Michelle Richter

Fuse Literary Agency

My Manuscript Wish List®

I am a huge fan of mystery/thriller/suspense and am eager to find crime fiction with a fresh voice. BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled writers and main characters especially welcome. I love domestic and psychological suspense, traditional mysteries, and twisty stand-alone thrillers. Unreliable narrators are a favorite. Since 2018, projects I’ve represented have won or been nominated for the Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, Lefty, Macavity, Mary Higgins Clark Award, and Strand Critics Award, among others. I loved recent books by Jesse Q. Sutanto, Elise Bryant, Lev A.C. Rosen, Simone St. James, and Halley Sutton.

I also love book club fiction and women’s fiction–stories of family secrets, friendships, and sibling relationships in particular–like the work of Virginia Evans, Kiley Reid, Charmaine Wilkerson, Ann Patchett, and Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to https://queryme.online/MichelleRichter

To query Michelle, please submit your query letter, a 1-2 page plot synopsis, and the first twenty pages of your manuscript through Query Manager at https://queryme.online/MichelleRichter.

Guidelines & Details

Vital Info

@Michrichter1

@michellerichterbks

Website

Agent

Fiction:

Commercial, Crime, General, LGBTQ, Mystery, Thriller, Women’s Fiction

Favorite sub-genres:

#ownvoices, #wndb, Accessible Literary Fiction, Amateur Sleuth Mysteries, Asian American Literature, BIPOC, BIPOC Mystery, Book Club, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Cozy Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Crime Fiction, Mystery / Crime, Suspense, book club fiction, contemporary women's fiction, literary mystery, locked room, mystery

I’d like the next…

…DIAL A FOR AUNTIES, BATH HAUS, CROSS MY HEART, THE GOD OF THE WOODS, PARENTS WEEKEND, FINLAY DONOVAN, MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT, CITY UNDER ONE ROOF.

My favorites include…

Books: MISSING WHITE WOMAN, NEVER SAW ME COMING, THE MIDNIGHT TAXI, HISTORY LESSONS, EVERYBODY KNOWS, MURDER TAKES A VACATION, DON’T LET HIM IN. Film: Knives Out, Sinners, Sentimental Value. TV: Department Q, The Pitt, Only Murders in the Building, The Hunting Wives, Man on the Inside, Lupin, Broadchurch, The Traitors UK and US.