Unforgettable, That’s What They Are: An MWA NY Panel Discussion!

Join us for “Creatiing Unforgettable Characters,” a Mystery Writers of America New York Panel, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Monday, May 18, at the Tredyffrin Public Library, 582 Upper Gulf Road, Strattford, Pa.

Michael Bradley (moderator) is an award-winning author from Delaware. He spent eight years as
a radio DJ “on the air” before realizing he needed a real job and turned to IT. Never one to waste
an experience, he leveraged his familiarity with life on the radio to infuse his suspense novels
with a unique blend of familiarity and intrigue. His third novel, DEAD AIR (2020), garnered
critical acclaim, winning a Foreword INDIES Award and an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award.
The novel has been called “absorbing and filled with shocking twists.” His new novel titled,
THOSE WHO SHALL DIE, is set to release on July 7th.  It has already garnered praise, being
called “a well-written, clever whodunit with crafty twists.”

After graduation from Harvard College , Boston College Law School, and Harvard Law School and spending three years in the US Air Force, John Dobbyn practiced as a trial attorney before teaching law for forty-seven years at Villanova Law School. As a fiction writer, he has had seven
award-winning novels published by Oceanview Publishing and over thirty short stories in Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. His latest novel is Deadly Depths.

James McCrone’s stories pose questions about the nature of power, the choices we make, and the
lessons we don’t learn. He’s the author of the thriller trilogy Faithless Elector, Dark Network, and Emergency Powers, about stealing the presidency and creating a puppet government, and Bastard Verdict, in which a looming second referendum on Scottish independence threatens to expose irregularities in the first. He’s the current president of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime chapter, a member of Mystery Writers of America, and the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Philadelphia. His latest novel, Witness Tree, is out on submission. You can learn more at his website: www.JamesMcCrone.

Jane Kelly is the author of the Meg Daniels Mysteries, Meg Daniels Mysteries Weekenders,
Writing in Time Mysteries and Widow Lady Mysteries. Her standalone novels include
Nightingale Songs, A Death in Scilly, and The Secret Audience (2026). She holds an MS in information studies from Drexel University and an MPhil in popular literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin. She is a past president of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime and has served on the board of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. The fourth and sixth books in the Meg Daniels series, Missing You in Atlantic City, and Strangers in the Avalon Dunes, won Independent Publisher Book Award silver medals for mid-Atlantic fiction. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area.