The Lineup

Texan author Pete Barnstrom is a screenwriter and filmmaker.

Bill Cameron’s books include County Line, Property of the State, and, as W.H. Cameron, the mystery novel Crossroad.

Mat Coward writes about odd events from British radical history on his Rebel Britannia Substack.

Booked & Printed columnist Laurel Flores Fantauzzo is the author of My Heart Underwater and The First Impulse.

Utah-based author Douglas Grant Johnson is a producer, director, and production designer for motion pictures and television.

Janice Law has stories in two new anthologies, Murder Neat and Crimes against Nature.

T. Lawton won an Edgar award for his story “The Road to Hana” (AHMM, May/June 2021).

Ken Linn’s novel featuring math teacher/private eye Pete Barrow comes out from Level Best Books next year.

A two-time winner of the Black Orchid Novella Award, Steve Liskow’s latest novel is Words of Love.

Jeff Marks is the publisher of Crippen & Landru.

Bill Pronzini’s collection of mystery and suspense stories, The Cream of the Crop, was published in 2024 by Stark House.

Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, a winner of the Black Orchid Novella Award and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award, is the author of The Road to Heaven (Dundurn Press, 2024).

Gabriela Stiteler’s first published story, “Two Hours West of Nothing” (EQMM, Sep/Oct 2023), was shortlisted for a Robert L. Fish Award.

Texas magistrate judge Mark Thielman is a past winner of the Black Orchid Novella Award; his first novel is The Devil’s Kitchen (Severn River Publishing, April 2025).

Matthew Wilson’s stories have appeared in these pages, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022.