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Behind the story of Anonymous by Elizabeth Breck

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Elizabeth Breck is a state of California licensed private investigator. A native Californian, she had read Harriet the Spy twenty times by the time she was nine. Is it surprising that she grew up to become a PI? She has worked mainly in the field of insurance investigations, making her the real-life version of Sue […]

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Behind the story of Murder’s No Votive Confidence

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This is a behind the story interview with author Christin Brecher, who is making her debut as an author with Murder’s No Votive Confidence, the first book in the Nantucket Candle Maker cozy mystery series. In this behind the story interview, Christin shares her love of the cozy mystery genre and how it led to writing Murder’s No Votive Confidence.

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Travel Journal – 14 April – wandering in Wellington New Zealand

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We had a great day in Wellington New Zealand beginning at Zealandia, which is a conservation project set up to help rehabilitate the native New Zealand ecosystem. The project began twenty-four years ago and is barely scratching the surface, but they have 600 volunteers who are helping. One of the biggest challenges with this type […]

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Behind the story of Pineapple Upside Down Murder

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Jodi Rath decided to begin a life of crime in her The Cast Iron Skillet Mystery Series. She splits her time between working as an adjunct for Ohio teachers and creating mischief in her writing. Pineapple Upside Down Murder is the first book in the series. Grandma and the cast iron skillet “My grandma gave me her […]

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Matthew FitzSimmons and the story behind Poisonfeather

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Matthew FitzSimmons began his writing career in the eighth grade. He wrote the story, a fantasy called “A Mage in Spirit” about a boy elf and a Pegasus, for English class. He received a good grade, but suffered a great deal of boyhood angst over the experience. FitzSimmons is writing professionally these days and his […]

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Behind the story of Unholy Code with Thomas Waite

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Cybersecurity is one of those issues most people find frightening and daunting. In his third Lana Elkins thriller, Thomas Waite again throws the reader into the world of hackers, attackers, and shadowy secrets. “Unholy Code” deals with racist rhetoric and the spread of both foreign and domestic terrorism. “Unholy Code” takes place in the near future, […]

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Behind the story of Sympathy for the Devil

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Terrence McCauley is an award-winning writer of crime fiction. His first techno-thriller is “Sympathy For The Devil.” McCauley has also written gritty thrillers set in 1930 New York City. He researched the era by buying countless books on mobsters and prohibition. He delved into World War I, the Great Depression, the Jazz Age, and much […]

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Behind the story of the Sleuth Sisters mysteries

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Maggie Pill is the pseudonym of Peg Herring, the author of Sleuthing at Sweet Springs. She writes three different mystery series, including the Sleuth Sisters mysteries. Herring is an avid traveler and likes to keep her books light, but jokes she may have inadvertently ended up on a Homeland Security watch list. “The Sleuth Sisters […]

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Behind the story of Wolf with Kelly Oliver

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Kelly Oliver is the author of thirteen scholarly books, ten anthologies, and more than 100 articles. She’s done work on campus rape, reproductive technologies, women and the media, film noir, and Alfred Hitchcock. So why did she turn to writing fiction? The answer lies in the pages of her Jessica James Mystery Series and the […]

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Police psychologist tells story behind The Right Wrong Thing

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Ellen Kirschman is a clinical psychologist and a volunteer clinician at the First Responders Support Network. She is the recipient of the California Psychological Association’s 2014 award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and the author of five books. In October 2015, Kirschman’s mystery about what happens when a young officer kills an unarmed teenager and […]

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