Andrews, Donna

Donna Andrews, editor of Chesapeake Crimes II, was born in Yorktown, Virginia; attended the University of Virginia; and now lives in Reston, Virginia. She is the author of The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (August 2007, St. Martin's Minotaur), eighth in the Meg Langslow series, follows Murder with Peacocks (1999 Agatha and Anthony winner), Murder with Puffins, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, We'll Always Have Parrots, Owls Well That Ends Well, and No Nest for the Wicket, Delete All Suspects (Berkley Prime Crime, November 2005), fourth in her series featuring artificial intelligence personality Turing Hopper, follows You've Got Murder (Agatha winner, best mystery 2002).

Cantwell, Goodie

Old enough to remember the Korean War and young enough to have worn the first miniskirt in Moscow, Goodie Cantwell, author of “Smart Enough” in Chesapeake Crimes II works in the Office of Information Technology at American University. She lived with her husband, a journalist, and her two children in New York City, London, Moscow, and Prague. Now a widow, Goodie lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with two clueless cats, and has just finished her first mystery, Walking the Dog Can Be Dangerous.

Charles, Nora

Noreen Wald, aka Nora Charles, author of “A Senior Discount On Death” in Chesapeake Crimes II is Secretary of the Board of Directors of Mystery Writers of America (MWA). From 2004–2005, she served as MWA’s Executive Director. She also is the founding president of MWA’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter. As Nora Charles, she writes the Berkley Prime Crime Senior Sleuth series, starring Kate Kennedy: Death with an Ocean View; Who Killed Swami Schwartz?; Death is a Bargain; and Hurricane Homicide. As Noreen Wald, she has written five novels in the Berkley Prime Crime Ghostwriter Mystery series and two nonfiction books, Contestant: Success Secrets of a Game Show Veteran and Foxy Forever: How to be Foxy at Fifty, Sexy at Sixty, and Fabulous Forever.

Ciporin, Leone

The idea for “A Rose by Any Other Name” in Chesapeake Crimes II came to Leone Ciporin as she waited in the airport for a Thanksgiving weekend flight. When she is not writing mystery fiction, Leone works as a public affairs manager for an insurance company. Prior to her public affairs career, Leone practiced law and considers herself a recovering attorney. A member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, Leone lives in Virginia.

Coupe, Carla

A former researcher at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art, Carla Coupe, author of “Rear View Murder” in Chesapeake Crimes II, is a member of Sisters in Crime, and a member of the board of her local chapter of Mystery Writers of America. She fills her spare time belly dancing, gardening, and enjoying life with her husband and son.

Foxwell, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Foxwell, author of “Last to Know” in Chesapeake Crimes II, has published nine short stories. Her short story set in World War I, “No Man’s Land,” won the Agatha Award and was nominated for a Macavity Award. It appears in World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories (Tor, 2004) and Blood on Their Hands (Berkley, 2003). She edited the Malice Domestic serial novel The Sunken Sailor (Berkley, 2004) and coauthored the Robert B. Parker Companion (Berkley, 2005). Foxwell is managing editor of CLUES: A Journal of Detection, the only U.S. scholarly journal on mystery and detective fiction, and hosts a weekly radio program, “It’s a Mystery,” on WEBR in Fairfax, Virginia.

Freeburn, Chris

Chris Freeburn is the author of “Dying for a Clue” in Chesapeake Crimes II. Additionally, she is the author of Parental Source and Generation Without Souls, police procedurals that focuses on the social elements of law enforcement and crime. Her recent novel, Dying for Redemption, features Callous Demar, a private investigator whose ghostly existence causes his agency to move from earth to limbo. Chris is a former Judge Advocate General (JAG) Army specialist and spent many years as a paralegal in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a member of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.

Goffman, Barb

Barb Goffman, a former newspaper reporter, is an assistant general counsel of a Fortune 500 company and lives in Herndon, Virginia. Barb has written short stories and a suspense novel about a suburban phone-sex operator trying to stop a regular caller who is turning his snuff fantasies into reality. Her story, “Murder At Sleuthfest,” in Chesapeake Crimes II was a 2006 Agatha Award nominee, and was Barb’s first published mystery work. The story was inspired by her loss of a ring at the 2004 Sleuthfest conference, but Barb promises she took no steps to track down and murder the person who found and kept her ring—though the thought did cross her mind.

