tittle Keith Di ﬀ erent Road: Winding T e to Publication Paths (M) Reed Deborah Ames Heather Mathews Ellen Ann Parker Shames Terry : OOM • panels. immediately following Book signings take place in the Foyer • for the latest printed information. Program the Pocket subject to change. See assignments are Panel • {M) indicated by are Moderators R 1:00-2:00 2:30-3:30 11:30-12:30 Thursday, March 12 Thursday, March

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 5 PANEL SCHEDULE ALASKA Mean Streets: Pulp Detectives Detectives Pulp Streets: Mean & Present of the Past (M) Mertz Stephen BerryDale Lewis Evan Wallace E. William Wohlforth Tim Buy My Book! Buy My Book!: My Buy Book! My Buy of Marketing Art T e Subtle (M) Kaye Dana Kathe Gibb Maryglenn McCombs Mary Putnam Williams Sarah the Keeping Twist: T e Do Guessing Audience M.H. Callway (M) Ray Daniel Dugoni Robert Elliot Kendra Fradkin Barbara OREGON Death in a Small Town: Town: in a Small Death Crime & Suburban Rural Fiction (M) Shames Terry Leslie Budewitz Cooley (M.P.) Martha G.M. Malliet Cindy Sample at Body Get Did T at Body Get How Sleuth T e Amateur T ere?: (M) Lori Rader-Day Allen Eskens Jager Paty Petty Barbara Schneider Ilene Far?: Too Go You Can in Fiction Violence (M) Munn Vella Beaumont Maegan Hilary Davidson Hillier Jennifer Robinson Todd BROADWAY rey Siger f rey Foreign Correspondents: Correspondents: Foreign Settings International (M) Aileen Baron Battles Brett Hallinan Timothy Je Williams Timothy at Was My Idea: Idea: My Was T at with a Co- Collaborating Author (M) Lee Goldberg Charlotte Elkins Keenan Rosemarie Keenan Vince Lovett Sarah T e & Quilts: Cats Just Not of the Cozy Evolution (M) Angela Sanders Chausée Marta f Christine Go McAndrews Jennifer Make Up Your Mind: Mind: Your Up Make T an One in More Writing Genre (M) Chris Holm D.J. Adamson Ames Heather S.G. Redling Simonson Sheila T e Children: For Safe Not Story Crime Adult Young Bosworth (M) Jennifer Bull Warren Linda Gerber Henry April Summer Mary Elizabeth (Breakfast Cleanup) (Breakfast MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY e Taste of Copper and the of Copper Taste T e Clichés in of Cordite: Smell Fiction Crime Corbett (M) David Lisa Alber Crouch Blake Fitzhugh Bill Ziskin James a Crime: Laughing Ain’t in Crime Humor Balancing Fiction (M) Catriona McPherson Befeler Mike Cindy Brown Haven Heather Smith Helen :

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6 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND PANEL SCHEDULE ALASKA ALASKA Pantsers & Plotters: & Plotters: Pantsers to Story Idea From (M) MacInerney Karen Chance Maia Anne Cleeland Pandian Gigi Lori Rader-Day e Not-So-Long & Not-So- T e Not-So-Long T e Return of the of It: Short Novella T ornton (M) Brian Allison Brennan Buehler Stephen Barry Graham Richardson Travis of the T e Role Represent: Publishing Today’s in Agent Cochran (M) Stacey Kimberley Cameron Chip MacGregor Ruley Meg OREGON OREGON Our Fine Furry Friends: Friends: Furry Fine Our in Mysteries Animals (M) Curtis Waverly Andrews Donna Beason Pamela Cherie O’Boyle Weber Tracy Broken Spines & Cracked & Cracked Spines Broken Crimes Book-Related Hinges: Calkins (M) Susanna Kate Carlisle Chase Erika Gates) (Eva Delany Vicki McKinley Jenn Researching Digging the Past: Novel the Historical (M) Ann Parker Annamaria Al f eri Ramsay Frederic Cathy Rogers Saylor Steven BROADWAY BROADWAY Talking Shop: Getting Law Getting Shop: Talking Right Details Enforcement f n (M) Gri Neal Kirschman Ellen Odell Terry Plantinga Adam Putnam David Say It Again, Sam: What Sam: Again, It Say Dialogue? Great Makes (M) Haynes Dana Lou Berney Graham Barbara Rita Lakin Sears Michael Reading?: You What Are Share T ose in the Know T eir Favorites (M) Neubauer Ruth Erica Foster Jordan Luce Tom Rudolph Janet Weinman Sarah She Said, She Said: Writing Writing Said: She Said, She Protagonist the Female (M) Gardiner Meg Lisa Fernow James Darrell McNamara Frances Sojka Carole & the Mexico South: Gone Border Mexican (M) Shaw Johnny Lisa Brackmann Dilts Tyler Fayman Lynn Corey Lohr Clark (Breakfast Cleanup) (Breakfast MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY at A Gun in Your Your in T at A Gun Is Panel T e Sex Pocket?: (M) Lourey Jess Chelsea Cain f e Hull Linda Jo West Holly Wood Simon Discuss FBI Agents Five Jobs Various T eir : : OOM OOM R R 1:30-2:15 2:45-3:30 9:00-9:45 • (M) indicated by are Moderators • (M) indicated by are Moderators Friday, March 13. continued Friday, March 14 March Saturday,

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 7 PANEL SCHEDULE ALASKA Pantsers & Plotters: & Plotters: Pantsers to Story Idea From (M) MacInerney Karen Chance Maia Anne Cleeland Pandian Gigi Lori Rader-Day Folk Heroes of the Northwest: of the Northwest: Heroes Folk Bigfoot, and D.B. Cooper, Mysteries Other Sullivan Bill by Presentation Away: & Far Long Ago History to Bring to a How Contemporary Audience (M) West Holly Dunn Carola Fey Yves Newman Sharan Roberts Maddox John Living, Creating Alive: It’s Characters Breathing (M) Andi Shechter Brantley Peg Clement John Hill Russell Wishnia Kenneth OREGON Our Fine Furry Friends: Friends: Furry Fine Our in Mysteries Animals (M) Curtis Waverly Andrews Donna Beason Pamela Cherie O’Boyle Weber Tracy Write What You Know: Know: You What Write into Experiences Personal Stories (M) M. Jackson James Hamilton Erik Glen Christine Kling Raimondo Lynne Whittle Tina & Lowdown: Sweet Summit A Cozy/Noir (M) Holm Katrina Niidas Dennison Hannah Loehfelm Bill Stallings Josh Wingate Marty the Making Pace: Lightning Story Move (M) Dugoni Robert Capri Diane Lawson Mike Cathy Perkins Ralph Sanborn BROADWAY Talking Shop: Getting Law Getting Shop: Talking Right Details Enforcement f n (M) Gri Neal Kirschman Ellen Odell Terry Plantinga Adam Putnam David Self-Publishing, Traditional Traditional Self-Publishing, Publishing & Hybrid: Options f (M) Go Victoria Anna Castle Swank Grover Denise Lindsey Rod M. Louisa Locke Setting Too: People Are Places as Character (M) Coyle Matt Cathy Ace Matthews Jeanne Nolan Terri West G. Nancy Count: Word Every Make Short a Great What Makes Story? (M) Robinson Todd Buck Faustus Craig M. Chen Sarah MacRae Andrew Vandenberg Jennifer e Spies Have It: It: Have T e Spies Espionage International (M) Battles Brett Chambers Diana Art Kerns Quinn Ryan Tigner Tim as the Novel T e Crime Novel Social Modern (M) Barry Graham Lisa Brackmann Harrison Ivie Mette Osborne J. David Wiebe Sam Crime of Mind: State Oregon State in the Beaver Berry (M) Mysti Cameron Bill Haynes Dana Kristelle James Macomber Doc (Breakfast Cleanup) (Breakfast MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY Pants on Fire: A Liars Panel A Liars on Fire: Pants (M) Wood Simon Holm Chris F. Lourey Jess Catriona McPherson Shaw Johnny What Makes Hate: To Loving Villain? a Great (M) Allison Brennan Chelsea Cain Corbett David Laurie R. King Chercover Sean T at: Wrote Been T ere, Show T e Game (M) Anthony Haywood Gar Hilary Davidson Gardiner Meg Hallinan Timothy Lyle (Doug) D.P. : OOM R 9:00-9:45 1:30-2:15 • (M) indicated by are Moderators 10:15-11:00 11:30-12:15 Saturday, March 14, continued March Saturday,

8 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND PANEL SCHEDULE ALASKA ALASKA Lovely, Dark, & Deep: What & Deep: Dark, Lovely, a LiteraryMakes Mystery? (M) Addiego John Bosworth Jennifer Calkins Susanna Hansen Vinnie Reed Deborah What California Dreaming: a California Such Makes Setting? Great (M) Staab Rochelle Carline Gayle Coyle Matt Hagan Nan Preston Mar of Be a Part Can You How Crime!!! Left Coast Committee Standing LCC OREGON OREGON Female Writers of the Recent of the Recent Writers Female Past (M) Weinman Sarah Randal Brandt Goldman Joel Topkis Maggie T e Rainbow: Reading Writing Challenge of Characters LGBTQ Lori L. Lake (M) Chandler Jessie Laurie R. King Royal Priscilla L.J. Sellers Work: Own Your Editing to Rewriting Approaches Schlosser (M) David Dennison Hannah Janeway Judith Lucke Margaret Margolin Phillip BROADWAY BROADWAY Bench Presses: Small Small Bench Presses: Lifting do Heavy Publishers (M) Rosenwald Robert Lee Goldberg Martz Matt Nuckolls Baird Osborne J. David in the Air: Magic Suspense Paranormal (M) Wilberg Dänna Cates Bailey Sauer-Folger Joni Webb Wendy Winters Cat or Fight: Forty Fifty-Four in the Paciﬁc Crime Northwest (M) Kate Dyer-Seeley E.R. Brown C. Easley Warren Moody Skye Waiwaiole Lono Without a Fedora: a Fedora: Without in Noir Directions New Lewis (M) Evan Charlton Baer Downs Robert Hobbs Roger Wright Bret Expenses: Plus $100 a Day in the 21st Eye T e Private Century Anderson (M) Richard Dawson Janet Hall Parnell Anthony Haywood Gar Rosengren Clive Murder Outdoors: T e Great in Nature (M) Christine Finlayson Baker Shannon Christine Carbo R.J. Harlick Stevens Mark MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY MULTNOMAH HOLLADAY f Layton Stephen Mertz Stephen Legalities, Legalities: the Law to Crime Applying Fiction (M) Isaacson Ken Burrell Teresa Margolin Phillip Charles Rosenberg Siegel Sheldon & Chills: T e T rills, Spills T riller Modern (M) Lovett Sarah Allen Stacy Kaufman Andrew Je & Don’ts T e Dos One Star: to Reviews of Reacting (M) Charles Rosenberg Cameron Bill Kaye Dana Christine Kling Moore Sharon : : OOM OOM R R 2:45-3:30 • (M) indicated by are Moderators • (M) indicated by are Moderators 9:30-10:30 11:00-12:00 Saturday, March 14, continued March Saturday, 15 Sunday, March

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Praising Cain

BY JORDAN FOSTER f you’re not careful, Chelsea Cain might kill you. seriously. Stop. Head straight to the Book Room. Or, IShe may even Kill You Twice, even if she is Portland’s if you’re up for a feld trip, get your coat—you’re in crime-writing Sweetheart. All it would take is One Portland so it’s probably raining—and walk, drive, or Kick. But for all the grisly bike (remember the Port- deaths, seductive serial land thing?) to the nearest killers, scarred-in-more- bookstore and pick up ways-than-one detectives, a copy of Heartsick and and kidnapped young One Kick. If you’re a women righting the digital devotee and/or world’s wrongs in Cain’s you’re currently sitting in two series, you know the audience at Left Coast what you won’t fnd? Crime in Portland wait- Bad puns. I take full ing for a panel to start, it’s responsibility for those. perfectly acceptable to Cain’s humor is as darkly buy both—yes, both—ti- original as her plots. And tles for your Kindle or it’s wonderful. It doesn’t other e-reader. get nearly enough credit. Heartsick introduces Tere aren’t many writers readers to troubled Port- who can reliably make land cop Archie Sheridan you laugh and recoil in who’s back on the job horror in the space of a after being tortured and page. Cain belongs in then released by Gretch- this select group. en Lowell, a serial killer Don’t let your chuck- he tracked with the rest Laura Domela ling lull you into a false of the Beauty Killer task sense of security, though. force. Dearest Gretchen is Organs will be ripped out. Corps- easy on your eyes, until she gouges es will be displayed on prominent them out with a scalpel in a rest stop Portland landmarks. Numerous bathroom and carves a heart in your characters will be tortured. Te body chest. Or something equally roman- toll after seven books will be substan- tic. It’s the complicated relationship tial. In short, be prepared for physical between Archie, Gretchen, and and psychological carnage. Cain’s reporter Susan Ward that mutates long-running series, after all, does and evolves over the course of six feature serial killer Gretchen Lowell books—so far—that keeps readers as a main character (and even crime coming back. It’s also the reason to fction novices know that murder read the series in order. Tat and to doesn’t land one in a cushy minimum keep an accurate record of all the security prison). If your frst intro- shades of Manic Panic that Susan duction to Chelsea Cain is seeing dyes her hair. her name in the preceding paragraph For all of you who just read about of this essay, stop reading now. No, Gretchen Lowell’s penchant for

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knives and thought, “well, thanks, I’ll Prius. Tis cunning insight is clearly never sleep again,” One Kick is for you. one of the many reasons why she is 21-year-old Kick Lannigan, as her a New York Times bestselling author name implies, kicks ass. Kidnapped at (and I am not). age six and rescued at 11, Kick is not But I’m not Chelsea Cain’s publi- a vigilante. She does, however, help cist. My job doesn’t depend on wheth- missing kids, thanks to her impressive er or not a certain percentage of you skill set, which isn’t kind one learns buy her books. Perhaps this will mean from the Common Core in college. more because no one is making me say Equally handy with knives and guns, it: I genuinely hope you read Heartsick Kick can pick locks—including and keep going straight through until handcufs—and break out of a car Let Me Go. You can mourn the tempo- trunk. Reliable sources tell me that it rary loss of Archie, Susan, and Gretch- is much more difcult to pick a set of en in the time it takes for you to put handcufs with a bent paper clip than down Go and pick up One Kick, and it looks, especially compared to the then fall in love all over again with how-to guides available online. Kick Lannigan. If you pace yourself, And by “reliable sources,” I mean you may not have to wait too long for me. I should really wait to pitch this a new installment: rumor has it Kick to a TV executive eager for the next #2 is on the horizon later this year. hot reality program but Cain and I at- Are you still undecided? Do you tempted, for over an hour, to un-cuf need more in the “Cain is Cool” col- ourselves in her home ofce, using umn? Not to get too alliterative but a variety of paper clips, the Internet, here are some things Chelsea Cain and the relevant passages from One champions: corgis (she has one, plus Kick. We were not successful. Neither a Boston Terrier, who’s very cute); was her daughter, but she was nine at comics (she reads them); Converse the time; now that she’s 10 it seems (she rocks them); Criminal Intent (of only fair that she gets another shot. the Law & Order variety, which she Luckily, the handcufs—police-issue watches); cinema (she watches it, too, courtesy of the Internet—came with along with husband Marc Mohan, two keys, in addition to the bag of who’s a flm critic for Te Oregonian); universal handcuf keys Cain had and, of course, crime (she doesn’t purchased for an upcoming Kick commit it but she probably knows event. How many other authors do more about it than you do). Above all, you know who have universal hand- Cain is one of the coolest, funniest, cuf keys just lying around? I suggest- most generous people I know. She’s ed we try escaping from her car trunk also the frst person I’ll call if I ever but Cain patiently pointed out that it fnd a body. wouldn’t be much of a challenge in a

12 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND Conversations with Timohy Hallinan

BY BRETT BATTLES AND BRUCE DESILVA

Brett Battles For a while, Tim Hallinan writing is stronger than my and I both wrote at the aptly anxiety about writing, and named Novel Café in Santa it forces me to get to work. Monica. I never saw Tim Music lessens that, and oc- write when he wasn’t wearing casionally the music and the headphones. Often, he’d be words become one thing, and drumming on the table, and I can write for quite a while mouthing the words. When I with no anxiety at all. Tat was asked to interview him, I happens without music, too, knew that was what I want to but not often. ask about. Finally, like cofee, music Brett Battles: Do you al- supplies energy. For those ways listen to music as you stretches in which the story write? is moving along, what I want Hallinan: Almost. Te ex- is just good, reliable energy, ceptions are the days when which I get from rock and the scene has already written roll and country. Keeps the itself in my head and I have mind open and the words to get it down before I forget fowing. it. Otherwise, there’s always It almost seems like you cre- some playlist cranking as I ate a soundtrack for every work. book you write. Is that how you feel about it? What does music do for your writing? I sometimes try to match the music to the writing. It builds a bell jar in which it’s just me, the music, the An example: I’ve obviously never had the experi- story, and the keyboard. Writing isn’t that diferent ence of being a woman. Fortunately, popular music from dreaming, and is full of amazing music can provide a women who write soundtrack for the and perform their day’s dream. own work, so I get It also helps me not only the female manage anxiety. perspective, but also I have a certain their spirit and emo- amount of perma- tions. nent anxiety when And then there’s I’m writing. My mood. Right now “writing routine” is I’m in the middle essentially waiting of a dark suspense each day until my scene that will open anxiety about not the fnal act of King

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Maybe, the ffth Junior Bender book, and could not be happier that he’s able and I’m using Beethoven’s late string to do it full time. His new Quinn quartets, which are full of dissonance thriller, Te Buried, will be out later and dynamic shakeups. this month. Do you have certain go-to artists? Who are they and what draws you Bruce DeSilva to them over and over? Bruce DeSilva: You have two series Dylan, especially the middle period going, one featuring an American from “Blonde On Blonde” through journalist in Bangkok, and the the beginning of the “born again” era. other a Los Angeles burglar. How He was surfng a creative tsunami of do you manage two books a year creativity at that point. I’ve written and remain sane—or am I making probably 70 or 80 pages to his 8-9 a false assumption? minute masterpiece of undependable Hallinan: It’s a false assumption. I narrative, “Brownsville Girl.” missed the deadline for the 2013 Brett Battles counts among his favorite writers Ha- Raferty book, For the Dead. I actually live chin-deep ruki Murakami, Stephen King, Graham Greene, and in a freezing tidepool of anxiety. Timothy Hallinan. He writes thrillers, telling stories Te Raferty novels are dark and literary. Te of espionage, the every man hero, post- apocalyptical Bender novels verge on slapstick-noir. How can survival, and time travel…so far. He loves telling stories, you be two diferent writers at the same time?

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Te big diference is voice. Voice changes everything. and it’s Poke’s, who arrived there as a Western adult. Te Poke books are written in a close third person, If the city feels three-dimensional, maybe it’s because which I try to keep neutral; ideally, it should to be a we see multiple perspectives. window through which we see the story. It shouldn’t Junior’s Los Angeles is a burglar’s L.A. A burglar call attention to itself. sees expensive houses diferently than someone with Te Juniors are in his frst person, which is devi- a map to the stars’ homes. To a crook, what realtors ous, skeptical, and crooked. Tere’s call a cul de sac is just a dead end. as much injustice and violence in I’d look at your living room and a Bender as there is in a Raferty. say something like “Nice rug,” and It’s the voice that makes them so Junior would be spotting everything diferent. worth pocketing. Graham Greene sometimes divid- Writers tend to shrivel unless they ed his novels into literature and grow. What can you do to get bet- entertainments. You consider the ter with each novel? Raferty novels more “serious” than I think all good work is done on the Bender books, but I think that tiptoe. You have to stretch to grow. Bender is today’s Los Angeles as Next year’s Poke, Te Hot Coun- Raymond Chandler would have tries, is about guys in their seventies written it. who came to Bangkok straight from I love Greene, but I hate that division Vietnam, one of whom has early of his work into books and some- Alzheimer’s. I’d never done anything thing less than books. I think catego- like that before. rizing fction in genres is meretricious Te challenge with Junior is keep- and insulting. A good book is a good ing him convincing without making book. Yes, some books are better him Te Hallmark Burglar, stealing than others. But you don’t catch art from the bad and leaving sparkly historians specializing in Renaissance gifts for the kiddies. frescoes saying “Giotto was an artist What recent books do you most but Taddeo Gaddi was a cartoonist.” admire? Fiction exists largely to allow us Te Bone Clocks to live lives we otherwise couldn’t. David Mitchell’s Te Color of Te revelation of character by crisis and Wendy Hornsby’s Light is a basic mechanism of virtually all . And I just fnished the ARC of A Scourge of Vipers fction, no matter what “genre.” your 2015 book, , the best yet in your wonderful Liam Bangkok and Los Angeles come to Mulligan series. life as characters in their own right. Despite growing up in a little mill Tell us about the importance of town bereft of metaphors, assonance, setting in your work. and irony, Bruce DeSilva has won the Edgar and Ma- I think of setting as the interaction between character cavity Awards, and has been published in ten languages. and place. He’s married to the acclaimed poet Patricia Smith. His Raferty’s Bangkok is actually several Bangkoks. fourth novel, A Scourge of Vipers, will be published on It’s Miaow’s, a child abandoned on the sidewalk. It’s April 7. Rose’s, forced into the sex trade there as a teenager;

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Fan Guests of Honor: Friends of Mystery

BY BILL CAMERON y frst real encounter with the Friends of Mystery and solving of crime. Five times a year FOM hosts Mwas at Left Coast Crime in Seattle in 2007. It was Bloody Tursdays, public events that feature speak- my frst LCC, and I was attending as an almost debut ers covering a range of topics. Mystery and thriller author. In my hands I had a couple of precious ARCs authors most often speak at Bloody Tursdays, but of Lost Dog, due out two months hence, with no idea guests have also included private investigators, police what I was supposed to do with them. ofcers and detectives, forensic specialists, district Fortunately, Elinore Rogers, then president of attorneys, investigative journalists, and even the Friends of Mystery, helped me out. At the banquet— former Attorney General of the state of Oregon. (In shortly after Parnell Hall performed—she waved me the interests of full disclosure, I should note that one over to her table. “Your book will be out soon, right? of the prosecutors who spoke was my own son-in-law, Te Spotted Owl Commit- an all around great fellow tee would love to read it, if in his own right.) you’ve got a copy.” Why, yes. Friends of Mystery also I do! But how, I wondered, gives out an annual award, did she know? Sure, we’d the Spotted Owl, for Best met briefy at one of the Mystery by a Northwest Friends of Mystery Bloody Author. First awarded in Tursday events the previ- 1996, winners include Kate ous fall, but at that point Wilhelm, Kris (Nelscott) I’d been painfully shy, so I’d Rusch, Lowen Clausen, mentioned my forthcoming Alan Bradley, Earl Em- debut very quietly, below erson, John Straley, Tom the threshold of actual Mitcheltree, L.L. Trasher, sound, and thereby saved Marcia Simpson, G.M. myself the pain of the rejec- Ford, Kevin O’Brien, Mike tion I fully expected. Doogan, Mike Lawson, Of course, if you’ve met Dana Haynes, Ingrid Toft, Elinore, or any of the long Crimelandia Special Guest time executive committee Phil Margolin, Crimelandia members of the Friends of Mystery, you know my Program Coordinator Johnny Shaw, and—ahem—lit- terror was wholly unfounded. A nicer, more welcom- tle ol’ me. ing group of folks you won’t fnd anywhere. Teir So while you’re here for Crimelandia, keep an eye delight in mysteries and thrillers is deep and infec- out for our Friends of Mystery guests—identifed tious. In addition to their love of established voices, by the FOM logo on their name badges. One of the they’re always on the lookout for newcomers to the founding members of Friends of Mystery, Jay Mar- genre, which is why Elinore so graciously reached guilies, will be interviewing Phil Margolin on stage. out to me. Te Friends of Mystery isn’t just the name Carrie Richards, Jeannette Voss, and Sheila Sweet of the organization, it’s the very essence of who they will also be in attendance—lovely ladies you may are—friends, supporters, cheerleaders and more. have met at other mystery conventions. Be sure to So what is Friends of Mystery, exactly? Based in say hello, and when you do, be ready for a fun and Portland, the organization is a non-proft dedicated freewheeling conversation about the joys of the books to the study and promotion of all aspects of mystery, we all love so much. including fction, true crime, and the investigation You’ll be glad you did.

