Annette Dashofy

Annette Dashofy writes contemporary mysteries shaped by western Pennsylvania communities, professional loyalties, and secrets that cross generations. Where the Guilty Hide opens her Detective Matthias Honeywell series and moves the setting to Erie, where Honeywell and his partner Cassie Malone investigate a sequence of home invasions. Freelance photographer Emma Anderson becomes another central viewpoint, carrying a past that intersects with the new cases. One More Chapter released it in 2023, and the series continues with Keep Your Family Close. Dashofy was already known for the long-running Zoe Chambers mysteries, which pair a rural paramedic and deputy coroner with police chief Pete Adams. That earlier sequence earned repeated Agatha Award nominations, while her standalone Death by Equine received the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award. Where the Guilty Hide retains her interest in place and community but gives its investigators a more urban Lake Erie landscape. The book therefore marks both a new cast and a deliberate expansion of Dashofy’s established crime-fiction territory.