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Lisa Q Mathews


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LISA Q. MATHEWS was a Nancy Drew editor, a lifeguard, and a competitive figure skater before she started writing mysteries.

Despite an inability to type, Lisa got her first job out of college as an editorial assistant. Later, she edited the Nancy Drew series and became Creative Director at Random House Children’s Books. She also wrote under pseudonym for Mary-Kate and Ashley and The Lizzie McGuire Mysteries.

A native New Englander, Lisa loves to write about tropical locales. Mom to three grown kids, she now resides in New Hampshire with her husband, a lucky black cat, and a crazy Golden Retriever pup.

Like her co-sleuths, twenty-something Summer Smythe and seventy-something Dorothy Westin, Lisa enjoys swimming, rich desserts, Nora Ephron movies, and above all a good mystery!
 


Genres: Cozy Mystery
 
Series
Ladies Smythe & Westin
   1. Cardiac Arrest (2015)
   2. Permanently Booked (2016)
   3. Fashionably Late (2017)
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Award nominations
2022 Agatha Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Fly Me to the Morgue


Lisa Q Mathews recommends
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The Study of Secrets (2020)
(Lila Maclean Academic Mystery, book 5)
Cynthia Kuhn
"In The Study of Secrets, award-winning author Cynthia Kuhn once again offers mystery lovers what they crave most: a smart, thoughtful, and fiercely-determined heroine; an intriguing puzzle; an idyllic setting, and a cast of suspects worthy of Agatha Christie--with a charming side of humor."

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