Marta Stephens is a crime fiction novelist known to spin complex, credible, action-packed, and gripping stories that ride the borders between hardboiled crime mystery, suspense, and thrillers. Over the past twenty years, Stephens has written several short stories in addition to her crime mystery novels. I SPY A CRIME: An Anthology, released in November 2021, is her first collective book of short mystery stories. For more information about the author, her works, and critical reviews, visit her website: www.mstephensbooks.com   Stephens’s third novel, Shroud of Lies (2017), recieved honorable mention at the 2017 Southern California Book Festival.  Shroud of Lies introduces private investigator, Rhonie Lude. Stephens’s debut novel, Silenced Cry, the first book in her Sam Harper Crime Mystery series, (2007), received honorable mention at the 2008 New York Book Fair. Book two in the series, The Devil Can Wait, (1st edition, 2008), received the Bronze Medal in the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). Stephens, 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.

SHROUD OF LIES, August 2017. Introduces private investigator, Rhonie Lude.

THE DEVIL CAN WAIT, (2nd edition, 2017) Bronze Finalist in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)

SILENCED CRY, (2nd edition, 2017) received honorable mention at the 2008 New York Book Fair.