Jeffrey Marks is a long-time mystery fan and freelancer. After
numerous mystery author profiles, he chose to chronicle the short but full life
of mystery writer, Craig Rice.
That biography (Who Was That Lady?)
encouraged him to write mystery fiction. His works include Atomic Renaissance:
Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950s, and Criminal Appetites, an anthology
of cooking related mysteries. His latest work is a biography of mystery author
and critic Anthony Boucher, entitled Anthony Boucher. It has been nominated for
an Agatha and fittingly, won an Anthony.
He is the long-time moderator
of MurderMustAdvertise, an on-line discussion group dedicated to book marketing
and public relations. He is the author of Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre
Novel, the only how-to book for promoting genre fiction.
His work has
won a number of awards including the Barnes and Noble Prize and he was nominated
for a Maxwell award (DWAA), an Edgar (MWA), three Agathas (Malice Domestic), two
Macavity awards, and three Anthony awards (Bouchercon). Today, he writes from
his home in Cincinnati, which he shares with his partner and two dogs.
In the third book in this series, US Grant and his wife visit
Cincinnati, just down the road from Georgetown and Bethel. At a gala political
function, Grant thinks that he sees an apparition. When the ghost disappears and
a reporter stumbles on the scene, Grant knows that he has to solve the mystery
of the ghost and why it would appear to him. Taking on the issues of 19th
century spiritualism and the recently freed slaves, this book looks at the ways
the nation changed in the months following the end of the Civil War.
Other books in this series:
Under Investigation
The Ambush of My Name
A Good Soldier
