Susan Oleksiw is the author of the Mellingham Mystery series  featuring Chief of Police Joe Silva. The first in the series, Murder  in Mellingham, appeared in 1993, followed by Double Take (1994), 
Family Album (1993), Friends and Enemies (2001), and A Murderous 
Innocence (2006).

She introduced a new series featuring Indian American amateur sleuth Anita Ray in "A Murder Made in India," a short story in Alfred  Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. The first novel featuring Anita Ray is  
Under the Eye of Kali (2010).

Susan's first publication in the mystery field was A Reader's Guide to the Classic British Mystery (G.K. Hall, 1988; Mysterious Press, 1989), the first in a series of six readers' guides for which she is editor. She has been reviewing crime fiction for over twelve years with The Drood Review of Mystery and other magazines. Susan Oleksiw is the co-founder of Level Best Books.

Before turning to crime fiction, Susan received a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania, and lived and traveled extensively in India as part of her studies. She was the editor for a collection of scholarly articles on communications in Asia in the early 1980s; she has published several scholarly articles on Indian literature and art as well. Her short stories and essays about India appear in other literary journals. Anita Ray, an Indian American photographer living in India, appeared  in Under the Eye of Kali (2010), after being introduced in a number of short stories.

Susan is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America,  Authors Guild, National Writers Union, Five Star, and Short Mystery  Fiction Society.