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I’m so excited to join the Ohioana Book Festival again this year! Entry is free for all, and there will be 120+ featured authors, book signings, panels, activities for kids, and lots more. See under “events” for more details!

I was so excited to talk to Bob Mihalek about this upcoming WSU Friends of the Library event, and I’m so honored to be the keynote! If you’re in the Dayton area, I so hope you’ll consider attending! I mean, libraries! What’s not to love?!

Thanks so much to Barnes & Noble for hosting a local author event last weekend! There are still some signed copies of Deer Season, Blackout, and It’s Not Going to Kill You in stock, so get them while supplies last! And once they’re out, I’m also always happy to send a signed book plate to …

Please join Meredith and me at the Woodbourne Public Library on June 7 at 7:00p ET where we’ll be sharing from our new novels, chatting about writing local, and all things thriller. You can register for the event on the library’s website!

In what ended up one of the most wonderful, surreal nights of my life, Deer Season took home the Edgar for Best First Novel by an American Author!! Everything about the night was just magical, including meeting fellow nominees who are all so crazy talented. I turned to my husband right before it our category …

Molly Odintz of CrimeReads took the time to speak with us about writing in the “new normal,” the state of the crime novel, and fashion for the upcoming ceremony! Here are part one and part two of this great conversation.

I’m so excited (and nervous!) to meet and chat with the other four authors in the Edgar category for Best First Novel by an American Author. I’ve read all their books and fell in love with their words and can’t wait to meet them “in person.” Please joins us and moderator Allison Brennan on Thursday, …

I’ll be at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest this weekend! Please see “events” for more details and a link to the festival. I’m driving down with good friend and kick-ass writer Jess Montgomery and can’t wait to talk books and mysteries and writing with her, Rea Frey, and Catherine McKenzie at our 10a panel. There …