I was born in 1962, in Washington, D.C., but I grew up in Arizona. I have a Ph.D. in English from Harvard, along with undergraduate degrees from Oxford and Stanford. I was first pulled into studying literature by the Arthurian legend, and later by Norse sagas, Tolkien, and Shakespeare; my father jokes that I majored in fairy tales. It’s something of a surprise to find myself writing thrillers. Before I began to write books full time, I taught literature and writing at Harvard. Later, I was the classical music critic for the Arizona Daily Star. I’ve also written a number of pieces for the Smithsonian Magazine. I live in Tucson, Arizona, with my husband, son, two dogs and three cats.
My first book, The Speckled Monster,
is what you might call a non-fiction thriller about smallpox, set
in 1721. USA Today praised it as being written “in a compelling,
almost novelistic, voice.” My second book—but first novel—has
become an international bestseller, translated into 28 languages.
It’s called Interred with Their Bones in the U.S., and
The Shakespeare Secret in the UK and many other countries.
My newest book is titled Haunt Me Still in the U.S. and The
Shakespeare Curse in the UK. Italy has called it Il Sangue
che Resta, or The Blood That Remains. (Blood may remain,
apparently, but titles are wayward and inconstant as the moon.) I
hope you’ll give it a try!
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