Mark Stevens is the author of The Flynn Martin thriller series including No Lie Lasts Forever (2025) and Two Truths and a Lie (2026) both from Thomas & Mercer, The Fireballer (Lake Union 2023) and the Allison Coil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire and The Melancholy Howl.
Buried by the Roan, Trapline, and Lake of Fire were all finalists for the Colorado Humanities Center for the Book Award.
Stevens has published short stories in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune and Denver Noir (Akashic Books 2022). Denver Noir went on to win the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology in 2023.
Stevens was a co-editor for Four Corners Voices, and anthology of fiction, essays, and poetry which won the Colorado Book Award for best anthology in 2025. The Four Corners marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.
In 2016 and 2024, Stevens was named Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year. He hosts a regular podcast for that organization. It can be found at https://www.rmfw.org/podcast.php or on any of your favorite podcast platforms.
Stevens has served as president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. He also publishes book reviews on his review website https://markhstevens.wordpress.com/.
He lives in Mancos, Colorado in the shadow of Mesa Verde where for more than 700 years the ancient Pueblo people made their homes.
See more about this author and his books at htpps://writermarkstevesn.com
Host Sue Hinkin’s website https://www.suehinkin.com
Music by Peter Tavalin at https://www.petertavalin.com
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