KGB Virtual Reading

Please remember to support our Indie bookstores as well as our authors by buying any books that interest you at one of the following links or at your local indie bookstore.

• Hockessin Bookshelf
• Kew & Willow 
• Cloak & Dagger

Jesse Aaron

Jesse Aaron served as a police officer in New York City and Connecticut. He has also worked as a stand-up comedian, voice-over artist, and radio jock. He currently resides in New York and is at work on his second book, “One Last Round,” which tells the story of a P.I. with terminal stomach cancer working on his last case.

Douglas Harrell

Douglas Harrell is a recovering engineer who has taken up mystery writing as a second career. He lives in Delaware, and has had four stories published in anthologies put out by Cat & Mouse Press. He loves weaving history and local lore into his stories, the most recent of which involves gangsters and art collecting on the Delmarva peninsula during Prohibition. Entitled “Hiawatha’s Smile,” it is in the collection Beach Mysteries. He is currently hard at work on a novel, but if he told you what it is about, you would have to be the next victim. Visit him at www.douglasharrell.com.

Don Helin

During his time in the military, Don Helin served at a number of stateside posts as well as overseas in Vietnam and Germany. He is the author of seven thrillers that draw from his military experience, including three tours in the Pentagon. He writes for TheBurg, a community magazine based in Harrisburg. His novel, “Secret Assault,” was selected as the Best Suspense/Thriller at the 2015 Indie Book Awards. His novel, “Long Walk Home,” won a Five Star review at Readers Favorite Awards and his latest novel, “Roof of the World,” was just awarded a Finalist in the 2020 Indie Book Awards. You can reach Don at: www.donhelin.com.

Nikhil Iyengar

Nikhil Iyengar’s debut short film “Borrowed Time” (Writer/Director) premiered at the MIAAC Film Festival in New York. He was a Top 5 Winner of the Avex Digital International short film contest, a finalist at the Austin Film Festival pitch competition, and a second rounder in the Austin Film Festival screenplay competition. His crime-fiction short story “Killer App” was published in Mystery Tribune. An avid traveller, he has visited over thirty countries across five continents and backpacked to two Olympics. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and lives in New York City.

Sharon Linnéa

Sharon Linnéa is the author of the bestselling Eden thrillers with Chaplain (COL) Barbara Sherer from St. Martin’s, which follow the exploits of female Army chaplain Jaime Richards. Her biography of Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii won the Carter G. Woodson Award and her biography of Raoul Wallenberg was described as “one of the definitive biographies of the Holocaust” by the Museum of Tolerance. She wrote the teen spy novel “Colt Shore: Domino 29” as Axel Avian and the Hollywood mystery “These Violent Delights.” Sharon has been a book editor at William Morrow, Arundel and Taplinger and an editor at three national magazines, as well as a celebrity ghost. In her youth she wrote “Spidey Super Stories” for Marvel. “Death in Tranquility,” the first in the Bartender’s Guide to Murder series, came out in September. The second, “Death by Gravity” launched this month.

Catherine Maiorisi

Catherine Maiorisi lives in New York City. In the old days she often wrote under the watchful eye of Edgar Allan Poe in Edgar’s Café on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Now she writes in her apartment. Catherine is the author of the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker. These two tough women fight each other and stand against the blue wall while solving high profile crimes. The first two books in the series, “A Matter of Blood” and “The Blood Runs Cold” were Lambda Literary Award finalists. The third, “A Message in Blood,” will be published in January 2021. Catherine has also published three mystery short stories, four full-length romances and three romance short stories. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Visit Catherine at www.catherinemaiorisi.com.

Nev March

Author Nev March is the recent winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Award for Best First Crime Fiction. In 2015, after a long career in business analysis, she returned to her passion of writing fiction and now teaches creative writing at Rutgers-Osher Institute. A Parsee Zoroastrian herself, Nev lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons. “Murder in Old Bombay: is her debut novel. Available in bookstores Nov. 10,” Murder in Old Bombay” can be pre-ordered on Amazon.

Paul Vidich

Paul Vidich was a senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. He turned to writing full time after leaving his business career. His third novel, “The Coldest Warrior,” was published in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize. His first two novels, “An Honorable Man” and “The Good Assassin,” were published in the U.S., Ireland, Great Britain, India and Australia in 2016 and 2017 through Simon and Schuster. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, LitHub, CrimeReads, Fugue, The Nation and elsewhere. His short story, “Falling Girl,” was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. Currently, he serves as vice chairman of board of governors of The New School For School Research in New York City.