July Meeting

Wednesday
July 9, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Borders Books
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Speaker: Frank Denning, Johnson County Sheriff
Our July speaker, Sheriff Frank Denning, will discuss DNA and DNA Legislation. Frank has been serving the law enforcement community for over 35 years. He joined the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department in 1978 as a Deputy serving in the Adult Detention Center. In 1996, he was appointed [...]

June Meeting

Wednesday
June 11, 2008
7 p.m.
Borders Books and Music
9l08 Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Speaker: Becky Ray
Our June speaker, Becky Ray, will discuss Ghost Stories and Urban Legends of Kansas City. Becky is a paranormal investigator in the Kansas City Metro area with over 20 years of experience. She is a member of the local group Paranormal Activity Investigators and [...]

May Meeting

Wednesday
May 14, 2008
7 p.m.
Borders Books and Music
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Speaker: Joel Goldman
Our May speaker will be popular Kansas City author and retired attorney Joel Goldman, who will discuss “Writing Courtroom Thrillers.”
Joel Goldman is the author of a series of legal thrillers about criminal trial attorney Lou Mason, including Motion To Kill (2002), the Edgar-nominated [...]

April Meeting

Wednesday
April 9, 2008
7 p.m.
Borders
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Our April speaker Rose Marie Kinder is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her degrees at the University of Arizona at Tucson. After receiving her Ph.D. in 1990, she returned to the Midwest to teach at the University of Central Missouri (UCM), where she became editor of [...]

March Meeting Reminder

This month’s meeting takes place:
Wednesday
March 12, 2008
7 p.m.
Borders Books
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, KS
Speaker: Dr. Carmaletta Williams
Our March speaker, Dr. Carmaletta Williams, Professor of English, Johnson County Community College, will speak on the subject of genealogy, that is, sleuthing your family history, with special emphasis on the difficulties of tracing the family history of African Americans.
Dr. [...]

Topeka Booksigning

Lisa Harkrader will participate in a panel discussion and booksigning with Topeka Sisters in Crime members Esther Luttrell and Mark Bouton:
Demystifying the Mystery of Writing Mysteries
2 to 4 p.m.
Saturday
March 1, 2008
Barnes & Noble
6130 SW 17th Street
(17th and Wanamaker)
Topeka, KS 66615
785-273-9600
Esther Luttrell was a script advisor, production coordinator, and screenwriter in Hollywood for many years. She [...]

Upcoming Meetings

February Meeting
Wednesday
February 13, 2008
7 p.m.
Borders Books and Music
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Our speaker for February 2008 will be Sally Goldenbaum, author of 25 published novels, most recently the three-book Queen Bees mystery series, Murders on Elderberry Road, A Murder of Taste, and Murder on a Starry Night, all set in a charming Kansas town. Sally [...]

January Meeting

January 9, 2008
6:30 p.m.
KC Central Library
14 W. 10th Street
Kansas City, Missouri

Your 2008 Partners in Crime Officers are pleased to announce that Sara Paretsky, the first president of Sisters in Crime, will speak at the Kansas City Central Library in the Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W. 10th Street, Floor 5, at 6:30 on Wednesday, January 9, 2008. [...]

December Meeting

Mark your calendars now for our Christmas Dinner on December 12 at 6:00 p.m. at Cinzetti’s, just north of Borders. Don’t forget that if you paid your PinC dues for 2007, you’ll receive $10 towards your dinner. Also Cinzetti’s gives a $2 discount to seniors. Contact Gail Fortin at dfortin1@kc.rr.com or 913-341-2460 by December 5 [...]

Meeting Reminder

November Partners in Crime Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday
November 14
Borders Books
91st & Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas
Borders gives us 20% off all mysteries we buy the night of the meeting.
Speaker: Robert Unger
Robert Unger is a former prize-winning national correspondent for the Kansas City Star and an investigative reporter and columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He will discuss his book, The [...]