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Author of the Storm Kayama mysteries, which portray an insider’s perspective of Hawai‘i, one the tour books never show.
Burl Barer Edgar winning author of The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Television, and Film
Aileen G. Barron Author of The Gold of Thrace, The Torch of Tangier, and A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes
Joan Blacher Author of Murder Canyon and the award winning Difficult Teens: A Parent's Guide for Coping
Lynette Brasfield Author of Nature Lessons (St. Martin’s Press, NY, 2003), which Booklist described as "a gripping first novel...part mystery, part dark family comedy, and part political realism."
Bill Bryan Veteran TV writer/producer and author of Keep It Real, a comic mystery published May 2007 by Bleak House Books.
Sinclair Browning Author of the Trade Ellis mysteries.
Taffy Cannon
Author of fourteen novels, most recently Blood Matters, Paradise Lost, and Open Season on Lawyers.
Bonnie J. Cardone
A freelance photojournalist whose work appears regularly in scuba diving periodicals.  Her first short mystery story was recently published in Gone
Coastal, an anthology.
John Cheek A police officer retired after 24 years, John is a source for information on police procedure, jargon, and culture.
Alan Cook Author of the mystery novels Thirteen Diamonds,
Catch a Falling Knife, Hotline to Murder and The Hayloft.
Joan
Del Monte
Author of "Plonk Goes The Weasel" and "Death Has A Yellow Thumb."
Lynda Douglas Derringer Award winning author of Deadfall and Clearcut - Murder in a National Forest Mysteries.
Bill Fitzhugh  
Anthony Flacco Author of The Last Nightingale, Tiny Dancer, A Checklist for Murder, and Abattoir of the Nightingales due in 2008.
Joanne Fluke Author of Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder.
Pat Gebhard Author of Motives for Murder
Lee Goldberg Author of My Gun Has Bullets and Beyond the Beyond and executive producer of the CBS series Martial Law.
Paul Guyot Writer for such television shows as Snoops, Level 9,
and Judging Amy.
Randall Hicks Author of The Baby Game, a murder mystery set in the world of adoption, the first in a series about adoption attorney Toby Dillon.
Bonnie
Hearn Hill
Author of Intern, Killer Body and four more thrillers from MIRA Books.
Steve Hodel Best-selling author and 2003 Edgar nominee in Best Fact category for Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder. Licensed CA P.I. and retired LAPD homicide detective.
Melodie Johnson Howe Author of the Claire Conrad/Maggie Hill mystery novels and Diana Poole short stories.
Sue Ann Jaffarian Author of Too Big To Miss, the first installment in the Odelia Grey mystery series.
Darrell James
Author of Body Count: A Killer Collection. Fifteen short stories of passion, pride, and homicide.
Linda O. Johnston Author of the Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime, as well as romantic suspense.
Diana Killian (D. L. Browne) Author of the Poetic Death literary capers (Pocket)
and the yoga chick lit Corpse Pose series (Berkeley).
Gary C. King Author of Blood Lust, Driven to Kill, Murder in Hollywood and several other true crime books.
Leslie S. Klinger Editor of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Vols. I & II, the Sherlock Holmes Reference Library and other Sherlockian works.
Rochelle Krich Author of short stories, stand-alone novels, and the Jessie Drake and Molly Blume series
Ken Kuhlken Author of The Loud Adios, The Venus Deal, and The Angel Gang.
Mimi Latt Bestselling author of legal thrillers Ultimate Justice, Pursuit of Justice and Powers of Attorney.
Paul Levine Author of the Solomon vs. Lord series, nominated for the Edgar, Thriller and Macavity awards and the James Thurber prize for American Humor. The Deep Blue Alibi; Kill All the Lawyers; Trial & Error.
Robert S. Levinson Author of The John Lennon Affair, The James Dean Affair and The Elvis and Marilyn Affair.
Kathryn Lilley

Author of Dyng to Be Thin, the first book in a series called the Fat City Mysteries, due out in October 2007 from NAL.

Sheila Lowe
Author of the Claudia Rose forensic handwriting expert mystery series and books about handwriting analysis.
D.P. Lyle, MD
Macavity-winning and Edgar-nominated author of the
non-fiction books, Murder and Mayhem and Forensics For Dummies, and the thrillers, Devil's Playground and Double Blind.
Gayle Lynds Best-selling author of international espionage thrillers The Coil, Masquerade, Mesmerized, and Mosaic; and (with Robert Ludlum) The Altman Code, The Paris Option, and The Hades Factor.
Ben Malisow
Author of 1,001 Things To Do If You Dare.
Michael Mallory Author of the Amelia Watson series.
Frank Megna Author of The Long Count.
Shirley Rousseau Murphy Author of the Joe Grey cat mystery series.
Kris Neri Derringer Award winning author of Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, and Dem Bones' Revenge, the Tracy Eaton Mysteries.
Twist Phelan
Author of the Pinnacle Peak legal mystery series and financial-themed short stories.
Gary Phillips Author of the Ivan Monk and Martha Chainey series, and other stuff.
Kathleen Piché
Kathleen Piché currently works as a Patients’ Rights Advocate for the Los Angeles County. She is a licensed clinical social worker, and is a specialist on psychiatric assessment and diagnosis.
G. B. Pool Author of the Ginger Caulfield mystery series.
Joe Porrazzo Author of Solemnly Swear.
Penny Rudolf Author of contemporary LA mystery/thrillers Thicker Than Blood and Lifeblood, and historical mystery/thriller Listen to the Mockingbird.
Ona Russell Author of O'Brien's Desk: An Historical Mystery.
Thomas B. Sawyer Author of The Sixteenth Man & Fiction Writing Demystified, Head Writer/Showrunner of Murder, She Wrote, publisher of Storybase. Edgar® and Emmy-nominated.
Pamela Samuels-Young
Author of the legal thrillers Every Reasonable Doubt and In Firm Pursuit.
Harry Shannon Author of the Mick Callahan series.
David J. Sherman Author of The Dark Side, the first installment in the Jack Murphy mystery series.
Patricia Smiley Bestselling author of the Tucker Sinclair series, including False Profits, Cover Your Assets, and Short Change.
Alexandra Sokoloff
Author of the supernatural thrillers The Harrowing (2006, St. Martin's Press) and The Price (coming 2007, St. Martin's Press).
Eric Stone Author of Living Room of the Dead, the first in the Ray Sharp series of international detective thrillers, and of Wrong Side of the Wall, the true crime sports biography of Blackie Schwamb.
Nathan Walpow Author of the Joe Portugal mysteries, including The Manipulated.
James Lincoln Warren Author of the "Treviscoe of Lloyd's" 18th Century mystery series featured in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and other short crime fiction.
Robert Weibezahl Author of The Wicked and the Dead and co-author of A Taste of Murder and A Second Helping of Murder.
John Morgan Wilson Edgar® and Lambda Award-winning author of the Benjamin Justice series.
Matt Witten Author of the Jacob Burns mysteries, including Breakfast at Madeline's, Grand Delusion, and Strange Bedfellows.
Lori Wolf Author of Parrot on a Limb and creator of the Quinn McKay series.
Paula L. Woods Author of the award-winning Inner City Blues and Stormy Weather.
Author of the award-winning John Ray Horn series and the recent standalone Damnation Falls.

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