Events

With French edition, Death of a Cozy Writer

At home with the French edition of my first crime novel, Death of a Cozy Writer.

Sisters in Crime

L-R, back: Ellen Crosby, Meredith Cole, Ellen Byerrum. L-R front: Me, Sandra Parshall, Donna Andrews. Reston Library, Virginia, May 2011

With Hank Phillippi Ryan at Malice Domestic conference, Maryland

French language edition, Death of a Cozy Writer

Tuscon Festival of the Book, Arizona

November 2010 Sisters in Crime meeting, Silver Spring, Maryland

With Laura Lippman 2008

2008, signing my first book.

Upcoming Events

March 2021:
Panelist with Professor Fazel and Dr. Shaw on the detective story and the creative mind, University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall.

St Edmund Hall's Centre for the Creative Brain presents an evening of mystery and crime. Through the lens of crime writing, psychology and forensic psychiatry, we will explore what drives people to commit crime, the makeup of a criminal mind and why we are so fascinated by it.

G.M. Malliet is the Agatha Award-winning author of the acclaimed St Just mysteries, the Max Tudor mysteries and novel Weycombe. She is an alumnus of Jesus college (1987) and describes her mystery novels as ‘on the spectrum between cozy/traditional and twisty’. She is a 2020 Macavity Award Nominee and EQMM Reader’s Choice finalist.

Dr Julia Shaw is a psychological scientist (UCL) and and a science communicator. Her work focuses on criminal psychology and areas of memory. She is the author of the internationally bestselling books ‘The Memory Illusion’ and ‘Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side’. She also hosts the BBC podcast ‘Bad People’ and regularly writes articles on criminal psychology for the BBC.

Prof. Seena Fazel is a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the relationship between mental illness and violent crime, the mental health of prisoners, and violence risk assessment. More recently, he has been investigating how to prevent violence perpetration and suicide in individuals with mental illness.

April 2021:
April 3, 2021 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Participating in Sisters in Crime NorCal Spring Author Showcase sponsored by Book Passage bookstore.

2020 recap:
October 16-17: Bouchercon 2020 was virtual in 2020 and I was on a humor panel October 17. Session videos are posted online at YouTube.

November 7: Crimebake in New England. I was one of tree unranked finalists in the Flashwords! competition for my short story, "Blunt Cake."

Looking ahead to 2022 (my husband and I are already signed up--cannot wait): Left Coast Crime, April 7-10, 2022, Albuquerque, New Mexico @leftcoastcrime

Left Coast Crime March 22-25, 2018, Reno, Nevada
Interviewing William Kent Kreuger.

The Edgars, New York, April 28, 2011

With Marcia Talley, author, at left. We're all dressed up for the annual dinner of the Mystery Writers of America, where the Edgar awards are presented.

May 4, 2009, at Barnes and Noble, Annapolis

L-R - Elaine Viets, Mary Jane Maffini, Rhys Bowen, Marcia Talley, me, Louise Penny.

March 2009 at Left Coast Crime, The Big Island, Hawaii

Clockwise from top: Author Rhys Bowen, me, Brian Skupin, and Kate Stine at the breakfast for debutante authors and fans of honor. Brian and Kate are the publishers of Mystery Scene Magazine .

May 5, 2007, at Malice Domestic

The short story panel: Moderator Hariette Sackler, G.M. Malliet, Marcia Talley, Roberta Isleib, Maurissa Guibord, Toni Kelner (the Agatha winner for short story), John Betancourt, Kaye George.

Above photo courtesy of Kaye George.

December 2008, Alexandria Library

The photo at left is from the December 2008 signing at the Alexandria Library, Duncan branch, for the Chesapeake Crimes 3 anthology. Meriah Crawford stands to my right.