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John Sandford
| Best-selling author of the tough "Prey" series featuring detective Lucas Davenport.
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Elena Santangelo
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Author of the Pat Montella series featuring ghosts, history, and romance.
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Walter Satterthwait
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Writer of the series featuring Santa Fe detectives Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon, as well as Escapade featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He has been nominated for the Shamus and Agatha awards and won the Prix du Roman d'Aventures.
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Mary Saums
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Writes about former Nashville studio singer Willi Taft.
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Steven Saylor
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Author of the popular Roma Sub Rosa series starring Gordianus the Finder in Ancient Rome.
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Michael W. Sherer
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This Washington journalist (who loves to write about food) writes the Emerson Ward series.
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Aileen Schumacher
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Writes the Tory Travers mystery series, featuring a female engineer in the Southwest.
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Sandra Scoppettone
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Author of the Lauren Laurano series, about a Greenwich Village P.I.. She now has a writer's blog on her site where she talks about what it's like to be a professional writer.
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Lisa Scottoline
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Edgar-winner, former lawyer and author of several best-selling legal thrillers.
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Sandy Semerad
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Semerad is a writer from the South who has written about Lilah Sanderford, a journalist and widowed mother. Intrigue and romance.
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Barbara Seranella
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Author of the Miranda "Munch" Mancini mystery series. Munch is a recovering addict, auto mechanic, and amateur detective.
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Connie Shelton
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Writes about New Mexico investigator Charlie Parker, who is particularly fond of green chile chicken enchiladas.
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Katherine Shepard
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This former political speech writer and educator has written a romantic mystery set in the world of politics.
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David J. Sherman
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Sherman - who has written for Mystery Scene - writes contemporary noir PI mysteries novels, slice-of-life vignettes,
poetry and opinionated essays.
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Clea Simon
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Simon, from Massachusetts, writes aboout Theda Krakow, a Boston writer and cat-lover.
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E. Joan Sims
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She writes the Paisley Sterling Mysteries - three generations of strong intelligent women solve mysteries in this quirky series.
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Shelley Singer
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The author of 10 mysteries, including the Jake Samson-Rosie Vicente detective series.
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Kit Sloane
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Author of the books about film editor Margot O'Banion and her director lover Max Skull.
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Barbara Burnett Smith
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Barbara wrote the Purple Sage mysteries - traditional mysteries set in modern, small town Texas. On her site you can walk the town, read a few chapters, and scan the Purple Sage newspaper.
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Julie Smith
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Writes a New Orleans series about a cop named Skip Langdon, and another about San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz; Her new series partners private eyes Talba Wallis and Eddie Valentino.
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Martin J. Smith
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He writes the Memory series, including Straw Men, the 2002 Edgar Award Nominee.
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Sarah Smith
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The author of New York Times Notable Books The Vanished Child and The Knowledge of Water.
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Keith Snyder
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Musician and author of the Jason Keltner series about a pulp-loving L.A. musician.
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Troy Soos
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Writes historical mystery novels, including the Mickey Rawlings baseball mysteries and the Marshall Webb - Rebecca Davies Gilded Age mysteries.
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Jessica Speart
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Author of the US Fish and Wildlife service series featuring Rachel Porter.
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Julia Spencer-Fleming
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Author of the Clare Fergusson/Russ van Alstyne series invoking faith and murder for readers of literary
suspense. The first book in the series won several awards.
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Peter Spiegelman
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Spiegelman is an ex-Wall Street executive writing about new York P.I. John March - who was once a Wall Street executive. The first book was nominated for a Shamus.
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Elizabeth Daniels Squire
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Created the character of Peaches Dann, the absent-minded detective turned memory expert. An Agatha Award winner, Liz was working on her ninth mystery at the time of her death in February 2001.
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Dana Stabenow
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Alaskan author of the Kate Shugak Series, about an Alaskan Aleut whose nearest neighbor is a bull moose, and the Liam Campbell Series about an Alaskan state trooper.
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Jason Starr
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Writer of noir novels often with horse racing backgrounds.
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Daniel Stashower
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Edgar-winning author of Teller Of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle and the Harry Houdini mystery series.
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Charlie Stella
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Author of hardboiled crime novels for fans of unrelenting underworld fiction.
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William M. Stephens
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Stephens writes historical (post World War II) legal mysteries about Lora Lee Reddy set in the Tennesee mountains.
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Rosemary Stevens
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Author of the Agatha Award-winning Beau Brummell mystery series.
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Linda Stewart
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This series for children features a cat detective who is an amusing takeoff on Sam Spade. The first book in the series was nominated for an Edgar, and a later book was nominated for an Agatha.
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T.A. Stone
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Stone is a writer of technothrillers and serial killer novels.
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Andy Straka
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The Frank Pavlicek Mystery features a falconer as detective. Nominated for the Shamus, Anthony, and Agatha awards.
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Sarah Strohmeyer
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Agatha Award-winning author of the Bubbles series.
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Denise Swanson
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Writes the series featuring Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison.
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