President, Sisters in Crime New England
Co-Chair, New England Crime Bake
Connie Johnson Hambley grew up on a small dairy farm just north of New York City. When she was a young girl, an arsonist burned her family's barn to the ground. From that experience grew the stories that have become her mainstay.
When writing her thrillers, every bit of personal experience is used by Hambley to create a story that is as believable as it is suspenseful. Using her law and investment background in ways unique, creative, but not altogether logical, she has enjoyed robust professional pursuits which include writing for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Massachusetts High Tech, and Nature Biotechnology. Proving that truth can be stranger than fiction, her experience at a major bank in Boston introduced her to the clever schemes people dream up to launder money. She is an experienced and dynamic public speaker and looks forward to entertaining her next audience and sneaking knowledge into them with humor.
Hambley is a two-time winner of Best Fiction at the EQUUS Film Festival in New York City for "The Troubles," and "The Wake," thrillers of terrorism and identity found. "The Charity" is the first book in that trilogy.
Her short stories, "Giving Voice," and "Black Ice" were published in WINDWARD and SNOWBOUND, Level Best Books’ “Best New England Crime Stories” anthologies. "The Brew" was featured in the Christmas issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine. Most recently, "The Soul Changer's Confession" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by her publisher, Running Wild Press.
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