Pest Control
Heart Seizure
The Organ Grinders
Radio Activity
Cross Dressing
Highway 61 Resurfaced
Fender Benders
The Adventures of Slim and Howdy
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke is the recipient of the 2009 Mystery Writers of American Grand Master Award and he has also been honored with two Edgar Awards for Best Crime Novel of the Year. He grew up on the Louisiana-Texas coast and has worked as a pipeliner, land surveyor, social worker, newspaper reporter, U.S. Forest service employee and university professor. He wrote and published his first novel, Half of Paradise, by the age of twenty-three. He’s published twenty-eight novels and two short story collections. He also managed to go thirteen years during the middle of his career without publishing a novel in hardback. During that period, his novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie received over 100 editorial rejections. Later, after it was published with Louisiana State University Press, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is both a Breadloaf and Guggenheim fellow and has been a recipient of an NEA grant. Three of his novels have been adapted as motion pictures. He and his wife, Pearl, have four children and divide their time between Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
Half of Paradise
Cimarron Rose
To the Bright and Shining Sun
Sunset Limited
Lay Down My Sword and Sheild
Heartwood
Two for Texas
Purple Cain Road
The Convict and Other Stories
Bitterroot
The Lost Get Back Boogie
Jolie Blon’s Bounce
The Neon Rain
White Doves at Morning
Heaven’s Prisoners
Last Car to Elysian Fields
Black Cherry Blues
In the Moon of Red Ponies
A Morning for Flamingos
Crusader’s Cross
A Stained White Radiance
Pegasus Descending
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
Jesus Out to Sea
Dixie City Jam
The Tin Roof Blowdown
Burning Angel
Swan Peak
Cadillac Jukebox
Rain Gods
Dean James
Dean James is a seventh-generation Mississippi long transplanted to Texas. He grew up on a farm near Grenada, often visited relatives living in the Delta, and earned two degrees from Delta State University. He has published numerous mystery short stories and has co-authored a number of award-winning works of mystery non-fiction. Writing under his own name and two pseudonyms—Jimmie Ruth Evans and Honor Hartman—he has published fourteen mystery novels. He currently works as a librarian in the Texas Medical Center and likes to spend time thinking of interesting ways to kill people.
Cruel as the Grave
Closer than the Bones
Posted to Death
Faked to Death
Decorated to Death
Baked to Death
Death Dines In
Death by Dissertation
By a Woman’s Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women
Killer Books: A Reader’s Guide to Exploring the Popular World of Mystery and Suspense
The Dick Francis Companion
The Robert B. Parker Companion
As Jimmie Ruth Evans:
Flamingo Fatale
Murder Over Easy
Best Served Cold
Bring Your Own Poison
Leftover Dead
As Honor Hartman:
On the Slam
The Unkindest Cut
Nathan Singer
Nathan Singer is a novelist, playwright, musician, and experimental performing artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novels A Prayer for Dawn, Chasing the Wolf, and In the Light of You, as well as numerous plays including the stage adaption of Chasing the Wolf. His work has appeared in several anthologies such as 2007’s Expletive Deleted. He teaches writing at Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati and is currently at work on a multitude of new projects.
A Prayer for Dawn
Chasing the Wolf
In the Light of You
Suzann Ellingsworth
Suzann Ellingsworth is an insatiable history buff fascinated by hoboes, tramps, the Dillinger era, and its music. Suzann memorized the lyrics to Cab Calloway’s recordings of”Minnie the Moocher” and “St. James Infirmary” by second grade, though then, as now, she can’t carry a tune in a tow sack. Suzann’s father often said he drove bootleg whiskey across Mississippi during Prohibition. Since his car’s speedometer seldom topped 35 m.p.h., Suzann was highly skeptical of that claim, and will forever wish she’d questioned him further when she had the chance. The story, “Songbyrd Dead at 23,” is dedicated to the memory of the South’s (probably) slowest bootlegger: Howard A. Rodgers.
