Frederick Weisel

Frederick Weisel has been a writer and editor for more than 30 years. He graduated from Antioch College and has an MA in Victorian Literature and History from the University of Leicester in England. His short stories were awarded an Artists Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor.

The Silenced Women is his debut novel and the first in the Violent Crime Investigations Team Mystery series. The second novel, The Day He Left, will be published in February 2022. He is currently at work on the third novel in the VCI series. He lives with his wife in Santa Rosa, California, and shares a birthday with his favorite author, Raymond Chandler.

You can read his essay “Behind the Book: The Silenced Women” in Crimespree Magazine:
https://crimespreemag.com/behind-the-...

You can read his essay “Detective Fiction and Dementia: A Biopsy” in CrimeReads Magazine: https://crimereads.com/detective-fict...

You can read his essay “Five Things: Last Sentences in Five Novels” in Crimespree Magazine: https://crimespreemag.com/five-things...