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MAYA CORRIGAN writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, featuring a café manager and her live-wire grandfather, the Codger Cook, solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. The 7th book in the series, Gingerdead Man, set during a Dickens of a Christmas festival, came out in October 2020. Maya is the winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award and the New England Readers’ Award for unpublished Mystery and Suspense. She previously taught writing, American literature, and detective fiction at Georgetown University and Northern Virginia Community College.
Contact: Maya.Corrigan@gmail.com
Website: MayaCorrigan.com
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TINA KASHIAN writes the best-selling Kebab Kitchen Mediterranean mystery series, and her first book, Hummus and Homicide, spent six weeks on the B&N bestseller list. Tina is an attorney and a mechanical engineer whose love of reading for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. Tina spent her childhood summers at the Jersey shore building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business, as her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. Please visit her website at www.tinakashian.com to join her newsletter, receive delicious recipes, enter contests, and more!
Contact: tina@tinakashian.com
Website: www.tinakashian.com
Facebook: facebook.com/TinaKashianAuthor/
Twitter: twitter.com/TinaKashian1
Instagram: instagram.com/tinakashian/
1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays with Leslie Budewitz
Leslie is the proud owner of three Agatha Award teapots: 2018 Best Short Story for "All God's Sparrows," her first historical fiction; 2013 Best First Novel, for Death al Dente; and 2011 Best Nonfiction for her guide for writers, Books, Crooks & Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law & Courtroom Procedure. Her books and stories have also been nominated for or won Derringer, Anthony, and Macavity awards.
The 2015-16 president of Sisters in Crime, she is an at-large member of the board of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in NW Montana with her husband Don Beans, a musician and doctor of natural medicine, and their grey tuxedo cat, an avid birdwatcher.
Contact: Leslie@LeslieBudewitz.com
Website: www.LeslieBudewitz.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/LeslieBudewitzAuthor
Twitter: @LeslieBudewitz
Pinterest: www.Pinterest.com/LeslieBudewitz
New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling author CLEO COYLE is the pseudonym of Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. With more than 1 million copies of their books sold, their 18 COFFEEHOUSE MYSTERIES and 7 HAUNTED BOOKSHOP MYSTERIES are published by Penguin Random House. Cleo's books have earned starred reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus, "Best of Year" selection honors from reviewers, and have been recommended by Booklist as among the best culinary mysteries for core library mystery collections. Look for HONEY ROASTED (Cleo's 19th Coffeehouse Mystery), releasing Feb. 1, 2022 and praised by Kirkus as "a honey of a tale." And don't miss Cleo's latest Haunted Bookshop Mystery, THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTED PORTRAIT, an Aunt Agatha's Best of Year pick. When not haunting coffeehouses or hunting ghosts, Alice and Marc are NY Times bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, Fox, Imagine, MGM, Toho, and Disney.
Contact Cleo at: CoffeehouseMystery@gmail.com
2nd and 4th Wednesdays with Leslie Karst
The daughter of a law professor and a potter, LESLIE KARST learned early, during family dinner conversations, the value of both careful analysis and the arts--ideal ingredients for a mystery story. Putting this early education to good use, she now writes the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari mysteries, a culinary series set in Santa Cruz, California. An ex-lawyer like her sleuth, Leslie also has degrees in English literature and the culinary arts. She and her wife and their Jack Russell mix split their time between Santa Cruz and Hilo, Hawai'i.
Contact Leslie: lesliekarstauthor@gmail.com
Website: www.lesliekarstauthor.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lesliekarstauthor
Twitter: @ljkarst
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lesliekarst
Leslie also blogs with Chicks on the Case
Website: www.lucyburdette.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lucyburdette
Twitter: www.twitter.com/lucyburdette @lucyburdette
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/robertaisleib
Instagram: www.instagram.com/LucyBurdette
2nd and 4th Thursdays with Valerie V.M. Burns...
1st, 3rd, and 5th Fridays with Vicki Delany
MADDIE DAY pens the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Agatha Award-winning EDITH MAXWELL writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries and short crime fiction. With two dozen mysteries in print and more underway, Maxwell/Day lives with her beau and energizer kitten north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. She hopes you’ll find her on social media under both names.
twitter: @maddiedayauthor

PEG COCHRAN writes the nationally best-selling Gourmet De-Lite mystery series. Allergic to Death is out now, and Steamed to Death is coming in June 2013. Under her pen name Meg London, she writes the Sweet Nothings Lingerie series. Murder Unmentionable is out now and Laced With Poison will be released in July 2013. Peg works in marketing communications and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her husband and Westhighland white terrier, Reg and calico cat Frazzle.
Visit her at www.pegcochran.com
and www.meglondon.com.