Leslie Wheeler
Award-winning writer Leslie Wheeler is the author of the Berkshire Hilltown Mysteries, Rattlesnake Hill and Shuntoll Road (Encircle) and the Miranda Lewis Mysteries, Murder at Plimoth Plantation (trade paperback, Encircle), Murder at Gettysburg and Murder at Spouters Point (Five Star, Gale/Cengage). Her mystery shorts have appeared in such anthologies as Mystery Most Geographical, Noir at the Salad Bar, Day of the Dark; and the Best New England Crime Stories anthologies, published by Level Best Books, where she was a co-editor for six years. Leslie is now a co-editor at Crime Spell Books, the new publisher of the Best New England Crime Stories anthologies. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, serving as a Speakers Bureau Coordinator for the New England Chapter of SinC. A founding member of the New England Crime Bake Committee, she manages the annual Crime Bake-sponsored Al Blanchard Short Crime Fiction Award Contest.