Panelists 2020

Debra Gaskill Debra Gaskill is a former journalist who worked for a number of Ohio newspapers and the Associated Press, covering the cops and courts beat. She is the author of the Fitz PI series (Call Fitz, 2015, Holy Fitz, 2016, Love Fitz, 2016, and Silver Falchion winner Kissing Fitz, 2017). A fifth Fitz novel,…

Todd Matthews Todd Matthews is a leading voice in the crime community, a pioneer of the online amateur sleuth community, an architect of US government programs to identify missing and unidentified persons, and a sought-after speaker and media entertainment consultant. Matthews became one of the first people to solve a cold unidentified remains case using…

James C. Glass James Glass achieved the rank of Command Master Chief before retiring after 22 years in the United States Navy. After retiring from the Navy, he exchanged his rifle for a pen. He and his family moved back to the Florida Panhandle. James is also the President of the Panhandle Writers Group.  

Bill Rapp Bill Rapp began his professional life as an academic historian on Modern Europe but after a year of teaching decided to pursue a less sedentary career. He spent the next 35 years as an analyst, diplomat, and senior executive with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he continues to work part-time as a consultant…

Lori Rader-Day Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony Award- and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She co-chairs the mystery conference Murder and Mayhem in Chicago and serves as the national president of Sisters in Crime. Her new…

Kathryn Lane Kathryn, originally from northern Mexico, started life as a painter in oils, quickly changed to international finance and accounting. Graduated from the University of New Mexico with a CPA. Worked for a multinational corporation where she traveled to over 90 countries in two decades.Now Kathryn loves creating stories inspired by her experiences growing…

Robert Mangeot Robert Mangeot lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife and cats. His short fiction appears here and there, including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Forge, Lowestoft Chronicle, Mystery Weekly Magazine, MWA’s Ice Cold, and the Anthony-winning Murder Under the Oaks. He was a finalist in the 2017 Derringer Awards. When not writing, he…

R.G. Belsky R. G. Belsky is an author of crime fiction and a journalist in New York City. His newest mystery, THE LAST SCOOP, is being published in May 2020 by Oceanview. It is the third in a series featuring Clare Carlson, a woman TV journalist. The first, YESTERDAY’S NEWS, was in 2018, the second,…

Tom Wood The Harpeth River Writers is a collective of award-winning authors from Tennessee, whose divergent talents include fiction, mysteries, memoir, Westerns, poetry, and other genres, spanning 18 published books. The collective consists of Sandy Ward Bell, Suzanne Webb Brunson, Catherine Riddle Caffey, John Neely Davis, Micki Fuhrman, Michael J. Tucker, Tom Wood, and Bill…

Sharon Marchisello Sharon Marchisello is the author of two mysteries published by Sunbury Press: Going Home (2014) and Secrets of the Galapagos (2019). She has also written travel articles, short stories, corporate training manuals, screenplays, book reviews, and a personal finance blog. She earned a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California…