Biographical Sketches

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Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DISCO DEAD and eighteen previous novels featuring survivor and sleuth, Hannah Ives.  She is author/editor of two star-studded collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT, set in a fashionable health spa and an exclusive gated community, respectively. Her prize-winning short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.

Marcia is a past national President of Sisters in Crime, Inc.  She is president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, and a member of the Crime Writers Association (UK).  She divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland and a cottage on Elbow Cay in the Bahamas.

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Marcia Talley is the author of DISCO DEAD and eighteen previous novels featuring Maryland sleuth, Hannah Ives. A winner of the Malice Domestic grant and an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel, she won an Agatha and an Anthony Award for her short story “Too Many Cooks” and an Agatha for her short story “Driven to Distraction.” She is author/editor of two star-studded mystery collaborations, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT, and her short stories apear in more than a dozen magazines and anthologies. She divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland and a quaint Loyalist cottage in the Bahamas.

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Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DISCO DEAD and eighteen previous novels featuring survivor and sleuth, Hannah Ives. She is author/editor of two star-studded collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT, set in a fashionable health spa and an exclusive gated community, respectively. Her prize-winning short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.

Marcia divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland and a cottage on Elbow Cay in the Bahamas where she lives with a husband who loves to sail and a cat who doesn’t.

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Marcia Talley is the multi-award-winning author of SING IT TO HER BONES, UNBREATHED MEMORIES, OCCASION OF REVENGE, IN DEATH’S SHADOW, THIS ENEMY TOWN, THROUGH THE DARKNESS, DEAD MAN DANCING, WITHOUT A GRAVE, ALL THINGS UNDYING, A QUIET DEATH, THE LAST REFUGE, DARK PASSAGE, TOMORROW’S VENGEANCE, DAUGHTER OF ASHES,  FOOTPRINTS TO MURDER, MILE HIGH MURDER, TANGLED ROOTS, DONE GONE and DISCO DEAD, as well as two star-studded collaborative novels. Her prize-winning short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.

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Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DISCO DEAD and eighteen previous novels featuring survivor and sleuth, Hannah Ives. She is author/editor of two star-studded collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT, set in a fashionable health spa and an exclusive gated community, respectively. Her prize-winning short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.

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Marcia Talley is the multi-award-winning author of nineteen Hannah Ives mysteries, from SING IT TO HER BONES (1999) to DISCO DEAD (2022). She is editor/contributor to NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT. Her prize-winning short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.