Now available! The second volume in my zoo mystery series, The Lemur's Cry.

As a child growing up in the Bronx, Linda Lombardi liked to play with a basket full of plastic animals instead of human dolls. Later in life, she gave up a position as a tenured college professor to take a zookeeping job. Formerly the pets and animals columnist for the Associated Press and author of the mysteries The Sloth's Eye and The Lemur's Cry, she has spent most of her life either slaving over animals or writing about how great they are. The book Animals Behaving Badly is her revenge. Read the first chapter of The Sloth's Eye and the Animals Behaving Badly blog at her website, www.lindalombardi.com.

"Our best friend, our next-door neighbor and ourselves with just a touch of the outrageous." That’s how RT Book Review describes Joanna’s protagonist, Kiki Lowenstein. The truth is that’s a pretty good description of Joanna as well.

Joanna is a New York Times Bestselling, USA Today Bestselling, and Amazon Bestselling author as well as a woman prone to frequent bursts of crafting frenzy, leaving her with burns from her hot glue gun and paint on her clothes. And the mess? Let’s not even go there.

Otherwise, she’s a productive author with more than 80 written projects to her credit. Her non-fiction work includes how to books, a college textbook for public speakers, and books of personal essays (think Chicken Soup for the Soul).

Currently she writes four fiction series: The Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series (Agatha Award Finalist, contemporary, St. Louis setting, crafting), the Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series (contemporary, Florida setting, DIY and recycling), the Jane Eyre Chronicles (Daphne du Maurier Award Winner, 1830s England, based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic), and the Sherlock Holmes Fantasy Thrillers (late 1800s, based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s books).

A former TV talk show host, college teacher, and public relations specialist, Joanna was one of the early Chicken Soup for the Soul contributors. She won a Silver Anvil for her work on the original FarmAid concert to benefit farmers.

In her ongoing quest never to see snow again, Joanna lives with her husband and their Havanese puppy, Jax, on an island off the coast of Florida. You can email her at jcslan@joannaslan.com or visit her website at http://www.JoannaSlan.com

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting my author page.

Since you're already here, you probably know that my name is Karen Cantwell. If you've seen my picture, you know I have silver hair. Hopefully you also know that I write the Barbara Marr Murder Mystery series, but if you didn't know that before... well, now you do!

Probably the most important thing you need to know about me is that I love to laugh and I love to make others laugh. When I set out to write the first Barbara Marr book back in 2009, my goal was to create a fun story with lovable characters--the kind of book that I'd like to read. Because I think we need a little more fun in the world and whole lot more laughter, right?

Besides the Barbara Marr books, I have two books in the Sophie Rhodes Ghostly Romance series, which features the endearing British ghost, Marmaduke Dodsworth. More than a few readers have told me he is quite the funny fellow. Try, KEEP ME GHOSTED first.

I also have many short stories - my. newest favorite, "The Dame and Thaddeus Birdwhistle," can be found in the mystery anthology, CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: INVITATION TO MURDER.

Public service announcement: the Barbara Marr books in order are, TAKE THE MONKEYS AND RUN (#1), CITIZEN INSANE (#2), SILENCED BY THE YAMS (#3), SATURDAY NIGHT CLEAVER (#4), DEAD MAN STALKING (#5), and DIAL MARR FOR MURDER (#6) The seventh book, RISKY FITNESS, will be released May of 2021.

I love hearing from readers and connecting with them on Facebook. Feel free to drop me a line at the email address below and/or like my Facebook page @karencantwellauthor

Again, thank you for stopping by and have a lovely day!

email: karencantwellauthor@gmail.com

www.KarenCantwell.com

Eleanor Cawood Jones began her writing career in elementary school, using a #2 pencil to craft crime stories starring her stuffed animals. While attending Virginia Tech, she got her first paid writing job as a reporter with the Kingsport Times-News in Kingsport, Tenn., and never looked back. Her work appears in several mystery anthologies as well as two solo books, and she won a 2021 Derringer Award for "The Great Bedbug Incident and the Invitation of Doom" in Chesapeake Crimes: Invitation to Murder.

Eleanor lives in Northern Virginia and is a recovered marketing director who now works at an airport, where she can stare out the window while making up more stories. She's an avid reader, people watcher, world traveler, and remodeling show addict who spends her spare time telling people how to pronounce Cawood (Kay'-wood) and making up long and elaborate story titles.

http://www.facebook.com/author.eleanor.cawood.jones@eleanorauthor

Barb Goffman is well known for her crime short stories. She's won the Agatha Award three times, the Macavity Award twice, and the Anthony Award, Silver Falchion Award, and Ellery Queen Readers Award once each. She's been a finalist 41 times for major crime-writing awards (the Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, Macavity, Thriller, and Silver Falchion). Her book Don't Get Mad, Get Even won the Silver Falchion Award for best crime short-story collection published in 2013. She earns her living as a freelance crime-fiction editor, specializing in cozy and traditional mysteries.

Before Alan stepped off the corporate merry-go-round, he had an eclectic (some might say disjointed) career. As an engineer, he worked on nuclear submarines, supervised assembly workers in factories, facilitated technology transfer from the Star Wars program, and learned to stack washing machines three high in a warehouse with a forklift. He even started his own recycling and waste reduction newsletter business. Now he writes fiction.

Alan Orloff’s debut mystery, DIAMONDS FOR THE DEAD (Midnight Ink), was a 2010 Agatha Award Finalist for Best First Novel. He’s written two books in the Last Laff mystery series, KILLER ROUTINE and DEADLY CAMPAIGN (also from Midnight Ink), and writing as his darker half Zak Allen, he’s published three books: THE TASTE, FIRST TIME KILLER, and RIDE-ALONG. His novel, RUNNING FROM THE PAST, was one of the initial Kindle Scout selections.

His novel, PRAY FOR THE INNOCENT, won the 2019 ITW Thriller Award for Best E-Book Original.

His novel, I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP, was a Shamus Award Finalist for Best First PI Novel.

HIs YA thriller, I PLAY ONE ON TV, won both the Agatha Award and Anthony Award for Best Children's/YA Mystery.

His short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including JEWISH NOIR, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: STORM WARNING, Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, WINDWARD, SNOWBOUND, LANDFALL, SEASCAPE, and MASTHEAD (BEST NEW ENGLAND CRIME STORIES 2016 - 2020), THE NIGHT OF THE FLOOD, MYSTERY MOST GEOGRAPHICAL, GUNS + TACOS, and MICKEY FINN: 21st Century Noir, Volumes 1 and 3.

His flash fiction story, "Happy Birthday," was nominated for a 2018 Derringer Award, and his story, "Dying in Dokesville," won a 2019 Derringer Award.

His story, "Rent Due," won the 2021 ITW Thriller Award for Best Short Story, and “Rule Number One” (SNOWBOUND, Level Best Books) was selected for the 2018 edition of THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthology, edited by Louise Penny.

He loves arugula and cake, but not together. Never together.

Alan can be followed/stalked on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alanorloff) and Twitter (@alanorloff). For more info, visit www.alanorloff.com