She introduced
a new series featuring Indian American amateur sleuth
Anita Ray in "A Murder Made in India," a short story in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. The first novel featuring Anita Ray is
Under the Eye of Kali (2010).
Susan's first
publication in the mystery field was A Reader's Guide to
the Classic British Mystery (G.K. Hall, 1988; Mysterious
Press, 1989), the first in a series of six readers' guides for
which she is editor. She has been reviewing crime fiction for over
twelve years with The Drood Review of Mystery and other
magazines.
Susan Oleksiw is the co-founder of Level
Best Books.
Before turning to crime fiction, Susan received a Ph.D. in Sanskrit
from the University of Pennsylvania, and lived and traveled extensively
in India as part of her studies. She was the editor for a collection
of scholarly articles on communications in Asia in the early
1980s; she has published several scholarly articles on Indian
literature and art as well. Her short stories and essays about
India appear in other literary journals.
Susan is a member of Sisters
in Crime, Mystery
Writers of America,
Authors Guild, National
Writers Union, Five Star, and Short
Mystery
Fiction Society.
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