About the Author

 

After collecting too many degrees and exploring careers ranging from art historian to investment banker to professional genealogist, Sheila Connolly began writing mysteries in 2001 and is now a full-time writer.

 

She wrote her first mystery series for Berkley Prime Crime under the name Sarah Atwell, and the first book, Through a Glass, Deadly, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

 

Under her own name, her Orchard Mystery Series debuted with One Bad Apple as has been followed by nine more books in the series.

 

Her Museum Mysteries, set in the Philadelphia museum community, opened with Fundraising the Dead and continued with seven more books.

 

Her new series, the County Cork Mysteries, debuted with Buried in a Bog and was followed by three more novels.

 

She has also published ten original ebooks with Beyond the Page: Sour Apples, Once She Knew, The Rising of the Moon, Reunion with Death, Under the Hill, Relatively Dead, Seeing the Dead, Defending the Dead, Watch for the Dead, and Search for the Dead.

 

Sheila is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Romance Writers of America. She is a former President of Sisters in Crime New England, and was cochair for the 2011 New England Crime Bake conference.