Minnesota Mystery Night

JULIE HOLMES started her writing career in elementary school, where her first book starred a young girl and unicorns. She now writes a variety of mysteries, from suspense with a touch of romance to police procedurals (but no unicorns). A former aircraft mechanic for a commuter airline, she uses her experience as fodder for the Sierra Bauer mystery series featuring a female aircraft mechanic. Because her current career as a technical writer for a software company tends to interfere with her fiction writing, she uses the NaNoWriMo process (50k words in 30 days) to draft her upcoming books. She is member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime Worldwide (SinC) writers' organization, and is the current president of the Twin Cities SinC chapter. She hails from south-central Minnesota, where she lives on a small hobby farm with her husband and a menagerie of pets. 

MARY SEIFERT is the author of the Katie and Maverick Cozy Mysteries, the 2024 International IMPACT Award winner for books in a series, a collection, as of today, of ten fun and thrilling tales that (hopefully) will keep you on the edge of your seat! Her books, including the 2023 American Fiction Award finalist Maverick, Movies & Murder and the 2024 Chanticleer Murder and Mayhem finalist Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine, are must-reads for cozy mystery fans who enjoy a good puzzle wrapped in a heartwarming story.

A recovering high school math teacher, she’s always on the hunt for the best way to erase a problematic character and wrangle a solution to her fictional crimes. If she’s not writing, she’s walking a dog whose only speed is faster, or she’s reading with a glass a wine in one hand, a bite of chocolate not too far away, and breathing the aroma of a gourmet supper created by her live-in chef-husband John.