MARCIA TALLEY

Website URL: www.marciatalley.com

Blog URL: marciatalley.typepad.com/mysteryminded/

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 and the sixth, INTO THE DARKNESS, is due out in September 2006. 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, “Too Many Cooks,” winner of both the Agatha and Anthony awards for Best Short Story, and "Driven To Distraction," a 2005 Agatha award winner for Best Short Story.

Complete Works:

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Winner, Malice Domestic grant, Best Unpublished Novel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
An IMBA bestseller

This Enemy Town, Avon, 2005 $6.99, ISBN 0-060-58739-3
An IMBA #1 bestseller

Through the Darkness, Avon, 2006, ISBN 0-060-58741-5.

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)