Elizabeth Dearl is a former Texas police officer who also owned
a small bookstore for several years. Her short mysteries have appeared in
Woman's World, Mystery Net, Mystery Time, Blue Murder, Futures, Britain's
Fiction Feast and other magazines. Her story "The Way to a Man's Heart" won a
Derringer Award, and "The Goodbye Ghoul" has been optioned for a short film.
Elizabeth's romance fiction has been published in Woman's World, The Romantic
Bower, and The Lover's Knot, to name a few. Writer On Line and InSinc (the
Sisters in Crime Newsletter) have published her articles, and her fantasy/horror
stories have appeared in Plot Magazine, Xoddity, and the Civil War ghost story
anthology, DEAD PROMISES.
Elizabeth's mystery novels, DIAMONDBACK (an EPPIE Award finalist which has
recently been optioned for a feature film) and TWICE DEAD (2002 EPPIE Award
winner for "best mystery"), are set in West Texas and feature amateur sleuth
Taylor Madison, who is assisted in crime-solving by her ferret, Hazel. "Buyer's
Remorse," a novella which also stars Taylor Madison, is included in BLOOD,THREAT
and FEARS: Four Tales of Murder and Suspense (2002 EPPIE Award winner for "best
anthology"). MALICIOUS INTENT (DiskUs Publishing) is a collection of Elizabeth's
mystery/horror short stories.
Elizabeth is a member of Sisters in Crime and The Short Mystery Fiction Society and is an instructor for Writer's Digest School's WritersOnlineWorkshops (see home page for link).
She has recently completed book three of the Taylor Madison series, and is now
hard at work on book one of a brand new mystery series. She lives in the
Houston area with her husband (a police detective) and two fur-children of the
canine variety.
