An MWA member since 2012, Daniella Bernett graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Journalism from St. John’s University. Lead Me Into Danger is her first novel. She also is the author of two poetry collections, Timeless Allure and Silken Reflections. In her professional life, she is the research manager for a nationally prominent engineering, architectural and construction management firm. She […]
Terrence P. McCauley is an award-winning writer of crime fiction. His first techno-thriller Sympathy for the Devil was published by Polis Books this July. Polis is also republishing his first two crime novels set in 1930 New York City — Prohibition and Slow Burn. He has had short stories featured in Thuglit, Spintetingler Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Big Pulp, and other publications. A proud native of
Carrie Smith has won writing awards and a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her debut mystery novel is SILENT CITY. In this Mug Shot profile, she lets us in on her writing routine and who some of her favorite authors are.
C.J. Carpenter was born and grew up in Upstate New York. She worked in advertising and television production before she decided to embark on a writing career. About her first novel, Never Alone, Kirkus Reviews wrote: “A promising debut for fans of the procedural thriller. The complex heroine and startling denouement lift this one above the average and bode well for future installments.” Her second novel, Hidden Vices, was released in July.
Nina Mansfield is a Greenwich, CT-based writer. Her YA mystery novel Swimming Alone was recently published by Fire & Ice. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Mysterical-E. Her plays have been produced throughout the United States and internationally, and are published by Smith and Kraus, One Act Play Depot, YouthPlays and Original Works Publishing.
Jeff Markowitz is the author of the Cassie O’Malley Mysteries, an amateur sleuth mystery series set deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. He loves to write early in the morning. You can usually find him at his computer at 5:30 in the morning plotting someone’s murder. When he’s not out looking for dead bodies, Markowitz keeps busy as the founder and Executive Director of a network of programs and services for adults with autism. He recently joined the board of directors of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. His new book, Death and White Diamonds, is out now.
Rob Hart is the associate publisher of MysteriousPress.com and the class director at LitReactor. He is the author of The Last Safe Place: A Zombie Novella, and his short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Needle, Shotgun Honey, All Due Respect, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. His first novel, New Yorked, was published by Polis Books in June 2015, with the sequel, City of Rose, to follow in 2016.
Matt Cook is the author of Sabotage, which he wrote at 19 while an undergraduate at Stanford. There he also published two nonfiction books and cofounded a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency. A professional close-up magician trained at the Hollywood Magic Castle, he has performed in over 80 countries, and enjoys weaving exotic locales into his stories. Cook is now a doctoral student in Economics at Penn. He enjoys travel, scuba, and Latin dancing for fun.
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring long-serving NYPD lieutenant (and MWA-NY member) Bernard Whalen, who spoke
Tracey Landau began her writing career at the age of three, dictating stories to her mother. Twenty-one years later, her first novel, The Queen of Diamonds, has been published by Wildside Press. Landau started writing this book—her third novel and the first to be published—when she was 17, writing on receipt paper during her job at Friendly’s. She is working on
