Kate Flora
Recovering attorney Kate Flora is the author of seven Thea Kozak mysteries, a suspense novel, and the Joe Burgess police procedural mystery series. Her true crime book, Finding Amy, was a 2007 Edgar nominee. With two other mystery writers, she is a partner in Level Best Books, which publishes anthologies of crime stories by New England writers. She is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Vermont College. She was president of Sisters in Crime in 2002-03.
Linda Grant
Linda Grant is the author of the Catherine Sayler series. Sayler, a San Francisco private investigator, specializes in high-tech crime, taking cases that range from sabotage in a genetics lab (Lethal Genes) to sexual harassment in a software company (A Woman’s Place). Three of her six books have been nominated for Anthony Awards. She was president of Sisters of Crime in 1993-94.
Kate Grilley
Virgin Islands resident Kate Grilley was the president of Sisters in Crime in 2003-04. Kate is the author of the Anthony and Macavity Award-winning Caribbean mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Kelly Ryan. Writing as Kate Borden, she is the author of the Peggy Jean Turner/New England mysteries. In 2006 Kate was the Malice Domestic Toastmaster.
Carolyn Hart
Carolyn Hart is the author of thirty-nine novels. Her newest title is Set Sail For Murder, seventh in the Hennie O series. Coming in 2008 are Death Walked In, eighteenth in the Death on Demand series, and Ghost at Work, first in a new series featuring the late Bailey Ruth Raeburn, an impetuous redheaded ghost who returns to earth to help someone in trouble. Carolyn was president of Sisters in Crime in 1991-92.
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby writes the award-winning Chicago-based mystery series featuring documentary producer and single mother Ellie Foreman. There are four novels in the series, starting with the Anthony-nominated An Eye for Murder. Libby was president of Sisters in Crime in 2005-06. Her next release, Easy Innocence, is a stand-alone PI novel set in Chicago.
Sue Henry
A past president of Sisters in Crime (1997-98), Sue Henry lives in Anchorage and has traveled widely in Alaska for the last thirty-three years. Her first mystery, Murder on the Iditarod Trail, featuring sled dog racer Jessie Arnold and state trooper Alex Jensen, won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best First Novel of 1991. Besides the series that followed that book, she now writes a spin-off series featuring Maxie McNabb, another Alaskan character first introduced with Arnold in Dead North. Sue has lived in Alaska for thirty-seven years and, before retiring to focus on writing, was an administrator in the field of adult basic education for both the Alaska State Department of Education and the University of Alaska-Anchorage, where she also taught writing.
Rochelle Krich
Rochelle Krich’s first mystery, Where’s Mommy Now? won the Anthony Award and was filmed as Perfect Alibi. The author of five stand-alones, five Jessie Drake mysteries, and several short stories, Rochelle (www.rochellekrich.com) writes a series featuring LA tabloid journalist Molly Blume (‘‘A sleuth worth her salt,’’ New York Times Book Review). Grave Endings won the Mary Higgins Clark and Left Coast Crime Calavera awards. Rochelle is currently working on Mind Games, a stand-alone. She was president of Sisters in Crime in 2006-07.
Charlotte MacLeod
Charlotte MacLeod was the cofounder and former president of the American Crime League. She was the Guest of Honor at Bouchercon and Malice Domestic. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Bouchercon and Malice Domestic, and has received five American Mystery Awards, two Edgar nominations, and a Nero Wolfe Award.
Margaret Maron
Margaret Maron is the author of twenty-three novels and two collections of short stories. Winners of several major American awards for mysteries, her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature. She has served as president of Sisters in Crime (1989-90), the American Crime Writers League, and Mystery Writers of America.
Claire McNab
Claire Carmichael McNab is the author of more than fifty published books in many genres, although her favorite has always been mystery fiction. She is proud of her dual citizenship of two of the greatest countries in the world—Australia and the United States. Claire also counts as one of her most rewarding experiences her term in 2000-01 as president of Sisters in Crime, followed by her ascension to the title of goddess, as she’s assured past presidents of the organization are known.
Annette Meyers
Annette Meyers was born in Manhattan, grew up on a chicken farm in New Jersey, and came running back to New York as fast as she could. With her long history on both Broadway (assistant to Harold Prince) and Wall Street (headhunter and NASD arbitrator), she is the quintessential New Yorker.
All of her books—the eight Smith and Wetzons (contemporary), the two Olivia Browns (1920), and the stand-alone Repentances (1936)—are set in New York.
Using the pseudonym Maan Meyers, Annette and her husband, Martin, have written six books and multiple short stories in the Dutchman series of historical mysteries set in New York in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
She was president of Sisters in Crime in 1996-97.
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky, who helped start Sisters in Crime, is the creator of V. I. Warshawski. Among her awards is the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement from the British Crime Writers Association. She was president of Sisters in Crime in 1987-88.