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 17 “DYING FOR A DUDE” CONGRATULATIONS by Cindy Sample 2015 LEFTY AWARD FINALIST Jess and Terri on your nominations “DYING FOR A DUDE is a humorous, action- packed cozy mystery that will keep you guessing right up to the very satisfying ending.” Jess Lourey –Romance Junkies January Thaw “Sample’s sleuth is an Nominated for the Lefty-Best Humerous endearing character Mystery Novel readers will adore.” –RT Book Reviews 978-0-7387-3875-8

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www.MidnightInkBooks.com Toastmaster: Gar Anthony Haywood

BY LEE GOLDBERG e all know Gar Anthony Haywood as one of the lenges prolifc authors to correctly identify passages Wfriendliest, funniest, and most talented guys in that they did, or did not, write. the publishing business. And yet, it’s only in the last By popular demand, Been Tere, Wrote Tat year that he’s found his true calling. returned for Bouchercon in Long Beach, where Gar brilliantly channeled Gene Rayburn, Nipsey Russell and Paul Lynde to the delight of all assembled. And the show will no doubt return, with ever-more-aston- ishing sets and even bigger-name authors, many times in the years to come. All of which makes him the perfect, inescapable, no-brainer choice as this year’s Toastmaster…and what makes this a historic moment for you, the Left Crime attendee…bigger even than the frst time Parnell Hall sung the Waldenbooks song 11,378 performances ago. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to see Gar on stage so you can say to your grandchildren one day, “yes, I was there, the instant the magic happened and the legend began.” But how well do any of us really know Gar Anthony Haywood? In the spirit of Been Tere, Wrote Tat, take this handy multiple choice test and fnd out. You’ll It’s not writing novels, despite creating not one, fnd the correct answers at the end of the this article. but two acclaimed series—the hard-boiled Aaron 1. Which of these is the working title for Gar’s next Gunners and the light-hearted Loudermilks—and Aaron Gunner novel? ripping of Elmore Leonard with delirious perfection Only the Dead Are Fearless in two standalone thrillers. a) Black Is Te New Orange It’s not screenwriting, despite writing Kim Jong- b) Te Loser Digs the Graves Un’s all-time favorite movie, Bad As I Wanna Be: Te c) Dennis Rodman Story. 2. Which TV tie-in novel did Gar’s father refuse to And its not acting, despite his compelling, searing buy the young, aspiring writer because he knew, performance as a cop in the trailer for Michael Con- without even reading it, that it was total crap? nelly’s novel Echo Park. a) Starsky and Hutch by Max Franklin No, Gar’s true calling is game show host, a natural, b) Cannon: Murder by Gemini by Richard Galla- God-given talent that he discovered at last year’s Left gher Coast Crime in Monterey. It was at that conference c) Te Man from U.N.C.L.E.: Te Doomsday Afair that he created, wrote, produced, and hosted what by Harry Whittington promises to be his enduring legacy: the big money game show Been Tere, Wrote Tat, in which he chal-

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 19 3. In 1987, when Gar won the St. Martin’s Press/Pri- BOOKS vate Eye Writers of the Year Best First Private Eye Novel award for Fear In the Dark, which launched his publishing career, he’d been working for years as a: a) computer repairman b) bartender c) car salesman 4. What TV detective show infuenced Gar the most in the creation of PI Aaron Gunner? d) Mannix e) Peter Gunn f) Tenafy 5. Where the hell does Gar’s name come from? a) It’s short for “gargantuan,” a refection of his parents’ belief in the enormity of his talent and his personal potential for greatness. b) He’s named after James A. Garfeld, our 20th U.S. President, known for appointing several African-Americans to prominent positions in his administration. He was assassinated after only 200 days in ofce. c) He’s named after a garfsh, a pelagic, oceano- dromous needlefsh found in the brackish and marine waters of the Eastern Atlantic. 6. What celebrity is he most proud to count as a fan of his books? a) President Bill Clinton b) Poet Nikki Giovanni c) Porn Star Jenna Jameson 7. Where does Gar get his intimate knowledge about the dark, mean streets of L.A.? a) From a homeless poet and street musician named T-Bill. b) From reading the Los Angeles Times each morn- ing c) From frequent ride-alongs with veteran cops 8. What is Gar Haywood’s pseudonym? a) Ray Stryker Discover more award-winning, widely acclaimed authors, and download a free novel, at b) Ray Steele www.Brash-books.com c) Ray Shannon

20 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND TOASTMASTER: GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD

Te correct answers to the Gar Anthony Haywood 6. Nikki Giovanni. Gar says: “I think I’m most proud quiz are: of being a favorite author of Nikki Giovanni, who actually attended a signing of mine in Washington 1 Te Loser Digs the Graves . D.C. several years ago.” 2 Starsky and Hutch . . Gar says: “He laughed in my 7. Te Los Angeles Times. Gar says: “I know absolutely face and told me if I wanted him to plunk down nothing about the streets and that’s the way I like his hard-earned cash for a book, I’d have to do it. What I do know about the streets I get from the that better than piece of crap.” metro section of the Los Angeles Times.” 3 . Computer Repair Man. Gar says: “I begged my 8. Ray Shannon. Gar says: “It was a joint decision manager—I was working full-time as a computer between myself and Putnam, though I must admit technician in those days—to let me write in our El to having some second thoughts post-publication. Segundo ofce a few nights every week. He agreed, Despite some great reviews, all I ended up with and so I began to write, at least part of the time, were two examples of some of my best writing alone in an empty ofce building with just the that many of my fans still don’t know I wrote.” book in my head.” (But now those terrifc books, Man Eater and 4. Peter Gunn. Gar says: “I knew early on that Gun- Firecracker, are back-in-print under his own name ner would operate much in the same way that the from Brash Books.) television detective who inspired his name—Peter Gunn—did, which is to say, out of an unusual workspace (a barbershop instead of a jazz club) and with the aid of a large cast of colorful friends and informants. Even Lilly Tennell, who owns the z New for Spring from Perseverance Press Acey Deuce bar where Gunner conducts a great deal of his business, was intended to be my take on Cold Trail the owner/operator of Peter Gunn’s favorite jazz A Jeri Howard Mystery Janet Dawson club, Mother’s.” “One of Dawson’s most compelling—a fast-paced search in which Jeri has a very personal stake.” —Marcia Muller ISBN 978-1-56474-555-2 216 pages · $15.95 · trade paperback

Manhattan in Miniature A Miniature Mystery Margaret Grace 5. Gar fsh. Gar says: “I supposed being named for “Start spreadin’ the news! Man- hattan in Miniature is fun, festive, an assassinated president would make for a more and—despite the title—big on exciting story, but the truth is I was named after heart.” a garfsh. For those who aren’t familiar with the —J. J. Murphy ISBN 978-1-56474-562-0 species, it looks like a small barracuda with the 232 pages · $15.95 · trade paperback

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Special Guest: Phillip Margolin

BY JAY MARGUILIES hillip Margolin was born in NYC in 1944 and of Chess for Success, a non-proft charity that uses Pgrew up in Levittown, Long Island. After grad- chess to teach study skills to elementary and middle uating from American University in Washington, school children. Chess remains one of Margolin’s pas- D.C. in 1965, he joined the Peace Corps and served sions, along with his family, football, food, and flm. in Liberia for two years. Mentioning Phil’s In 1970, after marrying passion is a good lead-in and graduating from to a few personal remarks New York University about this remarkable law school, he and his author and friend. All of wife moved to Oregon his characteristics com- where he was a clerk to bine to make Phil one of the Chief Judge of the the most charming and Oregon Court of Appeals. persuasive people I know. Two years later he opened Tere is no hesitation, a private practice special- tentativeness, or ambiv- izing in criminal defense alence about him. He is at the trial and appellate able to focus totally on levels. During his 25 year the issue of the moment, practice he represented whether it’s fguring out a almost 30 people charged chess move or a plot turn. with homicide, including Like many of his fctional several who faced the murderers, he is a per- death penalty. He was son of extreme likes and the frst Oregon attor- dislikes. (But unlike the ney to use the Battered sociopaths in his fction, Woman’s Syndrome to his passion never becomes defend a woman accused obsession.) of murdering her spouse. Even when he is Soon after the success of his third novel, the best- wrong, as he is frequently about movies and books, seller Gone But Not Forgotten (1993), Margolin aban- his ability to argue his fawed case with charm and doned his law practice and became a full-time writer. persistence evokes not hostility but admiration. And He has published almost 20 mystery novels, many since winning is so important to him, and he’s so of them best sellers. His most recent novels include likeable and so positive that he’s right, you want him a young adult novel, Vanishing Acts, written with his to win, and begin to doubt your own view. Perhaps daughter Ami Rome, and a historical mystery, Worthy that zombie movie should have won the best picture Brown’s Daughter, based award, perhaps that on a 19th century story accused murderer is of murder and slavery innocent. In any event in Oregon. His most I know whom I would recent novel is Woman want to defend me in a With a Gun. criminal trial. About 20 years ago Margolin was a founder

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 23 Come join us in Phoenix, Arizona for… Left Coast Crime 2016: The Great Cactus Caper Guests of Honor include: Toastmaster — Catriona McPherson American Guest of Honor — Gregg Hurwitz

International Guest of Honor — Ann Cleeves Fan Guest of Honor — Chantelle Aimee Osman

Registration $235 until October 31, 2015; $275 November 1 thru Conference $195 Early Bird Registration (if purchased at LCC 2015 conference) www.leftcoastcrime2016.com Crimelandia Charity: SMART

ach Left Coast Crime Convention raises money Eto support a local literacy organization with funds raised through a silent and live auction, and the annual quilt rafe. Te grantee selected for Crimelandia is SMART— Start Making a Reader Today. All proceeds from the auction and quilt rafe will go to SMART. Anyone— reader, writer, bookseller, librarian, blogger—may donate an item for the silent auction. Founded in 1992, SMART engages community volunteers across Oregon to read one-on-one with Pre-K through third-grade children for one hour per week during the school year. SMART volunteers model reading aloud and ignite a love of reading in children, helping build literacy skills and self-conf- dence. Te students also receive up to 14 new books to take home and keep. Each year, SMART reaches thousands of Oregon children with vital one-on-one reading support, and www.getsmartoregon.org books for those who need them most.

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 25 russell hill's next novel

MARCH 2015 Available from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press New York, NY | www.pleasureboatstudio.com The First Fifeen Years of Lef Coast Crime

BY MARVIN LACHMAN

Excerpted from Chapter 24 of Marvin Lachman’s Te Heirs of Anthony Boucher: A History of Mystery Fandom (Poisoned Pen Press 2005) [used with the author’s permission]. Marvin Lachman’s history is invaluable for the longtime mystery convention-goer, and a great introduction for newcomers. Marv was Fan Guest of Honor at Left Coast Crime in Santa Fe in 2011. His latest book is Te Villainous Stage: Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End (McFarland 2014).

ne convention a year was not enough for fans, and critics—that we intend to Oand people thought of regional conventions that celebrate here.” would be more intimate than Bouchercons and in- Te frst LCC, February volve less travel. Te East Coast had had Malice Do- 15-18, 1991, at the Sir Francis mestic since 1989, and a successful Midwest Mystery Drake hotel in San Francis- & Suspense Convention was held in Omaha in 1990. co, invited two residents of nearby Sonoma County, Bryan Barrett decided to chair a Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, San Francisco conference for 1991. as Guests of Honor, and Bruce Tere was indecision as to Taylor, owner of San Francisco’s what to call it. Early ads called leading mystery bookstore, as it “Crime-One,” but it was lat- Toastmaster. Panels dealt with er referred to variously as West such local issues as the environ- Coast Crime Conference, Western ment and gay and lesbian de- Regional Mystery Conference, and tectives. Te banquet was held Left Coast Crime Conference be- in John’s Grill, a restaurant Sam fore the simpler “Left Coast Crime” Spade visited in Te Maltese Falcon. (LCC), which has proven popular, A popular attraction during LCC, was arrived at. as at San Francisco Bouchercons, Te program book said it was was Don Herron’s Dashiell Ham- celebrating two important events mett Walk. in the mystery [world]: the 150th Tat fewer than 200 people anniversary of what is generally attended was due to several factors. accepted as the frst detective story Te LCC committee did not have (by Poe) and the 50th anniversary access to a mailing list of attendees of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. at prior conferences. Also, the Gulf However, the program also acknowl- War, with threats of terrorism, had edged the growth of mysteries set made many reluctant to fy. Perhaps on the Pacifc Coast, “Perhaps the the small size of the conference freshest crimes are being commit- made it so enjoyable for many. As ted in the imaginations of our New Len Mofatt reported, “Left Coast West writers, in the solid traditions Crime was fun mostly because of Poe and Queen, to be sure, but we got to visit with friends who also on the frm basis of Chandler stepped right of of the pages of and Hammett…. It is today’s West- [mystery fan magazines].” ern states inheritors of the tradi- Donna Rankin, treasurer for the tion—authors, readers, collectors, frst Left Coast Crime, chaired the second in 1992. It remained in

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San Francisco but moved to the with Kevin Moore again as chair- Holiday Inn in Union Square. On woman. Aaron Elkins was Guest Saturday night, the Chinese New of Honor, with Carolyn G. Hart Year’s parade could be seen from as Toastmaster. Programming was the windows of the room in which limited to two tracks, allowing authors were autographing books. people to see more without having Two Washington State writers, to make difcult choices. Sex in Earl Emerson and J.A. Jance, were the mystery was discussed at many Guests of Honor, and James Lee panels. In what was becoming a Burke came from Montana to LCC tradition, there was a group be Toastmaster. Peter Davison, autographing session of authors. then playing Albert Campion on Left Coast Crime had been Mystery!, attended and was very meant for locations in the Pacifc accessible. Another attendee was and Mountain time zones, but Sara Paretsky, wearing a button some Californians questioned the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its non-coastal location of the 1995 movie,” recognition of the poor LCC at the Old Town Holiday reception given V.I. Warshawski, Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bar- the flm version of her work. Lia bara Peters of the Poisoned Pen Matera chaired a panel on social Bookstore there managed the issues, always a popular topic in convention, with Jean Hanus as San Francisco. “Fireside Chats,” chairwoman. intimate interviews and readings Two Albuquerque writers were with individual authors, was also honored. Tony Hillerman was popular; attendance at each was Guest of Honor, and Judith Van limited to ffty people. Gieson was Toastmaster. Robert Tough some hoped LCC would B. Parker was also a Special Guest. remain in the Bay Area, others P.D. James was in Scottsdale on were anxious to have it in their a book tour but didn’t attend backyards, and LCC #3 moved in LCC. Neither she nor Parker was 1993 to the Hyatt Regency Alican- at the authors’ signing Saturday te near Disneyland in Anaheim. night. Again, there were only two Kevin Moore and Kathy Johnson tracks of programs. In line with were co-chairwomen. Sue Dunlap the Southwestern location, three and Julie Smith were the Guests panels under the general title “Te of Honor, and Ann and Evan Modern Gunslinger” were held, Maxwell were Toastmasters. Atten- but they dealt with mysteries, not dance reached 400. A Sunday night Westerns. banquet was unpopular with some Left Coast Crime moved further people because it ended too late for inland in 1996 to the Clarion their trip home, and they felt they Hotel in Boulder, Colorado. Tom were forced to spend for an extra and Enid Schantz of Rue Morgue night’s lodging. Books there chaired it. Because Left Coast Crime returned to Boulder is at 7000 feet, they the Anaheim location in 1994, called this LCC “Murder with an

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Altitude.” Over 450 people attend- at library sales, garage sales, and ed. Te location provoked some second-hand stores. controversy because Boulder had In 1997, LCC came to the probably the strictest non-smoking Stoufer Renaissance (formerly code at that time in the United Madison) in Seattle, where 1994’s States. Ann Williams of Denver Bouchercon was held, with Andi registered, but cancelled when she Shechter as chairwoman. Tere learned the only place she could were joint Guests of Honor, the smoke was in her room. She said, husband-and-wife team of Jon- “Te pious majority in Boulder has athan and Faye Kellerman. Lia zero tolerance for minority rights.” Matera was Toastmaster. Because Others who attended said they en- the Kellermans are Orthodox Jews, joyed the absence of second-hand their participation was limited smoke and it was the only mystery to Sunday when their speeches convention at which they felt free at the brunch were well received. to go into the bar, normally a Attendees were disappointed when smoke-flled place. Jonathan, due to carpal tunnel Kinky Friedman was Guest of syndrome, couldn’t sign his books, Honor and Nevada Barr Toast- though he had a stamp of his master. A cabaret was held Satur- signature. day night at the Boulder Teater. About 400 people attended. Parnell Hall was a hit with one of Again, the timing did not please his songs, and Alan Russell and Jer- everyone. Advertised as running emiah Healy serenaded Left Coast from Tursday through Sunday Crime’s frst Fan Guest of Honor, LCC had few Tursday panels. Mary “Maggie” Mason. Some By Sunday afternoon, there were thought Friedman’s performance only two panels remaining. Some (including a song about mucus) said that had they but known, was tasteless and walked out on they’d not have booked for Sunday him. evening. At the auction, emcees For the frst time the “Lefty” Bruce Taylor and Parnell Hall Award was given. Saluting the best raised $1,700 for the Northwest humorous mystery of the previous Literacy Foundation and a bat- year, it was given to Alan Russell tered-women’s shelter. for Te Fat Innkeeper. Te award In 1998 Left Coast Crime was took the form of a plaster impres- at San Diego’s Bahia Hotel and sion of a left hand, “posed” for by Resort in the Mission Bay area. Enid Schantz. Panels in Boulder, Elizabeth George, the Southern which had three tracks, included Californian who writes about “Collecting the Hypermodern,” England, was Guest of Honor, then at its peak. I explored another and local author Alan Russell was aspect in a one-man panel, “Book Toastmaster. A noted San Diego Collecting for Po’ Folks,” describ- book collector, Willis Herr, was ing the fun (and bargains) found posthumous Fan Guest of Honor.

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 29 LCC: THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS

A Lifetime Achievement Award went to another local, tially plot-driven and has rules, it doesn‘t permit the novelist-reviewer Robert Wade. freedom to explore character that mainstream fction Left Coast Crime started at Albuquerque’s Hyatt does. Te success of Dunning’s own Booked to Die Regency Friday, March 5, 1999, but for me it started (1992), a highly collectible “hypermodern” book, was the night before, when reliving my Mystery Readers’ due to its combination of old-fashioned detective bashes in the Bronx, I had a party for a dozen mys- story and book collecting lore, gathered by Dunning tery fans at my home in Santa Fe, seventy miles away. in the years he owned a Denver bookstore. John Dunning was LCC Guest of Honor; Deborah Panels on publishing again proved popular as Crombie, a Texan who sets her mysteries in England, LCC invited a new group of hopeful mystery writers. was Toastmaster; Tasha Mackler, formerly a mystery Increasingly, as lobby space at hotels seemed limited, bookstore owner in Albuquerque, was Fan Guest of the book room was the place fans gathered to talk, a Honor. Harlen Campbell, who had recently pub- trend not unpopular with dealers. lished his frst mystery, was chairman. In 2000, Left Coast Crime returned to Arizona at Te theme of this LCC was “the literary mystery,” Tucson’s Holiday Inn City Center, and the weather in and Dunning tried to stick to this topic in his Sat- mid-March was hot. Sue Grafton, author of the pop- urday night banquet speech. It proved unsatisfying ular alphabet series, was Guest of Honor. Harlan Co- since Dunning couldn’t seem to decide whether ben came from New Jersey to be Toastmaster. George the mystery should be “escape” or “great literature.” Easter, editor-publisher of Deadly Pleasures, was Fan Te same indecisiveness was present in Campbell’s Guest of Honor. Maggie Mason organized “Te interview with him, in which he opined that the Easter Egg Caper,” gathering egg-shaped pantyhose mystery can be “literature,” but because it is essen- containers and having George’s friends insert notes

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to him. In what was proving a regular event, Mason’s Few hospitality suites received as high ratings as the team won the trivia contest, one patterned after the one at the Doubletree. TV show Jeopardy. She modestly claimed her success Left Coast Crime returned to the Pasadena Hil- was due to naming her team “Te Golden Retrievers,” ton in 2003. One 1991 problem that had not been her favorite breed of dog. solved was annoying spillover of sound when the More than a dozen fans had an enjoyable dinner main ballroom was split into two meeting rooms at a local Cajun-Creole restaurant owned by Elmore without soundproof dividers. Otherwise, this LCC Leonard’s son Chris and his wife. A large committee was a success, enjoyed by its largest crowd to date, made this LCC a success, with Ellie Warder handling about 600 people. four diferent functions. Te program was varied, Robert Crais was Guest of Honor; Sue Feder was though Friday’s panels leaned in the direction of po- Fan Guest of Honor; Jerrilyn Farmer was Toastmas- lice procedure, with two DNA Fingerprinting Work- ter. Te famous radio play “Sorry, Wrong Number” shops. Literacy continued as the charity of choice, was recreated at the Pasadena Library, with attendees and there were both silent and live auctions to help bused there and back. Los Angeles writer-fan Paul Literacy Volunteers of Tucson. Bishop had an interesting conference. After a panel Alaska in mid-February seemed a dubious at- “Cops vs. Coppers,” regarding the US police and their traction, but there was general agreement that Left British counterparts, he went to compete in the Los Coast Crime at the Anchorage Hilton in 2001 was a Angeles Marathon, fnishing twenty-six-plus miles good convention. Even the weather cooperated, with in three hours forty-three minutes. He also received temperatures generally in the twenties. Many attend- “hate mail” from the wife of a judge who was in atten- ees took the opportunity of their frst Alaska trips to dance at his panel. She thought he was being disre- spend a few extra days seeing scenery and wildlife; spectful to the law, despite his twenty-six years service some reported seeing moose on the streets of down- as an LAPD ofcer. town Anchorage. To encourage Alaska’s native pop- Te Doubletree Hotel in Monterey, scene of 1997 ulation to read, the local branch of Sisters in Crime Bouchercon, was the locale for the equally successful organized a project called “Authors to the Bush,” in 2004 Left Coast Crime, with about 850 attend- which writers volunteered to go in small planes ing. Bill and Toby Gottfried were co-chairs. Sharan to remote settlements to promote reading. Linda Newman and Walter Mosley were the Guests of Billington chaired this convention in which Michael Honor. Newman did a slide show on the art, history, Connelly was US Guest of Honor, Lindsey Davis was and costuming of 12th century France, the setting British Guest of Honor, and Andi Schechter was Fan for her historical mysteries. Bryan Barrett and Tom Guest of Honor. Walls were Fan Guests of Honor. Gillian Roberts was Recognizing Portland, Oregon’s damp climate, Left Toastmaster, and Richard Lupof received a Lifetime Coast Crime 2002 at the Columbia River Doubletree Achievement Award. A new award was instituted, the Hotel was called “Slugs and Roses.” Bryan Barrett Bruce Alexander History Mystery Award, in honor of and Tom Walls were co-chairmen, Laurie R. King the writer who had died three months before LCC. and Steven Saylor, known primarily for their histor- Te committee also instituted a one-time award, the ical mysteries, were Guests of Honor. Don Herron Otter for the best mystery set in the Monterey area. was Fan Guest of Honor, and G.M. Ford of Seattle Te auction beneftted the Friends of Sea Otters, and the Toastmaster. Mary Mason saw fewer collectors the opening reception was at the renowned Monterey in the book room, though many who attended took Bay Aquarium. the time to visit the world-famous Powell’s bookstore.

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 31 The International Crime Fiction Convention

Where the Pen is Bloodier Than the Sword

One of the ‘50 Best Festivals’ One of the ‘Best Crime-Writing Festivals in the UK’ —Independent in the World’ —the Guardian

14 - 17 May 2015 Bristol, United kingdom

Participating authors include: Featured Guest Authors include Sam Eastland Felix Francis Maj Sjöwall John Harvey Lee Child Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Laura Wilson (For the full line-up visit the website) Catherine Aird 2015 Diamond Dagger Recipient plus Pitch-an-Agent Crime Writing Day Highlighted Guest Authors include Gala Dinner Sophie Hannah Awards Presentation for: others to follow Goldsboro Last Laugh Award eDunnit Award Audible Sounds of Crime Award

For more information or to sign up for newsletters visit the website www.crimefest.com • email: [email protected] • Venue: Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel Program Participants

ρ For the schedule of Special Events, Interviews, and Panels see pages X to X. ρ Te Pocket Program includes an alphabetical index of appearances by each of the participants. ρ Remember: Edgar® is a registered trademark of Mystery Writers of America.

