LidJodeMillman

Author of the best-selling SEATS: NEW YORK Theatre guidebook, Jode's debut thriller, “The Midnight Call” was released in 2019 and won numerous awards including: the 2021 Independent Press Award for Legal Thriller, the 2020 Bronze IPPY Award, the 2020 American Fiction Award for Legal Thriller, was a nominee for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, a 2021 finalist for the Book Excellence Awards, was short-listed for the 2019 Clue Award, and received the First Place Blue Ribbon as “Best Police Procedural” by Chantireviews.com.

“Hooker Avenue,” the second installment of the “Queen City Crimes” Series, was released in April 2022, won the 2022 Independent Press Award for Crime Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2022 American Fiction Award and received First Place Honors for the 2022 Clue Award. It is also a Finalist for the prestigious RWA/KOD Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense and won First Place in the Clue Awards.

Jode’s third installment of “The Queen City Crimes” series, “The Empty Kayak,” was released in May 2023. It received an Honorable Mention in the Readers Choice Awards.

She is an attorney, book reviewer for Booktrib.com, creator of THE WRITER'S LAW SCHOOL, and is the co-host and co-producer of the popular podcast Backstage with the Bardavon (available on iTunes). Jodé lives with her family in the Hudson Valley, where she is at work on her next novel inspired by the region she calls home.

Visit her at www.jodemillman.com or on Facebook @JodeMillman, or Instagram @jodewrites.