Harol Marshall

Harol Marshall’s love of detective stories began when her middle school librarian introduced her to Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason novels. Additional credit goes to her father, a police officer in upstate New York who entertained his family with daily stories of life on the force, and her British mother who introduced Harol to English cozies.

Harol (named for her father’s brother) holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. While there she conducted field research in the State of Tlaxcala in central Mexico, the setting for her Anna Merino novels. In 1985, Harol moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where she resides with her husband and four cats. Harol and her husband travel regularly to Tlaxcala, most recently for a cooking course at the Mexican Home Cooking School.

After retiring from her university faculty position, Harol turned to writing mysteries and has published the first novel in each of her two series. A Corpse for Cuamantla, the first in the Anna Merino series is loosely based on Harol’s fieldwork experiences. The books feature a young American anthropologist who assists the Tlaxcala police in solving local murders. The second book in the series, A Corpse for the Matadora, is due out in 2009. Harol is busy writing the third, A Corpse for Cortez.

Harol’s second book Holy Death, is the first in the P.I. Polly Berger ‘hard-boiled’ detective series set in Hollywood, California. Harol is currently working on the second Polly Berger book, Holy Mole.

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