
The Case of the Missing Maid, Cirque du Slay, Devil's Chew Toy
Harriet Morrow Investigates, Hayden & Friends Mysteries
Amateur Sleuth, Cozy, Detective, Historical, Private Investigator, Short Fiction, Traditional
Brutal & Strange, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Host to a Murder (EQMM Nov/Dec 2025), Not the Usual Boy (EQMM, Mar/Apr 2025) Miss Direction (EQMM, Sept/Oct 2023), Analogue (EQMM Jan/Feb 2022) (Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Brutal & Strange, Dec, 2023 Analogue, EQMM, Jan/Feb 2021
Craft, Subject Expertise
Rob has appeared as a guest author at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, major crime novel conferences, bookstores, bookclubs and libraries.
Rob Osler is the USA Today Bestselling Author of The Case of the Missing Maid, the first novel in the new historical series, Harriet Morrow Investigates. He is an Anthony, Left Coast Crime, and MWA Robert L Fish Award Winner, and an Edgar Finalist. He also writes the Perry Winkle Whodunnits short story series which appear exclusively in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He also wrote the multi-award-winning Hayden & Friends Mystery series. Rob is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Queer Crime Writers. He is a graduate of 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 living in Chicago and Seattle, he resides in California with his husband and a tall, gray cat. Discover more at www.robosler.com