Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder!

About the Editors

Donna Andrews’s biography can be found at the end of her story in this book.

Ellen Crosby is the author of a series of six mysteries set in Virginia wine country, including her most recent novel, The Sauvignon Secret (Scribner, 2011). She has also written Moscow Nights, a standalone novel published in the United Kingdom, and is currently at work on a new series featuring a Washington, D.C., photojournalist. Previously she worked as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post, a Moscow correspondent for ABC News Radio, and an economist at the U.S. Senate. Ellen lives in Virginia with her family. Visit her website at www.ellencrosby.com.

Barb Goffman’s biography can be found at the end of her story in this book.

Sandra Parshall is the Agatha Award-winning author of the Rachel Goddard mysteries, which include The Heat of the Moon, Disturbing the Dead, Broken Places, and Under the Dog Star. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and cats and is a long-time member of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime and former member of the national Sisters in Crime board.

Daniel Stashower is a two-time Edgar-award winner whose most recent nonfiction books are The Beautiful Cigar Girl and (as coeditor) Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. Dan is also the author of five mystery novels, and has received the Agatha and Anthony awards. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories and The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their two sons.

Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of eleven mysteries featuring survivor and sleuth Hannah Ives. Marcia’s first mystery, Sing It To Her Bones, won the Malice Domestic grant and was nominated for an Agatha Award. Ten mysteries followed that early success, including three IMBA bestsellers. Hannah’s eleventh adventure, The Last Refuge, was released in early 2012. Her short stories appear in more than a dozen collections. Marcia served as president of Sisters in Crime, and is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Authors’ Guild, and the Crime Writers Association. She divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland, and living aboard an antique sailboat in the Bahamas.