I knew that I would miss some authors’ group blogs. With so many authors ganging together to blog, several were sure to slip through the cracks.But how could I have forgotten about The Outfit?And many thanks to Carl Brookins for pointing out this omission.It’s not just that this group has some of the best authors (as do the other blogs I’ve mentioned).And it’s not just that The Outfit contains Chicago authors who blog about one of my favorite cities. (A shout out to my friend Toni.)But for Pete’s sake, I have done profiles on two of the authors – Sean Chercover and Marcus Sakey – for Mystery Scene magazine. Not only that, but I also regularly visit this blog.The authors here include Laura Caldwell, Sean Chercover, David Ellis, Barbara D’Amato, Michael Allen Dymmoch, Kevin Guilfoile, David Heinzmann, Libby Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, and Marcus Sakey.Like other group blogs, the authors talk about writing as well as issues of the day.During our interview, Marcus Sakey told me that The Outfit got its biggest readership boost last year when Guilfoile, fed up with what he cited as shoddy reporting, began to post about the murder of a Chicago dermatologist and his suspected killer, a former patient who fled to France.Guilfoile’s posts were eventually picked up by the Chicago newspapers and television stations.Now that’s the power of writers.PHOTOS: Libby Hellmann, Marcus Sakey, Sean Chercover