Kathy Aarons John Addiego Kathy Aarons is the author of Death John Addiego has just published his frst is Like a Box of Chocolates, the frst in mystery novel (Te Jaguar Tree) following the Chocolate Covered Mystery series publication of two earlier literary novels by Berkley Prime Crime. Research for and several short stories and poems. He the series was a hardship: sampling has mentored and encouraged aspiring chocolate, making chocolate, sampling young writers, and not just because he more chocolate, and hanging out in has made literally hundreds of dollars bookstores. Kathy lives in San Diego publishing novels over the course of a with her husband and two daughters few decades. “Tere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,” where she wakes up far too early, and is currently obsessed with the said Hamlet, “than are found in making a lot of money,” and, as Broadway Idiot documentary, fnding the perfect cup of cofee, and you may recall, things went well for Hamlet once he got over that Dallmann’s Sea Salt Caramels. stuf about his mom. www.kathyaarons.com johnaddiego.com

Cathy Ace Lisa Alber Rosebud Nominee Cathy Ace’s Welsh Canadian foodie Ever distractible, you may fnd Lisa criminologist sleuth, Cait Morgan, has staring out windows, dog walking, or stumbled upon Corpses with a Silver drinking red wine with her friends. Tongue, a Golden Nose, an Emerald Travel, reading, animals, photography, Tumb, and Platinum Hair. 2015 sees her and blogging round out her distrac- fnding Corpses with Sapphire Eyes and a tions. She is the author of Kilmoon, a Diamond Hand. Tis year Cathy will also mystery set in Ireland that features a introduce the world to the women of the matchmaker with a dark past, his long- WISE Enquiries Agency—one is Welsh, lost daughter, and a conficted detective. one Irish, one Scottish, and one English. RT Book Reviews says “utterly poetic.” Professional enquirers? Yes. Quirkily British cases? Absolutely. www.lisaalber.com Meet them when they enquire into Te Case of the Dotty Dowager, and Te Case of the Missing Morris Dancer. cathyace.com Annamaria Alferi Annamaria Alferi’s latest historical mystery Strange Gods is set in East D. J. Adamson Africa in 1911. Te Richmond (VA) Where? New York? Los Angeles? IOWA? Times-Dispatch said “With the fair of D. J. Adamson’s Admit to Mayhem, the Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, the frst in her Lillian Dove Mystery Series is cunning of Agatha Christie and Elspeth located in Frytown, Iowa. She sets most Huxley and the moral sensibility of our of her work in the Midwest where she times, Alferi permeates this tragic novel uses the extremes in weather, life struggle, with a condemnation of imperialism, a agriculture, rich culture, kinship and palpable love of Africa.” Te Christian humanity to create atmosphere, memora- Science Monitor chose Blood Tango one of ten must-read thrill- ble characters and complex plot. Suppose ers. Of Invisible Country, Kirkus Reviews said, “Alferi’s antiwar Tere Was A Crime, next Lillian Dove, mystery compares with the notable novels of Charles Todd.” Te and Outre, the frst in a three part mystery-science fction serial are Washington Post said of her debut, “As both history and mystery, expected out in 2015. City of Silver glitters.” www.djadamson.com www.annamariaalﬁeri.com

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Stacy Allen Donna Andrews Lefy Nominee Stacy Allen is the author of Expedition Donna Andrews is the author of 22— Indigo, the frst in a series, featuring Dr. soon to be 23—mysteries. Te Good, the Riley Cooper, a SCUBA-diving archaeol- Bad, and the Emus (July 2014) and Te ogist, who goes to Italy to help fnd and Nightingale Before Christmas (October recover a cargo ship from 808 A.D., built 2014) in her Meg Langslow series from by King Charlemagne, and loaded with Minotaur, and will be followed in July treasure. Stacy’s love of adventure has 2015 by Te Lord of the Wings. When not taken her to over 60 countries. She is the writing or working with one of the orga- current VP of the Southeast Chapter of nizations she volunteers for—including Mystery Writers of America, and a mem- MWA, SinC, and Malice Domestic—she ber of International Triller Writers, Romance Writers of America, kills hapless shrubbery in her garden, Historical Novel Society, and Sisters In Crime. She is an Advanced takes too many digital photos, and serves Open Water Diver, with additional certifcations in Enriched Air as supplemental chaufeur to her twin eleven-year-old nephews. Nitrox, Cave, Night, and Wreck diving. She is married and lives She blogs with the Femmes Fatales. in the Atlanta area. Ms. Allen is represented by Jill Marr of the donnaandrews.com Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. stacyallenauthor.com Shannon Baker Shannon Baker is the author of the Nora Heather Ames Abbott mystery series from Midnight Ink, Heather Ames has taken “write what you a fast-paced mix of Hopi Indian mysti- know” to heart and run with it…all over cism, environmental issues, and murder. the globe. She has lived in 6 countries Shannon is an itinerant writer, which is and 7 states. Her experiences enrich her a nice way of saying she’s confused. She novels and provide vivid backdrops. She never knows what time zone she’s in, drives like Danika Patrick, dreams of Timbuck-Tree, Nebraska, or Denver, or visiting the Great Wall of China, loves Tucson. Nora Abbott has picked up that camping, hiking, music and the movies, location schizophrenia and travels from not necessarily in that order. An avid reader and prolifc writer, Flagstaf in Tainted Mountain, to Boul- she believes complex characters are as important as tightly-woven der in Broken Trust and then to Moab inTattered Legacy. Shannon plots. She’s currently at work on the sequel to Indelible, a mystery/ is proud to have been chosen Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ suspense series set in Miami. 2014 Writer of the Year. www.HeatherAmes.com www.Shannon-Baker.com

Richard Anderson Elin Barnes Richard Anderson is a former ditch Elin Barnes, a native Spaniard, moved digger, a former cab driver, a former to America to become a pilot. When phone booth cleaner and a former game her eyesight prevented her from fying developer. He also did computer stuf passenger aircrafts, she obtained a BA in Indonesia for a couple years and has in Philosophy, worked for a criminal 100,000 miles on his thumb. Tese days appeals lawyer, and earned an MA in he’s a database developer in a town to International Commerce. Finally setting in Silicon Valley, she’s the left of Berkeley, with a writerly wife, worked for companies such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Google, Micro- three cats and a nighttime crime writing soft, TiVo and Samsung. Her love for technology and the great habit. He wrote Death Below Zero, published by Bear Cat Press. weather keep her in the Bay Area with her dog Shelby. Her books deathbelowzero.com are Justifcation for Murder and Smoke Screen (Te Darcy Lynch Series). www.elinbarnes.com

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Aileen G. Baron Pamela Beason As an archaeologist, Aileen G. Baron In college, Pamela Beason threw taught at California State University, knife-wielding men (judo), skewered Fullerton, and conducted feldwork in a few (fencing), danced Mexican and the Middle East, including a year at the Israeli routines, and dated any man American School of Oriental Research who’d take her to dinner. Nowadays she in Jerusalem as an NEH scholar, and spends her spare time hiking, kayaking, director of the overseas CSU program at snowshoeing, scuba diving, and stomp- the Hebrew University. She is the past ing out line dances. She’ll still date any president of the Orange County chapter man who’ll take her to dinner, but she’ll of Sisters in Crime. Her mysteries in the check him out frst, because she’s a pri- Lily Sampson series feature an American vate investigator. Pam writes the Summer archaeologist working in the Middle East during World War II Westin and Neema mystery series, the Langston Green romantic and include the award winning A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes, Te suspense series, nonfction ebooks like So You Want to Be a PI?, Torch of Tangier and Te Scorpion’s Bite. Te Gold of Trace, a and a new YA Run to Live suspense series. contemporary mystery, is the frst of the series about the intrigue pamelabeason.com and deceit in the antiquities trade featuring archaeologist Tamar Saticoy. Te second book in the series, Te Wings of Swallows will be available soon. Maegan Beaumont www.aileengbaron.com Maegan Beaumont is the author of the award-winning Sabrina Vaughn thriller series (available through Midnight Darla S. Bartos Ink). When she isn’t busy fulflling her Darla S. Bartos has lived in South duties as Domestic Goddess for her high Africa, the Netherlands, and various school sweetheart turned husband, Joe, points across the U.S. Her work has and their four children, six dogs, nine been published on three continents. chickens and too many goldfsh to count, In Midnight in Malamulele, Annabelle she’s locked in her ofce with her com- Chase, a former crime reporter, links up puter, her cofee pot and her Rhodesian with South African Detective Baloyi to Ridgeback—and one true love—Jade. solve the murder of a nun in a locked Look for the third book in her series, Promises to Keep, available down convent. Darla has been published August, 2015. in Fair Lady and the Star in South Africa, www.maeganbeaumont.com You and Yours, Sydney, Australia, Asbury Park Press, Te New York Times, Te Plain Dealer, Te Oregonian, the Arkansas Gazette and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, D&B News, and others. Mike Befeler www.darlabartos.com Mike Befeler writes the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series including Nursing Homes Are Murder, Care Homes Brett Battles Are Murder; Cruising in Your Eighties Is Brett Battles is a Barry Award-winning Murder, a fnalist for Te Lefty Award for author of over twenty novels, including best humorous mystery of 2012; Senior the Jonathan Quinn series, the Project Moments Are Murder; Living with Your Eden series, and the time bending thriller Kids Is Murder; and Retirement Homes Are Rewinder. He’s also the coauthor, with Murder. He has two published paranor- Robert Gregory Browne, of the Alexan- mal mysteries, Te V V Agency and Te Back Wing and another dra Poe series. novel titled, Mystery of the Dinner Playhouse. After thirty-nine years brettbattles.com in business, he retired into fction writing. He grew up in Hawaii and lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Wendy. www.mikebefeler.com

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Donnell Ann Bell Lou Berney Published with Bell Bridge Books, Don- Lou Berney is an accomplished writer, nell Ann Bell is a major fan of interna- teacher, and liar. He’s the author of three tional thrillers. However, as a follower novels: Te Long and Faraway Gone of statistics she recognizes that most (2015); Whiplash River, which was nom- accidents happen close to one’s driveway, inated for an Edgar award (2012); and and reasons a percentage of suspense Gutshot Straight, named one of Booklist’s novels should too. Writing around the best crime debuts of the year (2010). theme Suspense Too Close to Home, He’s also written feature screenplays and Donnell’s frst three standalone novels hit created TV pilots for, among others, the top ten Amazon Kindle bestseller list, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Focus Features, ABC, and Fox. including her sophomore release which www.louberney.com hit #1 on Overall, Mystery, Triller and Romantic Suspense. She recently released her fourth novel Buried Agendas. Donnell lives with her family in Colorado. Dale Berry www.donnellannbell.com Dale Berry is a writer, artist and publisher living in San Francisco. His graphic novel series, Tales of the Moonlight Cutter, R.G. Belsky a paranormal mystery/adventure set in R.G. Belsky’s suspense thriller, Te ancient China, has been optioned for Kennedy Connection, was published by flm and tv development. Current proj- Atria in August. It’s the frst in a series ects include stories and a series derived featuring Gil Malloy, a New York Daily from the classic pulps, comics and flm noir of the 1930’s and 40’s. News reporter. Two more Gil Malloy www.myriadpubs.com books—Te Midnight Hour and Shooting for the Stars—will be out in 2015. Belsky himself is a veteran journalist who has Mysti Berry worked as a top editor at the Daily News, Mysti Berry has a BA in Linguistics from the NY Post and NBC News. UC Santa Cruz, and an MFA in Writing www.rgbelsky.com from the University of San Francisco. She writes short stories, screenplays, and novels, and has just completed her frst DV Berkom novella for Stark Raving Press. Her short DV Berkom is a slave to the voices in her stories appear online and in anthologies head. As the author of the action-packed published by Wild Side Press and Oak Tree Press. She lives in San Kate Jones thrillers Bad Spirits, Dead of Francisco with her husband, graphic novelist Dale Berry. Winter, Yucatán Dead, and A One Way www.mystiberry.com Ticket to Dead, and “gritty, page-turning” Leine Basso crime thrillers Serial Date, Bad Trafck, and the newly released Te Dorohy Black Crow Body Market, writing kick-@$$ female Dorothy Black Crow is the author of Te characters is her Raison d’être. She Handless Maiden, a Reservation Mystery. makes her home just outside of damp She writes fction, non-fction, memoir, but beautiful Seattle, Washington with and poetry about two Native American her partner, Mark, an entrepreneurial chef-turned-contractor, and Traditions: Lakota and Sisiwiss. a bunch of invisible characters who all love to tell her what to do. dorothyblackcrow.com www.dvberkom.com

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Jennifer Bosworth Peg Brantley Jennifer Bosworth is the author of the YA A Colorado native, Peg Brantley lives novel Struck, about a teenage lightning with her husband southeast of Denver. addict and the end of the world. Her At this very minute she’s busy turning follow-up novel, Te Killing Jar, will be her standalone books into two separate released from FSG/Macmillan January series because that’s what her readers 12, 2016. Jennifer and her husband want. Peg’s third book, Te Sacrifce, was recently escaped from Los Angeles and a fnalist for two 2014 Colorado literary are now hiding out in Portland with a awards, and will become the frst book in couple of long-legged dogs. She won’t be the Mex and Cade series. Flame Game, to ofended if you call her J-Boz. Everybody else does. Check out the be published in 2015, will be the third epic book trailer for Struck and view Jennifer’s short flms at her book in the Aspen Falls Triller series. website. Or just Google her and see what happens. www.pegbrantley.com www.jenniferbosworth.com Jason Brenizer Lisa Brackman Once, Jason was a scientist. Not the soft Lisa Brackmann is the author of the crit- stuf, but physics. Ten one day, while ically acclaimed Ellie McEnroe series set carbon-dating the Shroud of Turin—or in today’s China (Rock Paper Tiger, Hour was it designing microprocessors for of the Rat and the upcoming Dragon Apple?—He chucked it all to become Day), and the thriller Getaway (an a storyteller. He studied flmmaking in ALA summer reading pick and SCIBA Prague and acting in NYC. He’s played fnalist). She is a California native and Jesus, RFK, a WWII Nazi colonel vam- a former flm industry professional who pire. Te 1930’s period flm he produced has lived and traveled extensively in China. Lisa once was an issues was a festival darling. Te Singapore-set researcher in a presidential campaign and was the singer/songwrit- SF flm he wrote/directed won the Grand Remi at WorldFest—the er/bassist in an LA rock band. She just bought a bass ukulele. same as Spielberg’s frst award. Tese days, he concentrates on www.lisabrackmann.com audiobook production, voice-acting for video games, and writing science thrillers. digital-tales.com Randal Brandt Randal S. Brandt is a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley’s Ban- Allison Brennan croft Library, where he has the dual roles Life is too short to be bored, so Allison of cataloger of rare books and curator Brennan decided to have fve kids and of the California Detective Fiction Col- write three books a year. Juggling kids lection. In his spare time he maintains and books is a full time job, so she gave the websites Golden Gate Mysteries, a up cooking and cleaning 10 years ago bibliography of crime fction set in the when she sold her frst book and left her San Francisco Bay Area, and A David Dodge Companion, the career in the California State Legislature. ofcial website of thriller/travel writer David Dodge (1910-1974). Allison pens a thriller series featuring He is also at work on a biography of Dodge. investigative reporter Max Revere who bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery/ thinks rules are meant to be broken, and a romantic suspense series starring FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid who believes rules are there for a reason. She lives in Northern California. allisonbrennan.com

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Cindy Brown Craig Faustus Buck Cindy Brown is a theater geek, mystery Craig Faustus Buck is an LA-based nov- lover, and professional writer who re- elist, journalist, nonfction book author, cently combined her passions to produce TV writer-producer and screenwriter. Macdeath, a madcap mystery set in the Among his nonfction books, two were of, of, of Broadway world of theater. #1 NYT bestsellers. He wrote the Os- Te Sound of Murder, Book 2 in the Ivy car-nominated short flm Overnight Sen- Meadows mystery series, will be released sation. He was one of the writers on the by Henery Press in September 2015. seminal miniseries V: Te Final Battle. Tough Cindy now lives in Portland, His frst noir mystery novel, Go Down Oregon, she made her home in Phoenix, Hard, will be published by Brash Books Arizona, for more than 25 years and knows all the good places to on May 5, 2015 and was First Runner hide dead bodies in both cities. Up for Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award. Stark Raving Group cindybrownwriter.com published his novella, Psycho Logic in May, 2014 and the novella’s prequel, his short story “Dead End,” was a 2014 Anthony Award nominee. His indie feature, Smuggling for Gandhi, is scheduled for ER Brown production this fall. ER Brown is the author of Almost craigfaustusbuck.com Criminal (Dundurn), which was a fnalist for an Edgar award (Best Paperback Original) and an Arthur Ellis award (Best Leslie Budewitz First Novel). Twenty years as a freelance Leslie Budewitz can’t imagine living advertising writer have given him insight anywhere but the upper left corner of into the darker sides of human nature. the country. Her Seattle Spice Shop His short stories have been published Mysteries debuted with Assault & Pepper nationally and dramatized by the CBC. (March 2015). Death al Dente, frst in He lives in Vancouver. her Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, set erbrown.com in NW Montana, won the 2013 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Leslie is the frst author to win Agatha Awards for both fction and nonfction. Kiffer Brown She lives in NW Montana with her husband, a musician and Kifer Brown discovers today’s best doctor of natural medicine, and their Burmese cat, a book cover books with reviews and writing contests model and avid birdwatcher. at Chanticleer Book Reviews, L.L.C., www.lesliebudewitz.com which she founded in 2010. She is also a media scout and trend-spotter for executive flm producers, literary agents, Stephen Buehler and publishing houses. She searches for Stephen Buehler’s short fction has been today’s sparkling gems that will become published in numerous publications, tomorrow’s best sellers. She truly loves what she does and her including Akashic Books. His story, “Not passion shows. Kifer helps authors develop methods that engage My Day” appeared in the Last Exit to readers and expand their fan-bases. She has presented at multiple Murder anthology and was a Derringer conferences, where she focuses on the business of being an author. Finalist. “A Job’s a Job” was published www.ChantiReviews.com in Believe Me or Not—An Unreliable Anthology. His novella, Te Mindreading Murders about a magician, psychics and Royce Buckingham murder will be published by Te Stark Royce Buckingham is the bestselling and award winning author of Raving Group in 2015. He is currently young adult and middle grade fantasy, as well as adult legal thrill- shopping around his mystery/comedy P.I. novel, Detective Rules. ers. He lives with his family in Bellingham, Washington, where he He is also a script/story consultant, magician and a nice guy. also works as a prosecuting attorney. www.stephenbuehler.com

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Warren Bull Teresa Burrell Warren Bull is an award-winning author Teresa Burrell taught school for twelve with more than forty short stories pub- years before she received her JD degree. lished as well as memoirs, essays a short In her law practice, she specialized in story collection, Murder Manhattan juvenile work representing delinquent Style, which you can order below and the and abused minors. Burrell has received novels Abraham Lincoln for the Defense, awards from the San Diego Volunteer Murder in the Moonlight and Heartland. Lawyer Program for her countless hours www.warrenbull.com of pro bono work with children. Her legal suspense mysteries incorporate many of her experiences as a lawyer. Her “Ad- vocate Series” consists of: Te Advocate, Te Advocate’s Betrayal, Te Advocate’s Conviction, Te Advocate’s Timohy Burgess Dilemma, Te Advocate’s Ex Parte, and Te Advocate’s Felony. www.teresaburrell.com Timothy Burgess is a former HR Man- ager and Career Director. Presently, he is a full-time writer who must perform M. H. Callway housework in exchange for food and M. H. Callway’s debut novel, Windigo shelter. Te Never-Ending Swell (A Liam Fire, was published in 2014 to rave Sol Mystery) is his frst book, and his reviews. Hufngton Post Canada listed short stories have appeared in Tievesjar- it this fall in Books for Book Clubs and gon.com and CrimeSceneScotland.com. Canada’s national paper, the Globe and Tough Tim writes about murder in sunny Southern California, Mail, called her a “writer to watch.” Her he has the rare ability to sunburn while sitting in a dark room on short crime fction has appeared in sever- a cloudy day. Tim lives in Pasadena with his wife and their two al anthologies and magazines, including daughters, and is currently writing his second Liam Sol novel. Crimespree. In 2013, Madeleine founded twitter.com/CareersandColas the Mesdames of Mayhem: a collective of leading Canadian women crime writers. John Burley Stories in the Mesdames’ debut anthology, Tirteen, received nominations for the Arthur and Derringer awards. An avid cyclist, John Burley grew up in Maryland runner and downhill skier, she participates every year in the near the Chesapeake Bay. He worked Toronto Ride to Conquer Cancer. She and her husband share their as a paramedic and frefghter before Victorian home with an aging, spoiled cat. attending medical school in Chicago www.mesdamesofmayhem.com and completing his emergency medicine. His debut novel, Te Absence of Mercy, received the National Black Ribbon Award Susanna Calkins Bruce Alexander Nominee for an author who brings a fresh voice to Susanna Calkins has been intrigued by suspense writing. His second thriller, Te murder ever since she frst stumbled Forgetting Place, came out in February. across 17th century “murder ballads” in Still in love with his day job, John con- grad school. Te idea that people used tinues to work as an ER physician at an urban trauma center in to sing about murder and other strange Northern California. tales became the premise of her historical johnburley.com mysteries featuring Lucy Campion. Set in 17th century plague-ridden England, her second novel—From the Charred Remains—is nominated for the LCC 2015 Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery Award. www.susannacalkins.com

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Bill Cameron Diane Capri When he’s not making his own beer, New York Times, USA Today and Amazon fxing lunch for his sweetie, satisfying the Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s work is head-scritching requirements of the Dark “Full of thrills and tension, but smart and Poodle of the Apocalypse, or bowing human, too,” says worldwide publish- before the benevolent tyranny of the ing phenomenon Lee Child. Diane is Editorial Cat, (aka the Crushinator) Bill the author of twenty-fve books and a writes the Skin Kadash mysteries. While recovering lawyer. Diane says she writes you’re in Portland for Crimelandia, Bill mystery and suspense for the same rea- will be happy to point you to all the plac- son she reads: to have fun, fnd out what es around town where he left the bodies happens, why people do what they do, Skin has to contend with. Or, barring and to restore order to an unjust world that, ask for directions to the nearest cofee joint or brew pub. by killing of her enemies—so watch out! www.bill-cameron.com Readers say her books emphasize wry humor and everywoman’s inherent strength and self-reliance. But even better, Diane’s books will keep you reading well into the night! Kimberley Cameron dianecapri.com Kimberley Cameron grew up loving books—going to the library was the highlight of her week during her early Christine Carbo years. New adventures beckoned behind Christine Carbo grew up in Florida, every spine and now she feels the same until she moved to Montana, when she way when she reads a manuscript. She was twelve. After earning a pilot’s license, wants to fall in love with a writer’s words, pursuing various adventures in Norway, and she especially likes launching debut and a brief stint as a fight attendant, she fction authors! got an MA in English and taught courses She began her literary career as an agent at a community college. She still teaches trainee at the Marjel de Lauer Agency in in a vastly diferent realm as the owner association with Jay Garon in New York. of a Pilates studio. She lives in Mon- She worked for several years at MGM developing books for mo- tana with her husband, three kids, one tion pictures. She was the co-founder of Knightsbridge Publishing self-possessed cat and one incredibly silly Company with ofces in New York and Los Angeles. In 1993 she dog. Her suspense novel, Te Wild Inside, will debut in June of became partners with Dorris Halsey of Te Reece Halsey Agency, 2015 from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. founded in 1957. Among its clients have been Aldous Huxley, christinecarbo.com William Faulkner, Upton Sinclair, and Henry Miller. She opened Reece Halsey North in 1995 and Reece Halsey Paris in 2006, and in 2009 the agency became Kimberley Cameron & Associates. She Gayle Carline resides and works from Tiburon, California and Paris, France, with Gayle Carline spent almost 30 years as a many visits to New York to make the rounds of editorial ofces. software engineer until she chewed her www.kimberleycameron.com way out of the cubicle to become a writer. She knew nothing of police procedures, but fgured that reading her husband’s mind was good experience for writing mysteries. Most of her books are set in Orange County, where there are always good places to hide a body. When she’s not writing, Gayle spends time with her horses, her family, and her friends. gaylecarline.com

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Kate Carlisle Bailey Cates Kate Carlisle is the New York Times best- Bailey Cates is the NYT bestselling selling author of the Bibliophile Mystery author of the Magical Bakery Mysteries series featuring bookbinder Brooklyn featuring baker and new witch Katie Wainwright, whose rare book restoration Lightfoot. Te ffth in the series, Magic skills invariably uncover old secrets, and Macaroons, will release in July 2015. treachery and murder. (Ripped from the As Bailey Cattrell, she also writes the Pages, NAL/Penguin, June, 2015.) Kate Enchanted Garden Mysteries starring recently introduced her new Fixer-Upper perfumer Elliana Allbright. Te frst, Mystery series, featuring small-town girl Daisies for Innocence, will release in early Shannon Hammer, a building contractor 2016. She also writes as Cricket McRae. specializing in Victorian home repair She works, gardens, and cooks in north- and renovation. Tis Old Homicide, the ern Colorado where she lives with her guy, Cheesecat the Orange, second in the series, is available now. Kate worked in television and Minerva the asthmatic wonder kitty. production for many years, but now spends her time writing near www.cricketmcrae.com the beach in Southern California where she lives with her smart, funny husband. www.katecarlisle.com Diana Chambers Diana Chambers was born with a book in one hand and passport in the other. R.M. Cartmel An Asian importing business led to Hol- R.M. Cartmel has been a writer one way lywood costume design, then scriptwrit- and another since his time as a medical ing—until her characters demanded their student at Oxford University back in own novels. And so Nick Daley shows the mists of time. After a long career as up in Stinger, somewhere near the Khy- a community physician, during which ber Pass. Te romantic spy thriller is an time, among other things, he edited a Audible release, with Te Company She Keeps sequel in production. regional journal for fellow community Diana lives in a small Northern California town with her Fellow physicians, he decided to retire from Traveler husband, arty daughter, and steadfast mutt. She is a the practice of serious fact to dedicate member of Writers Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, his twilight years to the creation of light Sisters in Crime-NorCal board. fction. Te frst fruits of that labour dianarchambers.com appeared last summer as Te Richebourg Afair. It’s sequel, Te Charlemagne Connection will be available soon. rmcartmelauthor.com Maia Chance Maia Chance writes historical mystery novels that are rife with absurd predic- Anna Castle aments and romantic adventure. Her Anna Castle writes two series of novels: frst mystery, Snow White Red-Handed the Francis Bacon mysteries and the Lost (Fairy Tale Fatal #1) was a national Hat, Texas mysteries. She has earned a bestseller. Upcoming titles include Come series of degrees—BA in the Classics, Hell or Highball (St. Martin’s Press) and MS in Computer Science, and a Ph.D Cinderella Six Feet Under (Berkley Prime in Linguistics—and has had a corre- Crime). Maia is a candidate for the Ph.D. sponding series of careers—waitressing, in English at the University of Washington and she lives in Seattle, software engineering, grammar-writing, where she shakes a killer martini, grows a mean radish, and bakes assistant professor, and archivist. Writing mocha bundts to die for. fction combines her lifelong love of maiachance.com stories and learning. She physically resides in Austin, Texas and mentally counts herself a queen of infnite space. www.annacastle.com

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Jessie Chandler Marta Chausée Jessie is the award-winning author of the Marta Chausée, award-winning author of Shay O’Hanlon Caper series and the new Murder’s Last Resort, can’t resist pome- Operation series. She lives in Minneapo- granates, mysteries, and bicycles. Red lis, Minnesota with her partner and two stains on her handlebars could be blood. mutts, Fozzy Bear and Ollie. In the fall Ten again, they could be pom juice. and winter, Jessie writes her heart out, Kinky Friedman says Marta “has created and spends her summers selling unique, one of the best heroines of mystery to artsy T-shirts and other assorted trinkets come along in decades. Te unstoppable, to unsuspecting conference and festival unsinkable, unpredictable Maya French goers. is the bastard literary child of Agatha Christie and Lieutenant jessiechandler.com Colombo.” Marta once crossed the Sahara in a jeep with ffteen crazed Moroccans. Now she daily crosses L.A., in search of potential crime scenes, with her big black bitch, Miss Marple, by her Baer Charlton side. Sorry, you caught me between hiding a martachausee.blogspot.com body, and blowing up another building. Here in Portland, Oregon where I live, I can’t get away with that stuf—so I Sarah M. Chen “crime” in San Jose, CA—a few years ago. Sarah M. Chen has worked a variety of I used to drive a tow truck in that area, odd jobs—usually all at once—ranging and so that is what my protagonist does from studio script reader to bartender. too. In college I started boring people She continues this trend today as an with my text books—I now prefer to indie bookseller, transcriber, and private write about ordinary people in extraordi- investigator assistant. Sarah’s short stories nary situations. I’m also excited book #4 in the series, as well as a have appeared online and in several an- standalone, Angel Flights, releasing soon. thologies, with her most recent, “White baercharlton.com Devil,” in Elm Books’ Death and the Detective. Her noir novella, Cleaning Up Finn, will be released in 2015 by Stark Erika Chase Raving Group and her short story “Canyon Ladies” will be in the Erika Chase, in a parallel life AKA Linda upcoming Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology, Ladies’ Night. Wiken, is a former mystery bookstore www.sarahmchen.com owner. Te fourth book in the Ashton Corners Book Club Mysteries, Book Fair and Foul released last summer and the Sean Chercover ffth, Law and Author, releases in Sept. Sean Chercover is a dual citizen, born 2015. A second series, the Culinary Ca- to a Canadian father and an American pers Mysteries is due in 2016 under her mother. He’s worked as a private inves- other identity. She’s a member of those deadly dames, the Ladies’ tigator, television writer, video editor, Killing Circle. She’s been nominated for an Agatha Award for Best support diver, waiter, encyclopedia First Novel for A Killer Read and for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best salesman, and some jobs best forgotten. Short Story from Crime Writers of Canada. His work, including the novels Big City www.erikachase.com Bad Blood, Trigger City, and Te Trinity Game has received the Anthony, Sha- mus, CWA Dagger, Dilys, Crimespree, Gumshoe and Lovey awards, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Barry, ITW Triller and Arthur Ellis. He lives with his wife and son in Toronto, where you can fnd him running in the ravines with his bionic dog. www.chercover.com

