L.L. Kirchner

L.L. Kirchner loves entertaining stories that sneak up on you. Her heroines are self-aware enough to know they’re in over their heads and run at trouble anyway.

Her historical suspense series The Queenpin Chronicles follows women nobody took seriously doing things nobody expected. Her new Steel City series brings that same energy to 1990s Pittsburgh, where the real mystery is always who gets believed and why.

She’s also written two memoirs, because apparently she needed to live it before she could make it up.

If it doesn’t surprise you that she was once simultaneously bridal editor for a society rag, dating columnist for an alt-newsweekly, and religion editor for an LGBTQ+ paper, you’re probably already her reader.