Susan McBride is the USA Today Bestselling author of Blue Blood and the Lefty Award-winning, Anthony Award-nominated Debutante Dropout Mysteries (HarperCollins/Avon), which also include 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’s other bestselling mystery series debuted in 2014 from HarperCollins and feature puzzle-loving, 75-year-old Helen Evans. All four Helen Evans Investigates books were updated and released by Joffe Books, a UK publisher, in February 2024: 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 books include several YA titles from Delacorte/Random House: Very Bad Things (2014), Love, Lies & Texas Dips (2009) and The Debs (2008).
Susan has 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; 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. She’s on the Advisory Board of Books for Newborns, a nonprofit that gets books in the hands of families in need. 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)
- 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)
- 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:
McBrideMysteries@aol.com
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