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Valerie Webster of Boulder, Colo. draws readers into the shadowy worlds of crime and crime fighters by using her 30+ year career in cyber and real-life security.
The result is riveting fiction based on real cases and policing applications with the main character Rita Mars–an ex-investigative reporter fighting crime around Washington D.C.’s beltway and beyond.
Webster’s debut novel Driven: A Rita Mars Thriller received critical accolades from readers.
Her second book in the crime fiction series is Objects of Desire.
Webster is a member of Mystery Writers of America and the national and Colorado chapters of Sisters in Crime.
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Sisters in Crime Welcomes Kate Carlisle
The San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime welcomes New York Timesbestselling author Kate Carlisle on November 12 – Hey! That's my birthday. What a great way to celebrate. You're in for a treat if you sign up to hear about Kate's adventures. Kate is a native...
A Staggering Feat by a Single Author
The Hardy Boys series on Hulu has been cancelled after three seasons. Amazing since The Hardy Boys has been one of the longest-running series in any format. This franchise started with the novel "The Tower Treasure" in 1927! When the series...
Driven is a 2022 EVVY Award Winner!
On Monday, August 29, Driven: A Rita Mars Thriller, took the Silver Award in the Fiction, LGBTQ category.
Next in the Series: Blackwater’s Abyss
This is Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, with its 28,000 acres of brackish wetlands and ghost forests holding a gloomier story of untold mystery and menacing despair.
OMG! Driven is a Finalist!
I am thrilled to announce that Driven: A Rita Mars Thriller is a finalist in the CIPA EVVY Book Awards. I don't know yet what award I've won. I'll find out on August 29 at the awards banquet whether Driven has won a 1st, 2nd, 3rd or Merit Award. I am honored to have...
Our June Winner!
I am so pleased to announce the June Amazon gift card winner at www.valeriewebster.com. That winner of our monthly all-subscriber pool drawing is Charlotte Krasnoff. Charlotte is an avid reader and a fan of classical music. She herself...
SINC Colorado Finalists – Silver Falchion
Congratulations to my Sisters in Crime fellow writers! Here are the Colorado Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalists! Best Action Adventure Finalist: Murder at Buckskin Joe by JvL Bell Best Investigator Finalist: At First...
Book Review: Pratibha Malav
“Driven,” by Valerie Webster is a page-turning story. The story revolves around Rita Mars, an ex-investigative journalist. Bobby Ellis, one of her longtime friends had a piece of important information to give to Rita but when she arrived he was dead. Later learns that...
Rocky Mountain Writers WOTY Award
Each year the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW) present a Writer of the Year (WOTY) award. Here are 2022’s three finalists. Amy Rivers is an award-winning novelist and writer of short stories and personal essays, as well as the Director of Northern Colorado...
Terror as Theater
Is slaughter our new entertainment? The Buffalo supermarket killer live-streamed from a camera mounted on his helmet — an up close and gruesome first-person view as he fires into 10 people, some of them crawling on the supermarket floor. That's what we excitedly...
2022 RONE Awards
Each year InD’tale Magazine honors the very best books in the Indie and Small publishing industry by awarding their RONE award. Not offered lightly, any contending book must go through one of the most rigorous processes in publishing, with...
15th Annual Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award
Since 2008, the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards have recognized the best stories from the previous year told through various media utilizing the elements of mystery, thriller, and/or suspense. Judges are professional writers, book reviewers, librarians,...