Charlotte Stuart

Charlotte Stuart PhD is an award-winning mystery writer who enjoys walking in the woods, black licorice and making people laugh. Before she started writing full time, she left a tenured faculty position to go commercial fishing in Alaska, spent a year sailing "around the world" in the Washington and Canadian San Juans, became a partner in a management consulting group and later a VP of HR and Training. Her current passion is for writing character-driven mysteries with twisty plots. Most include...See more

Charlotte Stuart PhD is an award-winning mystery writer who enjoys walking in the woods, black licorice and making people laugh. Before she started writing full time, she left a tenured faculty position to go commercial fishing in Alaska, spent a year sailing "around the world" in the Washington and Canadian San Juans, became a partner in a management consulting group and later a VP of HR and Training. Her current passion is for writing character-driven mysteries with twisty plots. Most include at least a dollop of humor, but she describes her "In$urance" series as "Murder with a Laugh Track." In$ured to the Hilt, the first in this series, was a semi-finalist in the Chanticleer International Mystery and Mayhem Awards and was a Reader Views Silver winner. Her Discount Detective Mysteries took a 1st place series award in the Chanticleer International Mystery and Mayhem competition. She's won or placed in a number of other competitions, including a Global Ebook Gold, A Global Book Award Bronze, and was a finalist in Foreword Indies, Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion and Eric Hoffer Awards. Charlotte lives on Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest and is the past president of the Puget Sound Sisters in Crime and a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers. See less