Hanson, Peggy

Peggy Hanson, author of “Death in the Aegean: An Elizabeth Darcy Adventure” in Chesapeake Crimes II, has been a broadcaster and correspondent at the Voice of America, a Peace Corps Volunteer, and a teacher of English as a Second Language. She has lived, worked, and raised children in Turkey, Yemen, India, and Indonesia for twenty years. Peggy is the author of an international suspense series (Deadline: Yemen), featuring Jane Austen-loving correspondent Elizabeth Darcy, and Deadline: Istanbul. In addition to news reports and documentaries, Peggy has published travel articles on India, including one following the footsteps of Bombay’s Inspector Ghote, hero of the H. R. F. Keating series.

Malliet, G. M.

G. M. Malliet, author of “The Bartender” in Chesapeake Crimes II, has worked as a journalist and copywriter for national and international news publications and broadcasters. She was educated in Colorado and at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the U.K. Her first novel in the DCI St. Just mystery series, Death of a Cozy Writer, will be published in July 2008, followed by Death and the Lit Chick in 2009.

Mattingly, Sherriel

A native Marylander, Sherriel Mattingly, author of “The Pink Sweater” in Chesapeake Crimes II, lives in Annapolis where she writes quirky mysteries and fantasy. In 1996 she cofounded the Annapolis Writers critique group. She also works at the Annapolis county library.

Patterson, Valerie O.

Valerie O. Patterson, author of “Death in Woad Blue” in Chesapeake Crimes II, works as an attorney for the federal government. Passionate about books, she reviews children’s books and is finishing an MFA in Children’s Literature from Hollins University. She won a grant from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) in 1998 and the Shirley Henn Award for Creative Scholarship from Hollins University in 2001 and 2005. Valerie is a member of Sisters in Crime, SCBWI, and Mystery Writers of America.

Pomeranz, Judy

Judy Pomeranz, author of “The Cozy Caprice” in Chesapeake Crimes II, is a freelance writer, lecturer, and art critic. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of newspapers and magazines and her short stories and essays have been published in literary journals, including Santa Barbara Review, Potomac Review, Crescent Review, Fodderwing, and MasAve Review, and in the anthologies, Great Writers, Great Stories, and Chesapeake Crimes. Her novella, On the Far Edge of Love: New York Stories, is being serialized in élan magazine, which serialized her earlier novellas, Lies Beneath the Surface and Elegy. She holds a MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University, teaches writing at Georgetown University, and has won prizes and recognition in fiction contests sponsored by the National Press Club, the D.C. Bar, and élan magazine.

Sackler, Harriette I.

Harriette Sackler, author of “Mother Love” in Chesapeake Crimes II, is a lifelong fan of the mystery and teaches several adult courses on the genre. She is a member of Sisters in Crime Chesapeake Chapter and serves as Grants Chair on the Malice Domestic Board of Directors.  As Assistant Director of Community Resources and Development at a residential treatment center for children and adolescents with severe emotional disabilities, she spends a great deal of time writing public relations materials and newsletters. Harriette and her husband live in Montgomery County, Maryland, with their three pampered Bichon fluffs. They have two daughters.

Talley, Marcia

Marcia Talley, author of “Driven to Distraction” in Chesapeake Crimes II, is the Agatha and Anthony Award-winning author of six Hannah Ives mysteries, including This Enemy Town and Through the Darkness, all set in the Chesapeake Bay region. She is author/editor of two collaborative serial novels, Naked Came the Phoenix and I’d Kill for That. Her prize-winning short stories appear in more than a dozen collections, including Blood on Their Hands (Berkley, 2003), Death by Dickens (Berkley, 2004), Thou Shalt Not Kill (Carroll and Graf, 2005), Baltimore Noir (Akashic, 2006), and The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories (Forge, 2003, 2004). She lives in Annapolis, Maryland, one of the finest places in the world to indulge her passion for sailing.

Wilson, Sandi

Sandi Wilson is the author of “The Blonde in Black” in Chesapeake Crimes II. In addition, she is the author of Be the Boss: Start and Run Your Own Service Business (Avon, 1985), and Be the Boss II: Running A Successful Service Business (Avon, 1993), and more than fifty freelance articles. Her books have sold more than 100,000 copies. She and her partner have owned a D.C.-based electronic design studio for twenty-five years.

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