Marcia Talley

Biographical Sketch

Marcia Talley’s first Hannah Ives novel, Sing It to Her Bones, won the Malice Domestic Grant in 1998 and was nominated for an Agatha Award as Best First Novel of 1999. Unbreathed Memories, the second in the series, won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Contemporary Mystery of 2000. Both were Featured Alternates of the Mystery Guild. Hannah’s third adventure, Occasion of Revenge, was released in August 2001 and is a Romantic Times Top Pick. Marcia is also the editor of a collaborative serial novel, Naked Came the Phoenix, where she joins twelve best-selling women authors to pen a tongue-in-cheek mystery about murder in an exclusive health spa. A second collaboration, I'd Kill For That, set in an upscale gated community, was published in 2003. Marcia's short stories have appeared in magazines and collections including "With Love, Marjorie Ann", a 1999 Agatha Award nominee and "Too Many Cooks" which won the Agatha and Anthony awards for Best Short Story of 2002 and was nominted for a Macavity award. "Safety First" was nominated for the Agatha in 2003.

Marcia lives in Annapolis, Maryland with her husband, Barry, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. When she isn’t writing, she spends her time traveling or sailing. Marcia and her husband recently returned from the Bahamas where they lived for six months aboard Troubadour, their 37-foot sailboat.

The Hannah Ives mystery series:

Sing It To Her Bones, Dell, 1999 $5.99 ISBN: 0-440-23517-0

Winner, Malice Domestic grant, Best Unpublished Novel
Agatha award nominee, Best First Novel

Unbreathed Memories, Dell, 2000 $5.99 ISBN: 0-440-23518-9

Winner, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, Best Contemporary Mystery

Occasion of Revenge, Dell, 2001 $6.50 ISBN: 0-440-23520-0

Top Ten Pick, Poisoned Pen

In Death’s Shadow, Avon, 2004 $6.99 ISBN 0-060-58738-5

This Enemy Town, Avon, 2005 $6.99, ISBN 0-060-58739-3

Editor/Author:

Naked Came the Phoenix, St. Martins Press, 2001. Chapters by: Nevada Barr, Nora Roberts, Nancy Pickard, Lisa Scottoline, Perri O’Shaughnessy, JA Jance, Faye Kellerman, Mary Jane Clark, Marcia Talley, Anne Perry, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid and Laurie King. $24.95 ISBN: 0-312-25194-7 (Hardcover); $6.99 ISBN: 0-312-98019-1 (Paperback)

I’d Kill for That, St. Martins Press, 2004. Chapters by: Gayle Lynds, Rita Mae Brown, Marcia Talley, Lisa Gardner, Linda Fairstein, Kay Hooper, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith, Heather Graham, Jennifer Crusie, Tina Wainscott, Anne Perry and Katherine Neville. $23.95 ISBN: 0-312-98019-1 (Hardcover); $6.99, ISBN 0-312-93696-6 (Paperback)

Short stories:

“With Love, Marjorie Ann,” Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Fall 1999: Agatha award nominee, Best Short Story. - OOP

“For Sale by Owner,” Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Winter 2000 - OOP.

“Conventional Wisdom,” Malice Domestic 9 (Avon, 2000) $5.99 ISBN: 0-380-80483-2

“To Catch a Fish,” Death by Horoscope (Carroll & Graf, 2001) $25.00 ISBN: 0-786-70845-X (Hardcover); $12.00 ISBN: 0-786-71153-1 (Trade paper)

“Too Many Cooks,” Much Ado About Murder (Berkley, 2002) $23.95 ISBN: 0-425-18650-4 (Hardcover); $6.99 ISBN 0425192954 (Paperback) Winner, Agatha award, Best Short Story,Winner, Anthony award, Best Short Story, Macavity award nominee, Best Short Story

“Safety First,” Blood on Their Hands (Carroll & Graf, 2003) $23.95 ISBN: 0-425-19035-8 (Hardcover); (Berkley, 2004) $7.50, ISBN 042519924X (Paperback) Agatha award nominee, Best Short Story

“Vital Signs,” Chesapeake Crimes (Quiet Storm Publishing, 2004) $23.95 ISBN 0-425-18650-4 (Hardcover)

“Miss Havisham Regrets,” Death by Dickens (Berkley Prime Crime, 2004) $23.95 ISBN: 0-425-19420-5 (Hardcover); (Berkley, 2004) $7.50, ISBN 0425199479 (Paperback)

“Driven to Distraction,” Chesapeake Crimes II (Quiet Storm Publishing, May 2005) $23.95 (Hardcover)

“The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen,” Thou Shalt Not Kill (Carrol and Graf, December 2005) $15.95 ISBN 0-7867-1575-8 (Trade Paper).

“Home Movies,” Baltimore Noir (Akashic Books, May 2006)

Other works:

A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers, by Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl. (Poisoned Pen Press, 2003) $19.95 ISBN: 1-59058-077-X (Hardcover).

Visit Marcia’s website at: http://www.marciatalley.com

URL: http://www.marciatalley.com/Pressbio.html
Last updated: 25 September 2005