Sisters In Crime "We're Not Making This Up"

A panel discussion with authors Martha "Max" Folsom, Coralie Jensen, and John Nardizzi - will talk about how they use real life crime in their mystery novels. 

Martha “Max” Folsom - She is now a regular columnist for the quarterly Sherlockian journal Groans, Cries and Bleatings, as well as being the author of three private detective novels in the Baker Somerset Crime Novel series: One Bad Day After Another, Searching for Peter Griffiths, and Death of a Codebreaker. Her mysteries have dealt with issues such as: illegal activity in the military arms and equipment industry, the human rights violations regarding the island of Diego Garcia, WWII spies and codebreakers, and increasing activity of far-right hate groups.

Coralie Jensen - A globe-trotting author, her mysteries are set in different countries. L'ORO VERDE and IL PANE DELLA VITA, and CHIANTI CLASSICO take place in Tuscany; her historical suspense WINTER HARVEST, THE PUKEKO, is set in New Zealand; LEGS TO DIE FOR, is set in Denmark, as is a historical HAWKSWOLD PRIORY; and LETY'S GIFT and PASSUP PONT are both set in Canada.

John Nardizzi - an award-winning writer and investigator. His crime novels have won praise for crackling dialogue and pithy observations of detective work. THE BURDEN OF INNOCENCE earned a 2022 Shamus Award nomination for Best PI Paperback. His work on innocence cases led to the exoneration of Gary Cifizzari and James Watson (he was awarded the Arc of Justice for the Watson case in 2021), as well as million dollar settlements for clients Dennis Maher and the estate of Kenneth Waters, whose story was featured in the film Conviction. Prior to his PI career, he failed to hold any restaurant job for longer than a week.