Tranquil Tales for Bedtime
Meet our Authors!
Michelle Cullen
Michelle has collected a few well-stamped passports and a lifetime of amazing experiences, working as a bilingual secretary in Paris, backpacking around Europe, Central America, and Southern Africa, and helping rebuild communities after war throughout Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific. She received her master’s degree in anthropology from Melbourne University in Australia and her PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics.
She currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where she is either doing yoga, playing outside, or plotting murder.
Her debut novel, A Field Guide to Murder, is available wherever books are sold, and the sequel, A Field Guide to Death and Deceit, hits the shelves September 15, 2026.
LA Chandlar
L.A. Chandlar is the award-winning author of the Lane Sanders MYSTERY SERIES. She’s been nominated for the Agatha, Lefty, Macavity and Anthony Awards; winner of Suspense Magazine’s Crimson Scribe. She’s lived in NYC for over 24 years. Laurie worked in PR for General Motors, is the mother of two sons, and has toured the nation managing a rock band. She is a fierce advocate for women’s rights. She loves coffee and wine. And French fries.
Melinda Mullet
Melinda Mullet, is a dual US/UK national. Formerly a lawyer specializing in communications, media and entertainment law she is now enjoying a second career as a mystery writer.
Melinda is the author of the Whisky Business Mysteries, a six-part series of traditional mysteries set in and around a boutique single malt whisky distillery in Scotland. A standalone traditional mystery called A Ghostwriter’s Guide to Murder debuted in July 2025 and is set on a houseboat along the Regent’s Canal in London. Book seven in the Whisky Business series arrives November 2026.
Melinda is a travel junkie and a life-long advocate for children’s literacy causes both domestic and international. When she is not in the UK, she lives just outside of Washington, DC with her whisky-collecting husband and two wild Covid canines named Bailey and Captain Jack.
Find her at MelindaMullet.com or on Facebook and Insta at Melinda Mullet, Author.
Maddie Day
Maddie Day writes the Cece Barton Mysteries, the Country Store Mysteries, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, and the Dot and Amelia Mysteries. As Agatha-Award winning Edith Maxwell, she writes Agatha-nominated short crime fiction. She’s a member of MWA and a proud lifetime member of Sisters in Crime. Day/Maxwell lives north of Boston, where she writes, cooks, gardens, and wastes time on Facebook. Find her at her web site and at mysteryloverskitchen.com.
Peggy Ehrhart
Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor with a doctorate in Medieval Literature. Her Maxx Maxwell mysteries, Sweet Man Is Gone (2008) and Got No Friend Anyhow (2011), were published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage and feature a blues-singer sleuth.
Peggy is currently writing the Knit & Nibble mysteries for Kensington Books. Her amateur sleuth, Pamela Paterson, is the founder and mainstay of the Arborville, New Jersey, knitting club, nicknamed Knit and Nibble. Knit & Nibble #11, A Dark and Stormy Knit, was an August 2024 release; Knit & Nibble #12, Last Wool and Testament, was released in May 2025; and.An Eggy Way to Die appears in Kensington’s 2026 Easter-themed novella anthology, Easter Egg Murder.
Find Peggy at PeggyEhrhart.com
Her new series The Quilt Whisperer Mysteries arrives August 25, 2026! Preorder from:
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Molly MacRae
The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes murder with a dose of drollery. Molly pens the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, the Highland Bookshop Mysteries and the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries. The latest in the Shell Shop series All Shell Breaks Loose finds Maureen Nash selling exquisite seashells to locals and tourists on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island —with Bonny the shop cat and the ghost of a Welsh pirate for company. And when needed, she steps in to help the police solve a murder . . .
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KL Borges
K.L. Borges is a retired high school math teacher who now works in a Billings, Montana, animal rescue. When not at Billings Animal Rescue Kare or sitting at her computer writing, Borges is most often with her husband and two blue heelers, enjoying the Montana outdoors. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and the Billings Gem and Mineral Club.
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​Montana Animal Rescue Mysteries revolve around the Helena, Montana, dog shelter, RogerDog Rescue, operated by gruff and growly Bett Mills and Kelly Boyd, a retried high school math teacher. Within the pages of these realistic cozy mysteries, the stories are by turns humorous and suspenseful, and no animals are ever harmed. Not so for the humans! Betty and Kelly have to be on their toes to keep themselves and their compadres safe from harm as they investigate suspicious deaths that land in their lives.
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Murder in the Crazy Mountains, the first in the series, was nominated for an Agatha Award. The second installment, Murder on Flesher Pass, releases on October 14th, 2026.
Angela M. Sanders
Angela M. Sanders is the author of the bestselling Witch Way Librarian cozy mysteries and the Joanna Hayworth vintage clothing mysteries. As Clover Tate, she wrote the Kite Shop cozy mysteries. Her latest book, the seventh and final in the Witch Way Librarian series, is Witch and Tell.
The Sixth Sense mysteries—a spin-off of her popular Witch Way Librarian mysteries—debuted this year with A Whiff of Murder. The series features the occupants of a Victorian mansion-turned-rooming house set in Astoria, Oregon, and is infused with vintage perfume, magical realism, murder, and heart. The next in the series, Slay It by Ear, releases March 2027.
