Celebrating 30 Years of Sisters In Crime with Award-Winning Author Rhys Bowen

Speed City hosts  internationally renowned author Rhys Bowen and celebrates 30 years of Sisters in Crime

By MB Dabney

  

The Speed City chapter of Sisters in Crime has always loved murder, mystery and mayhem. That love is the heart and soul of what we do.

Best-selling author and Agatha Award Winner Rhys Bowen

Speed City is the only Indiana chapter of the national Sisters in Crime organization. Since the fall of 2007, the chapter has completed five short story mystery anthologies, with the newest, The Fine Art of Murder, hitting book shelves last October.

While the Speed City chapter is only 15 years old, Sisters in Crime this year marks its 30^th anniversary of advocating for female mystery and crime writers, and for diversity in the crime writing industry. And to celebrate, the Speed City is hosting a day of fun on February 25, with internationally renowned bestselling British author Rhys Bowen.

A winner of both the Anthony and the Agatha mystery awards, Rhys is the author of Molly Murphy mystery series and the Royal Spyness series, among other novels and short stories.

Rhys will speak to the chapter at our regularly scheduled monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m., at the Barnes and Noble bookstore on River Crossing Boulevard on the north side of Indianapolis. Following that, the chapter and the College Park Book Club are hosting a British tea for Bowen at the College Park community center on Fordham Road from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Then from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., there is a book fair again at the Barnes and Noble store, with Rhys greeting fans and signing books.

Local authors with stories in the chapter’s five mystery anthologies will also be on hand at Barnes and Nobel to sign copies of our books.

In addition to the The Fine Art of Murder, the chapter’s collection includes Racing Can Be Murder (2007), Bedlam at the Brickyard (2010), Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks (2013), and Decades of Dirt (2015).

The Speed City Chapter is

proud to have Rhys Bowen in Indianapolis to help celebrate Sisters in Crime, which has been serving as the voice for excellence and diversity in crime writing for 30 years.