Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, a new series centered on the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon Editor’s and Reader’s Digest. The sequel, The Bone Thief, will be released October 28th. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and coauthor of the # 1 Audible Charts bestseller and International Thriller Writers award nominated, Young Rich Widows series, set in Providence, RI where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Vanessa was a Sisters in Crime board member and wrote a weekly column for the Providence Journal about her experiences during the first year of the pandemic. She hosts an Instagram Live show, ‘Twas the Night Before Book Launch, where she chats with authors the night before their book is out in the world.
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Kate Belli is the author of The Gallery Assistant and the widely praised Gilded Gotham historical mystery series. She holds a doctorate in art history and has variously worked as an antiques appraiser, a museum curator, and a college professor. Kate is currently a gallery director at a Pennsylvania college. Find out more at KateBelli.com
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Chevy Stevens lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and daughter. When she isn’t working on her next book, she’s spending time with her family and their two dogs. Her books, including Still Missing, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, have been published in more than thirty countries.
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Zoë Rankin grew up in a village in Scotland. She studied International Relations and Arabic before going on to qualify as a primary school teacher. She spent many years travelling in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and eventually settled in New Zealand. She has always been passionate about writing as well as spending time outdoors and exploring by bike, often with her two small children who are equally adventurous.
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Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. Her eight suspense novels include THE REVENGE LIST, ONLY ONE SURVIVES, and A KILLER MOTIVE, and her work has been optioned for the screen. She also writes holiday romantic comedies as Holly Cassidy. Hannah Mary lives near Toronto, Canada with her husband and three sons.
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Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Her debut novel Firekeeper's Daughter was an instant #1New York Times bestseller and recipient of many international accolades including the ALA Printz and Morris Awards; the YA Goodreads Choice Award; the Walter Award for Outstanding Children's Literature; and is Carnegie Mellon nominated. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island.
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Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World. Published in more than forty countries, her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other accolades, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities and schools as “One Book, One Read” selections. Christina divides her time between New York City and Maine. While PLEASE DON’T LIE is her first thriller, she has a penchant for writing characters who meet untimely ends.
Anne Burt’s debut novel, The Dig, was an ABA IndieNext pick, the Strand Book Store’s top mystery selection for spring 2023, and IndieNext’s lead “Thrills & Chills” reading group title for summer 2024. Anne is also the editor of My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family and coeditor, with Christina Baker Kline, of About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror. Her essays and fiction have appeared in numerous publications and venues, including Salon, NPR, and The Christian Science Monitor; she is a past winner of Meridian’s Editors’ Prize in Fiction. Anne graduated from Yale University with a BA in history, and from New York University with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in New York City, Weston CT, and the dark corners of her own imagination.
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A graduate of Wesleyan University, Melissa Pace is a former editor and writer for Elle, as well as a past finalist for the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship for emerging film and television writers. The mother of three amazing children, Pace lives with her husband in Los Angeles, and when not writing she likes to lace up her cleats and get all her ya-yas out on the soccer field. The Once and Future Me is her first novel.
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Katie Bishop is the author of The Girls of Summer. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, The Independent, and other publications. She lives in Birmingham, U.K. with her partner.
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TANYA SCOTT is a writer, doctor, and medical educator based on the Victorian Surf Coast.
She has been writing for many years, including using narrative therapy as a tool to make sense of the world, both personally and with her patients. Many of the ideas for Stillwater stem from her work helping patients with childhood trauma—acknowledging that in reality, recovery is a long and incomplete path.
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Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, The Last House Guest, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Girl from Widow Hills, Such a Quiet Place, The Last to Vanish, The Only Survivors, and Daughter of Mine. She has also written several books for young adults. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from MIT, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Follow @MeganLMiranda on X and Instagram, @AuthorMeganMiranda on Facebook, or visit MeganMiranda.com.
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Kate Russo, author of Super Host, grew up in Maine but now divides her time between Maine and the UK. She has an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, and while living in London, she worked with the theatre group, Love Bites, who presented two of her short plays (“The Blind” and “Bernie's Night Off”) at the Calder Bookshop Theatre. She exhibits widely in the United States and England. Learn more at KateRusso.com and connect on Instagram @RussoKate.
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Polly Stewart is the author of The Good Ones, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and The Felons’ Ball. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times and Good Housekeeping, among other publications, and she writes the monthly column The Backlist for CrimeReads. She lives in Lexington, Virginia.
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In this episode of Killer Women Podcast, Danielle Girard is joined by author Nicci Cloke to discuss Her Many Faces—a psychological thriller told through the shifting perspectives of five men who think they know the woman at its center.
Nicci opens up about the crisis of faith in herself as a writer that led to twelve (!) false starts before finding her way into this novel—and what finally clicked. The conversation explores the pervasive problem of imposter syndrome among evenhighly successful writers and some ways of getting back to work in spite of it.
