Blaize Clement is the author of Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund, and Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues. The fifth Dixie Hemingway mystery, Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs, will be published by St. Martin's Press/Minotaur in She lives in Sarasota,... more

Donna Andrews has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry awards, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery. She spends her free time gardening at her home in Reston, Virginia.  more

M. C. Beaton has been hailed as the “new Queen of Crime” (The Globe and Mail). Chosen as the British guest of honor at Bouchercon 2006, she is the author of eighteen previous Agatha Raisin novels, the Hamish Macbeth series, and an Edwardian mystery series published under... more

Carola Dunn is the author of several previous mysteries featuring Daisy Dalrymple as well as numerous historical novels. Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon. more

ELLEN HART, “a top novelist in the cultishly popular gay mystery genre” (Entertainment Weekly), is also a Lambda and Minnesota Book Award winner. The author of fifteen previous mysteries featuring Jane Lawless, she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visit her at... more

Mignon F. Ballard grew up in a small town in Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism. She is the author of six previous mysteries featuring angelic sleuth Augusta Goodnight, The Christmas Cottage, an inspirational fantasy, and The... more

CATHY PICKENS, an attorney who specializes in complex civil litigation, currently teaches law and ethics at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte. She grew up in South Carolina, where her family has lived for the past three centuries.  more

M. C. Beaton has been hailed as “the new Queen of Crime”(The Globe and Mail). Born in Scotland, she currently divides her time between Paris and a village in the English Cotswolds, where she writes mysteries featuring Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth, as well as an... more

Blaize Clement is the author of Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter and Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund. She lives in Sarasota, Florida. Visit her Web site at www.blaizeclement.com. more

Mary Saums once worked as a recording engineer in Muscle Shoals on gold and platinum albums by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Buffett, and many others. She is the author of four previous novels—including Thistle and Twigg (available from St. Martin’s Press)—and several short... more

Maggie Barbieri, author of Extracurricular Activities, is a freelance editor as well as a mystery novelist. Her father was a member of the NYPD, and his stories provide much of the background for her mysteries. This is her third novel in the Alison Bergeron series, which... more