Author Interviews

Paige Sleuth is a pseudonym for mystery author Marla Bradeen. According to Marla’s bio, she plots murder during the day and fights for mattress space with her two rescue cats at night. When not attending to her cats’ demands, she writes. Marla’s latest cozy mystery is Murder in the Cards. Murder is bad “With this particular […]

David Burnsworth says he became fascinated with the Deep South at a young age. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and spent fifteen years in the corporate world before deciding to write a mystery. Bad Time to Be In It is the second book in this series. “I didn’t set […]

Eva Gates is the pseudonym for one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers, who is also a national bestseller in the U.S., Vicki Delaney. Vicki has written more than twenty-five books, including clever cozies, Gothic thrillers, and historical fiction. The Spook in the Stacks is the latest release in her Lighthouse Library series. Written for […]

Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries and the Spice Shop Mysteries—and the first author to win Agatha Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. Her latest installment in the Food Lovers Village series is As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles. Let’s take a look at the story behind this new cozy mystery. “I […]

Meet Larissa Reinhart. She’s been an English teacher in Japan, escaped a ferocious monkey in Thailand, studied archaeology in Egypt, and survived teaching high school history in the US. If that’s not enough to impress you, consider that she’s also a Wall Street bestselling author. Here’s the story behind her new Finley Goodhart Crime Caper, which […]

Lida Sideris is an author, lawyer and all around book enthusiast. She was one of two national recipients of the Helen McCloy Mystery Writers of America scholarship for her first novel, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters. Murder Gone Missing is the second book in the Corrie Locke series.  Friendship goes a long ways When asked if she was […]

Southern author Maggie Toussaint writes mystery, suspense, and dystopian fiction. Her work won the Silver Falchion Award for best mystery, the Readers’ Choice Award, and the EPIC Award. She’s published seventeen novels as well as several short stories and novellas. This interview takes us behind the story of her new Dreamwalker Mystery, Confound It. All life […]

Kelley Kaye is the author of Poison by Punctuation, which is part of the Chalkboard Outlines cozy mystery series. She’s taught high school English and Drama since 1992. Her love of storytelling began in high school, when she created captions in her high school yearbook. And, just as Kelley wrote those captions for her real-life […]