Hannah Ives is back!

If you've read this far, you know it's been a bittersweet fall for the Talleys with family sorrows and joys managing to keep us completely off-kilter.

In September, Morrow/Avon published my 6th Hannah Ives mystery, THROUGH THE DARKNESS, and I'm happy to report that it made it onto the bestseller list of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.  

Hannah's son-in-law, Dante, has finally realized his dream, opening Dante's Paradiso, a luxury day spa located on the waterfront in Annapolis' Bay Ridge community.  After the gala opening ceremony -- Kendal Ehrlich, wife of the Maryland governor, cuts the ribbon -- a tragic event turns life upside down for the usually intrepid Ives family. 

The plot is plucked -- as mine usually are -- straight from the headlines, but the research I did for this book led me down dark and twisted paths I never expected, and came, quite literally, w-a-y too close to home. Official Press Release

I've published several short stories this year, too.  May I recommend "Home Movies" in Baltimore Noir and "Driven to Distraction" -- inspired by a too-long road trip from Maryland to Florida with my husband, Barry -- which won an Agatha Award for best short story, appears in Chesapeake Crimes Two, and was recently reprinted in The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. 

At present, Hannah and Paul are off learning ballroom dancing (!) while I write a standalone thriller set in Annapolis at the historic William Paca House.  Stay tuned!