MARCIA TALLEY

Website URL: www.marciatalley.com

Blog URL: marciatalley.typepad.com/mysteryminded/

Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DEAD MAN DANCING and six previous mystery novels featuring survivor and sleuth, Hannah Ives.

Marcia is author/editor of two star-studded collaborative novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT set in a fashionable health spa and an exclusive gated community, respectively. Her 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 and Anthony nominee which was reprinted in THE DANGEROUS BRIDE AND 21 OF THE YEAR’S FINEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES.

Marcia is immediate past president of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime, serves as Vice-president for Sisters in Crime National, and is on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. She divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland and an antique sailboat in the Bahamas.

Complete Works:

Hannah Ives Mystery Series:

Sing It To Her Bones, Dell, 1999  $6.99  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Winner, Malice Domestic grant, Best Unpublished Novel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 $6.99 ISBN 0-060-58741-5
An IMBA bestseller

Dead Man Dancing, Severn House, 2008 $27.50 ISBN 978-0-7278-6670-7

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: 0-312-29057-8 (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 (Tidewater Publishing, December 2006) $11.95 ISBN 978-0870335822 (Trade paper)
Winner, Agatha award, Best Short Story
Anthony award nominee, Best Short Story

“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) $14.95 ISBN 1-888451-96-3 (Trade paper)

“Two Sisters,” Chesapeake Crimes 3 (Wildside Press, 2008) $14.99 ISBN 978-1434402349 (Trade paper)

“Can You Hear Me Now?” Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery, $25.95 ISBN 978-0061350337 (Hardback)

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: www.marciatalley.com