Linda Wiken/ aka Essie Lang
LindaWiken/ aka Essie Lang
Dinner Club Mysteries
Ashton Corners Book Club Mysteries
Ladies' Killing Circle
LKC & Friends
For 14 years, Linda Wiken owned the mystery specialty store, Prime Crime Books in Ottawa, ON. It was with sadness and a sense of anticipation that she closed the store in 2010. Now, she's embarked on a life of crime between the pages. Her first novel in the Ashton Corners Book Club mysteries, A Killer Read, was published April, 2012 as her alter ego, Erika Chase, and was shortlisted for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel at the Malice Domestic conference. There are now five books in the series.
She embarked on a new writing adventure this year as the real Linda Wiken with another series, the Dinner Club Mysteries, also from Berkley Prime Crime. There are three titles in that series.
She's now experiencing life in a castle bookstore writing the appropriately named, Castle Bookshop Mysteries for Crooked Lane Books. Oh, yes...and she's doing it under a new name, Essie Lang.
Her short stories have appeared in the seven Ladies' Killing Circle anthologies (three of which she co-edited), and in the magazines Mysterious Intent and Over My Dead Body. She has been short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award, Best Short Story, from Crime Writers of Canada.
Before life in the world of mystery, she worked as an advertising copywriter, radio producer, journalist and community education worker. ).
As a volunteer with the Ottawa Police Service for over 15 years, she developed a strong, sometimes scary interest in police procedures. She wrote weekly crime stats articles for the local community newspapers for them, along with stories for the OPS internal newsletter.
She is an avid chorister and loves being a choir member.
Keesha, her aging Siamese cat, share the house with her in Ottawa, ON where she's lived for over 30 years (she was soooo young when she first arrived in town!).
A new name! That's right...I'll now be writing as
ESSIE LANG and the new series is
the Castle Bookshop Mysteries, for Crooked Lane
Books.
Here's the cover of the first book in the series!
© Linda Wiken
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