Killer Women

Carol LaHines’ debut novel, Someday Everything Will All Make Sense, was a finalist for the Nilsen Prize for a First Novel and an American Fiction Award. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals including Fence, Hayden’ s Ferry Review, Denver Quarterly, Cimarron Review, The Literary Review, The Laurel Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Dakota Review, The South Carolina Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Sycamore Review, Permafrost, redivider, Literary Orphans, and Literal Latte. She lives in New York City.

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Roz Nay is the bestselling author of The Hunted and Hurry Home, which were both nominated for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her first thriller, Our Little Secret, won the Douglas Kennedy Prize for best foreign thriller in France and was nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery and the Arthur Ellis Best First Crime Novel Award. Roz’s new novel, The Offing, is out in May 2024. She has lived and worked in Africa, Australia, the US, and the UK, and now lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband and two children.

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Ellie Monago is a novelist and practicing therapist. She moved from California to Canada three years ago with her family. Her novel, THE CUSTODY BATTLE, was just released, and a related novel called THE DIVORCE LAWYER is available for pre-order now and comes out in May. Ellie also writes under the name Holly Brown.

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Emiko Jean is the author of the New York Times bestselling YA novels Tokyo Ever After and its sequel Tokyo Dreaming, the first of which was a Reese Witherspoon “Hello Sunshine” Book Club Pick. Emiko’s debut book club novel for adults, Mika In Real Life, was published in 2022 and was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. THE RETURN OF ELLIE BLACK is her debut adult thriller (Simon & Schuster; May 7, 2024).

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Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including The Good Sister and The Soulmate. Drawing on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are laced with quirky humour, sass and a darkly charming tone. They are available worldwide in English and have been translated into twenty languages. Sally lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her family and one adorable dog.

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Laura McHugh is the award-winning, internationally-bestselling author of The Weight of Blood, Arrowood, The Wolf Wants In, What's Done in Darkness, and the forthcoming Safe and Sound, which Heather Gudenkauf called "Beautifully written, unflinchingly told, and relentlessly suspenseful." The Weight of Blood won the International Thriller Writers Award and the Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel and the Missouri Author Award for Fiction. Her most recent release, What’s Done in Darkness, won the Missouri Literary Award, was named a Best Book of the Year by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Self Magazine, and was Harlan Coben’s pick for best summer thriller on the Today Show. McHugh lives in Columbia, Missouri with her daughters.

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Alyssa Cole is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers and romance (historical, contemporary, and sci-fi). Her books have received critical acclaim from Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, Booklist, Jezebel, Vulture, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and various other outlets. When she’s not working, she can usually be found watching anime or wrangling her many pets.

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Heather Gudenkauf is the NYT bestselling author of 10 novels, including the Edgar-nominated The Weight of Silence and The Overnight Guest, which was an Amazon Best Book of the Year and described by Kirkus Reviews as "Masterful, terrible, and absolutely addicting...Tense, taut, and terrifying." Her new thriller, EVERYONE IS WATCHING, was named to Goodreads' list of Readers' Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2024. Heather lives in Iowa with her family and a very spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer named Lolo. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, swimming, and hiking.

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Maggie Thrash is a lesbian writer wrestling with important themes, including sexuality, transphobia, and identity. She is unafraid of plumbing dark waters with an off-kilter humor and storytelling bravado reminiscent of the writing of Nell Zink, Alissa Nutting, Donna Tartt, and Ottessa Moshfegh, as well as TV series such as Euphoria, Skins, Yellowjackets, Bad Sisters, and Fleabag. Besides Honor Girl, she is the author of Lost Soul, Be At Peace, as well as two other novels for young adults. Born and raised in Atlanta, she now lives in New Hampshire.

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Before turning to fiction, AGGIE BLUM THOMPSON covered real-life crime as a newspaper reporter for a number of papers, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Aggie is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers, and serves as the program director for the Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Writers Association. She lives with her husband and two children in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Her latest release is Such a Lovely Family.

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Chris Harding Thornton is a professor at the University of Nebraska who has worked a truly impressive collection of jobs—she’s been a quality assurance overseer at a condom factory, a jar-lid screwer at a plastics plant, a closer at Burger King, a record store clerk, an all-ages club manager, and a PR writer. Her debut novel, Pickard County Atlas, received critical acclaim in The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Seattle Times, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, amongst many other outlets.

