Join us for our Mystery Book Sale featuring hundreds of used mystery books for $1.
The Sisters in Crime, the Mavens of Mayhem authors will be there selling their new books.
Christmas gifts from local authors!
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Meet the Sisters:
JACQUELINE BOULDEN is an Emmy-winning former TV news reporter who began her broadcast career with WPTR Radio in Albany during the 1970s. Jacqueline lived in Philadelphia, where Her Past Can’t Wait is set, for more than thirty years before moving back to her native New York State in 2021.
SYRL KAZLO, a retired teacher, lives in upstate New York with her husband and two very lively dachshunds. She writes the Samantha Davies Mystery series, featuring Samantha Davies and her loveable dachshund, Porkchop. When not writing she is busy hooking, rug hooking that is, reading and enjoying her family.
CHRIS KEEFER wrote “Birding Trips and Trivia,” a weekly column on birding for twenty years before branching out into magazine articles and now, her debut historical mystery No Comfort for the Undertaker. She’s recently published House Hunting in the digital magazine Liquid Imagination, and a chapbook, The Battle in the Bathroom.
Amy Patricia Meade is author of the critically acclaimed Marjorie McClelland Mysteries, Vermont Country Living Mysteries, and Tish Tarragon Mysteries, AMY PATRICIA MEADE is a native of Long Island, NY, where she cut her teeth on classic films and books featuring Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown. After stints as an Operations Manager for a document imaging company and a freelance technical writer, Amy left the bright lights of New York City and headed north to pursue her creative writing career amidst the idyllic beauty of Vermont’s Green Mountains. After five years living in Bristol, England, Amy now resides in upstate New York where she recently headed a literary auction to benefit Ukraine refugees.
ERICA OBEY is the author of The Brooklyn North Murder, her locked-room series debut, as well as five other award-winning mystery novels set in the Hudson Valley. Erica published scholarly work on nineteenth century female folklorists and taught college-level classes on mystery fiction, before she decided she’d rather write the stories herself.
CAROL POULIOT is a former language teacher writes the acclaimed Blackwell and Watson Time-Travel Mysteries, traditional procedurals with a seemingly impossible relationship between a Depression-era cop and a 21st-century journalist. Carol is president of the Upper Hudson chapter of Sisters in Crime and a founding member of Sleuths and Sidekicks. When not writing, Carol can be found reaching for her passport for her next travel adventure. Click here to sign up for Carol’s newsletter and learn more.
Frankie Y. Bailey is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany
(SUNY). Her areas of research are crime history, and crime and mass media/popular culture.
She is co-author (with Alice P. Green) of Wicked Albany: Lawlessness & Liquor in the
Prohibition Era. Frankie is a Macavity award-winner and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony nominee
for non-fiction. She is also the recipient of a George N. Dove award for contributions to the
study of crime fiction and a 2018 Albany Literary Legend award recipient. Her mysteries
feature Southern criminal justice professor/crime historian Lizzie Stuart, Albany police
detective Hannah McCabe, and former World War II Army nurse Jo Radcliffe. Her short
stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and in recent anthologies (Down to
the River, Midnight Hour, and Monkey Business). She is working on a non-fiction book about
dress, appearance, and perception bias in American crime and justice, a historical thriller set
in 1939, and the 6 th Lizzie Stuart mystery. Frankie is a past executive vice president of
Mystery Writers of America and a past national and chapter president of Sisters in Crime.
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December 3, 12-5pm in the Delaware Community room at the Delaware Branch
