Taryn Souders

Taryn’s middle grade novels have been named to over twenty-five state award lists. Her book, Coop Knows the Scoop, was an Edgar Award nominee for Best Juvenile mystery novel and a Maud Hart Lovelace HONOR book. Her latest novel, The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle won the Jean Lowrie Medal for Older Children’s Literature (Florida Book Awards) and is both an Agatha Award and an Anthony Award nominee for Best Childrens/YA mystery. Secrets of the Broken House, her next middle grade mystery releases January 2026.

She is a member of both Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She is the President of Word Weavers, International and the co-director of Florida Christian Writers Conference. While she’s somewhat decent at math, she is terrible at science and has an intense dislike of tarantulas.