DEVIL'S CHEW TOY is a 2023 Best Debut Mystery Finalist for the Anthony, Macavity, Agatha, and Lefty Awards, and was a 2022 Year's Best by Crime Reads, BOLO Books, Book Riot, and POPSUGAR. The second book in the Hayden & Friends Mystery Series—CIRQUE DU SLAY—arrives April 9, 2024. The traditional mysteries feature a rainbow cast of amateur sleuths. Rob's debut mystery short story, ANALOGUE, appearing in ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE (EQMM), won the Mystery Writers of America 2022 Robert L Fish Award for best debut short story by an American Author. Other forthcoming short stories include MISS DIRECTION (Sept/Oct 2023 in EQMM) and RED SHOES (Fall 2023, Down & Out Books Anthology). Book one in a new historical series featuring a Chicago-based queer female detective in America's Progressive Era launches Jan 2025 from Kensington Books. Rob is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Authors' Guild, Sisters in Crime, and Queer Crime Writers. He is a graduate in philosophy from the University of Puget Sound and earned a master's degree in business from the University of Washington's Foster School. After many years of living in Chicago and Seattle, he resides in California with his long-time partner and a tall, gray cat. Discover more at www.robosler.com