Russell W. Johnson is an attorney who got so sick of billable hours he started writing crime fiction. His first story was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and won the Edgar Awards’ Robert L. Fish prize in 2015. Since then, he's had stories published in a number of outlets and recently won the West Virginia Writers Association.... more
Russell W. Johnson is an attorney who got so sick of billable hours he started writing crime fiction. His first story was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and won the Edgar Awards’ Robert L. Fish prize in 2015. Since then, he's had stories published in a number of outlets and recently won the West Virginia Writers Association’s Pearl S. Buck Award as well as First Place for Book Length Fiction. More information on his writing is available at www.russellwjohnson.com.
Russell Johnson's Projects
The Moonshine Messiah
As if being a woman sheriff in the West Virginia coal fields wasn’t tough enough, Mary Beth Cain’s l... more
The Mountain Mystic
Since succeeding her dearly departed husband, Bill, to become Jasper County’s first female sheriff, ... more
