About Sue

With little more than an urge to hang out at the beach, write mystery novels, and mollify a grumpy cat who’d never ridden in a car before, Sue McGinty left Los Angeles on June 17, 1994—the same day OJ Simpson took flight across the LA freeways. Unlike OJ, Sue had a destination in mind: the Central Coast town of Los Osos. Not the Cabot Cove of “Murder She Wrote,” but close.

Her Central Coast mysteries, “Murder in Los Lobos,” “Murder at Cuyamaca Beach,” “Murder in Mariposa Bay, “Murder in a Safe Haven, and “Murder at Smuggler’s Cove” feature former nun turned sleuth Bella Kowalski.


Multi-author Launch-Coalesce Bookstore


Sue and Jay Asher, author of 13 Reasons Why


Bella's Windmill Home