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Eileen Haavik McIntire--that's me, folks--writes the 90s Club cozy mystery series featuring the 90-year-olds at Whisperwood Retirement Village who turn up clues like tricks in a bridge game to catch the culprits. I also write an historical mystery series drawing on Florida and art history. I was born in Florida, and Florida history books often include the story of a young woman captured by Barbary pirates, sold to the vizier of the king of Morocco, has two children, and escapes in a palace coup. Her grandson became the first senator from Florida. I was fascinated by that story and it became the inspiration for my first novel, Shadow of the Rock.

 

I travel for research and have ridden a camel in the Moroccan Sahara, fished for piranhas on the Amazon, sailed in a felucca on the Nile, and lived for three years on a motorsailer, exploring the coast from Annapolis to Key West.

 

I am recent past president of the Maryland Writers’ Association and an enthusiastic member of Sisters in Crime.

 

Currently, I am working for certification as a Master Naturalist in Maryland and volunteer with the Robinson Nature Center in Columbia, MD. I have two novels in the pipeline. The seventh in the 90s Club mystery series will be out later this year. A traditional mystery, An Epitaph for Emeralds, will be published next year. 

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