John Copenhaver

About The Author

John Copenhaver won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery for Dodging and Burning and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery for The Savage Kind. He is a co-founder of Queer Crime Writers and an at-large board member of Mystery Writers of America. He cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show. He’s a faculty mentor in the University of Nebraska’s Low-Residency MFA program and teaches at VCU in Richmond, VA.

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Books by John Copenhaver

Hall of Mirrors

A Novel

By John Copenhaver

A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year

A Washington Post and TODAY.com must-read book selection

An Agatha Award, Lefty Award, and Macavity Award finalist!

When a popular mystery novelist dies suspiciously, his writing partner ...

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