Marcia Talley

Marcia Talley (born April 12, 1943) is an award-winning mystery novelist, author of the Hannah Ives mystery series, two collaborative novels, and numerous short stories. A former librarian, she took early retirement in 2000 to write full-time. She divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland and an antique sailboat in the Bahamas.

Early life, education and career

Marcia was born April 12, 1943, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of COL Thomas Chester Dutton, a career U.S. Marine Corps officer, and Lois Elizabeth Tuckerman Dutton, a registered nurse. On September 5, 1964 she married her college sweetheart, John Barry Talley, who was for thirty-six years Director of Musical Activities at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Talley has two daughters, Laura Geyer, an attorney in Washington, D.C., and Sarah Glass, a former teacher who lives in Dallas, Texas. She has five grandchildren.

Talley studied French at Oberlin College and obtained her B.A. 1965. She was a librarian at Bryn Mawr School from 1968-1971. She then worked as a cataloguer at St. John's College in Annapolis. She received a master's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. Later, Talley later worked for TeleSec Library Services, the American Bankers Association, the U.S. General Accounting Office and the U.S. Naval Academy Library.

Talley is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Authors Guild and the Maryland Writers Association.

Awards and nominations

• Malice Domestic Grant, Best Unpublished Novel, 1998 (Sing It to Her Bones);
• Agatha Award nomination, 1999 (Sing It to Her Bones);
• Reviewers Choice, Best Contemporary Mystery, Romantic Times, 2001 (Unbreathed Memories);
• Agatha Award and Anthony Award, Best Short Story, 2003 ("Too Many Cooks" in Much Ado About Murder);
• Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2005 ("Driven to Distraction" in Chesapeake Crimes II).
• A keynote speaker at the Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave in 2005.

Works

Novels

Hannah Ives Mystery series

• Sing It to Her Bones (1999)
• Unbreathed Memories (2000)
• Occasion of Revenge (2001)
• In Death's Shadow (2004)
• This Enemy Town (2005)
• Through the Darkness (2006)
• Dead Man Dancing (2008)
• Without a Grave (2009)
• "All Things Undying" (2010)
• "A Quiet Death" (2011)

Short stories

• "With Love, Marjorie Ann" Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Fall 1999;
• "For Sale by Owner" Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Winter 2000;
• "Conventional Wisdom" Malice Domestic 9 (Avon, 2000);
• "To Catch a Fish" Death by Horoscope (Carroll & Graf, 2001);
• "Too Many Cooks" Much Ado About Murder (Berkley, 2002);
• "Safety First" Blood on Their Hands (Carroll & Graf, 2003);
• "Vital Signs" Chesapeake Crimes I (Lulu.com, 2006);
• "Miss Havisham Regrets" Death by Dickens (Berkley Prime Crime, 2004);
• "Driven to Distraction" Chesapeake Crimes II (Tidewater Publishing, December 2006);
• "The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen" Thou Shalt Not Kill (Carrol and Graf, December 2005);
• "Home Movies" Baltimore Noir (Akashic Books, May 2006);
• "Two Sisters" Chesapeake Crimes III (Tidewater Publishing, December 2007).
• "Can You Hear Me Now?" Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery (Harper Collins, 2009)

Other

• Naked Came the Phoenix (collaborative serial novel), St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2001;
• I'd Kill for That (collaborative serial novel), St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2003;
• A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers, Poisoned Pen Press, 2003.

Podcasts

• "Making Crime Pay: An Author's Journey," Milner Library, Illinois State University, June 8, 2007
• "Mystery Writer Visits ISU," WJBC AM 1230, June 7, 2007
• Drake Ferguson interviews Marcia Talley, April 28, 2007, Oxford Days, Oxford, MD
• Marcia Talley: This Enemy Town, Eye on Books, with Bill Thompson, (2005)

Articles

• "Novelist Encourages Fellow Cancer Survivors," Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL, June 7, 2007
• Writing Habits of Mystery Writers, Marcia Talley," The Motivated Writer, November 2006
• "The Mystery Mews," Mystery Scene Magazine
• Marcia on the annual St Hildas Crime and Mystery Conference
• Marcia attends the Firearms and Fiction Seminar, Las Vegas, NV
• "Second Chances," Baltimore Magazine, October, 2004
• "Thirteen Writers Take A Stab at a Witty Whodunit," Baltimore Sun, May 27, 2004
• "Murder She Wrote," by Hope Katz Gibbs in Crystal City, etc., Summer 2001
• "Crime and Publishing," Marcia Talley with SJ Rozan and Sara Hoskinson Frommer, Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Winter 1999
• "Hannah Ives leaves no stone unturned in this thrilling mystery," Melissa Kammer
• PW [Publishers’ Weekly] Talks with Marcia Talley, 7/2/2001
• Bay Weekly, Between the Covers, Marcia Talley’s In Death’s Shadow

References

External links

• Marcia Talley Web site
• Marcia Talley blog

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