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Becky Clark John Clement Becky Clark is the seventh of eight kids, John Clement is the author of the Dixie which explains both her insatiable need Hemingway Mystery Series, created for attention and her atrocious table by his awesome (and greatly missed) manners. She likes to read funny books mom, Blaize Clement (1932-2011) and so it felt natural to write them, too. Her published by St. Martin’s Press/Mino- newest titles are Banana Bamboozle and taur. Te Cat Sitter’s Whiskers (book #10) Marshmallow Mayhem. She surrounds comes out March 31, 2015. John divides herself with quirky people and pets who his time between paradisically temperate end up as characters in her books. Her Siesta Key, Florida, where the series takes stout-hearted dog keeps her safe from place, and hellishly cold New York City, menacing squirrels and autumn leaves, where he’s currently working on the 11th but not plastic bags. Tose things are terrifying. book in the series while his pit bull snores at his feet under the beckyclarkbooks.com desk. He is pretty sure that “paradisically” is a real word. www.DixieHemingway.com H.S. Clark H.S. Clark is a physician, anesthesiol- Stacey Cochran ogist, and medical thriller writer from Stacey Cochran was a fnalist for the Seattle. Fortunately, his series protagonist, 1998 Dell Magazines Award for Fiction, anesthesiologist Dr. Paul Powers, gets a fnalist for the 2004 St. Martin’s Press/ into a lot more trouble than the author. PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Con- H.S. earned high praise for his debut test, and a fnalist for the 2011 James thriller Secret Toughts, and just released Hurst Prize for Fiction. In December series prequel Immortal Fear. H.S. will 2014, his novel Eddie & Sunny won the be at LCC interviewing authors for his 5 inaugural Kindle Scout contest, and will Star Podcast H.S. Clark Presents Author be published worldwide in ebook and Spotlight on YouTube and iTunes. He audiobook by Kindle Press and in print also moderates the Art and Medicine Forum where fction meets by Down & Out Books. He is the author of In Love with Eleanor medicine, featuring Ask the Doctor. Rigby, Te Loneliest, and CLAWS. He teaches writing at North hsclarkmystery.com Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Susan, son Sam, and daughter Harper Jane. Stacey is also serving as chair for Bouchercon 2015 in North Carolina. Anne Cleeland www.staceycochran.com Anne Cleeland is a lifelong Southern California resident, and currently makes her home in Newport Beach. An M.P. Cooley Rosebud Nominee attorney by trade, she’s been reading M.P. Cooley grew up in upstate New mysteries since her Nancy Drew days, York, living in both Auburn and Albany. and especially loves Agatha Christie and She attended Barnard College and the other Golden Age British mystery worked in publishing for over a decade, writers. One day, she decided to make specializing in business books. She a few notes in case she wanted to write currently resides in Campbell, California. her own mystery, and the next thing she Ice Shear is her frst novel. knew she’d written the frst three books mpcooley.com of the Acton & Doyle seriesfeaturing two Scotland Yard detectives. Anne also writes a historical series set in 1814 because she loves historicals, too. A romantic at heart, her stories all have a strong romantic element. She has four grown children, three wonderful grandchildren, and one nutty dog. www.annecleeland.com

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David Corbett Waverly Curtis David Corbett is a recovering Catholic, Waverly Curtis is the pen name of ex-PI and onetime bar band gypsy who’s writing duo, Waverly Fitzgerald and written fve novels, numerous stories, Curt Colbert. Waverly is the author of multiple scripts, and far too many poems. three novels set in Victorian London and One novel was a New York Times Nota- published by Doubleday. She also teach- ble Book, one an Edgar Nominee. Te es writing classes for Hugo House, the latest, Te Mercy of the Night, arrives in Seattle literary center, and is managing April, 2015. Two of his stories have been selected for Best Amer- editor of Rat City Publishing. Curt is the ican Mystery Stories and his book on craft, Te Art of Character, author of a series of hard-boiled mystery has been called, “A writer’s bible.” He lives with his adorable wife novels set in Seattle in the late Forties. and insane dog in Vallejo, California, which really, truly isn’t the He also edited Seattle Noir. Together they hellhole it’s cracked up to be. write humorous mysteries about Pepe, a talking Chihuahua, who www.davidcorbett.com fancies himself a detective, and his human partner, Geri Sullivan, who works for an eccentric Seattle PI. www.thepepenovels.com Matt Coyle Matt Coyle knew he wanted to be a crime writer as a young teen when his Ray Daniel father gave him Te Simple Art of Murder, Ray Daniel writes frst-person, wisecrack- by Raymond Chandler. It only took him ing, Boston-based crime fction about forty years to achieve his goal. Matt’s frst Tucker, a hacker whose inquiring nose, novel, Yesterday’s Echo, won the Antho- smart mouth, and inability to use a gun ny Award for Best First Novel, the San get him into, but rarely out of, trouble. Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, the Daniel’s spare style and page-turning IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award for Best storytelling have created award-winning New Voice In Fiction, and was a fnalist short stories. Te Tucker short story, for the Macavity Award for Best First “Give Me a Dollar,” was a Derringer 2014 Mystery. Night Tremors, the second Rick Cahill crime novel is due fnalist and “Driving Miss Rachel” was chosen as a 2013 distin- out in June. guished short story by Otto Penzler, editor of Te Best American www.mattcoylebooks.com Mystery Stories 2013. Terminated (August, 2014) is Daniel’s frst novel and the frst book of Te Tucker Mysteries. Born in Boston, Ray graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts Blake Crouch with a degree in Computer Engineering and a Minor in English. Blake Crouch has sold over a million www.raydanielmystery.com books and his work has been translated into more than twenty-fve languages. Known for high-concept fction with Hilary Davidson breakneck pacing and groundbreaking Hilary Davidson’s life of crime started genre cross-breeding, six of his books when she published her frst short story have hit the Kindle Top 10, and two in Tuglit in 2007. Her debut novel, Te have reached the #1 spot. His short fction has appeared in nu- Damage Done, won the 2011 Antho- merous magazines and anthologies, including Alfred Hitchcock and ny Award for Best First Novel. It also Ellery Queen. In 2013, his novel Pines was nominated for ITW’s launched a series featuring travel writer Best Paperback Original Triller Award, and the television adapta- Lily Moore that continued with Te Next tion of his Wayward Pines series, set to debut May 14 on FOX, is One to Fall—set in Peru—and Evil in All produced by M. Night Shyamalan and stars Matt Dillon, Juliette Its Disguises, about a missing journalist in Acapulco. When Tess Lewis, Melissa Leo and Terrence Howard. Blake lives in Colorado. Gerritsen read Hilary’s frst standalone novel, Blood Always Tells, www.blakecrouch.com she declared, “Hilary Davidson is the master of plot twists!” Before turning to crime, Hilary authored 18 travel books. www.hilarydavidson.com

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Janet Dawson Tyler Dilts Janet Dawson’s private eye sleuth Jeri Tyler Dilts received his BA in Teatre Howard has been solving crimes through from Cal State Long Beach and per- eleven books. Te frst, Kindred Crimes, formed in more than ffty plays before won the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye turning his focus to writing. He returned Writers of America contest for Best to CSULB for an MA in English Liter- Private Eye Novel, and several best frst ature and an MFA in Fiction. His work nominations. Jeri’s eleventh, Cold Trail, has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, has just been published. Dawson’s works Te Los Angeles Review of Books, and include a suspense novel, What You Wish Te Best American Mystery Stories, and For, and a historical mystery, Death Rides he is the author of the novels A King of the Zephyr. Her WIP is a sequel, Death Deals A Hand. Dawson has Infnite Space, Te Pain Scale, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah and written a dozen short stores, including Macavity winner “Voice the forthcoming No Straight Ting. He lives and teaches in Long Mail,” and Shamus nominee “Slayer Statute.” Beach, California. www.janetdawson.com Philip Donlay Wendy Delaney “Te gale howled in from the south. It was Wendy Delaney writes fun-flled cozies a windy day even by Kansas standards. At and is the award-winning author of the the top of the hill, my twelve-year-old Working Stifs Mystery series. A long- hands steadied the sheet of cardboard. Tat time member of Mystery Writers of day marked an important milestone in my America, Sisters in Crime, and Romance life. It was the frst time I few—and the Writers of America, she’s a Food Network last time I crashed.”—Philip Donlay addict and pastry chef wannabe. When Donlay was licensed to fy real airplanes she’s not killing of story people she at the age of seventeen, and went on can be found on her treadmill, working to fy professionally. He was frst published at eighteen, and now of the calories from her latest culinary writes the Donovan Nash series of thrillers—the latest being adventure. A “left coast” native, Wendy Aftershock. He divides his time between Montana and the Pacifc lives in Seattle with her husband and has two grown sons. Northwest. www.wendydelaney.com www.philipdonlay.com

Hannah Dennison Robert Downs British born, Hannah originally moved Robert aspired to be a writer before he to Los Angeles to pursue screenwrit- realized how difcult the writing process ing. She has been an obituary reporter, was. Fortunately, he’d already fallen in antique dealer, private jet fight attendant love with the craft, otherwise Casey and Hollywood story analyst. Now living might never have seen print. Originally in Portland, Oregon, Hannah contin- from West Virginia, he has lived in Vir- ues to teach mystery writing at UCLA ginia, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Extension and still works for a west coast now resides in California. His previously advertising agency. Hannah writes the published novels are Falling Immortality Vicky Hill Mysteries and the Honeychurch Hall Mysteries—both and Graceful Immortality. LaCour’s Destiny, his third novel, fea- set in Devon, England. Hannah enjoys hiking, horseback riding, tures a female amateur sleuth, and comes out this July. When he’s skiing and seriously good chocolate. not writing, Robert can be found reviewing, blogging, or smiling. www.Hannahdennison.com www.RobertDowns.net

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Cynthia Drew Kate Dyer-Seeley Cynthia Drew’s award-winning mysteries Kate Dyer-Seeley writes the Pacifc and historical fction have been featured Northwest Mystery Series for Kensing- most recently in USA Today’s magazine. ton Publishing. Te frst book in the Her work has been compared with Up- series, Scene of the Climb, features the ton Sinclair and Damon Runyon and her rugged landscapes of the Columbia River short story collection, Tese Parts, will Gorge, hipster hangouts in Portland, be released this year. She is a practicing Oregon, and a young journalist who bills private investigator, and lives, tolerantly, herself as an intrepid adventurer in order to land a gig writing for with her husband in Asheville, North Carolina. Northwest Extreme. Kate lives in the Pacifc Northwest with her www.cynthiadrew.com husband and son, where you can fnd her hitting the trail, at an artisan cofee shop, or at her favorite pub. Or better yet-at all three. www.katedyerseeley.com Carola Dunn Having written 15 Daisy Dalrymple mysteries (England,1920s), Carola Dunn Warren Easley realized that while Daisy was still in her A recipient of the Willamette Writers’ 20s, she herself had aged considerably. Kay Snow Award for fction, Easley is the She therefore started a new series, the author of the Cal Claxton Mysteries set Cornish mysteries, with a protagonist in Oregon published by Poisoned Pen of her own age. Eleanor Trewynn now Press. A Ph.D. chemist, Easley pursued stars in three books, while Daisy—still in a career in R&D and international her 20s—appears in her 22nd adventure, business before turning to fction writing. Superfuous Women, in June 2015. Carola Te frst book in the series, Matters of has also written 32 Regencies. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, so Doubt, appeared in September, 2013; the she’s very happy to have LCC in Portland. second, Dead Float, in July, 2014. www.CarolaDunn.weebly.com www.warreneasley.com

Patricia Dusenbury Charlote Elkins Patricia Dusenbury grew up in the When Charlotte Elkins’ grant-funded Northeast, went to college in the South position as the American Art librarian at and married a southerner. She recently the de Young Museum in San Francis- moved to San Francisco to be close to her co ended in 1982, she took a fing at youngest grandchildren. In her previous writing. Over the years, fve romances career, Pat was an economist and the written under the pen-name Emily author of numerous dry publications. Spenser, and fve mysteries co-written She is hoping to atone by writing mys- with her husband, Aaron, about a young tery stories that people read for pleasure. female golfer named Lee Ofsted followed. Uncial Press e-published A Perfect Victim, After a brief hiatus, she found herself Book 1 of her Claire Marshall trilogy, in 2013 and Book 2, Secrets, excited about the new world of ebook Lies & Homicide, in September 2014. Book 3, A House of Her Own, publishing, and landed a contract with Tomas & Mercer. Going is scheduled for publication in late 2015. She also writes short back to her roots in the art world, she and Aaron are now working stories. When she isn’t writing, Pat is reading, gardening, babysit- on the fourth book of a new mystery series about Alix London, ting or exploring. Or, if it is late April/early May, you can fnd her Te Art Whisperer. in New Orleans, soaking up the sounds of Jazz Fest. www.aaronelkins.com PatriciaDusenbury.com

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Kendra Ellio Allen Ekens Rosebud Nominee Kendra Elliot is the romantic suspense I grew up in Jeferson City, Missouri and author of Te Bone Secrets Novels series. migrated north to go to college, gradu- Her motherly stress from raising three ating from the University of Minnesota daughters is transformed into murderous with a degree in journalism. I settled in plots on paper. She lives in the rainy Mankato, Minnesota where I started a Pacifc Northwest, but dreams of living law practice and raised my family. As the at the beach on Kauai. years passed, my itch to write became kendraelliott.com overwhelming and—after a mere twenty years of studying creative writing—I wrote my debut novel, Te Life We Bury. I am pleased with how it’s being received, including its selection as Jack Erickson one of the Best Debuts of 2014 by Suspense Magazine. www.alleneskens.com Jack Erickson is writing a thriller series based in Milan featuring the capo and his deputy of DIGOS, the Italian police Corey Lynn Fayman agency responsible for anti-terrorism. Te frst book in the series, Tirteen Days “A powerful new voice on the crime-fc- in Milan, was published in 2014; the se- tion scene” (ForeWord Reviews), Corey quel will be published in 2015. His most Lynn Fayman has done hard time as recent American mystery, Bloody Mary a musician, songwriter, and sound Confession, was published in December. designer, but still refuses to apologize for www.jackerickson.com it. Black’s Beach Shufe, the frst novel featuring the guitar-slinging detective Rolly Waters, was a San Diego Book Awards fnalist. Te second, Border Field Blues, won the genre award at the 2013 Hollywood Book Festival. Slab City Rockers will be published by Severn House in Summer 2015. Mr. Fayman’s many years soaking up the famously temperate weather of his hometown have had no noticeable efect on his attitude. www.coreylynnfayman.com

Lisa Fernow Lisa Fernow grew up on the classic mysteries of Ngaio Marsh and Elizabeth Peters and always wanted to write in this tradition. She has danced Argentine tango since 1996, studying with legendary masters Cacho Dante, Susana Miller, and Brigitta Winkler, and inspiring instruc- tors in Atlanta, Seattle, and Portland. Dead on Her Feet is the frst book in a planned series set in the tango world. Her short story, “Death of a Tango Dancer,” was published in 2015. She lives in Seattle. www.lisafernow.com

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Yves Fey Jordan Foster Yves Fey began drawing as soon as she Jordan Foster grew up in a mystery could hold a crayon and writing at bookstore in Portland, Oregon. She read twelve. She’s been a tie dye artist, go-go many books about dead people when she dancer, creator of ceramic beasties, was young and impressionable. She still illustrator, and has won prizes for her reads books about dead people, though chocolate desserts. Her current obses- she is (slightly) older and less impres- sion is creating perfumes inspired by her sionable. Jordan writes about books that characters. Her multiple award-winning often prominently feature dead people mystery, Floats the Dark Shadow, is set for magazines such as Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Oprah, Library in the decadent world of Belle Époque Journal, Te Strand, and Mystery Scene. It may come as a surprise, Paris. You can explore the art and history of the era at her website. but Jordan does enjoy things that don’t involve crime. She received Yves lives in Albany with her husband and their cats, Marlowe the her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in NYC—where Investigator and Charlotte and Emily, the Flying Bronte Sisters. there is a lot of crime. yvesfey.com Barbara Fradkin Christine Finlayson Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist Oregon author Christine Finlayson with a fascination for why we turn bad. writes mystery/suspense novels set Her dark short stories haunt numerous along the wicked waters of the Pacifc magazines and anthologies, and she Northwest. Her past includes stints as a also writes an easy-read novella series. scientist, editor, and environmental ed- However, she is best known for her ucator, but Christine has found a home award-winning detective series, featur- in plotting fctional death and disaster. ing the exasperating, quixotic Inspector When she’s not at the computer, she Michael Green whose passion for justice loves to photograph anything Northwest-weird or wild in nature, and love of the hunt often interfere with family, friends, and explore hiking trails and beaches, and soak up forensics and police police protocol. Two of these novels have won the Arthur Ellis Best procedures. Her books include Tip of a Bone (2013) and River of Novel Award, and one was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award. Broken Glass (coming in Spring 2015). Te tenth, entitled None So Blind, was released last fall to stellar www.christineﬁnlayson.com reviews. www.barbarafradkin.com Bill Fitzhugh Meg Gardiner Despite being of average height and not particularly fast in the hundred meters, Meg Gardiner is the bestselling author of (though quick enough to escape capture twelve thrillers. China Lake, the frst nov- that one time), Bill Fitzhugh somehow el in the Evan Delaney series, won the managed to become the award-winning 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback author of nine satiric crime novels. Original. Te Nightmare Tief, the most Described variously as a polymath, a recent novel in the Jo Beckett series, won sophist, and just plain annoying, Fitzhugh enjoys long walks on the 2012 Audie Award for Triller/Sus- the beach, transgenic baboons, and shiny objects. Asked to name pense audiobook of the year. Her latest his major infuences, he cites DNA, alcohol, and that eighth grade novel, Phantom Instinct, was chosen one English teacher who said he would never amount to anything. He of O, the Oprah magazine’s “Best Books was smart enough to marry well and is currently working on his of Summer.” Meg is a former Jeopardy! next novel. champion and a rehabilitated mime. She lives in Austin. billﬁtzhugh.com www.meggardiner.com

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Eva Gates (Vicki Delaney) Kathe Gibb Eva Gates is the author of the Light- I’ve been having fun buying mysteries house Library cozy series from Penguin for a medium-sized library system for 22 Obsidian, set in a historic lighthouse years. As a child I read Agatha Christie on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and 2-minute mysteries. As a mystery featuring Boston-transplant librarian, buyer and as a life-long mystery reader, I and highly reluctant sleuth, Lucy Rich- know what mysteries I won’t spend my ardson. Te frst in the series, By Book or time on and what mysteries entice me to By Crook, was released in February 2015. buy and read them late into the night. Eva is the pen name of bestselling author Vicki Delany, one of Canada’s most prolifc and varied crime writers. lighthouselibrarymysteries.com | vickidelany.com Christine Goff Christine Gof is pleased friends talked her out of a promotional karaoke/sake Linda Gerber tour of Japan when A Rant Of Ravens Linda Gerber is the author of the sold overseas (think “Rockin’ Robin” best-selling Death By Bikini Mysteries parody). Saved from embarrassment, series, Trance, S.A.S.S. Now and Zen, Astor+Blue Editions recently published S.A.S.S. Te Finnish Line, and the MG her backlist and bought a sixth book series Lights, Camera, Cassidy. Her books in the Birdwatcher’s Mystery series, A have been honored as ALA Popular Pa- Parliament Of Owls, scheduled for release perback, Junior Library Guild, Women’s in October 2015. AND Crooked Lane Sports Foundation recommended read Books bought the frst in her new inter- and Literacy Lab recommended read se- national thriller series, Dark Waters, due out in September. Tis lections. Linda has served as the Regional Advisor for the SCBWI time she’s chosen a more traditional promotional route—blurbs! Japan chapter. She lives, writes, and devours sushi in Tokyo, Japan. www.christinegoff.com lindagerber.com Lee Goldberg V.M. Giambanco Lee Goldberg is a former professional V.M. Giambanco was born in Italy and, assassin who gave up killing to write and after a degree in English and Drama in publish crime novels. He is the co-author London, started as an editor’s apprentice of the bestselling Fox & O’Hare novels, and worked on many UK and US flms. which he co-writes with Janet Evanovich, Valentina writes about Homicide Detec- and co-founder of the new publishing tive Alice Madison and her novels are set company Brash Books, which publishes in Seattle and in the wilderness of Wash- the best crime novels in existence. ington State. Te Gift Of Darkness, the www.leegoldberg.com frst in the series, was published in the US in November 2014; Te Dark, the second, is already out in the UK while the third, Blood And Bone, will be later in the year. Valentina lives in London but spends most days in Seattle. www.vmgiambanco.com

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Joel Goldman Neal Grifn Despite rumors to the contrary, Joel Neal Grifn is a 25- year police veteran Goldman is not Lee Goldberg’s brother, who brings his wide range of experiences though Lee and Joel are joined at the hip to life in his frst book, Beneft Of Te as the publishers of Brash Books where Doubt. Neal conveys the heroic nature of they publish the best crime novels in ex- policing but also exposes the price paid istence. Joel is also the bestselling author for allowing malfeasance and incom- of three thriller series featuring two lawyers, Lou Mason and Alex petency to fester in a law enforcement Stone—one male, one female, one straight, one gay—you fgure agency. Neal pulls no punches in his it out—and a former FBI agent, Jack Davis, who shakes when he portrayal of modern-day cops, both the should shoot because Joel gave him his movement disorder. Joel good and the scandalous. Beneft Of Te and Lisa Klink are co-authoring a new series flled with interna- Doubt will be available from Forge in tional intrigue and exciting capers. Look for the frst book from May, 2015. Tomas & Mercer in September. www.nealgrifﬁn.com www.mysterythrillerbooks.com Patricia Gulley Barbara Graham Patricia is the author of Downsized to Barbara Graham began making up Death, a traditional mystery that takes stories in the third grade instead of place in a travel agency in Portland when learning to multiply and divide. A native the industry was downsizing. Certainly Texan, she later lived in Denver, New was the end of her career. Her newest Orleans and East Tennessee. Inspiration book, Brownstone Burial, is a paranormal for Silersville (home of her imaginary mystery and begins with a crime in 1947 friends) comes from her Tennessee peri- then takes place in 1963 with an airline od. An unrepentant quilting addict, she reservations department and living in lives in Wyoming with her long sufering a New York brownstone as background. All based on experience, husband and two dogs. Her motto is “Every book needs a dead except the ghosts. Pat lives in Portland on a foating home on the body and every bed needs a quilt”. Her newest book, number six Columbia River. in the series is Murder by Gravity: Te Cofn Quilt. www.patgulley.com www.bgmysteries.com Nan Hagan Barry Graham Nan Hagan is a Hollywood TV writer/ Barry Graham is a Caledonian gentleman producer who has written for such shows of letters whose previous occupations as Sliders, JAG, Dawson’s Creek and have included prize-fghting, monastic Diagnosis Murder. Her debut novel is vocation, the fourth estate, vagabondage #1 of the Kamryn Cade Mystery Series: and the general avoidance of honest toil. Play It Again, Kam, published by Te Finding himself constitutionally beftted Hollywood Way Mystery Press. Nan lives to the telling of tales, he has penned in the greater Los Angeles area (valley-side), and when not writing many novels. Tese trifing romances her own mysteries, runs a boutique editorial agency that specializes have oft been the undeserving recipients of literary awards; indeed, in coaching writers working on scripts and novels. She is current- in 1995 the American Library Association disgraced itself by se- ly working on Kamryn Cade Book #2: Dose of Reality, due out lecting Te Book of Man as one of the best books of the year. Tat November, 2015. same year, he fed his native land for the U.S.A., and thus far has www.hollywoodwaymysteries.com managed to avoid deportation. www.barrygrahamauthor.com

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Daniel Hale Vinnie Hansen When he’s not trudging through the Vinnie Hansen fed the South Dakota forests of southwestern Arkansas or prairie for the California coast the day navigating the intricacies of timber after graduating high school. Author tax law or tending to the needs of a of the Carol Sabala mysteries, Vinnie megalomaniacal border collie, Daniel was a Claymore Award fnalist for Black J. Hale moonlights as a Dallas-based Beans & Venom, the seventh installment creative writing instructor and an Agatha in her series, just released from misterio Award-winning author. Together with his press. She’s also written many published nephew, Matthew LaBrot, Daniel writes short stories including “Novel Solution,” the Zeke Armstrong Mystery series for which will appear in the third Guppy the middle-graders. A two-time former Executive VP of Mystery anthology, Fish or Cut Bait, due from Writers of America, he also speaks fuent French…because trees Wildside Press in May. Retired after 27 years of teaching high don’t understand English, even when it’s shouted. school English, Vinnie lives in Santa Cruz, California. www.danieljhale.com www.vinniehansen.com