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Addison McKnight is the pen name for Nicole Moleti and Krista Wells. After over a decade of writing nonfiction, their shared interests in women’s emotions and the cultural obsession with perfection sparked an idea for their debut novel, An Imperfect Plan and The Vineyard Remains. With six jobs and six children between them, they wrote their first book on Saturday nights and on the sidelines of their children’s games. They reside in West Hartford, Connecticut with their families.

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Today our guest on Killer Women is C. J. Cooke. C.J is an award-winning poet and novelist published in twenty-three languages. She teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, where she also researches the impact of motherhood on women's writing and creative writing interventions for mental health.

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B.A. Paris is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of seven novels including the word-of-mouth hit, Behind Closed Doors and her upcoming thriller, The Guest.

Over 7 million editions of her work have been sold worldwide and her books have been translated into 41 languages. Three of her novels have been optioned for major screen adaptations with a film of The Breakdown, titled Blackwater Lane, in post production.

Today’s guest on Killer Women is Amanda Jayatissa. Amanda is the author of My Sweet Girl, which won the International Thriller Writer’s Award for Best First Novel, and You're Invited. She grew up in Sri Lanka, and currently lives in Portugal with her husband and two spoiled huskies. Island Witch is her third novel.

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Today’s guest on Killer Women is Brandy Schillace, PhD. Brandy is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher and Death’s Summer Coat: What Death and Dying Teach Us About Life and Living. A former professor of English and gothic literature, she has an abiding love of mystery. She writes about gender politics and history, medical mystery, and neurodiversity for outlets such as Scientific American, Wired, CrimeReads, and Medium. She is the creator of the Peculiar Bookclub, that brings best-selling authors together with their readers. The Framed Women of Ardemore House is her fiction debut and the start of a mystery series starring Jo Jones, a neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor. Like Jo Jones, Brandy is autistic, though has not (to her knowledge) been a suspect in a murder investigation.

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Our guest today on Killer Women is CATE QUINN. Cate was a travel journalist for the Guardian and Times before becoming a novelist. Her novels have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. She also publishes under the name C.S. Quinn.

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Today on Killer Women our guest is Pamela Fagan Hutchins. Pamela is a USA Today bestselling and Amazon All Star mystery/thriller/suspense author of more than thirty books translated into ten languages, known for her strong female characters, wild settings, and exciting plots that embrace romance, family, and all the feels. She’s also a proud grandmother, and the host of the Crime & Wine podcast. Pamela lives out the adventures in her books at a rustic lake camp at Maine’s Mooselook Lake and in an off-the-grid lodge on the face of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains with her husband, sled dogs, and draft horses.

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Our guest today on Killer Women is Amy Pease. Amy is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin and the Madison Writer’s Studio, and works as a nurse practitioner, where she is a nationally recognized HIV specialist. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two children. NORTHWOODS is her first novel.

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This week on Killer Women, our guest is Caz Frear. When she’s not agonizing over snappy dialogue or incisive prose, Caz can be found shouting at Arsenal football matches. She is the author of the crime mysteries featuring Cat Kinsella: Sweet Little Lies (which was nominated for a Barry Award), Stone Cold Heart, and Shed No Tears. She grew up in Coventry, England, where she now lives.

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Today on Killer Women Podcast, our guest is Karin Nordin. Karin is an author, martial artist, cosplayer, and self-proclaimed cat whisperer. Her first novel, Where Ravens Roost, was shortlisted for the 2022 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger award and her second novel, Last One Alive, was a 2022 ITW Best eBook award nominee. She has an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Scandinavian Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Born in ‘The Biggest Little City in the World’ and raised in America’s Rust Belt, she now lives in the Netherlands. Sweet Little Lies is her first standalone psychological thriller.

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Today on Killer Women our guest is debut author Elise Hart Kipness. Elise is a former television sports reporter turned mystery/suspense writer. Lights Out is based on her experience in the high-pressure, adrenaline-pumping world of live TV. Like her protagonist, she chased marquee athletes through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden and stood before glaring lights, reporting to national audiences.

In addition to reporting for Fox Sports Network, Elise was a reporter at New York’s WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, and the Associated Press. She is currently co-president of Sisters in Crime Connecticut, as well as a member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. A graduate of Brown University, Kipness lives on a hobby farm in Stamford, Connecticut, with her family, three labradoodles, chickens, ducks, and one very cantankerous turkey.
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Today on Killer Women our guest is Mandy McHugh, a bestselling author from upstate NY. She received her MA in English Lit from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY and her BA in English from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.

