Martha Grimes

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (where her father was the city solicitor), Martha Grimes spent every summer at her mother’s hotel in Western Maryland. Her favorite memories of that time are her mother’s cooking and her brother’s theatrical productions in the big garage behind the hotel to which she was rarely admitted.

A long-time Anglophile, it was her first poem in Send Bygraves that inspired her to turn from poetry to mystery novels. Martha’s first novel, The Man with a Load of Mischief was published in 1981, and from there Martha Grimes has published a book (sometimes two) every year for the past 25 years.