Donna Andrews, author of the Meg Langslow series that includes No Nest for the Wicket, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, The Penguin Who Knew too Much, Cockatiels at Seven.
Mignon Ballard, author of Cry at Dusk, Salley’s Station, the Augusta Goodnight series beginning with Angel at Troublesome Creek.
Dawn Cook, author of Decoy Princess, Princess at Sea.
Earlene Fowler, author of the Benni Harper series beginning with Fool’s Puzzle, including Irish Chain, Broken Dishes, Dove in the Window, Seven Sisters.
Jimmy Carl Harris, author of Walking Wounded, Wounds that Bind.
Carolyn Hart, author of the Annie and Max Darling series beginning with Death on Demand, and the Henry O series beginning with Dead Man’s Island.
Joan Hess, author of the Claire Mallowy series beginning with Strangled Prose, and the Maggody mystery series beginning with Malice in Maggody.
Gwen Hunter, author of Blackwater Secrets, Sleep Softly, Shadow Valley.
Harley Jane Kozak, author of Dating Dead Men.
Tamar Myers, author of the Pennsylvania Dutch series beginning with Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth, and the Den of Antiquity series beginning with Larceny and Old Lace.
Cheryl Norman, author of Running Scared.
Louise Penny, author of Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, Rule Against Murder, and A Brutal Telling.
Fran Rizer, author of A Tisket, a Tasket, a Fancy Stolen Casket; Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle; and Casket Case.
Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of In the Bleak Midwinter, A Fountain Filled with Blood, Out of the Deep I Cry, To Darkness and to Death, All Mortal Flesh, and I Shall Not Want.