Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter’s
2025 Hugh Holton Award
for an unpublished manuscript
Colleen Newquist’s debut novel, FOREVER 69, is an upmarket mystery featuring a lively ensemble cast led by Ellen Sesso, a beloved sixty-something who writes a senior sex blog about her bedroom adventures and digs into the surprisingly dark history of her small town as head of the historical society.
When Ellen is bludgeoned and left for dead at her annual harvest party, the people closest to her—friends, family, and the town’s police chief—form an unlikely investigative circle, fearing the unthinkable: that one of their own wants to silence Ellen forever.
Think The Thursday Murder Club meets a silver-haired Stephanie Plum.
Currently seeking representation.