About Me

I. Love. Mysteries.

Agatha Christie. Nick & Nora. Inspector Lewis. You name it.

But mysteries are in my blood.

The earliest story I remember writing is ‘The Mystery of the Golden Flower’ (or something like that) in elementary school. My mom devoured Agatha Christie books, and we spent every weekday afternoon when I was a teen watching reruns of Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and Magnum, P.I., to name a few.

And I LOVED them.

I also loved action-adventure movies and Jane Austen and sci-fi, but my favorite things rarely made it onto the page. Until January 2009, when I started to write my first book.

I didn’t set out to write a mystery, but when it was all said and done, my sister told me, “You’re a mystery writer.” And I can’t ever win an argument with her.

So in November 2010, after the longest year and a half of my life, I released my first official mystery novel, Dead Locked. Late the following year, I released The Jester’s Apprentice, which is technically my first novel from way back in 2009! My first mystery novella, Biohazard, came out spring 2012.

Now I’m embarking on a completely new journey – a mystery series! I’m very excited about the characters and setting in The Belinda & Bennett Mysteries. It all came together so beautifully, and I hope everyone will have as much fun reading these books as I’m having writing them. Cliffhanger, book one in the series, is now available!

I have come a long way since that first book, getting my crash course in both novel-writing and self-publishing. But it’s awesome. It can be frustrating, I won’t lie, but it’s still gorgeous fun.

Click here to learn about my mystery novels, and join my email newsletter to learn about upcoming releases. Feel free to email me at amydsaunders (at) gmail (dot) com and follow me on Twitter @amy_saunders.