Parnell Hall RJ Harlick Parnell Hall is the author of the Stanley RJ Harlick writes the popular wilder- Hastings private eye novels, the Puzzle ness-based Meg Harris mystery series set Lady crossword puzzle mysteries, and the in the wilds of Quebec. Like her heroine Steve Winslow courtroom dramas. Un- Meg Harris, RJ loves nothing better der various pseudonyms he has written than to roam the forests surrounding her Game of Trones, the Harry Potter novels, wilderness cabin or paddle the endless and the King James Bible. Parnell is shy lakes and rivers. Te 4th book, Arctic and retiring. No one has ever succeeded Blue Death was a fnalist for the Arthur in getting him to sign a book. Ellis Award for Best Novel. In the 6th parnellhall.com and latest release, Silver Totem of Shame, Meg travels to Canada’s west coast, to Haida Gwaii, the mystical islands of the Haida. She is currently working on A Cold White Fear scheduled for late 2015 Glen Erik Hamilton release. Glen Erik Hamilton’s debut novel Past www.rjharlick.ca Crimes was given a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly and called “an exciting heir to the classic detective novel” by Mette Ivy Harrison Kirkus. Past Crimes will be published Mette holds a Ph.D. in Germanic in March 2015 by William Morrow Languages and Literatures from Princ- in the U.S. and Faber & Faber in the eton University, is a nationally ranked U.K. A native of Seattle, Glen grew up Ironman triathlete, has fve brilliant and aboard a sailboat, and spent his youth tall children, and is a practicing Mormon, fnding trouble around the marinas and which led to her new mystery series set commercial docks and islands of the in Draper Utah starting with Te Bishop’s Pacifc Northwest. He now lives in California with his family but Wife. Tis means she can run home from frequently returns to his hometown to soak up the rain. church carrying two kids, make home- glenerikhamilton.com made cinnamon rolls while you’re still driving, and then argue about proper German pronunciation of her frst name, which her parents have always said to rhyme with “Betty.” (Tis is by the way, completely wrong). metteivieharrison.com

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Heather Haven Jennifer Hillier Heather Haven writes short stories, Jennifer Hillier is a full-time novelist comedy acts, television treatments, who writes about dark, twisted people commercials, and plays. Murder is a who do dark, twisted things. She’s also Family Business, number one of Alvarez a little bit twisted herself (friends have Family Murder Mysteries, won the Single pointed out that she named her newborn Titles Reviewers’ Choice Award 2011. son after the fctional serial killer from Te second, A Wedding to Die For, was a her frst two books, though she totally 2012 fnalist for Global and EPIC Best denies it.) Born and raised in Canada, Mystery. Death Runs in the Family, the third, won the Global Gold she currently splits her time between Award for Best Mystery Fiction 2013. Te Persephone Cole Vin- Toronto and Seattle, and is the author tage Mysteries, was number one in Amazon’s Historical Mystery of the psychological thrillers Creep (2011), Freak (2012), and and General Humorous categories, October. Death of a Clown, a Te Butcher (2014), all from Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books. noir mystery, won the Silver IPPY for Best Mystery/thriller 2014. Wonderland is coming October 2015. www.heatherhavenstories.com JenniferHillier.org

Dana Haynes Roger Hobbs Novelist Dana Haynes’ fourth thriller, Roger Hobbs is the author Ghostman. and the forthcoming Gun Metal Heart, was released from St. Vanishing Games. Martin’s Press in 2014. It’s the sequel www.rogerhobbs.com to 2013’s Ice Cold Kill and stars Daria Gibron, a former soldier and spy caught up in an international conspiracy. Daria Chris Holm made her debut in Haynes’ frst thriller, Chris Holm’s work has appeared in a Crashers, in 2010. It won the Spotted number of publications, including Ellery Owl Award from Friends of Mystery as Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Tuglit, and that year’s best mystery or thriller written Te Best American Mystery Stories 2011. by a Northwest writer. His other books His Collector trilogy recasts the battle include Breaking Point, 2011. Haynes is represented by Janet Reid between heaven and hell as old-fashioned of Fine Print Literary Management. A former newspaper reporter crime pulp. His forthcoming thriller Te and editor, he serves as communications director for Portland Killing Kind—out this fall from Mulhol- Mayor Charlie Hales. land Books—is about a man who makes dana-haynes.com his living hitting hitmen, only to wind up a target himself. Russell Hill www.chrisholmbooks.com Russell Hill is a three-time nominee for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Wendy Hornsby Robbie’sWife, Te Lord God Bird and Te Wendy Hornsby is the Edgar Award-win- Dog Sox. His latest mystery is Deadly ning author of the Maggie MacGowen Negatives and a new novel, Tom Hall & Mystery series and many short stories. Te Captain of All Tese Men of Death By day, Wendy is a genteel Professor debuts this weekend. He also has three of History, according to NPR, and by eBook novellas on line with Stark Raving night purveyor of fctional murder most Group, a publisher of short crime fction. foul. Wendy lives in Northern California. “I almost always get asked by readers, Her most recent mystery is Te Color of Light (Perseverance Press, ‘Where do your story ideas come from?’ 2014). All of her books are available in electronic formats. and it’s fun to chat with them about where a story begins.” www.wendyhornsby.com

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Ken Isaacon James M. Jackson Ken Isaacson has practiced law for thir- James M. Jackson authors the Seamus ty-fve years, having graduated from MIT McCree mystery series: Bad Policy (2013) and Columbia Law School. He began and Cabin Fever (2014) published by his legal career on Wall Street, and today Barking Rain Press. Bad Policy won he is general counsel to an internation- the Evan Marshall Fiction Makeover al transportation company. Lawyers Contest whose criteria were the fresh- write for a living, and many think it’s ness and commerciality of the story and all fction. Ken decided to abandon all quality of the writing. He splits his time pretenses and write stuf he could admit between the deep woods of Michigan’s was completely made up, so now he writes crime fction. His frst Upper Peninsula and Georgia’s low country. Jim has published an novel, Silent Counsel, won critical acclaim, and upon its 2007 acclaimed book on contract bridge, One Trick at a Time: How to release spent an entire month on Amazon’s list of bestselling legal Start Winning at Bridge (Master Point Press 2012), as well as num thrillers behind only Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and John erous short stories and essays. Grisham’s Te Appeal. jamesmjackson.com www.KenIsaacson.com Paty Jager Linda Joffe Hull Award-winning author Paty Jager and her Linda Jofe Hull is the author of Te Big husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Bang (Tyrus Books), as well as Eternally Oregon. On her road to publication 21 (Midnight Ink) and Black Tursday she wrote freelance articles for two local (Midnight Ink), the frst two titles in the newspapers. All her work has Western Mrs. Frugalicious mystery series. She or Native American elements in them is a native of St. Louis and a graduate along with hints of humor and engaging of UCLA. She lives in Denver with her characters. Her penchant for research husband, daughter, and the pets her sons takes her on side trips that eventually turn into yet another story. left behind when they went to college. She recently returned to the genre of her heart—Mystery. Linda is currently on the national board of Mystery Writers of www.patyjager.net America and is a longtime member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. She is proud to have been named the 2013 RMFW Writer of the Year. Darrell James www.lindajoffehull.com Darrell James is a recent transplant to Ashland, Oregon from Los Angeles. He is the author of the Award Winning and Del Jack multi-nominated Del Shannon series of Hello. My name is Del Jack (Great name mystery/thrillers that include: Nazareth for a novelist, but so far it hasn’t helped Child, winner of the 2012 Left Coast me get a publisher.) I’m a retired English Crime Eureka Award for Best First Nov- Instructor (35 years in the “pits”: H.S el; Sonora Crossing, and Purgatory Key and Jr. College) I have a M.A. degree which was nominated for both the An- from Sacramento State College (now thony and Shamus Awards. In addition CSUS) in American and British Litera- his more than thirty short stories have ture. I went bad about 15 years ago and appeared in numerous mystery magazines and book anthologies, began writing fction. My YA detective thrillers, Te Gargoyle Bat and have garnered a number of awards. His most recent Little Earl and Te Tombs of Montmartre, are available from Amazon. I’m short story appears in the Lee Child anthology, Vengeance. currently seeking a publisher for my adult detective thriller. www.darrelljames.com Deljackmysteries.com

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Kris James Tammy Kaehler See Kris James. See Kris write. See Kris Tammy Kaehler’s career in marketing and get published under two pen names. technical writing landed her in the world See Kris go indie as Jasmine Giacomo, of automobile racing, which inspired her writing fantasy series such as Immortality with its blend of drama, competition, Archive and Seals of the Duelists. See Kris and friendly people. Mystery fans and land a small press as Morgan Talbot, racing insiders alike praised the frst two writing cozy mystery series such as Kate Reilly Racing Mysteries, Dead Man’s Caching Out and Moorehaven Mysteries. Switch and the award-winning Braking See Kris work. See Kris write marketing Points. She takes readers back behind copy for Red Adept Publishing. See Kris the wheel for the third time in Avoidable try to relax at home amidst a husband, Contact. Tammy works as a technical two energetic children, and a Bichon Frisé. See Kris binge watch writer in the Los Angeles area, where she lives with her husband her fave spec-fc and mystery shows online. Go, Kris, go. and many cars. morganctalbot.blogspot.com www.tammykaehler.com

Judith Janeway Andrew E. Kaufman Judith Janeway believes that she was born Andrew E. Kaufman is the author of with a Ticonderoga no. 2 pencil in one While the Savage Sleeps and Darkness & hand and a canary yellow lined pad in Shadows. His novel, Te Lion, the Lamb, the other, because she can’t remember a the Hunted, became a number one inter- time when she wasn’t writing stories. Her national bestseller. He’s also a contributor current story, Te Magician’s Daughter to the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, (Poisoned Pen Press) is the frst in a series where he chronicled his battle against of three mysteries. Judith lives just north Cancer and the subsequent struggle to of San Francisco and writes in the inter- become a recognized author. His latest stices of a life that encompasses working, thriller, Twisted, will be available on April traveling, having fun with family and friends, and supporting her 7th. A former broadcast journalist, he baseball addiction. began his career as an Emmy-nominated writer and producer. For judithjaneway.com more than ten years, he produced special series and covered many nationally known cases, including the O. J. Simpson trial. www.andrewekaufman.com Jerusha Jones Author of the Imogene Museum and Dana Kaye Mayfeld cozy mystery series which are set in two of her favorite places—the Co- Dana Kaye is the owner of Kaye Public- lumbia River Gorge and the dense forests ity, a boutique PR company specializing of SW Washington. Jerusha spends most in publishing and entertainment. Known of her time seated in front of her attic for her innovative ideas and knowledge window, engaged in daydreaming with of current trends, she frequently speaks intermittent typing or pinning Post-It on the topics of social media, branding, notes to corkboards (better safe than sorry!) She also considers and publishing trends, and her commen- maple-frosted, cream-flled doughnuts an essential component of tary has been featured on websites like her writer’s toolkit. Te Hufngton Post, Little Pink Book, and www.jerushajones.com NBC Chicago. www.KayePublicity.com

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Arthur Kerns Bharti Kirchner Art Kerns joined the FBI with a career in Bharti Kirchner is the author of nine counterintelligence and counterterrorism. books—fve critically acclaimed novels, On retirement, he became a consultant four cookbooks —and hundreds of short with the Intelligence Community and pieces for magazines and newspapers. the Department of State, taking him Her sixth novel, Goddess of Fire, a histori- to over sixty-fve countries. His short cal novel (with a crime subplot) set in In- stories have appeared in a number of dia in the 17th century, is due out late in award-winning anthologies and he has 2015. Bharti has won numerous awards completed a mystery based on the unsolved 1929 murder of an for her writing, including a Virginia FBI agent in Phoenix. Diversion Books has published his Hayden Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. Stone thriller series, frst, Te Riviera Contract, and followed by She has been honored as a Living Pioneer Te African Contract. He’s working on the third in the series, Te Asian American Author. She enjoys attending mystery conventions, Yemen Contract. only laments that there’s not enough time to read all the authors www.arthurkerns.com she newly discovers. www.bhartikirchner.com Katy King Katy King is the President of the Oregon Ellen Kirschman Harriet Vane Chapter of Sisters in Crime I’ve been a police psychologist for thirty and the author of City of Suspects, a years and am the happy recipient of the mystery novel set in Portland, Oregon. California Psychological Association’s She is represented by Janet Reid of Fine 2014 Award for Distinguished Con- Print Literary Management. King lives in tribution to Psychology. After publish- Portland with her husband, thriller writer ing three non-fction books, I began Dana Haynes and can be found in the a mystery series. Writing fction isn’t front row for all of his book events. easier, but it is way more therapeutic. Trough my fctional psychologist, Dr. Dot Meyerhof, I get to take pot shots at Laurie R. King cops, psychologists, even a few ex-hus- Laurie R. King is the bestselling author bands. Book number two will be available soon. I’m a member of of 24 novels and many other works, the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Te Public including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Safety Writers Association. Holmes stories from Te Beekeeper’s www.ellenkirschman.com Apprentice (one of IMBA’s 100 Favor- ite Mysteries of the 20th Century) to Dreaming Spies. She has won or been Christine Kling nominated for an alphabet of prizes from Christine Kling has spent more than Agatha to Wolfe, been guest of honor thirty years messing about with boats. It at several crime conventions, is one of was her sailing experience that led her only 303 Baker Street Irregulars, and is to write her frst suspense series about probably the only writer to have both an Edgar and an honorary Florida female tug and salvage captain doctorate in theology. (She’s active on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Seychelle Sullivan. Her new Shipwreck Pinterest, Mutterings, etc etc). Adventure thrillers, Circle of Bones, and www.laurierking.com Dragon’s Triangle from Tomas & Mercer feature the adventures of a female sailor and a maritime archeolo- gist. Christine’s home is a 52-foot motorsailor and she is cruising the Pacifc with her family including Barney, the Yorkshire Terror and Ruby, the Wonder Dog. You can learn more about her real and fctional sailing adventures at my website. www.sailingwriter.com

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Yvonne Kohano Jeffrey Layton A recent transplant to the Pacifc Jefrey Layton is the author of Blowout, Northwest, Yvonne writes contemporary Warhead, and Vortex One. His latest romantic suspense, with the seventh thriller, Te Good Spy, is scheduled for book in the Flynn’s Crossing series, Love’s publication by Kensington Books in Touch of Justice released in December early 2016. Jef is a professional engineer 2014. She’s also working on a psycholog- who specializes in waterfront and coastal ical thriller series, a couple of standalone engineering. He uses his knowledge of suspense books, and two nonfction diving, yachting, ofshore engineering books about tips for writers. In addi- and underwater warfare in the novels he tion to running an indie press, Yvonne loves to cook (dedicated writes. He lives in the Pacifc Northwest. foodies), garden (Master Gardeners), travel (anywhere), and read www.jeffreylayton.com. (anything). www.YvonneKohano.com Deborah J Ledford Deborah J Ledford is frst and foremost Rita Lakin an entertainer. From her original screen- For my sins, I spent twenty-fve years as plays to the award-winning Inola Walela/ a television screenwriter and show-run- Steven Hawk psychological suspense ner producer, with credits including series, including Te Hillerman Sky Dr. Kildare, Peyton Place, Mod Squad Award Finalist Snare, and Causing Chaos, & Dynasty. My memoir about those her passion is to present frst-rate thrills Hollywood years, Te Only Woman in the such as her latest release, Crescendo, the Room, will be out this year. I’ve written 2014 Anthony Award Nominee for Best seven comic mysteries about Gladdy Audiobook. Narrated by TV and flm Gold and her sometimes funny, some- actress Christina Cox (Dexter, NCIS, 24, times loony senior group of private eyes. Getting Old is a Disaster Te Chronicles of Riddick), the recording is produced by Debo- won the 2009 Lefty Award. My third book in the series, Getting rah’s media corporation IOF Productions Ltd. Part Eastern Band Old is Criminal is being produced as a TV movie in Germany. My Cherokee, she is also a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her nominations and awards include Writers Guild of America, MWA short stories. Edgar, and the Avery Hopwood award from the University of DeborahJLedford.com Michigan. www.ritalakin.com Melissa Lenhardt Melissa Lenhardt never dreamed of Mike Lawson becoming a writer. In fact, aside from her Mike Lawson is the award winning childhood imaginary friends, Tippy and author of eleven published novels. He Gaga, who were more a result of a lonely has been nominated for the Barry Award country life than true ingenuity, she four times and has twice won the Port- would have disputed the idea there was land-based Friends of Mystery Award a creative bone in her body. Until one for his Joe DeMarco political thrillers. day she had an idea and started writing. Te frst book in his second series, titled Ten years and a million, mostly terrible, Rosarito Beach, involving a rogue DEA thankfully unpublished, words later, agent named Kay Hamilton, was op- Melissa’s debut mystery, Stillwater will be tioned for television and the second book released by Skyhorse Publishing in October 2015. in this acclaimed series, Viking Bay, was melissalenhardt.com released in January of 2015. Prior to turning to writing full time, Mike was a nuclear engineer employed by the Navy and he lives in the Northwest. www.mikelawsonbooks.com

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Doug Levin M. Louisa Locke Doug Levin’s short crime fction has ap- M. Louisa Locke, retired professor of peared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, women’s history, writes the Victorian Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and San Francisco Mystery series. In Maids of a couple of anthologies. His long fction Misfortune, Annie Fuller, a young widow, might be forthcoming if the stars align. goes undercover as a domestic servant to He once sold a pen to a Nobel Prize win- solve a murder, in Uneasy Spirits, Annie ner, gave a ride to a diferent Nobel Prize and lawyer Nate Dawson investigate winner, and ghostwrote for yet another fraudulent trance mediums, and in Nobel Prize winner. A lapsed academic, former book critic, and Bloody Lessons, they try to determine current pug owner, Levin lives and works in Portland, Oregon. who is attacking San Francisco teachers. douglevin.com Deadly Proof, the fourth book, is about women in the San Francisco printing industry. Locke is active in the Alliance of Independent Authors and the Historical Fiction Evan Lewis Authors Cooperative. No one has ever claimed Evan Lewis www.mlouisalocke.com is completely sane. Certainly not the MWA, who gave him the 2011 Robert L. Fish Award for “Skyler Hobbs and the Clark Lohr Rabbit Man,” introducing a Portland Clark Lohr grew up in Montana but man who believes he’s the reincarnation he’s spent most of his life in Tucson, of Sherlock Holmes. And certainly not Arizona. He’s written two “border noir” the editors of Ellery Queen’s Mystery novels, Devil’s Kitchen and Te Devil Magazine (where Hobbs’s adventures on Eighty-fve, both of which feature continue) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery his detective hero, Manny Aguilar, and Magazine (where Tennessee State Representative David Crockett Manny’s girlfriend, Reina, aka “the brains solves mysteries with—and in spite of—his ancestral hitchhiker). of the outft.” Now Lewis thinks he’s Dashiell-freaking-Hammett. See the May clarklohr.com 2015 AHMM for “Te Continental Opposite,” and visit 1953 Portland, a town as corrupt as Hammett’s Poisonville. evanlewis.com Bill Loehfelm Rod Lindsey Bill is the author of fve novels. His most recent is Doing the Devil’s Work, the third Rod Lindsey is a new writer with over 30 book in his New Orleans-set Maureen years of experience. Previously a Beam- Coughlin crime fction series. Born in walker in construction lingo, Rod has Park Slope, Bill grew up in Brooklyn and been a Hallmark artist and a professional on Staten Island. In 1997, he moved to photographer, a snake oil salesman of New Orleans, where he has taught high extraordinary guf, a carpenter, a soldier, school and college, worked in an antique a demolitions specialist prone to overuse shop, and done absolutely everything of C-4, a motocross racer prone to there is to do in the bar and restaurant spectacular crashes, and a nudist prone business (except cook). He received his to gawking. Skyshooter is Rod’s second Ezra Hooten novel. Te frst MA from the University of New Orleans in 2005. He plays drums Ezra Hooten novel, Troubleshooter, won the Zola award for best in a rock n’ roll cover band. Bill lives in New Orleans’ Garden Mystery and Suspense. District with his wife, AC Lambeth, a writer and yoga instructor, rodlindseystoryteller.blogspot.com and their two dogs. billloehfelm.tumblr.com

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Robert Lopresti Tom Luce Robert Lopresti edited Turber on Crime, Tom spent 10 years not enjoying a career wrote the folk music-noir novel Such a as a pharmacist. In 1990, shortly after Killing Crime, and the story collection moving to Portland, he answered an ad Shanks On Crime. Tis year he has boldly in the newspaper looking for a receiving written a book without Crime in the clerk at Powell’s. In his interview he title: Greenfellas is a comic crime (damn!) convinced them that they really did need novel about a New Jersey mobster who a pharmacist in back opening boxes of decides to save the environment. He is books for $5.50/ hour. Over the years, a regular in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery he has worked as section head and buyer Magazine and has probably won more Black Orchid Novella and for Mysteries and other sections, includ- Derringer Awards than any other librarian. A blogging slut, he is ing a 7 year stint at Borders where he bought Romance nationally found regularly at SleuthSayers, Little Big Crimes, and Today In for the chain. Now he’s back at Powell’s buying Mysteries and Mystery History. other fun stuf. home.nas.com/lopresti www.powells.com

Jess Lourey Lefy Nominee Margaret Lucke Jessica (Jess) Lourey is the author of the Margaret Lucke fings words around as critically-acclaimed Murder-by-Month a writer and editorial consultant in the series. February Fever, the latest, has San Francisco Bay Area. She is fascinated earned a starred review from Booklist, by the power of stories and the magic and Kirkus calls it “the best yet.” Jessica of creativity. Her novels include House also writes fantasy as Albert Lea, young of Whispers, a tale of love, ghosts and adult as J.H. Lourey, and magical realism murder on the California coast, and under her given name. When not hang- two that feature artist and private eye ing with her kids or dorky dogs, she’s Jess Randolph: A Relative Stranger and watching craptastic SyFy originals. the forthcoming Snow Angel. A former www.jessicalourey.com president of the Northern California chapter of MWA, Margaret teaches fction writing classes and has authored two how-to books on writing. Sarah Lovett www.margaretlucke.com Sarah Lovett’s just-published spy thriller—Burned—coauthored with former CIA NOC Valerie Plame, continues the D. P. Lyle series debut, Blowback. Lovett wrote D. P. Lyle is the Macavity and Benjamin the fve-book series (published in 12 Franklin Silver Award winning and Ed- languages), featuring Dr. Strange—in- gar, Agatha, Anthony, Scribe, and USA cluding Dantes’ Inferno and A Desperate Best Book Award nominated author of Silence. Her 30 nonfction books include both non-fction and fction (the Saman- the award-winning Extremely Weird tha Cody and Dub Walker thriller series children’s science series, aired on network and the Royal Pains media tie-in series). TV. Her stories are included in anthologies and aired on NPR. Along with Jan Burke, he is the co-host She’s worked as a legal snoop for NM’s Attorney General, theater of Crime and Science Radio. He has director, dancer, playwright, gas jockey, bartender. Her exposure to served as story consultant to many nov- issues at the NM State Prison inspired Dr. Strange. While writing elists and the screenwriters of shows such two new crime novels, she also coaches writers. as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging www.sarahlovett.com Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, Te Glades, and Pretty Little Liars. www.dplylemd.com

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Jennifer McAndrews Karen MacInerney At 5 years old Jennifer McAndrews’s Karen MacInerney is the bestselling greatest achievement was becoming the author of the Agatha Award-nominated person responsible for choosing which Gray Whale Inn mysteries, the Margie kindergarten table was the frst to be Peterson mysteries, the forthcoming dismissed at the end of the day. Drunk Dewberry Farm mysteries, and the on power, she entered into private school, trilogy Tales of an Urban Werewolf, which where nuns promptly turned her into a was nominated for a P.E.A.R.L. award by nervous, twitching, Dickensian waif and her readers. When she’s not procrastinat- (unwittingly) taught her the value of fab- ing in cofee shops, she teaches writing rication over truth and the importance workshops in Austin, Texas, where she of only dreaming of murdering the neighbors rather than actually lives with her patient husband, two saucy carrying out the deed. Tus, the author of mysteries Deadly Farce, children, and a growing menagerie of pets. Ill-Gotten Panes, and Death Under Glass was born. www.karenmacinerney.com www.jennifermcandrews.com Jenn McKinlay Maryglenn McCombs Jenn McKinlay is the New York Times Maryglenn McCombs has actively bestselling author of the Library Lover’s, worked in the book publishing industry Cupcake Bakery, and London Hat Shop for over twenty years. After starting her mysteries. Clearly writing gives her an own publishing company in 1995, she excuse to read, eat, and travel, a perfect transitioned into the role of book pub- career for sure. Jenn lives in Scottsdale, licist in the late 90s. As a book publicist, Arizona in a house overrun with kids, she works to create media exposure for pets and her husband’s guitars. books and authors through various print, www.jennmckinlay.com online, and broadcast media outlets. Maryglenn focuses primarily on titles in the mystery/suspense/thriller genres. A graduate of Vanderbilt Uni- Frances McNamara versity, Maryglenn serves on the board of the Nashville Humane Frances McNamara Author of the Emily Association. A South Central Kentucky native, Maryglenn lives in Cabot Mysteries, historical mysteries Nashville with her husband, Tim Warnock, and their Old English set in Chicago in the 1890s—Death at Sheepdog, Majordomo Billy Bojangles. the Fair, Death at Hull House, Death at www.maryglenn.com Pullman, and Death at Woods Hole. Te most recent, Death at Chinatown, is set in Chicago’s original Chinatown in the Chip MacGregor summer of 1896. Frances grew up in Chip MacGregor is the president of Boston, where her father served as Police MacGregor LIterary, Inc., an agency Commissioner. She is a librarian at the located on the left coast. A published University of Chicago. She is at work on the sixth book in the author, former editor, and one-time series, Death at the Paris Exposition. publisher with Time-Warner, he clearly fmcnamara.wordpress.com can’t hold a job. Somehow, over the past couple of years, he has been the busiest literary agent in the United States. Chip represents such bestselling authors as Vincent Zandri, Les Edgerton, Susan Meissner, and Joshua Graham. Recently the nonfction book he represented, Foxcatcher, was made into a movie that currently has 4 Oscar nominations (including “best screenplay adaptation”). www.macgregorliterary.com

