Crime Writers of Color

Amina Akhtar, author of Almost Surely Dead is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Amina’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writer's of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Danielle Arceneaux, author of Glory Be is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Danielle’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Erin’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Shelly Ellis, author of over a dozen novels including The Three Mrs. Greys Series and Not So Perfect Strangers, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Shelly’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Alessandra Harris, author of the Last Place Seen, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Alessandra Harris doesn't shy away from controversial topics, and writes books that reflect the diversity of her world. In addition to writing fiction, Alessandra is an advocate for mental health and racial justice. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and four children. Her debut novel, Blaming the Wind, was published by Red Adept Publishing in 2016, followed by Everything She Lost in 2018, and Last Place Seen in 2022. Her first non-fiction title, In the Shadow of Freedom: A Catholic Call for Justice, will be released with Orbis Book in 2024. Links Alessandra’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Cheryl Head, author of the Time’s Undoing, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Cheryl’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Esme Addison, author of the Enchanted Bay Mysteries, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Esme’s Website Crime Writers of Color WebsiteRobert Justice’s Website

Sulari Gentill, author of The Woman in the Library, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Sulari’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website

Robert Justice interviews Delia C. Pitts, author of the Ross Agency Mystery series. Born and raised in Chicago, Delia graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor’s degree in history. After working as a journalist, she earned a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Chicago. She is a former university administrator and U.S. diplomat. Murder My Past is the fifth book in her contemporary noir mystery series. The next entry, Murder Take Two, will be published in 2022. Her short story, “The Killer,” was published in The Chicago Quarterly Review, #31. It was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. Another story, “A Deadly First,” was published in the 2020 holiday crime anthology, Festive Mayhem. Her short story, “Talladega 1925,” was published in The Chicago Quarterly Review, #33. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Crime Writers of Color. Her next novel, featuring small town African American private investigator Vandy Myrick, will be published by Minotaur in 2024. Delia and her husband live in central New Jersey and have twin sons living in Texas.

Gary Phillips, author of almost twenty novels, including Matthew Henson and The Ice Temple of Harlem and One-Shot Harry, is interviewed by Robert Justice.

Vaseem Khan, author of the Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation and Malabar House series, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Vaseem’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website

CWoC co-founders Kellye Garrett, author of Like a Sister and Gigi Pandian, author of Under Lock & Skeleton Key return to discuss their new books with Robert Justice. Links Kellye’s Website Gigi’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Yasmin Angoe—author of HER NAME IS KNIGHT—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Yasmin’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Aaron Philip Clark—author of Under Color of Law—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Aaron’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Rachel Howzell Hall—author of These Toxic Things—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Rachel’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website

Robert Justice—author of THEY CAN'T TAKE YOUR NAME—is interviewed by a special guest host. Links Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website

Anthology editors Abby Vandiver, Marla Bradeen, Steph Cha and Alafair Burke are interviewed by Robert Justice. Carolyn Wilkins and Alex Segura read from their amazing short stories. Links Midnight Hour: A Chilling Anthology of Crime Fiction from 20 Authors of Color Festive Mayhem 2: Seven Holiday Culinary Cozy Mysteries The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 Robert Justice’s Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Patricia Raybon—author of ALL THAT IS SECRET—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Patricia Raybon is an award-winning author and novelist who writes at the daring intersection of faith and race. Her books include My First White Friend, winner of the Christopher Award, I Told the Mountain to Move, a prayer memoir about her struggle to learn to pray, that was a Christianity Today Book of the Year finalist, and Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace, coauthored with her younger daughter Alana Raybon. Patricia’s essays on faith and race have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, Guideposts, Christianity Today, and other national publications and blogs. Her first fiction is a 1920s murder mystery series about a young Black theologian—a fan of Sherlock Holmes—solving crime and murder in Colorado’s dangerous era of the Ku Klux Klan. Its debut title, All That Is Secret, is set to release Oct. 5, 2021, from Tyndale House. Parade Magazine picked All That Is Secret among its Fall 2021 “Mysteries We Love.” Patricia’s essays on faith and race have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, USA Weekend, Country Living Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, Guideposts, In Touch Magazine (In Touch Ministries), Christianity Today, popular blogs including the Washington Post’s “Acts of Faith” and aired on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. A regular contributor at Our Daily Bread and the (in)courage community at DaySpring, she also teaches and coaches at writing conferences and workshops nationwide. A lifelong Colorado resident, Patricia lives with her husband Dan, a retired educator. They have two grown daughters, a son-in-law, five grandchildren and a “grand dog” Max. Links Patricia’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Nadine Matheson—author of The Jigsaw Man—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Nadine’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz

Patricia Sargeant—author of Murder by Page One—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Patricia Sargeant’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Webpage Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz