Welcome

Debbi Mack is a hardboiled crime fiction author whose debut mystery novel, Identity Crisis, features Maryland lawyer Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae in a complex and action-packed story of murder and identity theft. The novel won Best Mystery in the Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll 2009. Identity Crisis is the first book in the Sam McRae mystery series. The eBook of Identity Crisis cracked the New York Times e-book bestseller list in March 2011.

The second Sam McRae novel, Least Wanted, is now available in print and as an e-book.

Debbi's short stories have also been published in the anthologies Five Uneasy Pieces, Chesapeake Crimes and Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin'. Her Derringer-Award-nominated story, The Right to Remain Silent, was published in The Back Alley Webzine (the story in online, read it for free).

Debbi writes a monthly column called Submitted For Your Consideration published here on a variety of topics. She also writes book reviews for Mystery Scene Magazine. A former attorney, Debbi's also previously worked as a freelance writer and researcher.

2011 Events

Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. "SinC Into Great Writing" seminar at Holiday Inn Select, St. Louis, MO. After-dinner panel discussion, "Brazen Hussies Speak Out: Marketing Your Novel in an Electronic World" with Gina Panittieri, President, Talcott Notch Literary.

Sept. 15 - 18, Bouchercon, The Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO.

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m. Presentation to AAUW Howard County Branch, "How I Self-Published My Way onto the New York Times Fiction Bestseller List"

Least Wanted on YouTube

Identity Crisis on YouTube