We’re Not Making This Up
Author Panel with Sisters in Crime

Wednesday, January 21 at 2:00 p.m.
In-person in Community Rooms AB

What’s the story behind the story?

Hear how authors combine personal experiences and events ripped from the headlines to create compelling mysteries. From that first idea, to research and their daily writing schedule, authors discuss their creative process.

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Meet our Panelists:

Jeannette de Beauvoir is the author of historical and mystery/thriller fiction and a poet whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She has written three mystery series along with a number of standalone novels; her work “demonstrates a total mastery of the mystery/suspense genre” (Midwest Book Review) She’s a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Historical Novel Society. She lives and works in a seaside cottage on Cape Cod where she’s also a local theatre critic and hosts an arts-related program on WOMR, a Pacifica Radio affiliate.
Learn more about Jeannette on her website: jeannettedebeauvoir.com

Gary Braver, pen name of Gary Goshgarian, is the international best-selling and award-winning author of 10 critically acclaimed mysteries and medical thrillers including Elixir, Gray Matter, Choose Me (co-written with Tess Gerritsen), and Flashback, the first thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award. Gary’s novels have been translated into 18 languages, and three have been optioned for movies. His latest is the mystery, Rumor of Evil (2023), which Bookreporter called “a phenomenal thriller.”
Learn more about Gary on his website: garybraver.com

Frances McNamara grew up in Boston where her father was Police Commissioner in the 1960s. A graduate of Mount Holyoke and Simmons College she had a career as a librarian in automated systems. Working for OCLC in Ohio she wrote scenarios for an amateur mystery night group in Granville OH. While working at the University of Chicago, she published the Emily Cabot Mysteries with Allium Press of Chicago. Death on the Homefront, the eighth of these historical mysteries set in Chicago was published in December 2020 and the series will extend into the 1930’s. In addition to the next Emily Cabot mystery, she has developed a second historical mystery series set in Boston based on the life of Frances Glessner Lee, Mother of Forensic Science.
Learn more about Frances on her website: francesmcnamara.com