Angela M. Sanders is the author of the bestselling Witch Way Librarian cozy mysteries and the Joanna Hayworth vintage clothing mysteries. As Clover Tate, she wrote the Kite Shop cozy mysteries. When Angela isn’t at her laptop, she’s often lounging with a vintage crime novel at home in Portland, Oregon. www.angelamsanders.com.

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Angela M. Sanders is the author of the bestselling Witch Way Librarian cozy mysteries and the Joanna Hayworth vintage clothing mysteries. As Clover Tate, she wrote the Kite Shop cozy mysteries. Her latest book, the sixth in the Witch Way Librarian series, is The Witch is Back. Witch and Tell will be released in October 2025.

In addition, Angela is at work on a new series featuring the occupants of a Victorian mansion-turned-rooming house set in Astoria, Oregon, and infused with perfume, magical realism, murder, and heart. The first in that series, A Whiff of Murder, will be released by Kensington Books in the spring of 2026.

Angela’s nonfiction writing includes features articles for Culture, Portland Monthly, Portland, and Edible Portland magazines, among others. Her love of perfume earned her a long-running column in the popular blog Now Smell This and led to articles for Nez, a perfume magazine based in Paris.

Before venturing into fiction, Angela was a congressional investigator focusing on nuclear waste and natural resource policies. Her interviewees ranged from fishermen off the Florida Keys to managers at chemical companies in the Czech Republic to workers at the heart of a nuclear reactor manufacturing weapons-grade tritium to highly placed U.S. government officials. Through it all, Angela often found her attention straying to the photos on desks, remnants of lunch pushed to the side, and interviewees’ mindless doodles. Which of these people might have considered a life in the priesthood? Which one raised budgies? Which person had secrets they hid beneath an anxious, bland smile? It quickly became apparent Angela’s true vocation was as a novelist.

Angela lives in Portland, Oregon. When she’s not spinning murder plots at her desk, she’s often lounging in an antique Chinese wedding bed—her lady fort—reading vintage crime novels amidst a pile of pillows and a subtle waft of L’Heure Bleue.