Twin Cities Noir

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS:

GARY BUSH recently finished a novel featuring private detective Max Coppersmith. He is currently working on a second Coppersmith novel and researching a historical mystery. His short fiction has appeared in Flesh and Blood Volume 3, Fedora 2, Small Crimes, and MXB Magazine. Bush lives in Minneapolis with his wife Stacey.

K.J. ERICKSON writes the Marshall Bahr mystery series, set in the Twin Cities. The fourth title in the series, Alone at Night, won a 2005 Minnesota Book Award.

CHRIS EVERHEART , a Minnesota native, is a fiction and screen writer. He has worked in film and advertising in Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and stepson.

JUDITH GUEST has lived since 1976 in Edina, Minnesota, where she has been gathering lots of material, which could take another thirty years to be disseminated. She is the author of five books, including Killing Time in St. Cloud and The Tarnished Eye. She has one husband, three sons, and three daughters-in-law, plus seven of the best grandchildren known to man (or woman).

PETE HAUTMAN has written novels for both adults and teens. His poker-themed crime novels Drawing Dead and The Mortal Nuts were selected as New York Times Book Review Notable Books. His latest novel, Invisible, is about model railroads, pyromania, friendship, and window-peeping. Hautman lives with novelist and poet Mary Logue in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Stockholm, Wisconsin.

ELLEN HART, five-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery and two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Best Crime Fiction, has written twenty-one mystery novels in two long-running series, all set in the Twin Cities. She teaches crime writing at the Loft Literary Center, the largest independent writing community in the nation, and lives in Minneapolis with her partner of twenty-eight years.

STEVEN HORWITZ has worked in publishing for twenty-five years. He lives with his wife and two dogs in St. Paul, Minnesota.

DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT is a former newspaper reporter and advertising copywriter, who was born, raised, educated, played hockey, discovered girls, and currently lives in St. Paul. He is the author of several Twin Cities–based novels, including Dearly Departed, A Hard Ticket Home, Pretty Girl Gone, Dead Boyfriends, Penance, which won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and Practice to Deceive, which earned the Minnesota Book Award.

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER writes the award-winning Cork O’Connor mystery series set in Minnesota’s great Northwoods. With his wife and family, he lives in St. Paul, a wonderfully noir city that he dearly loves.

MARY LOGUE was born and bred in the Twin Cities. A poet and writer, she has strayed occasionally, but always manages to find her way back home. A new book of poetry, Meticulous Attachment, and a new Claire Watkins mystery, Poison Heart, were published in 2005. She lives with Pete Hautman on both sides of the Mississippi.

LARRY MILLETT is a Minneapolis native who spent much of his career as a writer, reporter, and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is the author of four works of nonfiction, including Lost Twin Cities and Twin Cities Then and Now, as well as five mystery novels in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to turn-of-the-century Minnesota to solve cases at the behest of railroad tycoon James J. Hill. He currently lives with his wife and two children in St. Paul.

BRUCE RUBENSTEIN is a crime writer who grew up in the Twin Cities and knows a great deal about the events, places, and people upon which his tale is based. He’s written many crime stories, and recently published a book, Greed, Rage and Love Gone Wrong (University of Minnesota Press). His wife is his inspiration because of her constant demands for more money.

JULIE SCHAPER has been a Twin Cities resident for eleven years. She lives with her husband and two dogs in the Merriam Park neighborhood of St. Paul.

MARY SHARRATT grew up in the Twin Cities and currently lives in a dark satanic mill town in Lancashire, England. A Minnesota Book Award finalist and winner of the 2005 WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction, she is the author of the novels Summit Avenue, The Real Minerva, and The Vanishing Point, and coeditor of Bitchlit, a fiction anthology celebrating female antiheroes.

QUINTON SKINNER is the author of 14 Degrees Below Zero and Amnesia Nights. He lives with his family in Minneapolis.

STEVE THAYER is a New York Times best-selling author. His novels include Saint Mudd, The Weatherman, and The Wheat Field. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.

BRAD ZELLAR has lived in the Twin Cities for more than twenty years. He is a writer and editor for the Rake, a monthly magazine, and has a lousy relationship with sleep.