BIOGRAPHY -- 120 words

Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of SING IT TO HER BONES, UNBREATHED MEMORIES, OCCASION OF REVENGE and IN DEATH'S SHADOW. The fifth book in the Hannah Ives mystery series, THIS ENEMY TOWN, was released in September 2005. She is editor/author of NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX, a star-studded, tongue-in-cheek collaborative serial novel about murder in a fashionable health spa. A second collaboration, I’D KILL FOR THAT, is set in an upscale gated community. Marcia’s short stories appear in more than a dozen collections, including “With Love, Marjorie Ann” and “Safety First”, both Agatha Award nominees, and “Too Many Cooks,” winner of both the Agatha and Anthony awards for Best Short Story.