2016 New England Crime Bake: Full Schedule

9:00pm EST

Death, Desserts, and Debutants

Come have delicious desserts, coffee, and drinks and celebrate this year's debut authors.

Sponsored by Mystery Writers of America New England and Sisters in Crime New England.

Price included in registration
Preregistration encouraged

Friday November 11, 2016 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Prefunction Area

Reception

8:00am EST

Continental Breakfast

Preregistration encouraged
Price included in registration

Saturday November 12, 2016 8:00am - 8:30am EST
Prefunction Area

Meal

9:50am EST

Book Signing/Break—Opening Panel and Level Best Books Authors

Speakers

Joseph Finder

Author, GUILTY MINDS

Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve previous novels, including THE FIXER, SUSPICION, VANISHED, and BURIED SECRETS. Finder's international bestseller KILLER INSTINCT won the International Thriller Writers's Thriller Award for Best Novel. Other bestselling... Read More →

William Kent Krueger

Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching... Read More →

Leslie Meier

I'm currently working on my 24th Lucy Stone mystery and it's a mystery to me how it all happened. The series began back in 1990 with "Mistletoe Murder," in which Lucy was moonlighting at a country catalog store. Since then her family has grown -- and so has mine, with five grandchildren... Read More →

Barbara Shapiro

Author, The Muralist

B.A. Shapiro is the New York Times bestselling author of The Muralist, The Art Forger, The Safe Room, Blind Spot, See No Evil, Blameless, and Shattered Echoes. She has also written four screenplays and the non-fiction book, The Big Squeeze. The Art Forger has been on many bestseller... Read More →

Saturday November 12, 2016 9:50am - 10:10am EST
Prefunction Area

Booksigning/Break

11:00am EST

Book Signing/Break

Speakers

Emily Arsenault

Author, THE EVENING SPIDER

Emily Arsenault is the author of THE EVENING SPIDER, WHAT STRANGE CREATURES, MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE, IN SEARCH OF THE ROSE NOTES, and THE BROKEN TEAGLASS. Her first young adult novel, THE LEAF READER, will be released in the summer of 2017. She lives in Shelburne Falls, MA, with her... Read More →

Toby Ball

Author, Invisible Streets

Toby Ball is the author of the critically acclaimed City Trilogy and a panelist on the podcast, Crime Writers On... During the day, he is the Business Manager at the Crimes against Children Research Center and the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. He... Read More →

Lucy Burdette

Author of KILLER TAKEOUT

Clinical psychologist Lucy Burdette (aka Roberta Isleib) has published 15 mysteries, including the latest in the Key West food critic series, KILLER TAKEOUT (NAL/Obsidian April 2016.) Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She's a member... Read More →

Hallie Ephron

Author, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, DEAR

Hallie Ephron is the New York Times bestselling author of ten crime novels, including You'll Never Know, Dear (William Morrow, June 2017)). She is a four-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. A revised and expanded edition of her Edgar-nominated Writing and Selling Your... Read More →

Jessica Crockett Estevao

Author, WHISPERS BEYOND THE VEIL, A Change of Fortune Mystery

Jessica Estevao writes the Change of Fortune Mysteries. The first in the series, Whispers Beyond the Veil, will release in September 2016. She loves the beach, mysterious happenings and all things good-naturedly paranormal. While she lives for most of the year in New Hampshire with... Read More →

Jane Haertel aka Sadie Hartwell and Susannah Hardy

Author, A Killer Kebab, Yarned and Dangerous

Jane Haertel is the CFO (Chief Fussbudget Officer) of Crazy Diamond Editing Services, a developmental, line/copy, proofreading, and coaching service for writers in any genre, fiction and nonfiction. She has worked with authors at all levels, from beginners to USA Today and New York... Read More →

John Corrigan (DA Keeley)

The Peyton Cote, US Border Patrol series, author of Destiny's Pawn (2016)

John R Corrigan has published nine crime novels under his own name and K.A. Delaney and D.A. Keeley. His most recent work, Destiny's Pawn, will be published in June 2016. He is English department chair at Northfield Mount Hermon School and writes a bi-weekly post for Type M for Murder... Read More →

Edith Maxwell

Author, DELIVERING THE TRUTH, aka Maddie Day

Author of the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Country Store Mysteries, and the Local Foods Mysteries. A gardener, cook, world traveler, mom, and fourth-generation Californian, Edith lives north of Boston with three cats, a tall handy beau, and more ideas about murder than she'll ever... Read More →

