A Murder of Crows

What do you call a group of writers tasked with penning tales of crime that must include animals and their collective names? It's a wording of writers!

This wording features twenty-one writers who share crimes stories with a surprising twist. No animals are harmed--the humans don't fare so well.
Here are the usual suspects:

Jack Bates, Michael Bracken, Jeanne DuBois, Kaye George, EJ McFall, Kari Wainwright, John M. Floyd, Heidi Hunter, Jacqueline Seewald, Kathryn Gerwig, Earl Staggs, Marianne Wilski Strong, Damien Mckeating, C.A. Fehmel, Linda Kay Hardie, Helen O'Neill, Shielia J. Rizer, Maddi Davidson, Denise Johnson, Sandra Murphy, J.B. Toner