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The New York Tristate Chapter of Sisters in Crime forms a community that supports the national organization’s mission: “To promote the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry.” SinC includes readers as well as published and unpublished writers and welcomes both men and women
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A bi-lingual writer, Lina Zeldovich, grew up on the classics of Russian literature and started writing at age five.  Her short stories appeared in Murder New York Style and three Deadly Ink anthologies.  She won the Deadly Ink Short Story Competition 2008, was a finalist at 2009 Sleuthfest Contest and received a “Top One Hundred Award” in the Annual Writer’s Digest Competition.  Lina is working on her fourth novel, a belly dance mystery, Death by Scheherazade’s Veil.  Today she will be reading her story To Russia for Christmas or That’s Just the Way It Is.
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Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City psychotherapist whose new mystery, DEATH WILL HELP YOU LEAVE HIM, features recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler and his friends, a computer genius and a world-class codependent. The series started with DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER and includes three published short stories. Liz’s author website is www.elizabethzelvin.com. She blogs on Poe’s Deadly Daughters.

In “Death Will Trim Your Tree,” Bruce starts out grappling with those pesky strings of lights--sober--and ends up solving a murder. The story appears in THE GIFT OF MURDER, a holiday crime anthology that benefits the Toys for Tots Foundation.Lina Zeldovich

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,