Ruth M. McCarty’s short mysteries have appeared in Level Best Books anthologies, Blunt Flash Trauma, Flash Bang Mysteries, Murder Most Edible and Over My Dead Body! She won the 2009 Derringer Award given by the Short Mystery Fiction Society for her story "No Flowers for Stacey." She is a former editor at Level Best Books, a member of SinC and MWA and a founding member of New England Crime Bake.
Sharon Daynard’s writing runs the gamut from light and quirky to downright dark and troubling. Her debut novel, Murder Points North, puts a humorous spin on murder in a small town. Her short stories include “The Boss of Butler Square” which received Honorable Mention for the Al Blanchard Award and “Widows Peak” which was short-listed for a Derringer Award. She’s been offered the services of a hitman, crossed paths with a serial killer, testified before grand juries, and taken lie detector tests. She is a member of the New England chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Donna Ricci is a retired marketing writer who writes fiction as a great pleasure. She has written and edited a wide range of business documents and procedures, taught related seminars to colleagues and business partners and was Contributing Editor for a corporate news magazine distributed worldwide. Donna also copy edited a literary magazine and wrote many short stories and a couple of draft novels. She has been a member of the same writing group for more than twenty years. Donna lives in Massachusetts’s Merrimack Valley. “Commencing Murder” is her first mystery short story.
Although most of her published writing is about the food and its travels, Carol Kaufman’s favorite reading material has always been the mystery, ever since her long-ago first encounters with the Happy Hollisters and Nancy Drew. Since then, she has pored through (and lost sleep over) Agatha Christie, Louise Penny, P.D. James, and Ian Rankin, to name just a few. A few years ago, she decided to try her hand at fiction, so she joined Sisters in Crime to hone her skills.
When not collapsing under the weight of mounds of Japanese-to-English translation, Lauren Sheridan enjoys the classic mysteries of Agatha Christie, Louise Penny, and Anthony Horowitz. She developed an irrational fear while researching poisonous concoctions for her stories in this anthology that her Internet search history might put her on the FBI’s most-wanted list. In addition to writing, Lauren enjoys photography and therapeutic watercolor painting. Her niece enjoys guessing what the paintings are. Lauren enjoys the 70% hit rate.
Randall DeWitt is the author of Blunt Flash Trauma, which includes stories by Ruth M. McCarty, Kathy Chencharik, and Sharon Daynard. His flash-fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine with one of the stories, “The Cable Job,” winning the 2012 Derringer Award for Best Flash Story. Other short mysteries by DeWitt have appeared in crime anthologies by Level Best Books and Untreed Reads.
