Mystery Books
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The Whisperers: A Thriller (Charlie Parker Mysteries)“‘Oh, little one,’ he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. ‘W
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Sugar Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)- Includes over fifty original recipes!- Audio and large print rights were sold for Sugar Cookie Murder, as well as for Peach
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Plum IslandThe hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peak
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Death MatchEveryone’s looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech
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From the Dust ReturnedRay Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, f
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The Seven Sins: The Tyrant AscendingTo Dream...To Dare..To Win...The ancient motto, inscribed in Latin on a mysterious golden medallion, recovered f
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The Big FixIntroduction by Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed Moses Wine in the acclaimed screen adaptation of 'The
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Mystery Movies
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Mel Gibson's ApocalyptoFrom Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the Academy Award®-winning BRAVEHEART (Best Director, Best Picture, 19
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Lost - The Complete First SeasonFrom J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, comes the action-packed adventure that became a worldwide television event. Strand
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Fallen (Snap Case Packaging)Homicide detective Denzel Washington must track down a serial killer he caught once before...and who was already put to death! Was
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Mulholland Dr.Laura Harring, Naomi Watts. Betty is a small-town girl who comes to Hollywood with stars in her eyes and looking for sidewalks of
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The GameNicholas Van Orton is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and
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Mystery Authors
Martha Grimes biography
Martha Grimes
(1931 - )
Martha Grimes (born May 2, 1931) is an American author of detective fiction. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to William Dermit Grimes, Pittsburgh's city solicitor, and to June Dunnington, who owned the Mountain Lake Hotel in Western Maryland where Martha and her brother spent much of their childhood. Grimes earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Maryland. She has taught at the University of Iowa, Frostburg State University, and Montgomery College.
Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub. Her page-turning, character-driven tales fall into the mystery subdivision of "cozies." In 1983, Grimes received the Nero Wolfe Award for best mystery of the year for The Anodyne Necklace.
The background to Hotel Paradise is drawn on the experiences she enjoyed spending summers at her mother's hotel in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland. One of the characters, Mr Britten, is drawn on Britten Leo Martin, Sr, who then ran Martin's Store which he owned with his father and brother. Martin's Store is accessible by a short walkway from the Mountain Lake Hotel, the site of the former Hotel, which was torn down in 1967.
She splits her time between homes in Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Information source: wikipedia