Nicci Cloke is the author of eight novels, including two under the pseudonym Phoebe Locke. Her books have been published in twelve languages. She lives in the Cambridgeshire countryside after a decade spent in London, and previously worked as a nanny, a cocktail waitress and a Christmas Elf to support her writing. Before being published, she worked as a permissions manager, looking after literary estates includingthose of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and T. S. Eliot, and was also communications manager at the Faber Academy.
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In this episode of Killer Women Podcast, Danielle Girard welcomes debut author Lauren Wilson, whose intoxicating thriller The Goldens is already making waves. They dive into the creative journey behind this fever-dream debut—how Lauren wrote (and rewrote) her way into publication, what inspired the chilling allure of influencer Clara Holland, and why the dark side of reinvention, especially among young women, feels both timeless and terrifying.
Set in a glittering world of influencers, lavish parties, and dangerous friendships, The Goldens asks: what happens when ambition meets obsession—and who are we willing to become to belong?
If you love thrillers dripping with atmosphere, danger, and glitter, The Goldens is your next obsession—and this conversation is the perfect place to start.
Lauren Wilson has a degree in journalism and an MA in creative writing, both from Northumbria University. She previously worked as a freelance radio reporter and for Mslexia, a magazine committed to championing women’s writing. The Goldens is her first novel.
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This week on Killer Women Podcast, Danielle Girard is joined byaward-winning, bestselling author Megan Abbott to talk about her new thriller, El Dorado Drive—a hypnotic tale of sisterhood,ambition, and the dangerous allure of reinvention.
Danielle and Megan dive into:
Dark, atmospheric, and psychologically rich, this conversation is everything you’d expect from one of today’s most celebrated voices in suspense.
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Megan Abbott is the bestselling award-winning author of eleven novels. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Believer. Her novel, The Turnout, was a New York Times bestseller, a #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner. It also earned her finalist recognitions for the International Thriller Writers Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has also been optioned for TV by the producer of Sharp Objects. Dare Me was featured multiple times in the NYT's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century piece. Television rights to El Dorado Drive were recently optioned by A24 (Euphoria, Beef) with Abbott attached to write. In addition, she is the co-creator and executive producer of USA's adaptation of Dare Me and was a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show The Deuce. Abbott lives in New York City.
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CLÉMENCE MICHALLON is the author of The Quiet Tenant, a USA Today and international bestseller and nominee for the Hammett Prize. She’s also a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Time Magazine, The Independent, and more. Clémence was born and raised near Paris, has lived in New York since 2014, and became a U.S. citizen in 2022. Our Last Resort, her second thriller, is coming out on July 8 and is available for pre-order. She can be found on Instagram at @clemencemichallon.
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Danielle Girard sits down with bestselling author Lauren Myracle to talk about her bold leap from children's and YA books to her deliciously dark first adult thriller, Plays Well With Others.
Lauren opens up about:
• The not-so-sweet reality of children’s and YA fiction
• Pros and cons of authors "branding" themselves into one genre
• And how embracing creative freedom led her to write a thriller filled with revenge, betrayal, and the dark side of neighborhood charm
Set on picture-perfect Sweetwater Lane, Plays Well With Others is a twisty, character-driven page-turner about grudges gone wild, toxic friendships, and what happens when good girls stop playing nice.
Whether you're a longtime Lauren Myracle fan or discovering her darker side for the first time, this episode is full of laughs, honesty, and literary rebellion.
Lauren Myracle is an icon of children’s literature, the New York Times bestselling author of many books for young readers, including the Winnie Years series, the Flower Power Series, and the Life of Ty series. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and earned a BA in English and Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later earned an MA in English from Colorado State University, where she taught for two years. Plays Well With Others is her debut novel for adults.
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OLIVIA WORLEY is an author born and raised in New Orleans. A graduate of Northwestern University, she now lives in New York City, where she spends her time writing thrillers, overanalyzing episodes of The Bachelor, and hoping someone will romanticize her for reading on the subway. She is the author of People to Follow and The Debutantes.
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In this episode of Killer Women with Danielle Girard, bestselling author Katia Lief joins the show to talk about her gripping new thriller, Women Like Us. Danielle and Katia dive deep into the story behind the story, exploring the emotional and cultural undercurrents that shaped this timely and powerful book.
From the creative forces that shaped her style to the complexity of managing multiple pen names, Katia chats openly about her publishing journey. The conversation also touches on power of female friendships, the lasting reverberations of the Me Too movement, and how internalized rage can erupt—and empower—both in real life and in storytelling.
Whether you're a writer, a reader, or a fan of fierce female perspectives, this episode delivers insight, inspiration, and a look at what it takes to write stories that matter.
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KATIA LIEF teaches fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan and lives with her family in Brooklyn. She is the author of Invisible Woman. Earlier work includes A Map of the Dark and Last Night published under the pseudonym Karen Ellis, as well as USA Today and internationally bestselling novels Five Days in Summer, One Cold Night, and The Money Kill, which was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
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