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Valerie S. Malmont
| The author of the Tori Miracle series set in a fictional small town with gothic overtones called Lickin' Creek, Pennsylvania.
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William Maltese
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Best known for his short stories, the author's myriad-genre works in English include his Stud Draqual mystery series.
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Jeffrey Marks
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Writer of the US Grant mystery series and the Edgar-nominated Who Was That Lady?, the biography of Craig Rice.
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Margaret Maron
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Award winning author of the engaging Judge Deborah Knott series, set in rural North Carolina, and the more melancholy Sigrid Herald mysteries about an NYPD lieutenant.
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Evan Marshall
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Author of the alliterative series starring Jane Stuart and her cat Winky in addtion to books about writing and getting published.
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Nancy Martin
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She writes romantic capers set in Philadelphia's high society featuring the Blackbird Sisters.
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Sujata Massey
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The author of the suspenseful and romantic Rei Shimura series.
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Charles Mathes
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Author of "The Girl Who" series. Each book is about a different girl discovering a secret about her past.
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Susan McBride
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Writer of the romantic suspense series featuring police detective Maggie Ryan.
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Barbara Taylor McCafferty & Beverly Taylor Herald
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The identical twins who write the quirky Tatum Twin mysteries about identical twins Bert and Nan.
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T.C. McMullen
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T.C. McMullen writes thrillers and suspense novels set in rural Pennsylvania. She mixes touches of the paranormal and romance in all her stories.
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Evan McNamara
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This West Point graduate chose the mystery genre so he could write a book that would "outwit my wife and bring her back to the genre." He writes about an army sniper turned deputy sheriff in Mineral County, Colorado.
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D. R. Meredith
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Writes about Megan Clark, an anthropology/archaeology major whose expertise helps her solve mysteries.
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Marilyn Meredith
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Author of the Deputy Tempe Crabtree Mystery series, and the Rocky Bluff P.D. series.
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Earl Merkel
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Earl is a former journalist who has written mystery-suspense and techno-thrillers.
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Annette & Martin Meyers
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Annette writes the Olivia Brown series set in the roaring 1920s and together, under the name Maan Meyers, the pair write the historical mysteries set in 17th through 19th Century New York City.
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Linda Mickey
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Writer of the Kyle Shannon mystery series featuring a female amateur detective who runs into murder in her job as a temporary administrative worker.
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John Ramsey Miller
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This native Mississippian now lives in North Carolina and writes the "Side" series of thrillers about ex U.S. marshal Winter Massey. His book The Last Family was a Literary Guild Main Selection.
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Maryann Miller
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Maryann is one-half of the mystery-writing team of Sutton Miller. On her own she also writes romance, young adult novels, and screenplays.
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Marlys Millhiser
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Author of eight Charlie (short for Charlemagne!) Greene mysteries. One of them features an erotic pool hall. Also wrote The Mirror.
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Lisa Miscione
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This ex-New Yorker and current Florida resident writes a series about true crime writer Lydia Strong and FBI agent Jeffrey Mark.
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Ed Mitchell
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Mitchell - a rocket scientist! - self-publishes these romantic thrillers about gold mining and prospecting.
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William Mize
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Writes the Denton Ward and Monty Crocetti
mystery series. His book "Resurrection Angel" was nominated for a Shamus
Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. He lives in St
Petersburg, Florida.
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Miriam Grace Monfredo
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She puts her experience as a librarian and American historian to use in writing historical novels set in New York State in the mid-19th century.
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Art Montague
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This Canadian latecomer specializes in hardboiled/noir short crime fiction and is also successful at novel length.
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Christopher G. Moore
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Moore writes a private eye series set convincingly in Thailand about the expatriates living there. Moore himself is a Canadian expatriate who has lived there for 14 years.
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Katy Munger
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Author of the North Carolina-based series featuring Casey Jones who is, as the author says, "a bottle-blonde brickhouse."
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Shirley Rousseau Murphy
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Author of the feline mystery series with Joe Grey, P.I - and Dulcie and Kit!
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Warren B. Murphy
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Best known as the co-author The Destroyer series, but has also written in almost every other genre.
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Donna Huston Murray
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Writer of the Ginger Barnes Main Line Mystery Series. Puzzle-filled cozies set in Philadelphia.
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Beverle Graves Myers
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She combines mystery, history, and opera in writing The Baroque Mysteries, a series of historical novels with an 18th-century opera singer as amateur sleuth. |