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Doc Macomber G.M. Malliet Doc Macomber is the author of fve Agatha Award-winning author of A mystery novels featuring Air Force Inves- Demon Summer, the 4th Max Tudor in tigator Jack Vu and River Patrol Deputy what the New York Times calls a “charm- Jason Colefeld. Doc formerly served ing series.” Nominated for multiple with an Air Force Special Tactics Unit Agathas and for three Anthony awards, a and now lives aboard a trawler on the Macavity, and Left Coast Crime, IPPY, Columbia River fghting crime anyway David, and Dilys awards; the audio he can. As a decorated Marine Captain version of her second St. Just novel was a once noted, “Doc sees much…says 2014 Anthony nominee. Her short story little…and writes it all down.” “Home for the Holidays” appeared in www.docmacomber.com 2014 in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. She lives in the Washing- ton, DC, area. gmmalliet.com Catriona McPherson Bruce Alexander Nominee Catriona McPherson writes the Agatha, Macavity and Bruce Alexander winning Paul D. Marks Dandy Gilver series, set in her native Paul D. Marks is the Shamus Award-win- Scotland in the 1920s. A Deadly Measure ning author of the noir-thriller White of Brimstone is up for a third Bruce at Heat. Publishers Weekly calls White Heat Left Coast Crime this year. In 2013 she a “taut crime yarn.” And Midwest Book started a strand of darker (not difcult) Review says “…a riveting read of mystery, standalones. Te frst, As She Left It, much recommended.” His story “Howl- won an Anthony award at Bouchercon ing at the Moon” appears in the 11/14 Long Beach and the IndieFab Gold for issue of Ellery Queen. He is also the author of over thirty published Mystery. Te Day She Died is currently short stories, including several award winners—and L.A. Late @ on the shortlist for an Edgar. Catriona lives in northern California Night, a collection of fve mystery and noir tales. with a black cat and a scientist and is the 2015 president of Sisters www.PaulDMarks.com in Crime. www.catrionamcpherson.com Matt Martz Matt Martz began his publishing career Andrew MacRae in 2004 and joined Crooked Lane Books Andrew MacRae is a misplaced Midwest- / Quick Brown Fox & Company in 2014 erner who rolled downhill to California after 8 years at Minotaur Books. He a quarter-century ago and who now publishes a wide range of crime fction lives in the San Francisco bay area. He ranging from traditional mysteries to is the author of Murder Misdirected and psychological suspense and high concept its sequel, Murder Miscalculated, both thrillers. Te authors with whom he has published by Mainly Murder Press. Tey worked include New York Times Bestsellers Wendy Corsi Staub feature Te Kid, a professional pickpock- and Denise Grover Swank, Los Angeles Times Book Prize fnalist et who can’t help getting into trouble. Kelli Stanley, and Barry Award nominee Tim O’Mara. He is also the editor of Te Anthology www.crookedlanebooks.com of Cozy-Noir and the forthcoming And All Our Yesterdays, an anthology of historical mystery and crime fction, both published by Darkhouse Books. www.murdermisdirected.com

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Ellen Frank Mathews Camille Minichino Ellen Frank Mathews, author of the Camille Minichino (aka Margaret Grace fast-paced and funny A Match To Die and Jean Flowers) reads dark. She doesn’t For, has been matching dolls, dogs and like any of the hallmarks of cozy mys- people since the time of lollipops. She’s teries: pets, kids, cooking, humor. And published in the Santa Barbara Writers yet she has written more than 20 cozy Community of Voices, has written for mystery novels, eight of them featuring television, won fction awards and a Ful- a ten-year-old. Tis in itself is a mystery. bright scholarship to Shefeld, England. Latest release: Manhattan in Miniature. She holds a BA in English from UCLA A retired physicist, she’s married to her and MA from California State University, and she’s a member of webmaster, loves writing, but misses her Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. He-Ne laser. Visit Camille at ellenmathews.com www.minichino.com

Jeanne Matthews Skye Moody Jeanne Matthews is the author of the If you attended the 2009 Edgar Awards Dinah Pelerin international mystery you’ll perhaps recall deep into the evening series published by Poisoned Pen Press, the champagne-blotto’d blonde in the ball including Bones of Contention, Bet Your gown who, with Bill Fitzhugh, presented Bones, Bonereapers, Her Boyfriend’s Bones, the Edgar to CJ Box only after she’d held and Where the Bones Are Buried. Jeanne a frustrated audience hostage to endless spent twenty years working for lawyers, Leonard Cohen quotes. Tat was mystery which accounts for her keen interest in novelist Skye Moody, whose 2014 novel murder. Writing about imaginary mur- Frostline includes no Leonard Cohen quotes, and who is known by ders has proved therapeutic and so far, her friends as a “three-martini girl in a one-martini body.” Dorothy the only bones she’s made are fctional. Parker would understand. Still, six years on, my respectful apologies, Or so she claims. Fitzhugh, Lee, and audience. What a load of my mind! www.jeannematthews.com www.skyemoody.com

Stephen Mertz Sharon Arthur Moore Stephen Mertz is known for thrillers and After 39 years as an educator, Sharon Ar- novels of suspense. His work includes thur Moore “transitioned” to the life of paranormal dark suspense (Night Wind, full-time fction writer. She’s an intrepid Devil Creek), historical thrillers (Blood cook, game-player, and miniatures lover. Red Sun) and hardboiled noir (Fade to She writes culinary mysteries, women’s Tomorrow). His novels have been well-re- fction, historical fction, short stories, ceived critically. Booklist called Night plays, paranormals (under the pen name Wind “fast-paced…a white-knuckle read.” River Glynn), and erotic romance (under Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine labeled the pen name Angelica French). Sharon Mertz, “an action specialist.” Booklist had has lived in every region of the country this to say about Te Korean Intercept: except the Pacifc Northwest and loved every single one of them. “Fans of political thrillers will relish this high-action tale. An adren- Her current favorite region is the desert Southwest. She is married aline rush!” Steve has also written stories for Mysterious Press, Tor to the most extraordinary man and claims four children, one Books, New American Library, and Black Lizard Press. His most daughter-in-law, two grandsons, and yellow lab Maudie. recent thriller is Te Castro Directive. www.sharonamoore.com www.stephenmertz.com

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Vella Munn Sharan Newman Vella Munn has been trying to live up Sharan Newman is a medievalist and the to her writer occupation listing with author of the award-winning Catherine the IRS so long she no longer has any Levendeur mystery series, set in medieval other marketable skills. After wowing the France. She has also written non-fction: world (all right, her sister) with a comic Te Real History Behind the Da Vinci book staring the Lone Ranger’s horse, Code, and Te Real History Behind the she tried her hand at journalism only to Templars. A mystery, Te Shanghai Tunnel, discover she’s better at lying than telling set in 1868 Portland Oregon, is as close the truth. With at least 50 published to modernity as she wishes to go. Her fction books and two non-fction under latest nonfction is Te Real History of the her belt, she fgures she’s getting a handle on historicals, romance, End of the World for which she has created a blog. All of her books erotica (yes, really), and suspense. She loves having bad things are available in various languages, most of which she can’t read. happen to her characters, thus her reason for attending LCC. She likes the Russian best, where she is known as “Newmanova.” www.vella-munn.com www.sharannewman.com

Cap’n Bob Napier Katrina Niidas Holm Robert S. “Cap’n Bob” Napier started Katrina Niidas Holm is a voracious and Mystery & Detective Monthly in 1984, a opinionated mystery reader. She’s also magazine devoted to the discussion of an unabashed fan of Portland, Maine the mystery world via letters from its (aka Te REAL Portland) and the wife of contributors. It ran for 19 1/2 years fabulously talented writer Chris Holm. and 200 issues. He won the American When she’s not busy writing reviews and Mystery Award in 1988, was a special other assorted content for Crimespree guest at the Midwest Mystery and Sus- Magazine, she’s likely either reviewing pense Convention in 1991, and was Fan mysteries for Smitten By Books, writing Guest of Honor at the 1997 Bouchercon. blog posts for Criminal Element, or pre- Bob is the author of the Jack “Toyman” tending to do Actual Work at her day job as a paralegal. Lorentz series, if two books can be con- Twitter: @niidasholm sidered a series, Te debut was Love, Death, and the Toyman. Te Toyman Rides Again followed. He has also contributed to several non-fction mystery books. Terri Nolan Rose Nominee capnbob.blogspot.com Terri Nolan is the author of three thrillers and a short story featuring investigative journalist Birdie Keane: Burden Of Erica Ruth Neubauer Truth, Glass Houses, Blue Bird (October Erica Ruth Neubauer spent 11 years in the military, two years as 2015) And Hobo Joe. Terri lives in a cop, one year as a high school English teacher, and has fnally Orange County and is currently on the found her calling as an online independent bookseller. Along the board of the SoCal chapter of Mystery way she earned a degree in English from the University of Wiscon- Writers of America. sin-Whitewater. She is a contributing editor and book reviewer for www.terrinolan.com Crimespree Magazine.

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Baird Nuckolls J David Osborne Baird Nuckolls is a writer, literary editor J David Osborne is the publisher-in-chief for Narrative Magazine, and one half of of Broken River Books. He is the author the Wives of Bath Press. Her frst book, of the Wonderland-Award-winning novel Te Dragons of Graham, was a mysterious By the Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be middle grade novel, which she wrote for Friends and the surreal Low Down Death her daughters and their friends. She is Right Easy, among others. He lives in currently writing an historical detective Portland with his wife and their dog. mystery, set in 1923 Manhattan. Her brokenriverbooks.com previous jobs have included being a pastry chef, a preschool teacher, and running a non-proft elementary school Liz Osborne art program. Baird loves California and Liz Osborne’s alter ego tapped her on drives her wine-colored convertible with the top down whenever it the shoulder and stated, “Writing fction isn’t raining. has got to be easier than this!” With that, www.thewivesofbath.com Liz parlayed 15 years of resolving patient complaints at a Seattle area HMO into an award-winning fction career with Cherie O’Boyle fve novels, including her Robyn Kelly Cherie O’Boyle is the author of Fire at Mystery series. Masquerade and Dirty Will’s and Iced Tee, the frst two cozy mys- Laundry are set in a fctitious hospital that teries set in Arroyo Loco in the coastal happens to have the same foor plan as her former hospital. She is mountains of California. Cherie’s frst currently working on the third book in the series, Born in a Rage. career was as a carpenter. In mid-life, she www.lizosborne.com earned a Ph.D. and served as Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Marcos. She has now reincarnated Chantelle Aimée Osman herself as a writer of humorous fction. Chantelle Aimée Osman is a freelance She happily squeezes in as much time with her fctional Arroyo editor and the president of A Twist of Loco friends as she can, in between adventures with friends, family, Karma Entertainment, LLC, as well as a and her real life border collies. published author of mystery fash fction cherieoboyle.com and short stories. She is an Anthony Award nominee and creator of Te Sirens of Suspense website which features blogs Terry Odell and interviews by and with mystery Terry Odell always wanted to “fx” stories & thriller writers. Other publications she read so the characters did what she include the non-fction Quick and Dirty wanted. Once she began writing, she Guide to… series on writing. found this wasn’t always possible, as the www.twistofkarma.com | www.sirensofuspense.com mystery she intended to write became a romance—a real surprise, since she’d never read a romance. Terry writes “An intelligent, masterfully-crafed, mystery and romantic suspense, but calls and all too plausible spy novel that them all “Mysteries With Relationships.” Her works include the Blackthorne, Inc. will thrill fans of Olen Steinhauer covert ops series, the Pine Hills Police series, and the Mapleton and Daniel Silva.” Mystery series. Her latest release is Seeing Red, three short works —Robert Dugoni, New featuring a Florida homicide detective. Watch for her 4th Maple- ton mystery, Deadly Production. York Times Bestselling terryodell.com Author of Murder One and Te Conviction

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Gigi Pandian Rose Nominee Cathy Perkins USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pan- Cathy Perkins is an award-winning author of fnancial-based dian writes the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries. Born and raised in South Carolina, she now lives in Mysteries (Artifact, Pirate Vishnu, and Washington with her husband, children, and several dogs. Quicksand) set in San Francisco, Scotland, India, and France, and the Accidental Alchemist mysteries (Te Accidental Barbara Petty Alchemist) set in Portland, Oregon. Gigi’s Barbara Petty was born and educated debut mystery was awarded the Malice in the Midwest. After a sojourn in Paris Domestic Grant and named a “Best during college, she went bi-coastal, start- of 2012” debut by Suspense Magazine, ing in New York and then moving on to and her locked-room mystery story “Te Hindi Houdini” was Los Angeles. She has been a newspaper short-listed for Agatha and Macavity awards. Gigi spent her reporter, a magazine editor and written childhood being dragged around the world by her anthropologist animation scripts for TV shows such as parents, and she takes photos of gargoyles wherever she goes. Transformers, G.I. Joe and My Little Pony. www.gigipandian.com She’s also worked in the flm industry, both on staf and behind the camera. What Has Mother Done? is her fourth Renee Patrick published novel, and the frst of the Tea Rosemarie Keenan, with her husband Browne mystery series. Vince Keenan, writes as Renee Patrick. Teir debut novel, the classic Hollywood Adam Plantinga mystery Design For Dying will be published by Tor/Forge Books in April 2016. Born in an abandoned grain silo under Vince Keenan is a screenwriter and one a hunter’s moon, Adam Plantinga spent half of classic Hollywood mystery writer his formative years among shiftless Renee Patrick, the other half being his logging people before going 5-12 as a wife Rosemarie. Teir debut novel Design Panamanian stick fghter under the name For Dying, featuring Edith Head, will be published by Tor/Forge Tito Bravo. Several odd jobs followed— Books in April 2016. Vince is co-managing editor of the Film Noir bounty hunter, boar wrangler, assistant Foundation’s magazine Noir City. His book Down the Hatch: One cashier at Ruby Tuesday. After a chance foray through a radioactive Man’s One Year Odyssey Trough Classic Cocktail Recipes and Lore forest granted him the strength and speed of a Long Beech fern… was an Amazon Kindle bestseller. okay, none of that is really true. Plantinga is a sergeant on the San Francisco Police Department. 400 Tings Cops Know, from Linden blog.vincekeenan.com Publishing, is his frst book.

Ann Parker Mar Preston A California native, Ann pens science Mar Preston is the author of 4 police articles for a national R&D lab and mar- procedurals set in the Santa Monica Po- keting fuf for a gi-normous legal-soft- lice Department against the backdrop of ware frm by day, while weaving histor- a glitzy beach city bristling with celebrity, ical crime fction novels at night. Her international, and homeless crime. A Silver Rush series features saloon-owner second series takes place in a tranquil Inez Stannert and is set in 1880s Colo- California mountain village. Preston is rado, primarily in the silver boomtown a co-founder of the local SPCA, a dog of Leadville. A little known factoid: her park, a network of low-power radio sta- original career plan was to become an astrophysicist and work at a tions, and picks up road kill for her wild- well-known scientifc R&D institution in Boulder, Colorado. Well, life rehab buddies to feed the big raptors. she got the science…sort of. And Colorado…sort of. But not in She would like to tell you that she has a fxed writing schedule that the “anticipated” confguration. she adheres to rigidly, but this is not true. www.annparker.net marpreston.com

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Carole Price Ryan Quinn Carole Price is a Buckeye! Born and Ryan Quinn is the author of the novels raised in Columbus, Ohio, she attended End of Secrets and Te Fall. A native of Te Ohio State University. She and her Alaska, Quinn was an NCAA champion husband live in the San Francisco Bay and an all-American skier while at the Area where she graduated from Liver- University of Utah. He worked for fve more’s Citizens Police Academy and is years in New York’s book-publishing an active volunteer for the Livermore industry before moving to Los Angeles, PD. Carole fell in love with the Bard after attending plays at the where he writes and trains for marathons. Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Sour Grapes is the second ryanquinnbooks.com in her Shakespeare in the Vineyard mystery series. Her writing companion is Shilo, a mixed terrier. carolepricemysteries.com Lori Rader-Day Rosebud Nominee Lori Rader-Day’s debut mystery, Te Black Hour (Seventh Street Books, 2014), David Putnam received starred reviews from Publishers David Putnam always wanted to be a Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Her cop, and some claim he’s been writing short stories have appeared in Ellery fction since his early police reports. He’s Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out worked narcotics, served on FBI-spon- Chicago, Good Housekeeping, and others. sored violent crimes teams, and was Her next book, the mystery Little Pretty cross-sworn as a U.S. Marshall, pursuing Tings, is out in July 2015. She lives in murder suspects and bank robbers in Chicago, where crime writers have all the Arizona, Nevada, and California. He inspiration they could possibly need. did three tours on the San Bernardino www.LoriRaderDay.com County Sherif’s SWAT team, executing dynamic entries, hostage rescues, and serving as team sniper. Even more exciting for him: when Michael Lynne Raimondo Connelly called Putnam’s writing “…raw, powerful and elo- Lynne Raimondo is the author of Dante’s quent…” Putnam’s bestselling thrillers are Te Disposables and Te Wood (Seventh Street Books, 2013) a Replacements. Library Journal Mystery Debut of the www.DavidPutnamBooks.com Month, and Dante’s Poison (2014), both featuring Mark Angelotti, a blind, psy- chologically troubled forensic psychia- Mary Putnam trist. Her latest, Dante’s Dilemma, will Mary Putnam loves helping people tell be out in August. In a previous life, Lynne was a partner at Mayer, and sell their stories. She started her Brown, the general counsel of Arthur Andersen, LLP, and the day-job career in software development general counsel of the Illinois Department of Revenue. In what before jumping into marketing, so she some might consider skewed priorities, she summers in Maine and especially likes helping fellow writers winters in Chicago. navigate the nerdy aspects of book www.lynneraimondo.com promotions. She met her crime-fghting husband, David Putnam, in a novel-writing workshop many Left Coast Crimes ago. Partly due to her creative eforts, his critically acclaimed bestselling thrillers, Te Disposables and Te Replacements, are available in the book room! Her wackier promotional stunts have included grafting buildings and plugging books in her own bio. twitter.com/maryputnam

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Frederick Ramsay Travis Richardson Frederick Ramsay came to the writing Travis was nominated for Anthony and community late in life. His frst mystery, Macavity short story awards for “Incident Artscape, was launched in 2004 on his on the 405.” His novella Lost in Clover 68th birthday. He managed to foist of was listed in Spinetingler Magazine’s Best another sixteen books in the following Crime Fiction of 2012. He has published eleven years. All this while honing his stories in several anthologies and publica- skills in competitive nap taking. He grew tions including Tuglit, Shotgun Honey, up in the Baltimore area, graduated from Flash Fiction Ofensive and All Due Washington and Lee university, and has Respect. He edits the Sisters-In-Crime LA a Doctorate from the U of Illinois. He is newsletter, reviews Chekhov shorts at an ordained Episcopal priest and occa- www.chekhovshorts.com and sometimes shoots a short movie. His sionally preaches at a local church (usually to the choir.) His books latest novella is Keeping the Record. Besides a great conference, he’s include a series set in Botswana, the Ike Schwartz mysteries, the also looking forward to VooDoo Donuts in Portland. Jerusalem mysteries and the acclaimed stand alone, Impulse. tsrichardson.com frederickramsay.com John Maddox Roberts SG Redling John Maddox Roberts has been a profes- Like the great state of West Virginia she sional writer of mystery, science fction calls home, SG Redling is often a poorly and historical novels for more than 35 managed mess with dubious hygiene but years. He has lived in numerous states, she has her charms. Her works include plus Mexico, Scotland and London. He Flowertown, the Dani Britton series, spent three years in the U.S. Army and Damocles, and Ourselves. is a Vietnam veteran. His frst book, a science fction novel, was published in 1977. His frst mystery, SPQR—start of a series now at 13 volumes—was nominated for the Edgar. His most recent novel is SPQR XIII: Te Year Of Confusion. Te SPQR series is now being developed for flm by Deborah Reed Zum Goldenen Lamm Filmproduktion in Germany. He lives with his wife, Beth, and an ever-varying number of cats, in a 100-year- Deborah Reed’s novel, Tings We Set on old adobe house in the town of Estancia, New Mexico. Pretty soon Fire, sold over one hundred thousand he’s going to turn in the manuscriot for SPQR XIV: Dolabella. copies in the frst six months, while Carry Yourself Back to Me was a Best Book of 2011 Amazon Editors Pick. She Todd Robinson wrote the bestselling thriller, A Small Todd Robinson is the creator and Chief Fortune, and its sequel, Fortune’s Deadly Descent, under her pen Editor of the multiple award-winning name Audrey Braun. Several of her novels have been translated or crime fction magazine, Tuglit. His are forthcoming in German. Her nonfction has appeared in pub- debut novel—Te Hard Bounce—was lications such as the Literarian, MORE, and Poets & Writers. She recently nominated for Best First Novel holds a master’s degree in fne arts in creative writing, and teaches at the 2014 Anthony Awards. at the UCLA Extension Writing Program. She is also codirector of www.thuglit.com the Black Forest Writing Seminar at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She resides in Los Angeles. www.deborahreed.me

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Cathy Ann Rogers Robert Rosenwald Cathy Ann Rogers is the author of Here Robert Rosenwald is the President, Lies Buried, Deliberate Fools, and the Publisher, and one of the founders of forthcoming Sick in Shadows. Cathy Poisoned Pen Press. He loves publishing weaves her tales from her Arizona desert and focuses on well written, well edited, townhome in the company of her Bi- intelligent mysteries by authors who chon Frises, Whitney and Sophie. care about language and who, like him, www.cathyannrogers.com wince at the comparative of unique. He hopes to make enough money each year to support the habit. Happily, he’s married to Barbara Peters, who Clive Rosengren sells books and abets him in this insanity and, what’s more, he’s Clive Rosengren was an actor for most happily married. of the past forty years, eighteen of them www.poisonedpenpress.com pounding the same streets as actor/ private eye Eddie Collins does in the Shamus-nominated Murder Unscripted Priscilla Royal and the second in the series, Red Desert. Priscilla Royal writes the Prioress Eleanor Clive’s movie credits include Ed Wood and Soapdish. Among his / Brother Tomas medieval mystery television credits is Cheers, where he played the only person to series from Poisoned Pen Press. She grew throw Sam Malone out of his own bar. up in British Columbia and earned a cliverosengren.com BA in World Literature at San Francisco State. A theater fan, reader of history, mystery and fction of lesser violence, Charles Rosenberg she belongs to California Writers Club, Charles (“Chuck”) Rosenberg is the author MWA, and Sisters in Crime. Her elev- of the best-selling legal thriller Death on enth and current book is Satan’s Lullaby. a High Floor and its sequel, Long Knives. www.priscillaroyal.com His third novel, Paris Ransom, set in the French criminal justice system, will be published in May by Tomas & Mercer. Janet Rudolph Prior to his writing career, Chuck was the Janet Rudolph is the Editor of the Mys- credited legal script consultant to TV’s Te tery Readers Journal. She blogs daily at Paper Chase, L.A Law, Te Practice and MysteryFanfare.com and DyingforChoc- Boston Legal and was also a full-time on-air olate.com, facilitates a weekly mystery legal analyst for E! TV’s live coverage of book group, hosts Literary Salons with the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. crime writers, and has been a committee Before the Simpson trial, Chuck wrote a trial watcher’s guide, Te member on many mystery conventions. Trial of O.J.: How to Watch the Trial and Understand What’s Really She lives in the Berkeley (CA) hills with Going On. Over the years, Chuck has taught dozens of law school her husband, two golden retrievers, and courses as an adjunct law professor. Currently he teaches Law and three cats who often appear on her Facebook Page (along with Popular Culture at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is a a daily garden/rose photo). She enjoys gardening, photography, graduate of Antioch College and the Harvard Law School and lives reading, and long walks on the beach in Bodega Bay. Burst into in the Los Angeles area, where he practices law. song now! www.deathonahighﬂoor.com www.mysteryreaders.org

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Meg Ruley Angela M. Sanders After graduating from Wheaton College Angela M. Sanders worked for more than and working briefy for a publishing frm, a decade as a congressional investiga- Meg Ruley joined Jane Rotrosen Agency tor before turning author. Her lack of in the 1980’s. She represents authors success fnding bathtub reading that of women’s fction, memoirs, suspense, was suitably trashy—yet witty and romance, and mystery. smart—led her to write the Joanna www.janerotrosen.com Hayworth Vintage Clothing mysteries (Widow’s Kiss Press). She’s also writing a series for Berkley Prime Crime under the pen name Clover Tate, the frst book Cindy Sample Lefy Nominee of which launches September 2016. Angela’s articles on Pacifc Northwest history, personalities, and culture have appeared in a Cindy Sample is a former corporate variety of magazines, and she’s a weekly columnist for the popular CEO who decided plotting murder perfume blog, Now Smell Tis. was more entertaining than plodding www.angelamsanders.com through paperwork. Her humorous mystery series, described as Erma Bombeck meets Agatha Christie, features Joni Sauer-Folger single soccer mom, Laurel McKay. Te series, set in the California gold country, Joni Sauer-Folger, a romantic at heart, includes Dying for a Date, Dying for a writes in several diferent genres. Her Dance and Dying for a Daiquiri, both Tangled Vines cozy mysteries can be fnalists for the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery. Hold on found under Joni Folger, and her para- to your cowboy hats because her latest release, Dying for a Dude, normal romance and romantic suspense provides the wildest ride yet! books are written as J.G. Sauer. A native www.cindysamplebooks.com of Oregon, Joni spent 22 years with an airline before settling down near the beautiful Pacifc Ocean with her three very spoiled cats. When not Ralph Sanborn spending quality time with the characters she creates, you may fnd her on stage at a local theater. Oh, and shopping for shoes… Ralph Sanborn became a Left Coast one can never have too many shoes. Crime writer after spending his child- www.jonisauerfolger.com hood in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and his career in marketing for large companies in NYC, Chicago, Paris, Steven Saylor Arvida, Quebec, and Burlingame, CA, his current home with his wife and two Steven Saylor is the author of the Roma dogs. Action thrillers are the genre he Sub Rosa series of historical mysteries reads when he isn’t writing the Caleb featuring Gordianus the Finder, set Frost action thriller series: China Red in ancient Rome. His latest books are (2013) and Te Assassins’ Game (Spring 2015). Te Falcon’s Talon prequels—Te Seven Wonders follows is targeted for 2016. Caleb Frost and his co-protagonists are US 18-year-old Gordianus on a journey to government black ops assassins—really interesting characters when the Seven Wonders of the World; in they are your friends—otherwise, not so nice. Raiders of the Nile, young Gordianus, liv- www.ralphsanborn.com ing in Egypt, is drawn into a plot to steal the golden sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Steven lives in Berkeley (blue state), Austin (red state), and online at stevensaylor.com He enjoys returning to Portland, where he made his frst book-tour appearance many years ago, speaking to Friends of Mystery. stevensaylor.com

