Author Updates
It’s His ‘Five Funerals’: Launch Event for Jeff Somers’s New Mystery
Launch Event for Five Funerals by Jeff Somers coming February 22, 2026, from Ruadán Books (https://ruadanbooks.com/product/five-funerals/) Jeff Somers will be reading from his new novel FIVE FUNERALS and performing for treats. Date: March 3, 2026 […]
Daniella Bernett Book Signing & Reading
For those of you in New York, I will have my launch for SECRETS LIE IN WAIT, Book 10 in my Emmeline Kirby-Gregory Longdon mystery series, on January 13 at 5:30 p.m. at The Mysterious […]
Guess Who Pops Up in This Murder Mystery Novel Set in ’70s NY (Hint: Think Beatles)
Here’s the newest book from Fayetteville Mafia Press, an indie publisher founded by David Bushman and Scott Ryan and distributed worldwide by Simon + Schuster. This is a fictional murder mystery set in 1970s […]
Michael Sinclair Transports Readers Back to 1928 in New Mystery
Behind a veil of betrayal and murder, a family’s truth is unearthed. January 1928. Of all times to travel to upstate New York, Alice Cary thought grimly as she hurried into Grand Central Station, it […]
SJ Rozan’s ‘First Do No Harm’ Coming in January 2026
SJ Rozan’s novel FIRST DO NO HARM, featuring Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, comes out in early January. Says Kirkus Reviews: “A fatal overdose in a hospital’s unofficial nap room cries out for Smith […]
News & Views
Long Island Group Read + Critique
MWA-NY’s Long Island chapter will meet for a Read + Critique on Saturday, January 17. The sesh is open to all members from Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Planning to attend? Bring 3-5 pages of your latest work, be it a novel, short story, poem, script, or play. Remember, constructive criticism only. Also on the table: a […]
Revels! MWA-NY Celebrates the Holidays!
MWA-NY members celebrate the holidays on Tuesday, November 11, with its annual Revels at the the Tailor Public House in Manhattan.
2025 Leon Burstein Award Winners: 3-Way Tie!
MYSTERY AUTHORS WIN BIG Three unpublished authors each won the prestigious Leon Burstein Award—and $2,000—for their manuscript mysteries. The award is judged and presented by the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America (MWA-NY). One judge said: Rain in Pittsburgh by John Dziuban “is unlike anything I’ve ever read! This noir work kept me off balance and transported me […]
Party! Revels 2025
REVELS 2025MWA-NY’s annual Revels party will be heldDate: November 11, 2025The Tailor Public House505 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018Revels is only a month away, and plus-ones are welcome. Don’t miss the fun. It’s only $35.70 per person, but spots are limited. Reserve yours today! Registration Link: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/2P8M6FUKM9328
Delving Into Forensics in Morristown, NJ
MWA members, mystery aficionados and the intellectually curious gathered on October 25 at the Morristown & Morris Township Public Library in Morristown, NJ, for “Unlocking the Secrets of the Dead: Forensics,” a panel discussion moderated by MWA-NY President Nev March. The expert panel featured Lt. Art Weisgerber, the Commanding Officer of the Crime Scene/Identification Unit at the Norwalk, CT, Police […]
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