Nancy Pickard
Nancy Pickard is a founding member and former president of Sisters in Crime (1988-89). She is the winner of the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Barry, and Shamus awards, and is a four-time Edgar nominee, most recently for The Virgin of Small Plains. She lives in Kansas.
Medora Sale
A past president of Sisters in Crime (1998-99), Torontonian Medora Sale has written fourteen mysteries as well as various shorter works. Eight of these are set in the Middle Ages and have been published under her alternate name, Caroline Roe.
Eve K. Sandstrom
Eve K. Sandstrom is a fifth-generation Oklahoman. She is the author of fourteen published mystery novels and several short stories, most of them set either in Oklahoma or in her second home-state, Michigan. She writes the Chocoholic mystery series under the name JoAnna Carl. She was president of Sisters in Crime in 2001-02.
Patricia Sprinkle
Patricia Sprinkle relies on her Southern upbringing to write three series of Southern mysteries and occasional short stories, but this story is based on several years spent in Miami. She currently lives in Smyrna, Georgia, and enjoys reading, working with children, seeking justice, and doing nothing. She was president of Sisters in Crime in 2004-05.
About Sisters in Crime
Founded in 1986, Sisters in Crime is an international organization of women writers of crime and mystery, with 3,400 members in forty-eight chapters worldwide. It includes Edgar®, Anthony, Gold Dagger, and Agatha Award winners and nominees, as well as national bestselling authors. For more information and a Sisters in Crime membership application, visit www.sistersincrime.org.
Copyright Notices
‘‘Sisters on the Case : Introduction,’’ by Sara Paretsky, copyright © 2007 by Sara Paretsky.
‘‘Sister Death,’’ by Sue Henry, copyright © 2007 by Sue Henry.
‘‘Hearing Her Name,’’ by Susan Dunlap, copyright © 2007 by Susan Dunlap.
‘‘Frighted Out of Fear; or, The Bombs Bursting in Air,’’ by P. M. Carslon, copyright © 2007 by Patricia Carlson.
‘‘Guardian Angel,’’ by Rochelle Krich, copyright © 2007 by Rochelle Krich.
‘‘Never Too Old,’’ by Linda Grant, copyright © 2007 by Linda V. Williams.
‘‘Murder for Lunch,’’ by Carolyn Hart, copyright © 2007 by Carolyn Hart.
‘‘The Whole World Is Watching,’’ by Libby Fischer Hellmann, copyright © 2007 by Libby Fischer Hellmann.
‘‘I Killed,’’ by Nancy Pickard, copyright © 2007 by Nancy Pickard.
; ‘‘Maubi and the Jumbies,’’ by Kate Grilley, copyright © 1999 by Kate Grilley. First published in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, fall 1999.
‘‘Estelle Is Dead,’’ by Medora Sale, copyright © 2007 by Medora Sale Ltd.
‘‘Steak Tartare’’ by Barbara D’Amato, copyright © 2001 by Barbara D’Amato.
‘‘Animal Act,’’ by Claire McNab, copyright © 2007 by Claire Carmichael McNab.
‘‘Lady Patterly’s Lover,’’ by Charlotte MacLeod, copyright © 1965 by Charlotte MacLeod. First published in Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine.
‘‘Not Just the Facts,’’ by Annette Meyers, copyright © 2007 by Annette Brafman Meyers.
‘‘Ninjettes,’’ by Kate Flora, copyright © 2007 by Kate Clark Flora.
‘‘The People’s Way,’’ by Eve K. Sandstrom, copyright © 2001 by Eve K. Sandstrom. First published in Love and Death, edited by Carolyn Hart (Berkley Prime Crime, 2001).
‘‘For the Common Good,’’ by Patricia Sprinkle, copyright © 2007 by Patricia H. Sprinkle.
‘‘A Family Sunday in the Park,’’ by Sara Paretsky, copyright © 2007 by Sara Paretsky.
‘‘You May Already Be a Winner,’’ by Margaret Maron, copyright © 2007 by Margaret Maron.
‘‘Dies Irae,’’ by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, copyright © 2007 by Dorothy Salisbury Davis.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Sisters on the Case Introduction
Sister Death
Hearing Her Name
Frighted Out of Fear; or, The Bombs Bursting in Air
Guardian Angel
Never Too Old
Murder for Lunch
The Whole World Is Watching
I Killed
Maubi and the Jumbies
Estelle Is Dead
Steak Tartare
Animal Act
Lady Patterly’s Lover
Not Just the Facts
Ninjettes
The People’s Way
For the Common Good
A Family Sunday in the Park: V. I. Warshawski’s First Case
You May Already Be a Winner
Dies Irae
About the Author
About Sisters in Crime
Copyright Notices
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