Linda L. Richards

Linda L. Richards is a Canadian author and journalist.

The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a contributing editor to the crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona. The first book in her Endings series, the noir thriller ENDINGS, was published by Oceanview Publishing in 2021. A Publishers Weekly starred review said this "harrowing tale of love, loss, and the value of life is not to be missed." The third book in the series, DEAD WEST, will be published September 5, 2023.

Biography Linda L. Richards was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and reared in Vancouver, Los Angeles, California, and Munich, Germany. She founded January Magazine in 1997 as an experiment in Web technologies in support of the computer books she was writing at that time.

In 2010, she was awarded The Panik Award (in honor of the late Paul Anik) for the best Los Angeles Noir for Death Was in the Picture.

In 2019, she was awarded The Arthur Ellis Award for best short story for "Terminal City" which appeared in Vancouver Noir.