Angela Zeman is an author of mystery stories featuring her well known character Mrs. Risk, a suspected witch first introduced in a story for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Along with her faithful companion Rachel, Mrs. Risk solves local intrigues and supernatural mysteries. In 2001, Zeman published The Witch and the Borscht Pearl, a Mrs. Risk novel, and received strong reviews for its quick wit and clockwork plotting.

Zeman has published stories in many anthologies, including Linda Fairstein’s The Prosecution Rests (2009) and Nelson DeMille’s The Rich and the Dead (2011). She has published nonfiction and is one of the founders of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. She lives and writes in New York City, where she is a longstanding member of the New York Friar’s Club.