Lisa Harkrader

Two women on either side of a screen showing the author's books.

I had an amazing author visit at Wendell Phillips Elementary yesterday. Thanks to Linda, Pat, and Susan for organizing the visit and the students for being such a great audience.

07.11.2025 10:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Find Desert Sleuths at these upcoming Book Fairs in November & December:

LOCAL AUTHOR BOOK FAIR (Mesa Red Mtn Library)
events.mesalibrary.org/event/local-...

TALES & TUMBLEWEED BOOK FESTIVAL
www.eventbrite.com/e/tales-tumb...

MESA BOOK FESTIVAL
www.anthology.org/index.php/me...

27.10.2025 03:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Registration is still open for Write Now!, the online conference of the Desert Sleuths chapter of Sisters in Crime. It's all via Zoom. Workshops and pitch sessions on Friday, Sept. 19 is a la carte. The sessions on Saturday, Sept. 20, are $35 for the entire day.
desertsleuths.com/writenow-2025

13.09.2025 18:11 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Image shows waiter on a train holding up a book with a suspicious woman gazing at him in the background.

My story The Final Flambé, set on a murder mystery dinner train, is included in A Right Cozy Culinary Crime, a new anthology edited by Wendy H. Jones and featuring stories by 11 different authors.

25.07.2025 10:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Here are the authors included in the anthology:

27.05.2025 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm excited and honored that my short story "The Final Flambé" will be published in the anthology A RIGHT COZY CULINARY CRIME, edited by Wendy H. Jones.

27.05.2025 20:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Colorado Sisters in Crime logo with covers of two books.

My book Crumbled!, the first in the Misadventures of Nobbin Swill series, and Lori Herbst's Suitable for Framing, the first in her Callie Cassidy Mystery series, will be the featured books of the Sisters in Crime-Colorado online book club this Wednesday, March 19.

17.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mistletoe Murders Check out this great listen on Audible.com. When Emily Lane isn’t busy running her charming Christmas-themed store, “Under the Mistletoe”, located in the quaint tourist town of Fletcher’s Grove, she f...

If you have an audible subscription and are in the mood for Christmas mysteries, I highly recommend The Mistletoe Murders, short mysteries set in a small town where the main character runs a Christmas store—and has a mysterious past. Full cast with music and sound effects. Free for subscribers.

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