Marcia Talley

The daughter of a Marine, Marcia Talley spent a lot of her youth traveling. The oldest of five daughters, she was born in Ohio and eventually returned there to go to Oberlin College in the late 60s.

Talley taught 6th grade in Baltimore while her husband worked on his doctorate in music. They then moved to Annapolis where her husband was the director of musical activities for the Naval Academy and she taught at St. John's College.

Talley's first novel was published in 1998, a novel that would win a Malice Domestic Grant and be nominated for an Agatha Award. Her other works have received numerous Agatha nominations and won a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award. Her short story in Much Ado About Murder won her an Agatha, an Anthony, and was nominated for a Macavity.

She is also the editor of, as well as a contributor to, two collaborative serial novels.

Bibliography

Hannah Ives Series	Edited by/Stories in:
Sing it to Her Bones	I'd Kill for That
Unbreathed Memories	Much Ado About Murder
Occasion of Revenge	Chesapeake Crimes
In Death's Shadow	Naked Came the Phoenix
This Enemy Town