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David Schlosser L.J. Sellers Rose Nominee David Schlosser is an award-winning L.J. Sellers writes the bestselling De- fction and non-fction writer and an tective Jackson Mysteries—a two-time award-winning editor. He has been a Readers Favorite Award winner—as well board member of the Editorial Freelanc- as the Agent Dallas series and provoca- ers Association and MWA in Southeast tive standalone thrillers. She resides in and Northwest regions. He taught Eugene, Oregon, where many of her 16 writing and crime fction, lectured on novels are set, and is an award-winning publishing and self-publishing, and journalist and the founder of Housing belongs to the Northwest Independent Help. When not plotting murders or do- Editors Guild. As a political and public ing charity work, L.J. enjoys standup comedy, cycling, and social relations consultant and candidate for networking. She’s also been known to jump out of airplanes. public ofce, he has delighted and ofended people around the ljsellers.com world through such diverse outlets as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times as well as Hard Copy and Inside Edition. He currently toils in Microsoft’s Global Advertising department. Terry Shames www.dbschlosser.com Terry Shames writes the best-selling Sam- uel Craddock series, set in the fctitious small town of Jarrett Creek, Texas. Her Ilene Schneider frst novel, A Killing at Cotton Hill won Rabbi Ilene Schneider, Ed.D., one of the the Macavity Award for Best First Novel frst women rabbis ordained in the U.S., of 2013. Te Last Death of Jack Harbin has fnally decided what she wants to be and Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek came when she grows up. She retired from her out in 2014. A native Texan, she lives in most recent day job as a hospice chaplain northern California with her husband to devote herself full time to writing. She and two rowdy terriers. Terry is the vice is the author of the Rabbi Aviva Cohen president of Norcal Sisters in Crime and on the board of Norcal Mysteries: Chanukah Guilt, which has Mystery Writers of America. been re-released in a second edition, and includes an alternate www.terryshames.com. solution; and the award-winning Unleavened Dead. Te third in the series, a work-in-progress, is titled Yom Killer. She also wrote the best-selling nonfction book Talk Dirty Yiddish. Johnny Shaw Rose Nominee rabbiauthor.com Johnny Shaw was born and raised in the Desert Southwest on the Calexico/ Mexicali border, the setting for his novels, Michael Sears Dove Season and Big Maria. His short Michael Sears’ frst novel, the best-seller stories have appeared in Tuglit, Plots Black Fridays, a thriller with a fnancial With Guns, and selected anthologies. twist, took the Shamus award and was Johnny is also the creator and editor short-listed for four other major awards, of the online fction quarterly Blood including the Edgar. Mortal Bonds, the & Tacos, a loving homage to the men’s critically-acclaimed second novel in adventure paperbacks of the 1970’s & the Jason Staford series, won the Silver 1980’s. Johnny lives in Portland, Oregon Falchion at Killer Nashville last year. with his wife, artist Roxanne Patruznick. Continuing the series, Long Way Down, johnnyshaw.net has just been released by Putnam. Mr. Sears lives near salt water in Sea Clif, NY with the artist and poet, Barbara Segal, aka “Ruby.” www.michaelsears.com

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Sheldon Siegel Helen Smith Sheldon Siegel is the New York Times Helen Smith is a British novelist who best-selling author of seven critically lives in London. Her frst two books, acclaimed legal thrillers featuring San Alison Wonderland and Being Light, Francisco criminal defense attorneys followed the adventures of a London Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez and detective agency. Her most recent books, the thriller novel Te Terrorist Next Door Invitation to Die and Beyond Belief, are featuring Chicago homicide detec- comedies featuring an amateur sleuth. tive David Gold. His books have sold Helen is a member of Killer Women, an millions of copies. A Chicago native, organization of British crime writers. She Sheldon earned his undergraduate degree arrived at last year’s Left Coast Crime on from the University of Illinois and his a ship from England and is keen to top that this year. Look out for law degree from the Boalt Hall School of a woman riding into Portland on a girafe. Law at UC-Berkeley. He specializes in corporate law with the San helensmithbooks.com Francisco ofce of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. He is working on his ninth novel. sheldonsiegel.com Carole Sojka Carole Sojka graduated from Queens College, then earned a Master’s Degree Jeffrey Siger from the University of Southern Califor- Jefrey has reached the point where he no nia. She spent two years as a Peace Corps longer wants to talk about himself. He’d volunteer in the Somali Republic, in the like to talk about his dog who lives with good years just after independence. She him on the Greek island of Mykonos, later worked as a law ofce administrator. but he doesn’t have a dog. He does have Now a mystery writer, she is the author a half-dozen international best-selling of A Reason to Kill and its sequel, So mysteries set in Greece, a couple of Many Reasons to Die. awards, and a nomination last year at carolesojka.com LCC for Best Mystery in a Foreign Set- ting, but he lost to Louise Penny (who hasn’t) and his protagonist, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis, now wants to move to Canada. Rochelle Staab Jef’s also a proud contributor to the international blogsite, Murder Rochelle Staab blends her love for mys- is Everywhere. tery and fascination with the supernat- www.jeffreysiger.com ural in the bestselling Mind for Murder Mystery series. Te witty whodunits partner Los Angeles psychologist Liz Sheila Simonson Cooper with religious philosophy profes- My eight published mysteries are all sor Nick Garfeld to investigate murders available in one form or another. Te shadowed by an occult twist. Te series’ Latouche County series (most recent title debut, Who Do, Voodoo? earned Agatha, Beyond Confusion) is set in the Columbia Anthony, and Eureka! Best First Mys- Gorge. Te frst in that series, Bufalo tery nominations. Te follow-up, Bruja Bill’s Defunct, won a Willa award from Brouhaha won the Left Coast Crime Watson Award. Te third WWW, probably for the best title. As novel in the series, Hex on the Ex, is available now. titles go, Beyond Confusion is just plain www.rochellestaab.com confusing. I write fction for fun and blog for proft. sites.google.com/site/sheilasimonson

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Josh Stallings Denise Grover Swank Josh Stallings is the author of the Antho- Denise Grover Swank is the author of the ny Award nominated memoir, All Te New York Times and USA Today bestsell- Wild Children. And the multiply award ing Rose Gardner Mystery series as well winning Moses McGuire crime novels, urban fantasies, contemporary romance, Beautiful, Naked & Dead, Out Tere Bad, and a YA sci f. She combines her love of and One More Body. His short fction a good mystery with romance and vary- has appeared in Beat To A Pulp, Shotgun ing degrees of humor to create characters Honey, Protectors Anthology, Crime that stick with readers long after they Factory and more. He lives in Los Ange- fnish the book. She’s the single mother to six children (although les with his wife Erika, two dogs and cat only fve live a home), has four dogs, and hasn’t lost her sanity yet. named Riddle. Or so she leads you to believe. She’s mostly self-published and has www.joshstallings.net sold well over one million books. denisegroverswank.com Mark Stevens Mark Stevens has read both biographies Brian Thornton of Patricia Highsmith and could be Brian Tornton is the author of nine president of her fan club. You are warned books, including Te Book of Bastards that it’s highly recommended to not get and Te Book of Ancient Bastards, in addi- him going on this topic, unless you have tion to serving as collection editor for the all day. He lives in Colorado, where his crime fction anthology West Coast Crime three mysteries are set. Mark, however, Wave. His short fction has appeared in lives in the city and not up in the woods. such venues as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery His mysteries feature hunting guide Magazine and the Akashic Books anthol- Allison Coil—Antler Dust, Buried by the ogy Seattle Noir. A native Washingtonian, Roan, and Trapline. Te character was he lives in Seattle with his wife and son, inspired by a woman he met years ago. and is currently serving his second tour as Northwest Chapter Te fourth book, Lake of Fire, will be out later this year. president for the Mystery Writers of America. www.writermarkstevens.com about.me/BrianThornton

Mary Elizabeth Summer Tim Tigner Mary Elizabeth Summer contributes to Recently picked up by Tomas & Mercer, the delinquency of minors by writing which will be releasing Coercion this books about unruly teenagers with July, Tim Tigner is the self-published criminal leanings. She has a BA in author of three best-selling international creative writing from Wells College, thrillers. Targeting readers who enjoy Lee and her philosophy on life is “you can Child, Dan Brown, Vince Flynn, or Brad never go wrong with sriracha sauce.” She Tor, Tim draws heavily from his own lives in Portland Oregon with her wife, globetrotting experiences serving in So- their daughter, and their evil overlor—er, cat. Mary Elizabeth is viet Counterintelligence with the Green Berets, and as the CEO of represented by the incomparable Laura Bradford of the Bradford innovating medical companies. He writes fast-paced, high-stakes, Literary Agency. Trust Me, I’m Lying is her debut novel. stand-alone thrillers with sophisticated plots based around credible mesummer.com new technologies falling into devious hands. timtigner.com

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Keith Tittle Jennifer Vanderberg Keith Tittle—twice- a fnalist in the I think of myself as a wanderer, since I Pacifc Northwest Writers Association move often, change jobs even more often, contest for short fction—is the author of and often think of six impossible things Drawn Back, a speculative fction mystery before breakfast. At the moment I live set in 1929 Portland, Oregon. “I could in Chehalis, Washington, where I split probably have chosen a less complex plot my time between an ofce job and my for my frst novel than a time travel mys- writing job. I am currently working on a tery.” He is currently working on the frst 12-part short-fction fantasy detective se- book of a new mystery series, also set in the Rose City. A native of ries. Books 1–6 are available on Amazon. the Pacifc Northwest, he lives in the Portland area with his wife, com. Tis series follows the troubles of a family, and assorted cats. down-on-his-luck private eye on a distant moon. www.keithtittle.com www.jennifervandenberg.com

Maggie Topkis Richard Van Anderson Maggie Topkis is the owner of Felony & Richard Van Anderson is a former heart Mayhem Press, American publisher of surgeon turned fction writer. His sur- mystery fction. gery training took him from the “knife and gun club” of LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, to the famed Bellevue Hospital in Midtown Manhat- tan. His education as a writer includes an MFA in creative writing from Pine Sue Trowbridge Manor College in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington Sue Trowbridge is a mystery fan, Web with his wife and two sons. site developer and book designer living rvananderson.com.com in Alameda, CA. She was proud to be the Fan Guest of Honor at LCC 2014 in Monterey. Lono Waiwaiole www.interbridge.com Lono Waiwaiole is a Portland writer with four of the darkest noir novels published over the past decade on his resume—a three-book series set in Portland and a standalone set in his native Hawai’i. Diane Vallere Lefy Nominee He is a retired high-school teacher and After two decades working for a top lux- basketball coach who also had a career ury retailer, Diane Vallere traded fashion in journalism (including stints as editor accessories for accessories to murder. of a weekly newspaper, associate editor Suede to Rest, the frst book in the Ma- of a regional magazine and director of terial Witness Cozy Mystery Series, has publications and sports information been nominated for the 2015 Lefty Best at a university). He also had a brief, undistinguished career as a Humorous Mystery Award. Diane also professional poker player, an occupation shared by the protagonist writes the Mad for Mod Mystery Series, of his series. featuring a midcentury modern interior www.lonowaiwaiole.com decorator who has modeled her life after Doris Day movies, and the Style & Error Mystery Series, featuring a former fashion buyer. Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has main- tained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since. www.dianevallere.com

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William E. Wallace Sarah Weinman William E. Wallace has been a private eye, Sarah Weinman is the editor of the house painter, cook, dishwasher, news- Anthony Award-nominated domestic paper and magazine writer, journalism suspense anthology Troubled Daughters, professor and award-winning investi- Twisted Wives and Women Crime Writers gative reporter for the San Francisco of the 1940s and 1950s, a two-volume Chronicle. Wallace has written three nov- set coming this fall from the Library of els and a novella. His short stories have America. Her work has appeared most been published in All Due Respect (which recently in the New York Times (Mag- nominated Te Bust-Out, for a 2014 Pushcart Prize), Shotgun azine & Book Review), Te Nation, the Guardian, Hazlitt, and Honey, Spinetingler, Out of the Gutter Online, Crime Factory and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. She used to blog, still spends too Dark Corners Pulp. A Dead Heat with the Reaper, two noir novellas, much time on Twitter, and now has a weekly newsletter called Te is scheduled for release by All Due Respect books in May. He is Crime Lady. currently working on Bottom Street, a novel. www.tinyletter.com/thecrimelady

Wendy Webb Holly West Rosebud Nominee Wendy Webb is the award winning and Holly West is the author of the Mistress bestselling author of three novels of goth- of Fortune series, set in 17th century ic suspense, Te Tale of Halcyon Crane London and featuring Isabel Wilde, a (2010, Holt), Te Fate of Mercy Alban mistress to King Charles II who secretly (2012, Hyperion) and Te Vanishing makes her living as a fortuneteller. When (2013, Hyperion). She lives in Minne- Holly’s not wandering the captivating sota with her husband, Steve, and their streets of 17th century London, her hob- 130-pound Alaskan Malamute, Molly. bies include cooking, knitting, reading, wendykwebb.com and petting dogs. She lives in Northern California with her husband, Mick, and a dog, Stella. hollywest.com Tracy Weber Tracy Weber is the author of the Nancy West award-winning Downward Dog Myster- A funny thing happened when Nancy ies series featuring yoga teacher Kate and wrote her suspense novel. Supporting her feisty German shepherd, Bella. Tracy character Aggie Mundeen popped up loves sharing her passion for yoga and and demanded that Nancy write a book animals in any form possible. Te second about her. Or maybe a series. Aggie’s frst book in her series, A Killer Retreat, was story, Fit To Be Dead, was Lefty Award published January 8, 2015, by Midnight Finalist for Best Humorous Mystery. Ink. Tracy and her husband live in Se- Southern Writers Magazine tagged Dang attle with their challenging yet amazing Near Dead a “Must Read,” and Smart, German shepherd Tasha. When she’s But Dead comes out this year. Despite not writing, Tracy spends her time teaching yoga, getting dragged Aggie’s determination to meddle, and around the neighborhood by Tasha, and sipping Blackthorn cider Detective Sam’s frustration conducting criminal investigations at her favorite ale house. while he tries to save Aggie’s derriere, they’re growing closer. Stay TracyWeberAuthor.com tuned. www.nancygwest.com

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Tina Whittle Sarah Williams Tina Whittle is a mystery writer living Words have been my passion, my refuge, and working in the Georgia Lowcountry. my obdurate enemy and my most cher- A two-time nominee for Georgia Author ished friends ever since I can remember. of the Year, she writes the Tai Randolph/ My frst professional gig was writing the Trey Seaver series, which features South- class play when I was nine (paid for in ern gun shop owner Tai and corporate chocolates). Since then I have, as Sarah security agent Trey. Te fourth book in Matthews, published over 80 children’s this Atlanta-based series, Deeper Tan the information books and high school text- Grave, was released in November from books. About fve years ago, I turned my Poisoned Pen Press. When not immersed downtime delight in crime fction into in a book, Tina enjoys golf, sushi, and my daytime occupation by founding Triller School, a crime-fc- reading tarot cards. tion writing course running annually in the UK and the US. I was www.tinawhittle.com then honored to be commissioned by Robinson to write How To Write Crime Fiction, published March 5th 2015. Small Deaths, my frst crime fction novel, appears autumn 2017. Sam Wiebe thebookconsultancy.com Sam Wiebe’s debut novel Last of the Independents was published by Dundurn Press in fall 2014. An alternative private Timohy Williams detective novel set in the Pacifc North- Timothy Williams was born in London west, Last of the Independents won the in 1946. In the mid seventies, he taught 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpub- in Italy and used the political tensions of lished First Novel. His short fction has the period 1978-1994 as the background been published in Tuglit, Spinetingler, to the Commissario Trotti novels. He Subterrain, and Criminal Element, among wrote his frst novel in the Caribbean in others. 1980 but in the mid nineties, his London samwiebe.com publisher ceased publishing crime fction. It took him nearly thirty years to fnd a publisher for his West Indian novels. He translated Another Sun into French and the book was published in Paris in Dänna Wilberg 2011. Te honest folk of Guadeloupe is the second book in the Dänna Wilberg, a multi-award-winning, Anne Marie Laveaud trilogy. short-flm maker, writes, produces and timothywilliamsbooks.com hosts two TV programs in Sacramento, California. Paranormal Connection and Story Connection focus on intuitivism, Marty Wingate the “story” behind the story, artists and Marty Wingate is the author of Te ordinary people doing extraordinary Garden Plot and Te Red Book of Primrose things. Dänna has been writing romantic House (Random House/Alibi), the frst suspense and paranormal fction for over two books in the Potting Shed mystery ten years. Her novel, Te Red Chair is the series about middle-aged American gar- frst release in her trilogy, published by dener Pru Parke, who moves from Dallas Pretty Road Press. Te Grey Door and Te Black Dress are sched- to England to start a new life. Her new uled for release in 2015. Dänna weaves messages from the universe Birds of a Feather series, set in Sufolk, in her story telling and attributes her success to hard work and a begins with Te Rhyme of the Magpie (re- persistent muse. lease June 2), in which Julia Lanchester redchairthebook.com searches for her missing father, a celebrity ornithologist. Marty leads tours to England, Scotland, and Ireland, where she spends every free moment deep in research. Or in pubs. martywingate.com

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Cat Winters Simon Wood Cat Winters is a Portland-based author Simon Wood is a California transplant of YA and adult fction who loves to from England. He’s a former compet- combine history with mystery and itive racecar driver, a licensed pilot, an Gothic horror. Her works include In endurance cyclist and an occasional PI. the Shadow of Blackbirds, a 2014 Morris He shares his world with his American Award Finalist and a School Library wife, Julie. Teir lives are dominated by Journal Best Book of 2013, and Te a longhaired dachshund and four cats. Uninvited, a WWI-era psychological He’s the Anthony Award winning author thriller coming this summer from Harp- of Working Stifs, Accidents Waiting to erCollins. When she’s not writing, she Happen, Paying the Piper, Terminated, can be found wandering Portland’s historic sites and taking ghost Asking For Trouble, We All Fall Down and the Aidy Westlake series. tours across the country. His next thriller is Te One Tat Got Away due out March ’15. He CatWinters.com also writes horror as Simon Janus. www.simonwood.net Kenneth Wishnia Kenneth Wishnia’s novels have been Bret R. Wright nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Bret R. Wright’s detective Nate “Nasty” Macavity Awards, and have made “best Jepson has been pegged as the newest of the year” lists at Booklist, Library entry into the P.I. Hall of Fame by Journal, the Washington Post and the Publisher’s Weekly. Taking place in the Jewish Press. His latest, Te Fifth Servant, Pacifc Northwest, his frst book, Nasty, won a literary award in Italy. So he’s got bends the rules of private detective to get translated into Italian to win an fction in ways that are both humorous award? Get with it, America! Sheesh! Just and socially forward. Wright is an author, for that, I’m not going to tell you about teacher, freelance journalist, and retired the anthology I’m editing, Jewish Noir, U.S. Navy Chief Petty Ofcer. He’s coming in Oct. 2015 from PM Press. worked as a regular columnist for Futures www.kennethwishnia.com Mystery Anthology Magazine and covers the visual arts and stage happenings for the Colorado Springs Independent Newspaper. www.bretrwright.com Tim Wohlforth Tim Wohlforth is the author of three Jim Wolf novels. Wolf lives on a boat at Jack James Ziskin London Square in Oakland with Monty, James Ziskin is the author of the Ellie an eight-foot-long Burmese python. Te Stone mysteries, Styx & Stone (October latest, Te Curse of the Chameleon, has 2013), No Stone Unturned (June 2014), just been published by Krill. It begins and Stone Cold Dead (May 12, 2015), all with the murder of an American Indian from Seventh Street Books. A linguist by and ends in Macau. Another book, Te training, he studied Romance languages Pink Tarantula, features Crip and Henri- and literature at the University of Penn- etta. Tom Bateman, a paraplegic PI, can’t sylvania. He lives in the Hollywood Hills with his wife Lakshmi get rid of his green-haired, pierced “helper.” Harry, a standalone, and cats, Bobbie and Tinker. deals with eco-terrorism. Over 80 of Tim’s short stories have been www.JamesWZiskin.com published. Four of his books are available in audio format. www.timwohlforth.com

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Lef Coast Crime Awards

he Lefty Award is given for the most humorous mystery published in the prior year, and was frst award- Ted in 1996. Te LCC Bylaws now require each annual convention to give a Lefty. In addition, each convention can give up to three additional awards. Te Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award, frst given in 2004, has become standard by tradition. Tis award is given for the best historical mystery novel, generally covering events at least 50 earlier. Other awards have been given from time to time, such as regional awards for the best mystery set in the LCC geographical region (Mountain & Pacifc time zones in North America and west to Hawaii). Tese awards have been variously named depending on the convention location: e.g., Otter (Monterey 2004), Calavera (El Paso 2005), Rocky (Denver 2008 & Colorado Springs 2013), Squid (Monterey 2014), and this year’s Rose Award. Other favors of regional award include the Panik (Los Angeles 2010), the Hillerman Sky (Santa Fe 2011), and the Calamari (Monterey 2014). Awards for best frst mystery include the Eureka! (Sacramento 2012) and this year’s Rosebud. And let’s not forget the Watson, for the mystery with the best sidekick (Santa Fe 2011 & Colorado Springs 2013).

The Lefy Award The Rose Best mystery novel set in the LCC region 2015 Nominees: © Te Good, the Bad, and the Emus 2015 Nominees: by Donna Andrews © One Kick by Chelsea Cain © Herbie’s Game by Timothy Hallinan © Glass Houses by Terri Nolan © January Taw by Jess Lourey © Pirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian © Dying for a Dude by Cindy Sample © Deadly Bonds by L.J. Sellers © Suede to Rest by Diane Vallere © Plaster City by Johnny Shaw

The Bruce Alexander Memorial The Rosebud Historical Mystery Award Best frst mystery novel 2015 Nominees: 2015 Nominees: © Kilmoon by Lisa Alber © Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen © Ice Shear by M.P. Cooley © From the Charred Remains by Susanna Calkins © Te Life We Bury by Allen Eskens © A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson © Te Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day © City of Ghosts by Kelli Stanley © Mistress of Fortune by Holly West © Cup of Blood by Jeri Westerson

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 77 Past Lef Coast Crime Awards

2014 – Monterey, California Rocky Award Best mystery novel set in the LCC geographical region Lefty Award ^ As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson ^ Te Good Cop by Brad Parks © Bufalo Bill’s Dead Now by Margaret Coel © Te Hen of the Baskervilles by Donna Andrews © Hush Money by Chuck Greaves © Te Fame Tief by Timothy Hallinan © Wicked Eddies by Beth Groundwater © Te Last Word by Lisa Lutz © Sonora Crossing by Darrell James © Dying for a Daiquiri by Cindy Sample Watson Award Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Mystery novel with best sidekick ^ Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by ^ Catriona McPherson Bruja Brouhaha by Rochelle Staab © © Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell © © His Majesty’s Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal Taken by Robert Crais © © Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell Fun House by Chris Grabenstein © © Covenant with Hell by Priscilla Royal When the Past Haunts You by L.C. Hayden © Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear 2012 – Sacramento, California Te Squid Best mystery set within the United States Lefty Award ^ Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger ^ Te Real Macaw by Donna Andrews © W Is for Wasted by Sue Grafton © Getting Old Can Kill You by Rita Lakin © Purgatory Key by Darrell James © October Fest by Jess Lourey © Te Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan © Magical Alienation by Kris Neri © A Killing at Cotton Hill by Terry Shames © Dying for a Dance by Cindy Sample © Te Calamari Te Albuquerque Turkey by John Vorhaus Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Best mystery set anywhere else in the world ^ Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker ^ How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny © Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen © Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black © A Game of Lies by Rebecca Cantrell © Hour of the Rat by Lisa Brackmann © A Killing Season by Priscilla Royal © As She Left It by Catriona McPherson © Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson © Mykonos After Midnight by Jefrey Siger © A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear 2013 – Colorado Springs, Colorado Golden Nugget Award Best mystery set in California Lefty Award ^ City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley ^ Te Girl Next Door by Brad Parks © Disturbance by Jan Burke © Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder by Mike Befeler © Te Drop by Michael Connelly © Swift Run by Laura DiSilverio © Bit Player by Janet Dawson © December Dread by Jess Lourey © V Is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton © Trail of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz © Fit to Be Dead by Nancy G. West Eureka! Award Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Best frst mystery ^ ^ Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Nazareth Child by Darrell James © Catriona McPherson Te Bafed Beatlemaniac Caper by Sally Carpenter © © Te Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen Dead Man’s Switch by Tammy Kaehler © © A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab © Live by Night by Dennis Lehane © Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear

78 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND LEFT COAST CRIME AWARDS

