Tempa Pagel

Tempa Pagel was born in Pontiac, Michigan. She received a BA in history from Oakland University in Michigan, and a MEd from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. She has worked as a publicist, a free lance writer, a church school administrator, and middle school teacher. She and her husband reside in Newburyport, Massachusetts. They are the parents of two grown children.

The first Andy Gammon mystery, Heres the Church, Heres the Steeple, came out of an interest in local history, an intrigue with the workings of small New England towns, and an appreciation of the humor in raising children. In her second mystery, Andy and her sidekick mother-in-law Mayta, again stumble across a dead body connected to the past--a girl who vanished from a grand hotel at the turn of the century. Tempa is at work on her third Andy Gammon mystery.