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Wendy Hornsby


(b.1947)

Wendy Hornsby is the Edgar Award-winning creator of the Maggie MacGowen series. A native of Southern California interested in writing at a young age, she first found professional success in fourth grade, when an essay about summer camp won a local contest. Her first novel, No Harm, was published in 1987, but it wasn’t until 1992 that Hornsby introduced her most famous character: Maggie MacGowen, documentarian and amateur sleuth.She has written seven of the MacGowen novels, most recently The Paramour’s Daughter (2010), and the sprawling tales of murder and romance have won Hornsby widespread praise. For her closely observed depiction of the darker sides of Los Angeles, she is often compared to Raymond Chandler. Besides her nine novels, Hornsby has written dozens of short stories, some of which were collected in Nine Sons (2002). When she isn’t writing, she teaches ancient and Medieval history at Long Beach City College
 

Genres: Mystery, Romance, General Fiction
 
Series
Kate Teague
   1. No Harm (1987)
   2. Half a Mind (1990)
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Maggie MacGowen
   1. Telling Lies (1992)
   2. Midnight Baby (1993)
   3. Bad Intent (1994)
   4. 77th Street Requiem (1995)
   5. A Hard Light (1997)
   6. In the Guise of Mercy (2009)
   7. The Paramour's Daughter (2010)
   8. The Hanging (2012)
   9. The Color of Light (2014)
   10. Disturbing the Dark (2016)
   11. Number 7, Rue Jacob (2018)
   12. A Bouquet of Rue (2019)
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Collections
   Ten Tales (1994) (with Neal Barrett Jr and Richard Laymon)
   Nine Sons (2001)
   Shaken (2011) (with others)
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Anthologies containing stories by Wendy Hornsby
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Stop the World (2020)
Snapshots from a Pandemic
edited by
Taffy Cannon, Kate Flora, Lise McClendon and Gary Phillips
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Deadly Anniversaries (2020)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

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