SinC Puget Sound

Member News: June 2025

Susan Nolen shares that her short story “Anniversary Gifts” made the longlist in the Murder Squad’s 25th anniversary contest, and though it did not quite make the short list, it was one of two longlist stories that were “Highly Commended!” Judges were the members of the Murder Squad: Margaret Murphy, Cath Staincliffe, Chris Simms, Ann … Read more

Member News: April 2025

April brings news from Erica Miner; Rhoda Berlin; and Marty Wingate, Alice K.Boatwright, and Candace Robb. Erica Miner signed books at Barnes and Noble on March 29—bringing all threebooks from her Julia Kogan Opera Mystery series together in one place. Rhoda Berlin’s book See Me is a 2025 finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award’s MontaigneMedal. Alice … Read more

Member News: February 2025

Wendy Church’s new book, Tunnel Vision, coming out March 4 and available for preorder, received a positive review from Kirkus, who said “The second in Church’s Shadows of Chicago series is violent, dark, and steadily absorbing.” The entire review can be found here. Two of her previous novels are being re-released by Severn House. Murder on the Spanish Seas and Murder Beyond … Read more

Member News: December 2024

Candace Robb is excited to be launching A Snake in the Barley. The fifteenth book in her popular Owen Archer series, the book is both a mystery and a love story, with Tom and Bess Merchet of the York Tavern as the central characters. The in-person launch party is Wednesday, December 4, 7 PM at Third Place Books … Read more

May 2024: Member News

Kathleen J. Easley is pleased to announce that Families and Felons, book two in her Brenna Wickham Haunted Mystery series, is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Alice K. Boatwright’s story “The Blackberry Pie Thief” was published by The Saturday Evening Post in March. The oldest magazine in the US, SEP has a beautiful online site for … Read more

April 2024: Member News

Joyce Yarrow is pleased to announce the publication by All Bilingual Press (Seattle, WA) of Stolen Lives. In this sequel to Zahara and the Lost Books of Light, journalist Alienor Crespo pursues an intriguing and explosive story about the tons of gold shipped to the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War and the endangered children who made the … Read more

March 2024: Member News

Sisters in Crime Puget Sound will be well-represented at Left Coast Crime: Seattle Shakedown. On Thursday, members participating in panels will include Leslie Budewitz, Leslie J Hall, Kate Jackson, Glen Erik Hamilton, Alice K. Boatwright, Maria Barrs, and Joyce Yarrow. Friday’s lineup includes Judith Ayn, Marty Wingate, Sarah Niebuhr Rubin, Tessa Floreano, and Jeanne Matthews. … Read more

February 2024: Member News

If you have member news, please submit to cblinka@msn.com. Alice K. Boatwright re-issued her first two Ellie Kent mysteries, UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN and WHAT CHILD IS THIS?, under her own imprint, Firefly Ink Books, in December. UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN won the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize. In January, she will release the third … Read more

January 2024: Member News

If you have member news, please submit to cblinka@msn.com. Congratulations to Wendy Church, whose latest novel, Knife Skills, received a starred review from Kirkus. Kirkus called it “Dizzying . . . Audiences who wished the TV series The Bear had made room for Russian mobsters are in for a treat.” Main character Sagarine Pfister has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in … Read more