Crime Wave Participants
Ellery Adams
(Moderator)
Peach Pies and Alibis
Ellery Adams, author of Peach Pies and Alibis and multiple other mystery series, loves food, animals, and books. She writes full time from her home in Richmond, Virginia.
Genre:Crime Wave
Lorna Barrett
Murder On The Half Shelf
Lorna Barrett, author of Murder On The Half Shelf, is a New York Times best-selling and Agatha-nominated author. She also writes mysteries under the names Lorraine Bartlett and L.L. Bartlett.
Genre:Crime Wave
Claude Berube
The Aden Effect
Claude Berube, author of The Aden Effect, teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy and has worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence and two U.S. Senators. He is the coauthor of three non-fiction books.
Genre:Crime Wave
C. J. Box
Breaking Point
C. J. Box, author of Breaking Point, is the New York Times best-selling author of 16 novels, including 13 in the Joe Pickett series. A Wyoming native, he has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, newspaper reporter, and editor.
Genre:Crime Wave
Rita Mae Brown
Animal Magnetism
Rita Mae Brown is the best-selling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown mystery series, the Sister Jane series, two new canine mystery novels, Rubyfruit Jungle, making a total of more than books. She also is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet.
Genre:Crime Wave
Mollie Cox Bryan
Scrapped: A Cumberland Creek Mystery
Mollie Cox Bryan is the author of Scrapped: A Cumberland Creek Mystery, following Scrapbook of Secrets. She is also the author of Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies and Mrs. Rowe's Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley.
Genre:Crime Wave
Mary Burton
The Seventh Victim
Mary Burton is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of suspense novels including Senseless and The Seventh Victim. She is a Virginia native, and a graduate of both the Citizens Police Academy and the FBI Citizen's Academy.
Genre:Crime Wave
Meredith Cole
(Moderator)
Meredith Cole won the St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Best First Mystery competition, and her novel Posed for Murder was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel. She teaches writing at UVA and WriterHouse.
Genre:Crime Wave
E.J. Copperman
Chance of a Ghost
E.J. Copperman, author of Chance of a Ghost and three other titles in the Haunted Guesthouse mystery series, is a New Jersey-based author of funny mysteries. Under the name Jeffrey Cohen, E.J. also writes the Double Feature Mystery series.
Genre:Crime Wave
Guy Cote
Long Live the King: Book One of the Charlemagne Saga
Guy Cote, author of Long Live the King: Book One of the Charlemagne Saga, is also the author of six screenplays, one of which is in development to become a major motion picture. Guy resides in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Genres:Fiction, Crime Wave
Ellen Crosby
(Moderator)
The Sauvignon Secret
Ellen Crosby's new mystery, Multiple Exposure, featuring photojournalist Sophie Medina, will be out in August. She is the author of the Virginia wine country mysteries. Previously she was Moscow correspondent for ABC News Radio and an economist at the U.S. Senate.
Genre:Crime Wave
George Davis
The Melting Points
George Davis, author of The Melting Points, is working on a TV series based on his work, Branches: From “We Shall Overcome” to “Yes We Can”. He was a journalist with the Washington Post and New York Times.
Genre:Crime Wave
Michael Dirda
On Conan Doyle
Michael Dirda, author of the 2012 Edgar Award-winning On Conan Doyle, is a book columnist for the Washington Post and a regular reviewer and essayist for several magazines and quarterlies. Dirda received the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
Genres:Non-Fiction, Crime Wave
Ed Falco
The Family Corleone
Ed Falco, author of The Family Corleone, has been published in journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and TriQuarterly, collected in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies. Ed was also an early innovator in digital writing.
Genre:Crime Wave
Roger Hobbs
Ghostman
Roger Hobbs, author of Ghostman, lives in Portland, Oregon, having graduated from Reed College in 2011 after majoring in English and studying ancient languages, film noir, and literary theory (and also writing this novel).
Genre:Crime Wave
L. P. Hoffman
Shadow of the Piper
L. P. Hoffman, author of Shadow of the Piper, has experienced the dark side of Caribbean culture, survived war in the Middle East, traveled the world, and moved among Washington insiders. She writes culturally relevant stories born of experience.
Genre:Crime Wave
