Jennifer K. Breedlove's debut novel, MURDER WILL OUT, won the 2024 St. Martin’s Minotaur/ Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition; it is slated for publication in February, 2026.

Jennifer holds degrees in piano, choral conducting, and theology. She is on the music faculty at Loyola University in Chicago and serves as an assistant conductor for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Jennifer has worked as church musician, educator, composer, clinician, and editor for various organizations. Writing still found its way into her musical world: she is a prolific composer of choral music, and her compositions, as well as her nonfiction books and articles, are available through several major publishers. She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband, two wiener dogs, and two kids currently attending college. Demonstrating once again the cliché about apples and trees, her son is a music major, and her daughter plans to be a writer.

(Jennifer is represented by Alice Speilburg of Speilburg Literary Agency.)