A native of the Washington, D.C., area, Margaret Evans is a graduate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Her numerous short stories and humorous philosophical essays have appeared in literary magazines and journals, including Fullosia Press, Prose Toad, ken*again, Underground Window, Palabras Press, and Ascent Aspirations.

She is the author of 11 full-length mystery and action/adventure novels, including The Sixth World, Trial in Jade: The Mayan Return , and Kingdom Come: The Mayan Answer (the Maya Earth Trilogy); and a standalone thriller entitled The Lethal Limit ; Seven Cozy Mysteries: Twice Sold Murder; Priced to Kill; Hanging By a Thread; A Dress to Die For; Deadly Cost of Goods; and All Sales Final (The Second Treasures Mysteries Series); and The Harmony of Revenge (Book #1 of Shady Elm Inn Cozy Mysteries).

With the upcoming Laura Keene Cozy Mysteries series (spinoff from The Second Treasures Mysteries), Evans has created three "bridge" novellas: Empress Isabella and the Halloween Caper; Empress Isabella's Disastrous Thanksgiving; and Empress Isabella and a Cracklin' Christmas.

Evans also penned six mystery/thriller/crime novellas: A Canvas of Deceit; Code of Treachery; Hostages to Murder; The Curse of the Mandreill Dagger; The Secret of Kenning Hall; and The Tao of Murder.

Evans also has two treatises due out in 2021: Worse Than the Princess and the Pea: Sensitive People in an Insensitive World; and Wants, Needs, and Genes: Cultural and Ethical Thoughts, with more coming, as well as a short story/flash fiction/ and poetry collection coming out in early 2022.

Visit Margaret's Web Site for links to her fiction and non-fiction stories plus the pipeline of stories to come!