Brenna Flynn by Rose Kerr

Hi there! Nice to meet you. My name is Brenna Flynn. You’d like to know what a typical day in my life is like, okay. . . A few months ago, it would have been a simple answer. I was living in Illinois and working as a high school guidance counselor, helping students...

Madison Cruz by Lucy Carol

Hello, everyone! My name is Madison Cruz, although my boyfriend is over here nudging me to tell you my name is Madness. But that’s just a nickname my mother gave me that he happens to like. They both say it’s a good fit. Whatever. Anyone’s world would be filled with...

Red Hooper by Wendy Roberts

Hi, my name’s Scarlet but everyone just calls me Red. I live in my camper van named Bubbles. The van was left to me by my grandmother and I miss her terribly. Especially because I have a lot of questions about things happening in my life right now. Like, why do I have...

Ollie Sampson by T.C. LoTempio

Hello! My name is Oliver J. Sampson, but to Nora Charles, her tuxedo cat Nick and their host of friends, I’m better known as Ollie. I was the partner of the PI who originally owned feline Nick, and since meeting Nora I’ve aided her (at least I like to think I have) in...

Flora Steele by Merryn Allingham

It was meant to be a break from running the All’s Well, that’s the bookshop I inherited from my aunt Violet in a village called Abbeymead, deep in the Sussex countryside. I’d agreed to travel with Jack Carrington, our local crime writer, to a place called Treleggan on...

Carmen Valdez by Alex Segura

Hey, my name is Carmen. I live in a tiny apartment in New York City, but I’m from Miami. My parents came over from Cuba right after Castro took over. But that’s the backstory, you’re here for more than that. I moved up here to New York to work in comics. I want to...