Liz Mugavero

Author, Pawsitively Organic Mysteries

Liz Mugavero is the author of the Agatha Award-nominated Pawsitively Organic Mysteries Kneading to Die, A Biscuit, A Casket, The Icing on the Corpse and Murder Most Finicky. Custom-Baked Murder, the fifth in the series, will be released in December 2016. As you can imagine, her canine... Read More →

Paula Munier

Senior Agent & Content Strategist, Talcott Notch Literary

Paula has championed great content for more than twenty years at such media giants as WGBH, Fidelity, and Disney. She’s always looking for good crime fiction, and loves a good plot, since she wrote the book on it—PLOT PERFECT: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene By Scene... Read More →

Diane Vallere

Author

After two decades working for a top luxury retailer, Diane Vallere traded fashion accessories for accessories to murder. MASKING FOR TROUBLE, her fourteenth book, came out in October 2016. Diane is the president of Sisters in Crime. She writes the Samantha Kidd, Madison Night, Costume... Read More →

Lea Wait

author

Lea Wait's the Maine author of the Mainely Needlepoint and Shadows Antique Print Mystery series, the most recent of which are DANGLING BY A THREAD and SHADOWS ON A MORNING IN MAINE. She also writes historical fiction for ages 8 and up, the latest of which, UNCERTAIN GLORY, is set... Read More →

Saturday November 12, 2016 11:00am - 11:20am EST
Prefunction Area

Booksigning/Break

12:10pm EST

Book Signing/Break

Moderators

Ray Daniel

Ray Daniel is an award-winning author of Boston-based crime fiction and is the author of the Tucker Mysteries: TERMINATED, CORRUPTED MEMORY, CHILD NOT FOUND, and HACKED. In its starred reviews of CORRUPTED MEMORY and HACKED, Publisher's weekly has described Daniel's work as "compulsively... Read More →

Kate Flora

Author

Refusing to let herself be “branded” as someone who writes a particular type of mystery, recovering attorney Kate Clark Flora writes strong women mysteries in her Thea Kozak series, police procedurals in her Joe Burgess series, along with true crime and short stories. Her most... Read More →

Speakers

Donna Andrews

Donna Andrews is the author of 20 books in the Meg Langslow series from Minotaur, including Die Like an Eagle (August 2016). She currently serves as MWA’s Executive Vice President. When not writing, she gardens with more enthusiasm than skill, pursues her passion for digital photography... Read More →

Jen Blood

The Erin Solomon Mysteries, Author

Jen Blood is author of the bestselling Erin Solomon mysteries, awarded independent publishing's prestigious B.R.A.G. Medallion and AI Seal of Excellence, as well as the soon-to-be-released 5-Day Fiction writing guides. In addition to her fiction career, Jen founded and currently runs... Read More →

Bruce Robert Coffin

Author: AMONG THE SHADOWS

Bruce is a retired detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement. At the time of his retirement, from the Portland, Maine police department, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Bruce also spent four years... Read More →

Brendan DuBois

Author, BLOOD FOAM

Brendan DuBois of New Hampshire is the award-winning author of twenty novels and more than 150 short stories. His latest Lewis Cole mystery, STORM CELL, will be published this November. He’s currently working on a series of works with NYT bestselling novelist James Patteson... Read More →

Dale T. Phillips

Author, A Certain Slant of Light

I've published over 60 short stories, novels, story collections, poetry, and a non-fiction career book. Stephen King was my writing instructor in college. I've appeared on stage, television, and in an independent feature film. I co-wrote and acted in a short political satire, and... Read More →

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Author, SAY NO MORE

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the USA Today bestselling author of 15 thrillers, winning five Agathas, the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award, and 37 EMMYs for her television investigative reporting. Her newest novel is the page-turning standalone ONE WRONG WORD. She is the host of CRIME... Read More →

Lea Wait

author

CAROLYN WILKINS

Author of Melody For Murder and Mojo For Murder, The Bertie Bigelow Mystery Series

ABOUT CAROLYN WILKINS Carolyn Wilkins is a Professor of Ensembles at Berklee College of Music and the author of Melody For Murder, the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring Bertie Bigelow, an African American choir director on the South Side of Chicago. Mojo For Murder... Read More →