Redemption Trail
Deliverance Drive
Colorado Reverie
Pure Justice
Klondike Fever
Trinity Strike
East of Peculiar
South of Sanity
North of Clever
West of Bliss
A Lady Never Trifles With Thieves
In Hot Pursuit
Ahead of the Game
Deadly Housewives
Once a Thief
Halfway to Half Way
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Nellie Cashman: Prospector and Trailblazer
Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women
The Toast Always Lands Jelly-Side Down: And Other Tales of Suburban Life
I Have Everything I Had Twenty Years Ago, Except Now It’s All Lower
Michael Lister
Michael Lister is a novelist, essayist, and playwright who lives in northwest Florida. A former prison chaplain, Michael is the author of the “Blood” series featuring prison chaplain/detective, John Jordan (Blood of the Lamb, Blood Money, The Body and the Blood, etc.). His second series features Jimmy “Soldier” Riley, a PI in Panama City during Word War II (www.FloridaNoir.com). In addition to fiction, Michael writes two columns, River Readings (www.RiverReadings.com), chronicling his search for wisdom and meaning, and Of Font and Film (www.OfFontandFilm.com), reviews of film and fiction. Michael’s latest novel, Double Exposure, is a literary thriller set in the North Florida pine flats and river swamps along the Apalachicola River. When Michael isn’t writing, he teaches college, operates a charity and community theater. His website is www.MichaelLister.com
Power in the Blood
Double Exposure
Blood of the Lamb
Thunder Beach
Flesh and Blood
Florida Heat Wave
Lynne Barrett
Lynne Barrett, Edgar Award winner for best mystery short story, is the author of The Secret Names of Women and The Land of Go, and co-editor of Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook, Guide to Home Singing, Physical Fitness and Animals (Especially Cats). Her stories appear in One Year to a Writing Life, A Hell of A Woman, Miami Noir, A Dixie Christmas, and many other anthologies and magazines. For more information, see www.http://lynne.barrett.googlepages.com . She is grateful for the generous assistance of John Connaway of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, who is in no way responsible for any inaccuracies or misbehavior by her story’s fictional archaeologists.
The Secret Names of Women
The Land of Go
Birth: A Literary Companion
The James M. Cain Cookbook, Guide
to Home Singing, Physical Fitness
and Animals (Especially Cats)
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris was born in Mississippi and lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and daughter and three dogs. Their sons are out of the nest. In her years as a published writer, she’s written four
series and two stand-alones, plus numerous short stories. Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty different languages and on many best-seller lists. They’re also the basis of the number one HBO show True Blood, produced by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under). An avid reader of genre literature, Charlaine is deeply involved in the life of the small town where she and her family live. You can visit Charlaine online at her website www.charlaineharris.com Sookie Stackhouse Series
Dead in the Family
Dead and Gone
From Dead To Worse
All Together Dead
Living Dead in Dallas
Dead Until
A Touch of Dead (Sookie short story collection)
Aurora Teagarden Series
Poppy Done to Death
Last Scene Alive
A Fool and His Honey
Dead Over Heels
The Julius House
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
A Bone to Pick
Real Murders
Definitely Dead
Dead as a Doornail
Dead to the World
Club Dead
Lily Bard Shakespeare Series
Shakespeare’s Counselor
Shakespeare’s Trollop
Shakespeare’s Christmas
Shakespeare’s Champion
Shakespeare’s Landlord
Harper Connelly Series
Grave Secret
An Ice Cold
Grave Surprise
Grave Sight
Non-Series
A Secret Rage
Crimes by Moonlight
Sweet and Deadly
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
Death’s Excellent Vacation
Must Love Hellhounds
Toni L.P. Kelner
Toni L.P. Kelner believes in trying new things, which explains “A Man Feeling Bad,” her first private eye story as well as her first noir story. She also believes in multi-tasking. Who Killed the Pinup Queen?, her second “Where are they Now?” mystery, was released in January, and Death’s Excellent Vacation, her third urban fantasy anthology co-edited with Charlaine Harris, is due out in August. Previous work includes nine novels, two anthologies, and numerous short stories. She’s won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and an Agatha Award, and has been nominated for two other Agathas, four Anthonys, and two Macavity awards. Kelner lives north of Boston with her husband, author Stephen Kelner; two daughters; and two guinea pigs.
