Join author H.N. Hirsch discussing Fault Line, the sequel to Shade, of his Bob and Marcus Mystery series along with award-winning author J.M. Redmann, who is celebrating the release of her eleventh Mickey Knight mystery, Transitory. They will each read from their books, discuss their lives as mystery writers and what it is like to write a mystery series.

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H.N. Hirsch grew up in Chicago and graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 1974. He received a PhD in politics from Princeton in 1978 and then was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard, where he published his first book, The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter, which the New York Times called “brilliant” and which received widespread critical attention. In 1986 he moved to a tenured appointment at the University of California at San Diego, where he served a board member of the ACLU and a board member and president of Diversionary Theatre, one of the oldest and most highly acclaimed LGBT theaters in the country.

In 2000, he moved to an endowed chair at Macalester College in Minnesota, and in 2005 was appointed Dean of the Faculty at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he continued to teach until his retirement in 2021. In 2016, he published a memoir about his academic life and his life as a gay men, Office Hours, which one critic called “wistful and well crafted.”

A voracious reader of fiction, he realized a life-long ambition to publish his own mystery novel, Shade, in 2022, and then his current work, Fault Line, both featuring a gay couple as the main characters.

J.M. Redmann has published ten novels featuring New Orleans PI Micky Knight. Her first book was published in 1990, one of the early hard-boiled lesbian detectives. Her books have won three Lambda Literary awards. THE INTERSECTION OF LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book by Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s Fresh Air. Two books were selected for the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s Over the Rainbow list and WATER MARK won a ForeWord Gold First Place mystery award. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies, one of which, NIGHT SHADOWS: QUEER HORROR, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award. Her books have been translated into German, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew and Norwegian. She lives in New Orleans.