Our guest today on Killer Women is Michele Campbell. Michele is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School and a former federal prosecutor in New York City who specialized in international narcotics and gang cases. She is the internationally bestselling author of fast-paced psychological thrillers, including top ten Sunday Times bestseller It’s Always the Husband; She Was the Quiet One and A Stranger on the Beach, both of which were optioned for film; and The Wife Who Knew Too Much, which Newsweek called “the perfect escape.”

Her latest book, The Intern, is a pulse-pounding legal thriller about a young Harvard law student who falls under the spell of a charismatic judge. It's a Book of the Month Early Release Selection for September!

Today on Killer Women, our guest is Christina McDonald. Christina is the USA Today bestselling author of These Still Black Waters, Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books), which has been optioned for television by a major Hollywood studio.
Her writing has been featured in The Sunday Times, Dublin, USAToday.com, and Expedia. Originally from Seattle, WA, she has a BA in Communications from the University of Washington and an MA in Journalism from the National University of Ireland Galway. She now lives in London, England with her husband, two sons, and their dog, Tango. She’s currently working on her next novel.
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Today on Killer Women, our guest is Jessica Knoll. Jessica is the New York Times bestselling author of The Favorite Sister and Luckiest Girl Alive—now a major motion picture from Netflix starring Mila Kunis. She has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at Self. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their bulldog.
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Today on Killer Women, our guest is Eliza Clark. A native of Newcastle, Eliza lives in London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. She works in social media marketing and has worked for women’s creative writing magazine Mslexia. In 2018, she received a grant from New Writing North’s “Young Writers’ Talent Fund.” Her short horror fiction has been included in Tales to Terrify, and she hosts the cultural podcast You Just Don’t Get It, Do You? with her partner. Boy Parts is her first novel.

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Today on Killer Women, our guest is J. A. Jance. J.A. is the New York Times bestselling author of the J. P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, the Ali Reynolds series, five interrelated thrillers about the Walker Family, and one volume of poetry. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, she lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington.
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Today on Killer Women, our guest is Angie Kim. Angie moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics’ Award, and the Pinckley Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the Today show. Angie Kim lives in northern Virginia with her family.

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Today on Killer Women Podcast, our guest is Catherine Ryan Howard. Catherine is an internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland. Her novel 56 Days was named a best thriller of 2021 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Irish Times; was her second Irish number one bestseller; and won Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Her previous work has been shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the CWA’s John Creasey New Blood and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers, and she’s been shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year multiple times. Her work has been published in nineteen languages, and a number of her novels have been optioned for screen. She lives in Dublin.

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Today on Killer Women Podcast, our guest is Jesse Sutanto. Jesse grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She has a Masters from Oxford University. When she's not writing, she's gaming with her husband or making a mess in the kitchen with her two daughters.

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Today on Killer Women our guest is Rachel Howzell Hall. Rachel is the New York Times bestselling author of We Lie Here; These Toxic Things; And Now She’s Gone; and They All Fall Down; and, with James Patterson, The Good Sister, which was included in Patterson’s collection The Family Lawyer. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist as well as an Anthony, International Thriller Writers, and Lefty Award nominee, Rachel is also the author of Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes, and City of Saviors in the Detective Elouise Norton series. A past member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America, Rachel has been a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

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Today on Killer Women, our guest is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Allison Brennan. Allison believes that life is too short to be bored, so she had five children and writes three books a year. 45 books and numerous short stories later, Allison relocated in 2019 from Northern California to Arizona with her family and assorted pets.

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Today on Killer Women, our guest is Samantha Downing. Samantha is the author of the bestselling My Lovely Wife, nominated for the Edgar, ITW, and Macavity awards in the US, the CWA award in the UK, and the winner of the Prix des Lectrices award in France. Her fourth novel, A Twisted Love Story, will be released in the US on July 18, 2023.

This week on Killer Women, our guest is Megan Collins. Megan is the author of Thicker Than Water, The Family Plot, Behind the Red Door, and The Winter Sister. She taught creative writing for many years at both the high school and college level and is the managing editor of 3Elements Literary Review. She lives in Connecticut, where she obsesses over dogs, miniatures, and cake.

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