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Meet Wendy Church
Wendy Church is a Seattle-based author known for fast-paced and sometimes humorous crime fiction novels. Her latest, Five Things I See, is to-date her darkest, and most psychologically complex book that Kirkus referred to as “A textbook case of how to make a police procedural pulse with energy.”
Wendy’s debut, Murder on the Spanish Seas, was named a Booklist Top Ten Debut Mystery/Thriller novel of 2023, and introduces Jesse O’Hara, an introverted and often inebriated woman with a million dollar brain and a ten-cent personality who travels to interesting places and solves crimes, sometimes on purpose. Knife Skills, the first in Wendy’s Shadows of Chicago series, follows a talented chef who is forced to work for the FBI. Knife Skills received a starred review from Kirkus, “Audiences who wish the TV series The Bear could make room for Russian mobsters are in for a treat.”
Wendy’s propulsive novels are informed by her international travel and many careers. She’s been a bartender, tennis pro, management consultant, nonprofit CEO, PhD researcher, and dive bar cleaner. When she’s not writing, doing research, or reading, Wendy spends time with her partner as full time personal valets to a dog and two cats.
