Tara Laskowski is the author of award-winning suspense novels. Her latest, The Weekend Retreat, won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. The Mother Next Door was called a “polished and entertaining read” by The New York Times Book Review. And her debut novel, One Night Gone, won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award, and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Critics, and the Library of VA Literary awards. She has also written two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. Her Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine story, “The Case of the Vanishing Professor,” won the 2019 Agatha Award and her Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine story, “The Long-Term Tenant,” won the 2020 Thriller Award. Tara was the winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Prize, was the longtime editor of the popular online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly, and is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime, where she serves on the board of her local chapter. She occasionally reviews books at the Washington Independent Review of Books and was a former columnist there. She earned a BA in English with a minor in writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Tara grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in Virginia with her husband, fellow mystery writer Art Taylor, their son Dashiell, and two sweet cats. Follow her on Instagram @TaraLWrites and subscribe to her Substack here.
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Tara Laskowski is the award-winning author of the suspense novels The Weekend Retreat, The Mother Next Door and One Night Gone. She also wrote two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has won the Agatha Award and Thriller Award for her short fiction and was the longtime editor of the online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. She lives in Virginia with her husband, crime writer Art Taylor, and their son Dashiell.
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Killer Author Club–The Weekend Retreat (You Tube)
Politics and Prose Live presents Tara Laskowski and John Copenhaver (You Tube)
Fountain Books hosts Tara Laskowski and John Copenhaver (Crowdcast video)
House of Mystery radio broadcast with Tara Laskowski (audio file)
Trace Evidence, the Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine blog