Montana Book Festival 2017

Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in the Seattle Spice Shop Mysteries and the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, set in Jewel Bay, Montana. The 2015-16 president of Sisters in Crime and first author to win Agatha Awards for both fiction... Read More →

Christine Carbo is the author of The Wild Inside, Mortal Fall and The Weight of Night. She is a recipient of the Womens' National Book Association Pinckley Prize, the Silver Falchion Award and a two-time finalist for the High Plains Book Award. After getting an MA in English and linguistics... Read More →

Award-winning journalist Gwen Florio turned to fiction in 2013 with the publication of MONTANA, the first in her Lola Wicks mystery series. The fifth book in that series, UNDER THE SHADOWS, will be released in 2018, as well as a standalone novel set in Afghanistan, WOMEN OF STONE... Read More →

Mark Stevens is the son of two librarians. By law, he was required to grow up loving books. And writing. He is the 2016 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year. He writes the Allison Coil Mystery Series—Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline and Lake of Fire. The... Read More →