Police Procedurals

[close] Like so many writers, Nike Chillemi started writing at a very young age. She still has the Crayola, fully illustrated book she penned (colored might be more accurate) as a little girl about her then off-the-chart love of horses. Today, you might call her a crime fictionista. Her passion is crime fiction. She likes her bad guys really bad and her good guys smarter and better. She is the founding board member of the Grace Awards and is its Chairman, a reader's choice awards for excellence in Christian fiction. She writes book reviews for The Christian Pulse online magazine. She was an Inspy Awards 2010 judge in the Suspense/Thriller/Mystery category and a judge in the 2011 and 2012 Carol Awards in the suspense, mystery, and romantic suspense categories. BURNING HEARTS, the first book in the crime wave that is sweeping the south shore of Long Island in The Sanctuary Point series, finaled in the Grace Awards 2011 in the Romance/Historical Romance category. GOODBYE NOEL, the second book in the series released in December, 2011 won the Grace Award 2011 in the Mystery/Romantic Suspense/Thriller category. PERILOUS SHADOWS, third in the series released July, 2012, and DARKEST HOUR, the fourth in the series released in February, 2013. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and the Edgy Christian Fiction Lovers (Ning). http://nikechillemi.wordpress.com/

[close] This groups is meant as a companion experience to our ongoing Mystery Book Club. For now the group meets once a month via Zoom for a book discussion. We're hoping to resume in-person discussions at the public library once the pandemic subsides.

[close] Ask him about his exciting and dangerous adventures researching his new psychological thriller FEAR ITSELF -- riding with New York homicide cops for two years, accompanying them to crime scenes, autopsies, lineups, interrogations, stakeouts, high-speed car chases, arrests of armed killers. Hanging out with the Serial Killer Profiling Unit at the FBI base in Quantico, Virginia. Interviewing murderers in their maximum security prison cells in Vermont and California, unchaperoned.