Conway's jump into novel length is as lean and sexy as her cardio-kickboxing heroine.
The story is less a traditional mystery than a new millennium comic-opera version of a myster. Conway not only speaks the shorthand of the Internet generation but uses it to creat a smart and sassy tale with a heroine who could well be the prototype of a new era of female sleuths.
Edgar-Nominee Martha Conway grew up in Ohio and graduated from Vassar College.
Her work has been published in the Iowa Review, Epoch, The Quarterly, The Carolina Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and other journals, and she is the recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship in Creative Writing.
Martha now lives in San Francisco. 12 BLISS STREET is her first novel.
Copyright (c) 2005 Martha Conway. All rights reserved.
Martha Conway portrait (c) 2003 Kirstie Tweed.
