Susan McBride is the USA Today Bestselling author of Blue Blood and the Lefty Award-winning, Anthony Award-nominated Debutante Dropout Mysteries from HarperCollins/Avon, including The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night Of The Living Deb, Too Pretty To Die, and Say Yes to the Death. Susan has a second bestselling series with HC/Avon that debuted in May 2014, the River Road Mysteries, that include To Helen Back, Mad as Helen, Not a Chance in Helen and Come Helen High Water. A darker mystery featuring Texas police detective Jo Larsen, Walk Into Silence, was released in December 2016 by Thomas & Mercer and hit #1 in the US and UK (and #3 in Australia) for paid Kindle. The second Jo Larsen book, Walk a Crooked Line, was released in July 2018.
Susan’s young adult thriller, Very Bad Things, came out in 2014 from Delacorte Press. Publishers Weekly raved: “McBride’s fast-paced plot is fueled by jumps between multiple characters’ perspectives, and her rendering of the venerable yet sinister school…is as absorbing as the tightly wound mystery.” She has authored several YA non-mystery novels for Delacorte about debutantes in Houston: The Debs (2008) and Love, Lies, And Texas Dips (2009). Gloves Off, the third book, is currently in publishing limbo.
Susan has also penned three women’s fiction titles: The Truth About Love & Lightning, featured in Target’s Emerging Authors program, a Midwest Connections Pick, and dubbed “a poignant page-turner” by Publishers Weekly; Little Black Dress, a book club favorite and Target Recommended Read that spent five weeks on the St. Louis bestsellers list; and The Cougar Club, a Target “Bookmarked Breakout Title” and a Midwest Connections Pick. Foreign editions of Susan’s books have been published in France, Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Lithuania.
Susan has a short memoir available from HarperCollins: In the Pink: How I Met the Perfect (Younger) Man, Survived Breast Cancer, and Found True Happiness After 40, which tells her tale of becoming an “accidental Cougar” and marrying a younger man, her cancer diagnosis at age 42, and finding herself pregnant at 47. In 2012, Susan was named one of St. Louis’s “Most Dynamic People of the Year” by the Ladue News and was given the “Survivor of the Year” Award by the St. Louis affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. As Susan likes to say, “Life is never boring.”
Interviews/Articles:
- “Five Memoirs of People Facing Extraordinary Challenges” (4/6/20)
- Gazelle “Take It from Me: Author Susan McBride” (May 2019)
- Huffington Post “Me, My Boob, and I” (10/7/12)
- Ladue News “Most Dynamic People of the Year” interview (1/26/12)
- Town & Style interview (1/18/12; turn to pg. 24)
- St. Louis Beacon review/interview (8/22/11)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Q&A (8/21/11)
- St. Louis Magazine June 2010 Summer Books List
- Suburban Woman (7/21/10)
- “Up Close & Personal” BlogTalkRadio (02/08/10)
- Missouri Life Magazine (October 2009)
- Redbook Magazine (June 2009)
Contact Information:
For media and rights inquiries, contact:
Christina Hogrebe
The Jane Rotrosen Agency
Phone: 212-593-4330
Fax: 212-935-6985
Email: chogrebe@janerotrosen.com
To contact Susan:
SueAuthor@aol.com
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