Susanna Calkins
Educator, historian, faculty developer by day... writer by night... I've had a morbid curiosity about murder in seventeenth-century England ever since grad school. The ephemera from the archives--tantalizing true accounts of the fantastic and the strange--inspired my historical mysteries.
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writing publishing 17th century research historical mysteries Masque of a Murderer A Death Along the River Fleet guest post 1660s Murder Knocks Twice 1920s historical fiction guest blogs From the Charred Remains popular press fire of london guest posts awards titles 19th c.
Ten years and nine books later...Some Odd realizations, and a Confession...
1 June 2023
Who would believe that my seventh Lucy Campion historical mystery and my ninth published novel overall, would be dropping next week?Certainly, not me. As I've discussed on this blog...
The Sign of the Gallows--Lucy at the Crossroads
2 February 2021
It's been five years since A Death Along the River Fleet (2016) was released, but for Lucy Campion, only a few months of 1667 have passed in The Sign of the Gallows. Although...
Celebrating (?) a Hundred Years since the start of Prohibition!
17 January 2020
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 16, 1920 One hundred years ago, on January 17, 1920 at 12:01 AM, the United States collectively lost its mind.Well, perhaps less dramatically... the...
Tea Leaf...my first and only attempt with Cockney slang
21 December 2019
A year or so ago I was contacted by author Simon Wood about writing a short story for an anthology he was putting together. I think his pitch was something like, "Every story will be...