The Grim Reader

by Margaret Welch

It's simmering Suspense week at the Castleton Manor literary retreat in Lighthouse Bay, MA. Faith has her hands full with a weeks worth of author talks and signings. The guest of honor clears out of her suite and disappears without a trace. Cause of this she has her hands full trying to keep her other guests and her boss satisfied.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Pseudonym for Molly MacRae.

Bio

Molly MacRae spent twenty years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Upper East Tennessee, where she managed The Book Place, an independent bookstore; may it rest in peace. Before the lure of books hooked her, she was curator of the history museum in Jonesborough, Tennessee’s oldest town.

MacRae lives with her family in Champaign, Illinois, where she recently retired from connecting children with books at the public library.
Bibliography and Awards
Novels

Argyles and Arsenic, Pegasus Books, March 2022
Heather and Homicide, Pegasus Books, December 2020
Thistles and Thieves, Pegasus Books, January 2020
Crewel and Unusual, Pegasus Books, January 2019
For Letter or Worse (writing as Margaret Welch), Annie’s Fiction, 2018
Scones and Scoundrels, Pegasus Books, January 2018
The Grim Reader (writing as Margaret Welch), Annie’s Fiction, 2017
Plaid and Plagiarism, Pegasus Books, December 2016
Knot the Usual Suspects, NAL/Obsidian, September 2015
Plagued by Quilt, NAL/Obsidian, November 2014
Spinning in Her Grave, NAL/Obsidian, March 2014
Dyeing Wishes, NAL/Obsidian, July 2013
Last Wool and Testament, NAL/Obsidian, September 2012
Lawn Order, Five Star Mysteries/Cengage, December 2010
Wilder Rumors, Five Star Mysteries/Cengage, May 2007

Short Stories

“Junk Food,” in Cooked to Death, Nodin Press, July 2016
My Troubles (collection of Margaret & Bitsy stories) Darkhouse Books, December 2014
“Cookies,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (AHMM) June 2008
“A Walk in the Park,” Hardluck Stories, Summer 2007
“Wilder Dancing,” Mysterical-E, Summer 2007
“Practically Perfect,” Doses of Death, Lulu, 2005
“Fandango by Flashlight,” AHMM, December 2005
“It Takes Two,” AHMM, February 2002
“No Can Do,” AHMM, July/August 2001
“Ah, Paradise,” AHMM, November 2000
“Missing Something,” AHMM, May 2000
“Speaking Terms,” AHMM, April 1991
“My Trouble,” January 1990

Nonfiction

“Buzzing with Stories: A Visit with Author, Librarian, Teacher Janice N. Harrington,” Children and Libraries, Vol 19, No 4 (2021)
“Wilder Rumors,” an essay in the “New Books” section of Mystery Scene, issue 100, 2007
“Book Pusher: My Life in and out of Fiction,” Mystery Readers Journal, Fall 2005
Humor, Rumor, and Romance in Old Jonesborough, Overmountain Press, 1991 (editor)

Mystery Theater

Interactive dinner plays available through Positive Solutions Through Stories and Tours
“The Dead of Winter Murder Mystery”
“Daggers and Old Lace”
“Murder in Little Chicago”

Awards

2015 Lovey Award for Best Paranormal for Plagued by Quilt
2013 Lovey Award for Best Paranormal for Last Wool and Testament
2012 Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2012 for Last Wool and Testament
2001 Virginia Highlands Creative Writing Contest, first prize for novel, Wilder Rumors
2000 Sherwood Anderson Award for short fiction for “More or Less”