Charlotte Hinger

Charlotte Hinger is a novelist and Kansas historian. Mary's Place, published in 2024 by University of Nebraska Press is a tribute to rural communities that experienced one of worst financial disasters in American history. The Healer's Daughter set in the African American community of Nicodemus Kansas won the Kansas Notable Book Award, a Will Rogers silver medallion and was a finalist for the High Plains book award. Simon and Schuster published her first historical novel, Come Spring, which won the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Award.

The award-winning Lottie Albright mystery series was inspired by a childhood listening to the natural born liars in her small community of Lone Elm, Kansas, and the mesmerizing “rest of the stories” whispered behind closed doors when she edited over 500 family submissions for county history books.

She has published a number of mystery short stories. Her latest, "Lizzie Noel" was a finalist for the Spur award. Convinced that mystery writing and historical investigation go hand to hand, she applies her MA in history to academic articles and her wicked and depraved imagination to murder most foul.