Marta Stephens

Marta Stephens is a master crime fiction and mystery novelist who knows how to spin complex, credible, action-packed, and gripping stories with plot, subplot, and more subplot. Her works are well-crafted tales that ride the borders between hard-boiled crime mystery, suspense, and thrillers. She has always been drawn to books and films in the mystery/suspense genres which have influenced her writing.

Stephens’s most recently published work, I Spy a Crime: An Anthology is her first collective book of short mysteries.

Her published crime fiction novels are: Silenced Cry, the first book in the Sam Harper Crime Mystery series, (1st edition, 2007; 2nd edition, 2017), received honorable mention at the 2008 New York Book Fair. Book two in the series, The Devil Can Wait, (1st edition, 2008; 2nd edition 2017), received the Bronze Medal in the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). Shroud of Lies (2017), takes place in 1962, Hollywood, California, and introduces private investigator, Rhonie Lude.

Stephens is also an artist and very involved in her local artists' guild. When she’s not spending time with family and friends, she devotes herself to writing and painting. Please visit www.mstephensbooks.com for more information about the author and her works.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism/Public Relations from Ball State University (2001) and is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, lived in Los Angeles in the late 1970’s but has called Indiana home since the age of four.