Born and raised in New York City, Nicholas Meyer graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in theatre and filmmaking. He lives in Santa Monica, California. Nicholas is an award-winning author, screenwriter and director. His body of creative work in publishing, film and television spans more than five decades. He’s the author of seven previous novels, including The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974), a Doyle tale in which Sherlock Holmes met Sigmund Freud. The novel sold more than two million copies, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for forty weeks, and won the British Gold Dagger award from the British Crime Writers’ Association. Two years later, Meyer received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay of the eponymous film, which starred Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.

Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell, August 27, 2024

With a world war raging on the continent, an exhausted John H. Watson, opens his door to find Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a cracked rib. The story he has to tell will set in motion a series of world-changing events in the most consequential case of the detective’s career. Amid rebellion in Ireland and revolution in Russia, Germany has a secret plan to win the war and Sir William Melville of the British Secret Service dispatches the two aging friends to learn what the scheme is before it can be put into effect. In pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram sent from Berlin to an unknown recipient in Mexico, Holmes and Watson must cross the Atlantic, dodge German U-boats and assassination attempts, and evade the intrigues of young J. Edgar Hoover, while enlisting the help of a beautiful, eccentric Washington socialite as they seek to foil the schemes of Holmes’s nemesis, the escaped German spymaster Von Bork.

Nicholas says that Sherlock’s favorites would be a ploughman’s lunch and a pint of bitter.

Traci Hunter Abramson was born in Arizona, where she lived until moving to Venezuela for a study abroad program. After graduating from Brigham Young University, she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, eventually resigning in order to raise her family. She credits the CIA with giving her a wealth of ideas as well as the skills needed to survive her children’s teenage years. She loves to travel and recently retired after twenty-six years coaching her local high school swim team. She has written forty-five best-selling novels and is an eight-time Whitney Award winner, including 2017 and 2019 Best Novel of the Year.

Hometown Vendetta, October 1, 2024

When a terrorist attack grips the nation, Luke Steele, military aide to the president, is reassigned to track down the suspect because the alleged bomber wore a state championship ring from the hometown Luke has desperately tried to forget.

FBI Special Agent Amberlyn Reiner has spent years tracking domestic terrorism. When she catches a break that could pinpoint the key player in the antigovernment group responsible for dozens of needless deaths, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get the information she seeks—even if it means going undercover as Luke Steele’s plus-one at his high school reunion. But as the line between fact and fiction in their relationship blurs, time is running out, and with the threat of another terrorist attack looming, the stakes are higher than ever.

Traci’s loves are chicken enchiladas and chocolate cheesecake—see these delish recipes below!

Steven Tingle was a Certified Golf Course Superintendent and golf course general manager, but then turned to writing and his work has appeared in various national and regional magazines including Golfdom, Golf Business, Robb Report, Modern Luxury, Tempus, TOWN, Birmingham, and Discovery (Cathay Pacific’s in-flight magazine). Steven’s debut novel, Graveyard Fields, was published by Crooked Lane Books in 2021. Steven is a member of International Thriller Writers, The Authors Guild, and The Mystery Writers of America.

Buried Lies, October 15, 2024

Former police officer turned private detective Davis Reed is taking refuge in the mountains of Cruso, North Carolina. When respected real estate agent Prentiss Wells is killed by an errant golf ball, Davis is hired by a wealthy couple hires him to prove the death was murder and catch the killer. In need of cash, Davis takes the job. While Davis investigates who had the motive to kill Prentiss, Elizabeth Harper, an accountant who stirs butterflies in Davis’s stomach, uncovers a tangled mess of shady real estate deals linked to Prentiss’s firm. With a local deputy whose mood changes with the wind, and Dale’s cousin Floppy, a mad-genius, motor-mouthed mechanic, Davis must carefully navigate a minefield of secrets and lies.

Davis Reed’s favorite snack is chips and guacamole. Think he’s kidding? David Swinson’s blurb reads: “I relished the rollercoaster that is Buried Lies like PI Reed does his guacamole and chips.”

His favorite drink is Old Crab IPA, which he brews himself. The book is set in a tiny mountain community called Cruso (a real place) and there’s a sign by the side of the road that reads: Welcome to Cruso – 9 miles of friendly people plus one old crab.

Our own Rogue Jenny Milchman is the Mary Higgins Clark award winning and USA Today bestselling author of five novels. Her work has been praised by the New York Times, New York Journal of Books, San Francisco Journal of Books and more; earned spots on Best Of lists including PureWow, POPSUGAR, The Strand, Suspense, and Big Thrill magazines; and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist and Shelf Awareness. Jenny lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.

The Usual Silence, October 1, 2024

Psychologist Arles Shepherd treats troubled children, struggling with each case to recover from her own traumatic past, much of which she’s lost to the shadows of memory. At her new treatment center in the remote Adirondack wilderness, she treats a ten-year-old boy who has never spoken a word―or so his mother, Louise, believes.

Hundreds of miles away, Cass Monroe is living a parent’s worst nightmare. His twelve-year-old daughter has vanished on her way home from school and Cass turns to a pair of true-crime podcasters for help. Arles, Louise, and Cass will soon collide as a quarter-century-old secret will be forced out of hiding. Because nothing screams louder than silence.