Laura Fleming Series
Down Home Murder
Dead Ringer
Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen
Country Comes to Town
Tight as a Tick
Death of a Damn Yankee
Mad as the Dickens
Wed and Buried
Where are they Now? Series
Curse of the Kissing Cousins
Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
Anthologies
Many Bloody Returns
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
Death’s Excellent Vacation
Daniel Martine
Daniel Martine is an actor, writer, musician and film producer who has worked in the film industry for over twenty years. He has been published in numerous magazines and periodicals. Daniel is a partner and co-founder of Cinema Pacifica Entertainment, Inc. and Cinepac Films, Inc., a Latino-oriented film production company based in Santa Barbara, California. He is currently writing and developing three projects for future feature release for the company. Well traveled, Daniel now resides in Memphis, Tennessee, and travels frequently to Santa Barbara, California.
Mary Saums
Mary Saums worked as a recording engineer in her youth in Muscle Shoals on albums by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimmy Buffett and many other fine artists. Her first novel, Midnight Hour, was the first in a mystery series set in Nashville. Her poem “The Blues Reminds Me” was chosen by Nikki Giovanni for a Tennessee Writers Alliance award. The first book in her new series, Thistle & Twig, was a finalist for the 2008 SIBA Award for Fiction. Mary currently serves as a national officer of Sisters In Crime and as vice-president of the Southeast chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
Midnight Hour
The Valley of Jewels
When the Last Magnolia Weeps
Thistle & Twig
Carolyn Haines
Carolyn Haines is a 2009 recipient of the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence and will be awarded the 2010 Harper Lee Distinguished Writing Award in May. She is also a past recipient of an Alabama State Arts Council writing fellowship. Her Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries, set in the Mississippi Delta, as well as her darker fiction such as Penumbra, Touched, and Summer of the Redeemers reflect her great love of and passion for her home state of Mississippi. Born in Lucedale, she was a journalist for ten years before turning to fiction. She is an avid worker for animal rights and lives on a farm with 21 critters—equine, feline and canine—all of them smarter than she is. She is an assistant professor of English and Fiction Coordinator at the University of South Alabama where she teaches the graduate and undergraduate fiction classes. For more information, go to www.carolynhaines.com
Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries
Bone Appetit
Greedy Bones
Wishbones
Ham Bones
Bones to Pick
Hallowed Bones
Crossed Bones
Judas Burning
Touched
Summerof the Redeemers
Summer of Fear
Splintered Bones
Buried Bones
Them Bones
Novels
Revenant
Fever Moon
Penumbra
Non-fiction
My Mother’s Witness:
The Peggy Morgan Story
Les Standiford
Les Standiford is the author of fifteen books, including the novels Spill and the John Deal series set in the Miami and Key West area and four critically acclaimed works of non-fiction including 2008’s The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits. Last Train to Paradise was one of the History Channel’s Top Ten picks and was read coast to coast by Dick Estell, NPR’s “Radio Reader.” Booklist called John Deal, Standiford’s recurring series character, “the most emotionally centered protagonist in crime fiction today,” and the New York Times has said of his suspense writing, “each scene is like a little gasp for breath.” He edited and contributed to The Putt at the End of the World and edited the anthology of crime fiction Miami Noir. He also authored one of the chapters in the national best-selling satire, Naked Came the Manatee with Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen and others. He has received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A native Ohioan, he is a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife Kimberly, a psychotherapist, and their three children, Jeremy, Hannah, and Alexander. Visit Les’s website at www.les-standiford.com & his blog: www.grandstandifordstation.blogspot.com
Done Deal
Raw Deal
Deal to Die For
Deal on Ice
Presidential Deal
Black Mountain
Deal with the Dead
Bone Key
Havana Run
Spill
Miami Noir
The Putt at the End of the World
Opening Day
Miami: City of Dreams
The Man Who Invented Christmas:
How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas
Carol Rescued His Career and
Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Last Train to Paradise:
Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise
and Fall
of the Railroad that Crossed an
Oce
an
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie,
Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter
Partnership that Changed America
Washington Burning: How a Frenchman’s
Vision for Our Nation’s
Capital Survived Congress, the
Founding Fathers, and the Invading
British Army
John Grisham
John Grisham is the author of twenty-two bestselling novels, many of them dealing with the law. A graduate of the University of Mississippi Law School in Oxford, Mississippi, John was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but grew up in Southaven, Mississippi. He was admitted to the State Bar of Mississippi in 1981 and practiced in Southaven until 1990. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983 and served until 1990. During that time he was vice-chairman of the Committee on Apportionment and Elections. He also served as a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee from 1988 to 1990. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen. His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in 1989, and his latest novel, The Associate, was published in 2009.
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