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Luisa Buehler writes the Grace Marsden Mystery Series. Reviewers have called her series “a cold case sizzle”. The series follows the cold trail of bygone crimes using a blending a traditional whodunit with a hint of romance and a touch of the supernatural. The series won The Readers Choice Award for best traditional amateur sleuth. The seventh in the series, The Reenactor:  A Staged Death, was released at Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Literary Festival in June, 2011.

Her new endeavor is a Boy Scout adventure story for middle grade boys, On My Honor.

Luisa lives in Lisle, IL with her husband Gerry, their son Christopher, and the family cat Martin Marmalade.

www.luisabuehler.com



Mary V.Welk writes the award winning “Rhodes to Murder” mystery series, including A Merry Little Murder, The Rune Stone Murders, To Kill a King, and The Scarecrow Murders.  Her short stories include “Diamonds Aren’t Forever” in Dark Thing II:  Cat Crimes (12/2011), “Code Blue” in Chicago Blues, “The Case of the Fugitive Farmer” in Missing, and the 2007 Lovey Award winner “A Family Affair” in Deadly Ink. Mary is currently at work on Framed, a novella scheduled for release in 2012 as part of a three-novella mystery offering. A member of Sisters in Crime, Mary has been a columnist and feature writer for Mystery Scene Magazine.
www.marywelk.com



Sandra Tooley is the creator of three mystery series. Her Sam Casey Series features a Native American detective who can hear the dead speak, mixing mystery with paranormal. (Think Medium with a Native American twist.) Her Chase Dagger Series (written as Lee Driver) includes a young Native American woman who is a shapeshifter, combining mystery with fantasy, sci-fi, and sometimes horror. Critics call it MacGuyver meets Dark Angel. Her cross-genre mysteries have won a number of awards over the years and been re-produced in large print, audiobook, mass market paperback, and most eBook formats. The Skull, a mystery for ages 11 to 111, won the Ida Chittum Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.

Destiny Kills
, the sixth in her Sam Casey Series, will be released in early 2012.
www.sdtooley.com