AUSTIN CAMACHO

Austin S. Camacho is the author of seven novels about Washington, D.C.-based private eye Hannibal Jones, five in the Stark and O’Brien international adventure-thriller series, and the detective novel, Beyond Blue. His short stories have been featured in several anthologies including Dying in a Winter Wonderland, an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Top Ten Bestseller for 2008. He is featured in the Edgar-nominated African American Mystery Writers:AHistorical andThematic Study, by Frankie Y. Bailey (a SMAF Featured Author in 2016). Austin is also Editorial Director for Intrigue Publishing, a Maryland small press. Visit his website at www.ASCamacho.com

Maya (Mary Ann) Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, featuring a café manager and her livewire grandfather, the Codger Cook, solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad’s five-ingredient recipes. Her latest book, Bake Offed, the eighth book in the series, takes place at a weekend mystery fest, where fans of murder mysteries must solve a real murder. Her seventh book, Gingerdead Man, is “a spirited holiday cozy” (Kirkus Reviews) set during a Dickens festival. Maya is the winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award and the New England Readers’ Award for unpublished Mystery and Suspense. She taught writing, American literature, and detective fiction at Georgetown University and Northern Virginia Community College. Visit Maya’s website at www.MayaCorrigan.com for book news, easy recipes, and mystery history and trivia.