Saturday November 12, 2016 12:10pm - 12:30pm EST
Prefunction Area

Booksigning/Break

1:30pm EST

Book Signing/Break

Speakers

William Kent Krueger

Saturday November 12, 2016 1:30pm - 1:45pm EST
Prefunction Area

Booksigning/Break

4:00pm EST

Book Signing/Break

Moderators

Barbara Ross

Author, FOGGED INN

Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries, Clammed Up, Boiled Over, Musseled Out and Fogged Inn. Her latest is the holiday novella collection, Eggnog Murder, with Leslie Meier and Lee Hollis. Next up is Iced Under, coming December 27. Barbara blogs with a wonderful... Read More →

Steve Ulfelder

Steve Ulfelder is the Edgar finalist author of the Conway Sax mysteries, including Purgatory Chasm, and co-owner of Flatout Motorsports, a company that builds race cars. He lives in Massachusetts.

Speakers

Sheila Connolly

Sheila Connolly, Anthony and Agatha Award–nominated and New York Times bestselling author, writes three mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime, set in Philadelphia, rural Massachusetts, and the Wild West of Ireland. In addition, she writes the Relatively Dead paranormal romance... Read More →

Joseph Finder

Author, GUILTY MINDS

James Hayman

Author

James Hayman is the New York Times bestselling author of the McCabe/Savage thrillers, set in and around Portland, Maine. James is a native New Yorker, born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Brown University, he spent more than 35 years as a copywriter and... Read More →

Carrie H. Johnson

Author, Hot Flash, Carrie H. Johnson

Carrie H. Johnson is an author, entrepreneur and educator. Her debut novel, “Hot Flash”, with Kensington Publishing, is the first installment in the Muriel Mabley mystery series. Johnson began her writing career as a journalist and was published in several newspapers including... Read More →

William Kent Krueger

Leslie Meier

Marian McMahon Stanley

The Immaculate, Author

Author of THE IMMACULATE - a recently released Boston-based mystery about the murder of an elderly nun and the unholy alliance that did her in. This is Marian's third career, the first in international business for a Fortune 500 company and the second at a large urban university... Read More →

Susan Strecker

Susan Strecker has published two novels with Thomas Dunne Books. Her first book, NIGHT BLINDNESS, was an IndieNext pick. Her second, NOWHERE GIRL, is a mystery thriller that Kirkus Reviews calls "Compulsively readable." Her third and fourth books are finished and she's currently working... Read More →

Saturday November 12, 2016 4:00pm - 4:20pm EST
Prefunction Area

Booksigning/Break

6:00pm EST

Cocktail Party

Saturday November 12, 2016 6:00pm - 6:30pm EST
Prefunction Area

Reception

11:10am EST

Book Signing/Break

Speakers

Toby Ball

Author, Invisible Streets

Lara Bricker

Lara Bricker is a crime writer and former private detective. She has more than 15 years of experience writing and reporting on crime and justice issues. Her work has appeared in the Portsmouth Herald, the Exeter News-Letter, the Hampton Union, the New Hampshire Union Leader, Woman's... Read More →

Kevin Flynn

author, Dark Heart

Kevin Flynn Kevin Flynn is the coauthor of Notes on a Killing, Legally Dead, and Our Little Secret, and author of Wicked Intentions and American Sweepstakes. As a radio and TV journalist, Flynn has won more than fifty broadcast awards, including an Emmy, four Edward R. Murrow awards... Read More →

Roger Guay

Roger Guay served with the Maine Warden Service from 1986 until his retirement in 2010. He is a K9 master trainer, a certified K9 handler, and is certified in cadaver and explosives searches. In addition to decades of search and rescue experience, he has extensive experience in missing... Read More →

Julie Hennrikus

Author of the Clock Shop Mysteries

Julianne Holmes’ Clock Shop Mystery series debuted in October 2015, with the publication of JUST KILLING TIME. CLOCK AND DAGGER came out this past August. As J.A. Hennrikus, she has published three short stories with Level Best Books. She is on the boards of SinC and SinCNE... Read More →

Rebecca Lavoie

Podcast Maker, Partners in Crime Media

Rebecca Lavoie is the coauthor of Notes on a Killing, Legally Dead, and Our Little Secret, and has written for outlets including New Hampshire Magazine, Newsweek, and Playboy magazine. She is also the creator and host of the popular podcast "Crime Writers On..." on which she and... Read More →

Sunday November 13, 2016 11:10am - 11:30am EST
Prefunction Area

Booksigning/Break