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Richardson, Randy www.lostintheivy.com Randy's fiction debut, Lost in the Ivy, features Chicago reporter Charley Hubbs. Randy drew on his experience as an attorney and award-winning journalist to craft this page-turner.
Robinet, Harriette Gillem www.hgrobinet.com
Roerden, Chris www.bellarosabooks.com A career manuscript editor, Chris -- in her book Don’t Murder Your Mystery -- provides authors with the clues to keep their work from ending up in the editors’ or agents’ DOA pile. "Smarter, more comprehensive, more effectively targeted, and more accessible than most books on writing....An essential handbook for writers longing to improve their knowledge of craft and technique. One of this volume's greatest strengths is that it grows out of a large body of experience." --ForeWord Magazine, May 2006, from the full-page Spotlight review written by Kate Flora (past international president, Sisters in Crime). This book won the Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction; was a finalist for the Anthony and the Macavity awards and ForeWord magazine's Reference Book of the Year; and is a selection of the Writer's Digest Book Club. Rosemoor, Patricia www.patriciarosemoor.com Patricia writes Dangerous Love. Her latest book is Hot Case. Schrader, E.G. www.egschrader.com For the Defendant is the first in a series of legal thrillers featuring Janna Scott, a former Cook County prosecutor, and Detective Jack Stone, a Chicago homicide detective.
Spallone, Jennie www.jenniespallone.com Jennie is a marketing wizard of grassroots techniques for getting author/new author gigs. She’s the author of Deadly Choices, published by Treble Heart Books. Her second book, Fatal Reaction, is currently with a literary agent and she’s in the process of completing her third novel, Window of Guilt. Swanson, Denise www.deniseswanson.com After coming face-to-face with evil in her former profession as a school psychologist, Denise decided that writing about villains was more fun than to encounter them in real life. Her books are set in Scumble, Illinois and feature Skye Denison, a full-figured school psychologist-sleuth. Denise's books have been nominated for the Agatha, Mary Higgins Clark, RT Reviewers Choice, and Daphne du Maurier Awards. Her seventh book in the series, Murder of a Smart Cookie, debuted at #11 on the Barnes & Noble Mass Market Mystery bestseller list in July 2005.
Tooley, Sandra www.sdtooley.com
Walker, David J. www.davidjwalker.com Wikarski, N.S. www.nswikarski.com N.B.'s mystery series, featuring Evangeline LeClair, is set in Chicago in the 1890's.
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