2011 – Santa Fe, New Mexico 2009 – Waikoloa, Hawaii Lefty Award Lefty Award ^ Te Pot Tief Who Studied Einstein by J. Michael Orenduf ^ Greasing the Piñata by Tim Maleeny © Stork Raving Mad by Donna Andrews © Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews © Swift Justice by Laura DiSilverio © It Happened One Knife by Jefrey Cohen © Old Dogs by Donna Moore © Tugs & Kisses by Sue Ann Jafarian © Revenge for Old Times’ Sake by Kris Neri © Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill by N.M. Kelby Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery © Getting Old Is To Die For by Rita Lakin ^ Te Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery © A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell ^ Nox Dormienda, A Long Night for Sleeping by Kelli Stanley © Murder for Greenhorns by Robert Kresge © A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander © City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley © A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen © Te Demon’s Parchment by Jeri Westerson © Tell Me, Pretty Maiden by Rhys Bowen Hillerman Sky Award © Touchstone by Laurie King Mystery that best captures the landscape of the Southwest Hawaii Five-O ^ Te Spider’s Web by Margaret Coel Law enforcement, police procedural © Wild Penance by Sandi Ault ^ Mahu Fire by Neil S. Plakcy © Te Bone Fire by Christine Barber © Angels Fall by Baron Birtcher © Snare by Deborah J Ledford © Te Angel of Knowlton Park by Kate Flora Watson Award © Te Black Path by Åsa Larsson © Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet Mystery novel with best sidekick © Fractured by Karin Slaughter ^ Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson © Wild Penance by Sandi Ault © Dead Lift by Rachel Brady © Rolling Tunder by Chris Grabenstein © To Fetch a Tief by Spencer Quinn T 2010 – Los Angeles, California Lefty Award A Magazine for Fans of Mystery, Crime & Suspense ^ Getting Old Is a Disaster by Rita Lakin Exclusive interviews with best-selling © Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews authors like Sophie Hannah, CJ Lyons, © Living with Your Kids Is Murder by Mike Befeler Harold Schechter, and Erik Larson. © Strangle a Loaf of Italian Bread by Denise Dietz © High Crimes on the Magical Plane by Kris Neri Profiles of interesting people like Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Roger Johnson of The Sherlock ^ A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell Holmes Society of London. © Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander © In a Gilded Cage by Rhys Bowen Entertaining features on all aspects © Freedom’s Flight by Gary Phillips of detection, investigation, and © Serpent in the Torns by Jeri Westerson police procedure. Te Panik Short fiction from today's best In honor of the late Paul Anik, Chairman of Left Coast Crime writers. 2010, for the best Los Angeles Noir book in 2009 ^ Death Was in the Picture by Linda Richards Headline news from publishers, © Cemetery Road by Gar Anthony Haywood broadcast networks and movie © Trust No One by Gregg Hurwitz productions. © Boulevard by Stephen Jay Schwartz ot reading it would be a crime. Prose-n-Cons.com

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2008 – Denver, Colorado 2007 – Seattle, Washington Lefty Award Lefty Award ^ Murder with Reservations by Elaine Viets ^ Go to Helena Handbasket by Donna Moore © Te Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews © No Nest for the Wicket by Donna Andrews © Stuf To Die For by Don Bruns © Monkey Man by Steve Brewer © Some Like It Hot-Buttered by Jefrey Cohen © 47 Rules of Highly Efective Bank Robbers by Troy Cook © Knee High by the Fourth of July by Jess Lourey © Murder Unleashed by Elaine Viets Rocky Award Best mystery novel set in the LCC geographical region 2006 – Bristol, UK ^ Te Girl with the Braided Hair by Margaret Coel Lefty Award © Free Fire by C.J. Box ^ Cast Adrift by Peter Guttridge © Lost Dog by Bill Cameron © Cue the Easter Bunny by Liz Evans © Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny © Te Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde © False Fortune by Twist Phelan © Highway 61 Resurfaced by Bill Fitzhugh Arty Award © Fags and Lager by Charlie Williams Best cover art Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery ^ Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen ^ Spectres in the Smoke by Tony Broadbent © Queenpin by Megan Abbott © Night’s Child by Maureen Jennings © Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict © Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear © Silent Counsel by Ken Isaacson © Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny 2005 – El Paso, Texas Lefty Award ^ We’ll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews tie ^ Blue Blood by Susan McBride tie © Carnage on the Committee by Ruth Dudley Edwards © Holy Guacamole by Nancy Fairbanks © Perfect Sax by Jerrilyn Farmer Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery ^ Te Witch in the Well by Sharan Newman © Five for Silver by Mary Reed & Eric Mayer © Tyrant of the Mind by Priscilla Royal © Murder on Marble Row by Victoria Tompson © Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear Calavera Award Best mystery novel set in the LCC geographical region ^ Grave Endings by Rochelle Krich © Snap Shot by Meg Chittenden © Shadow Play by David Cole © What Others Know by L.C. Hayden © Family Claims by Twist Phelan

80 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND 2004 – Monterey, California 1998 – San Diego, California Lefty Award Lefty Award ^ Mumbo Gumbo by Jerrilyn Farmer ^ Tree to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich © Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews © Dead Men Don’t Dance by Margaret Chittenden © Shop Till You Drop by Elaine Viets © Scam by Parnell Hall Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery © I Still Miss My Man But My Aim Is Getting Better by Sarah Shankman ^ For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen © Te Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow © Silver Lies by Ann Parker © Four for a Boy by Mary Reed & Eric Mayer 1997 – Seattle, Washington Otter Award No Award Given Best mystery novel set in the LCC geographical region ^ More Tan You Know by Meg Chittenden 1996 – Boulder, Colorado © Dragonfy Bones by David Cole © Murder Pans Out by Emily Toll Lefty Award ^ Te Fat Innkeeper by Alan Russell 2003 – Pasadena, California © God Bless John Wayne by Kinky Friedman Lefty Award © Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford © Movie by Parnell Hall ^ Te Hearse Case Scenario by Tim Cockey tie © Miracles in Maggody by Joan Hess ^ Pipsqueak by Brian M. Wiprud tie © If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharan McCrumb © Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich © Tis Pen for Hire by Laura Levine © Te Rival Queens by Fidelis Morgan © Buck Fever by Ben Rehder 2002 – Portland, Oregon Lefty Award ^ Dim Sum Dead by Jerrilyn Farmer tie © Fender Benders by Bill Fitzhugh tie © Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos by Donna Andrews © Murder Can Upset Your Mother by Selma Eichler © Long Time No See by Susan Isaacs 2001 – Anchorage, Alaska No Award Given 2000 – Tucon, Arizona Lefty Award ^ Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews © Big Trouble by Dave Barry © High Five by Janet Evanovich © Immaculate Reception by Jerrilyn Farmer © Murder Shoots the Bull by Anne George 1999 – Albuquerque, New Mexico Lefty Award ^ Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

LEFT COAST CRIME 2015 81 BOUCHERCON 2015 WORLD MYSTERY CONVENTION

OCTOBER 8-11

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA Bouchercon2015.org Who’s Here From Where?

Kathy Aarons • CA Donnell Ann Bell • CO John Burley • CA Cathy Corwin • OR Cathy Ace • BC Jennifer Bell • NV Teresa Burrell • CA Dennis Corwin • OR Joan H. Adams • OR R.G. Belsky • NY Peter Busch • CA Pamela Cowan • OR D.J. (Diann) Adamson • CA Jacque Ben-Zekry • WA Matt Coyle • CA John Addiego • OR Debbie Bergthold • WA Chelsea Cain • OR Sherri Cranford • OR Miriam Aiken • OR DV Berkom • WA Valerie Caires • CA Debbie Cross • OR Lisa Alber • OR Lou Berney • OK Ginger Calem • TX Blake Crouch • CO Jane Albusche • CA Dale W. Berry • CA Susanna Calkins • IL Waverly Curtis • WA Rivi Alch • CA Mysti Berry • CA M.H. Callway • ON Chris Aldrich • NY Roberta Bettis • OR Bill Cameron • OR Julie Dalrymple • CA Lesley Alexander • CA Cassandra Bevers • CA Kimberley Cameron • CA Ray Daniel • MA Annamaria Alﬁeri • NY Karen Bevers • CA Gloria Campbell • WA Alison Dasho • WA Janis Allen • AL Terri Bischoff • MN Diane Capri • FL Hilary Davidson • NY Stacy Allen • GA Susan Blackburn • WA Christine Carbo • MT Jim Davis • WA Heather Ames • OR Dorothy Black Crow • OR Pamela Cardone • WA Nancy Davis • WA Sarah Andersen • MN Jill Blanchard • MA Gayle Carline • CA Patricia Davis • CA Judith DJ Anderson • OR Les Blatt • NJ Kate Carlisle • CA Janet Dawson • CA Kara Anderson • OR Leslie Blatt • NJ Tom Caron • GA Lea Day • OR KSue Anderson • CO Jennifer Bosworth • CA Arlene Carpenter • MN Pam Dehnke • OR Richard Anderson • CA Daniel Boucher • OR R.M. Cartmel • UK Wendy Delaney • WA Richard Van Anderson • WA Jonathan Bowerman • CA Anna Castle • TX Vicki Delany • ON Donna Andrews • VA Sara Bowling • WA Cricket McRae • CO Hannah Dennison • OR Scotti Andrews • WA Lisa Brackmann • CA Diana Chambers • CA Elizabeth DeNoma • WA Ann Arneill-Py • CA Bev Brady • CO Maia Chance • WA Fran Dependahl • CA Cori Lynn Arnold • CT Mike Brady • CO Jessie Chandler • MN Kate Derie • OR Betsy Asher • MN Richard Brandshaft • WA Baer Charlton • OR Linda Devereaux • OR Nancy Austin • CA Randal Brandt • CA Erika Chase • ON Tyler Dilts • CA Peg Brantley • CO Marta Chausée • CA Philip Donlay • MI Robin Baker • CA Lynn Bremer • NV Sarah M. Chen • CA David Downing • WA Shannon Baker • NE Jason Brenizer • TX Sean Chercover • ON Robert Downs • CA Terri Baltus • OR Allison Brennan • CA Melanie Chernoy • CA Gracie Doyle • WA Bernard Banks • CA Pat H. Broeske • CA Kenneth Choi • CA Cynthia Drew • NC Elin Barnes • CA Jim Brooks • CA Becky Clark • CO Chloe Ducharme • NV Aileen Baron • CA Cindy Brown • OR Brenda Clark • OR Michele Duczek • AB Brenda Bartell • OR Donna Brown • CA H.S. Clark • WA Veronica Duczek • OR Darla Bartos • CO E.R. Brown • BC Anne Cleeland • CA Robert Dugoni • Renee Bashor • OR Kiffer Brown • WA John Clement • NY Nadya Duke • OR Jacque Bates • AZ Pamela Brown • NY Arthur Coburn • WA Carola Dunn • OR Brett Battles • CA Angela Brunton • CA Stacey Cochran • NC Paula Dunn • CA John Bean • WA Craig Faustus Buck • CA Angel Luis Colon • NJ Patricia Dusenbury • CA Pamela Beason • WA Royce Buckingham • WA Petey Connolly • CA Kate Dyer-Seeley • WA Maegan Beaumont • AZ Leslie Budewitz • MT Ruth Conrad • OR Jack Beausoleil • BC Stephen Buehler • CA Jan Cook • FL Lucille Easley • OR Kay Beausoleil • BC Warren Bull • MO Phyllis Cook • OR Warren C. Easley • OR Janet Beckett • OR Timothy Burgess • CA Martha Cooley • CA Deborah Ecklund-Smith • WA Mike Befeler • CO Debbie Burke • OR David Corbett • CA Kjersti Egerdahl • WA Bonnie Bell • CA Kathi Burke • CA Mette Corbett • CA Charlotte Elkins • WA

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Kendra Elliot • OR Joel Goldman • KS Chris Holm • ME Sheryl King • OR Suzanne Epstein • CA Cathy Gorham • AZ Katrina Niidas Holm • ME Bharti Kirchner • WA Jack Erickson • CA Pat Gorman • HI Lorraine Hopper • OR Ellen Kirschman • CA Diana Erwin • OR Bill Gottfried • CA Julie Horner • AZ June Klassen • BC Allen Eskens • MN Toby Gottfried • CA Wendy Hornsby • CA Christine Kling • FL Joely Eskens • MN Barbara Graham • WY Deane Howland • VT Nancy Kniskern • CA Barry Graham • OR Margaret Howland • VT Yvonne Kohano • OR Lisa Farr • CA Suzanne Grant • OR Jeanette Hubbard • OR Grace Koshida • ON Isabel Fastiggi • AZ Mike Grayston • CA Sharon Hudson • CA Kim Krabill • WA Corey Lynn Fayman • CA Sara Green • MO Linda Joffe Hull • CO Peggy Kramer • IN Vallery Feldman • CA Jennifer Greer • OR Sarah Husmann • CA Richard Krauss • OR Annette Ferguson • CA Neal Grifﬁn • CA Joan Huston • WA Judith Kristofferson • CA Lisa Fernow • WA Mary Grifﬁth • CA Katherine Bolger Hyde • CA Anna Krupicz • CA Yves Fey • CA Alice Gross • CA Patty Finch • OR Denise Grover Swank • MO Shep Iiams • CA Stewart Laidlaw • CA Christine Finlayson • OR Martha Gruft • CA Shellah Inman • WA Lori L Lake • OR Janet Finsilver • CA Patricia Gulley • OR Ken Isaacson • NJ Rita Lakin • CA Patti Fipps • CA Mark Guthrie • CA Sherry Larson • OR Sue Fischer • OR Del Jack • CA S.W. Lauden • CA Sean Fitzgerald • WA Mary Jane Haake • OR Marilyn Jack • CA Mike Lawson • WA Bill Fitzhugh • CA Jennifer Hagan • CA James M. Jackson • MI Jeff Layton • WA Karla Fitzwater • OR Nan Hagan • CA Michael Jacobs • WA Crystal LeClercq • CA Anne Flett-Giordano • CA Daniel J. Hale • TX Jay Jaffe • CA Deborah J Ledford • AZ Gaynol Flora • WA Parnell Hall • NY Sue Jaffe • CA Jane Lee • MS G.M. Ford • WA Timothy Hallinan • CA Paty Jager • OR Lynn Leissler • OR Lisa Ford • CA Glen Erik Hamilton • CA Darrell James • OR Bree LeMaire • CA Colleen Foster • CA Judy Hamilton • CA Kristelle James • WA Melissa Lenhardt • TX Jordan Foster • OR Vinnie Hansen • CA Judith Janeway • CA Doug Levin • OR Barbara Fradkin • ON R.J. Harlick • ON Carol Johnson • ID Noemi Levine • CA Holly Franko • OR Mella Harmon • NV Dale Johnson • OR Evan Lewis • OR Sherry Harris • VA Donna Johnson • WA Rod Lindsey • WA Gay Coburn Gale • HI Mette Ivie Harrison • UT Natalie Johnson • OR Ruby Littlepage • BC Ann Galen • OR Heather Haven • CA Jerusha Jones • WA M. Louisa Locke • CA Marie Gamber • CA Dana Haynes • OR Karol Jump • WA Bill Loehfelm • LA Meg Gardiner • TX Gar Anthony Haywood • CA Clark Lohr • AZ Diane Garland • WA April Henry • OR Tammy Kaehler • CA Don Longmuir • ON Kelly Garrett • OR Miriah Hetherington • WA Jennifer Kaleta • OR Jen Longmuir • ON Linda Gerber • Japan Micheal Higginbotham • CA Everett Kaser • OR Robert Lopresti • WA Valentina Giambanco • NY Nola Hight • OR Sharon Kaser • OR Harriet Lord • CA Kathe Gibb • CO Russell Hill • CA Andrew E. Kaufman • CA Jess Lourey • MN Mary Wright Gillespie • OR Alec Hillbo • AZ Dottie Kay • CA Christine Lovett • CA Judith B. Glad • OR Jennifer Hillier • WA Dana Kaye • IL Sarah Lovett • NM Edith Gladstone • CA Christine Hills • CA Rosemarie Keenan • WA Shawn Lowney • WA Colleen Glynn • BC Mary M. Hinman • NM Vince Keenan • WA Tom Luce • OR Christine Goff • CO Roger Hobbs • WA Ronnie Kelleher • NY Margaret Lucke • CA Victoria Goff • OR Nancy Hodges • WA Art Kerns • AZ D.P. (Doug) Lyle • CA Lee Goldberg • CA Darrell Hoemann • IL Katy King • OR Joan Golden • NM Annie Hogsett • OH Laurie R. King • CA Chip MacGregor • OR

84 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND WHO’S HERE FROM WHERE?

Pat Macholl • CA Jennifer Montgomery • CA Carole Price • CA Angela Sanders • OR Karen MacInerney • TX Skye Moody • WA David Putnam • CA Laurie Sanderson • MN Doc Macomber • OR Barbara Moore • CA Mary Putnam • CA Valerie Santa Cruz • CA Andrew MacRae • CA Sharon Arthur Moore • AZ Joni Sauer-Folger • OR Eileen Magill • CA Pat Morgan • OR Ryan Quinn • CA Mary Sawicki • CA Rosalind Malin • OR Margaret Morse • AZ Steven Saylor • CA G.M. Malliet • VA Sandy Morse • CA Lori Rader-Day • IL James Scarantino • WA Joe Mallon • CA Vella Munn • OR Michael Radesky • CA Kim Schaffer • CA Lucy Maloney • HI Julia Musha • NY Martha Ragland • OR David B. Schlosser • WA Phyllis Manford • CA Patrick Musker • CA Lynne Raimondo • IL Ilene Schneider • NJ Ana Manwaring • CA Fred Ramsay • AZ Lisa Schoof • CA Phillip Margolin • OR Cap’n Bob Napier • WA Tillie Rea • OR Pamela Schweppe • CA Jay Margulies • OR Kathleen Nave • CA Janet Redhawk • WA Michael Sears • NY Phyllis Marion • CA Thomas Nave • CA Sheila Redling • WV Sandy Sechrest • WI Andrew Martin • NY Mary Nelson • OR Deborah Reed • CA Maryann Seduski • CA Matt Martz • NY Nadine Nettmann • CA Terri Reed • OR Jean Selders • CO Michael Masliah • CA Erica Ruth Neubauer • WI Charles Reese • CA L.J. Sellers • OR Maggie Mason • CA Sharan Newman • OR Janet Reid • NY Patricia Sempowich • OR Ellen Mathews • CA Gail Nickerson • OR Jo Ellen Rein • CA Pamela Sewell • OR George Mathews • CA Margaret Nielsen • OR Audrey Reith • CA Terry Shames • CA Lisa Mathews • NH Terri Nolan • CA Sandy Rich • CA Johnny Shaw • OR Jeanne Matthews • WA Baird Nuckolls • CA Carrie Richards • OR Andi Shechter • WA Janice Maxson • OR Katherine Nyborg • WA Travis Richardson • CA Laurie Sheehan • CA Nina Mazzo • CA Karen Ringer • CA Sheldon Siegel • CA Jennifer McAndrews • NY Cherie O’Boyle • CA John Maddox Roberts • NM Jeffrey Siger • Greece Penny McCall • CA Julie O’Connell • OR Paul Robinette • CA Sheila Simonson • WA Maryglenn McCombs • TN Terry O’Loughlin • CA Barbara Robinson • OR Sue Skelly • CA Gary McDole • CA Sherryl O’Neill • VA Richard Robinson • OR A.J. Smith • WA Andrea McGrew • WA Terry Odell • CO Todd Robinson • NY Brian Smith • CA Rose McGuire • WI RK Olson • AZ Annette Rogers • AZ Helen Smith • UK Jenn McKinlay • AZ J David Osborne • OR Cathy Rogers • AZ Juli Smythe • OR Beverly McLaggan • CA Liz Osborne • WA Dianne Rogers • CA Tom Snethen • OR Shirley McLean • TX Chantelle Aimée Osman • AZ Robert Roper • CA Carole Sojka • CA Max McMillen • OR Lora Osterloh • CA Charles Rosenberg • CA Rochelle Staab • CA Linda McNab • BC Clive Rosengren • OR Rita Stadel • OR Frances McNamara • IL Gigi Pandian • CA Robert L. Rosenwald • AZ Josh Stallings • CA Catriona McPherson • CA Ann Parker • CA Priscilla Royal • CA Robert Stearns • OR Melinda McRae • WA Diane Paxton • CA Jan Rubens • MI Richard Steelman • AZ Jan R. Mead • OR Sarah Pearlman • CA Bobbie Rudd • IL Sam Stephens • OR Stephen Mertz • AZ Annie Pearson • WA Janet Rudolph • CA Mark Stevens • CO Camille Minichino • CA Cathy Perkins • WA Meg Ruley • NY Barbara Stewart • NY Jowana Mitchell • CA Barbara Petty • CA Kathryn Rybka • IL Jane Stillwater • CA Kristin Mitchell • CA Adam Plantinga • CA Karin Stormo • WA Lindsey Mitchell • VA Dolores Ponce • CA Carolyn Sabol • CA Keith Stucky • OR Nancy Mitchell • CA Nancy Porteus • FL Anne Saller • CA Marlyne Stucky • OR Susannah Mitchell • VA Jim Powers • CO Cindy Sample • CA Bill Sullivan • OR Kathleen Moczarny • CA Rose Prell • CA Karen Samuels • CA Mark Sullivan • MT Victoria Mogilner • CA Mar Preston • CA Ralph Sanborn • CA Mary Elizabeth Summer • OR

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Lucinda Surber • NM Alan Turkus • WA Tamara Walker • OR Anna Wilson • IN Sheila Sweet • OR Claudia Turner • CA Margot Wallace • CA Margaret Wiltschko • OR William E. Wallace • CA Marty Wingate • WA Dwight Tate • CA Deborah Ulan • AZ Thom Walls • WA Cat Winters • OR Tricia Tate • OR Sylvia Ulan • AZ Wendy Webb • MN Kenneth Wishnia • NY Caroline Taylor • CA Stan Ulrich • NM Tracy Weber • WA Tim Wohlforth • OR Meredith Taylor • CA Karen Weeks • CA Simon Wood • CA Merrily Taylor • KY Diane Vallere • CA Sarah Weinman • NY Alice Wright • CA Nancy Taylor • CA Jennifer Vandenberg • WA Lynn Welch • MT Bret R. Wright • CO Jim Thomsen • WA Catherine Van Aken • CA Alison Wells • OR Kathy Wright • CA Brian Thornton • WA Maddy Van Hertbruggen • SC Holly West • CA Paul Wrigley • OR Anne Thorpe • FL Elly Varga-Cummens • OR Nancy G. West • TX Charlie Thorpe • FL Pat Vasaio • MD Cherie Westfall • WA Marisa Young • MD Tim Tigner • CA Paul Vasquez • NY Becky Whitten • WA Merlot Young • BC Marie Tilson • CA Fran Vella • CA Tina Whittle • GA Patti Timothy • OR Arlene Vigne • IN Sam Wiebe • BC Barbara Zilly • Greece Keith Tittle • WA Chris Volk • CA Dänna Wilberg • CA James W. Ziskin • CA Helen Tobin • NY Jeannette Voss • OR Judy Williams • WA Maggie Topkis • NY Sarah Williams • UK Sharon Toth • CA Anne Wagner • OR Timothy Williams • Italy Sal Towse • CA Michael Wagner • CA Sharon Williamson • IL Sue Trowbridge • CA Lono Waiwaiole • OR Ingrid Willis • CA

86 CRIMELANDIA in PORTLAND The LCC 2015 Committee Thank You to Our Sponsors ρ Convention Co-Chairs: ρ Book Bag sponsored by Tomas & Mercer L.J. Sellers and Bill Cameron ρ Name Badge Holder sponsored by Soho Press ρ Registrar & Treasurer: Stan Ulrich ρ Saturday Breakfast sponsored by Sisters in Crime ρ Program Coordinator: Johnny Shaw ρ Bookroom Coordinator: Don Longmuir ρ Program Book Editor: Bill Cameron ρ Publisher Liaison: Lucinda Surber ρ Volunteer Coordinator: Lucinda Surber ρ Charity & Auction Coordinator: Kendra Elliott ρ New Author Breakfast: Mike Befeler and Rochelle Staab ρ Awards Co-Chairs: Lucinda Surber & Stan Ulrich ρ Website: Bill Cameron ρ Writing Workshop Coordinator: Lisa Alber ρ National Publicity: Janet Rudolph Book & Magazine Donations for Book Bags ρ Book Bag Stufng: Ingrid Willis and Karen Ringer ρ Teresa Burrell ρ Oceanview Publishing Acknowledgments ρ Stacey Cochran ρ Perseverance Press ρ Dell Magazines ρ Poisoned Pen Press Special thanks to these volunteers who assisted our chairs: ρ Five Star Publishing ρ Prose ’n Cons Mystery ρ Banquet: Kathryn Rybka ρ Timothy Hallinan Magazine ρ Photography: Darrell Hoemann ρ HarperCollins ρ Quercus Press ρ Registration: Shannon Baker & Karen Ringer ρ Midnight Ink ρ Soho Press ρ Room Sharing: Noemi Levine ρ Mulholland Books ρ Tomas & Mercer ρ Signing: Warren Easley ρ Gift Baskets: Christine Finlayson The LCC National Committee ρ Special Ops: Doc Macomber LCC Conference, Inc. A rousing round of applause to all the authors who Website: www.leftcoastcrime.org generously ofered to share a meal with their fans an Au- thor-Hosted Table at the Awards Banquet. Te Standing Committee A cheer for all the wonderful folks who donated books, ρ Bryan Barrett ρ Tom Walls character names, goodies, services, and more for the Silent ρ Janet Rudolph ρ Noemi Levine (three- Auction. ρ Tom Schantz year foating member; ρ elected 2013) Te Crimelandia Committee especially appreciates all the Lucinda Surber other volunteers who are moving boxes of books, stuf- ρ Stan Ulrich ing book bags, helping at the Registration and Volunteer Te Current LCC Committee Tables, serving as Panel Room Volunteers, working on ρ 2013 Colorado Springs: Christine Gof and Suzanne the Silent Auction, helping in the Hospitality Suite, and Proulx everywhere else. We couldn’t hold a Left Coast Crime ρ convention without the help of all our volunteers! 2014 Monterey: Bill and Toby Gottfried, Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich Bill and L.J. in particular thank Lucinda Surber and Stan ρ 2015 Portland: L.J. Sellers and Bill Cameron Ulrich for their support and guidance over the last two ρ 2016 Phoenix: Ingrid Willis years as we worked to bring Crimelandia together. We ρ 2017 Honolulu: Gay Coburn Gale realize now what a vital part of LCC they are every year!

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THE LEFTY AWARD: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE EMUS by Donna Andrews (Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book)

THE BRUCE ALEXANDER AWARD: FROM THE CHARRED REMAINS by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books) CITY OF GHOSTS by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur Books) A DEADLY MEASURE OF BRIMSTONE by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book)

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