Martha Reed

Martha Reed is relentlessly fascinated by the question of what makes people tick.

She is the multi-award-winning mystery and crime fiction author of LOVE POWER, a 2021 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Best Attending Author Award and Silver Falchion Finalist in the Best Mystery category introducing Gigi Pascoe, a transgender sleuth. UP JUMPED THE DEVIL, Book Two in the Crescent City NOLA Mysteries was published by Buccaneer Independent MicroPress in October 2023 followed by THE SEVEN GATES OF GUINEE, NOLA Mystery Book Three in November of 2025.

Her short story, THE HONOR THIEF was selected for the Bouchercon 2021 Anthony Award-winning anthology, THIS TIME FOR SURE edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan. THE NATURE OF THE GRAVE, the second book in Martha's John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery series won an Independent Publisher "IPPY" Book Award for Mid-Atlantic Best Regional Fiction.

Other short stories and articles have appeared in Pearl, Suspense Magazine, Spinetingler, Mystery Readers Journal, Kings River Life Magazine, Mysterical-e, Frontier Tales Magazine, and in two Sisters in Crime anthologies: LUCKY CHARMS - 12 Crime Tales published by the Mary Roberts Rinehart Pittsburgh chapter and PARADISE IS DEADLY - Gripping Tales from the Florida Gulf Coast.

Martha adores travel, big jewelry, and simply great coffee. She delights in the ongoing antics of her family, fans, and friends whom she lovingly calls The Mutinous Crew.