Reading glasses and pencils resting on a manuscript

Alie
Dumas-
Heidt

ALIE DUMAS-HEIDT is the author of THE MYTH MAKER, a silver medal winner at BookFest 2025. The Myth Maker introduces Detective Cassidy Cantwell as she searches for two killers in Tacoma, Washington – one from the present, and one from her past.

Alie also spends time chatting with fellow authors about their early beginnings on THE WRITER’S JOURNEY, a new podcast under the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

Alie now lives on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state with her husband, their adult kids, and two ridiculously spoiled dogs – Astrid and Torvi. When not plotting her next story, Alie loves creating in other mediums, including yarn and glass.

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The Myth Maker

Detective Cassidy Cantwell finds herself balancing her personal life and her career while standing over the dead wife of her college ex-boyfriend. Her partner questions her ex’s innocence, but with a new woman dead and an uncanny connection to a Greek myth, it’s confirmed they’re looking for a new killer.

Then, accusatory messages begin arriving for Cassidy, taunting her over the cold case that inspired her career – the murder of her best friend in high school – and Cas finds herself pulled in different directions. Should she sacrifice her personal life for the sake of her career, or put everything she has into finding years-old answers to the case that haunts her?