Allie Marie
Award-winning author Allie Marie grew up in Virginia, where her favorite childhood pastime was reading Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden mysteries. She never expected to grow up to be a real-life police officer herself. Eventually work her way up through the ranks, Allie retired—four times—as her experiences kept leading her to other law enforcement adventures in the US as well as overseas.
After her final “retirement,” Allie soon embarked on a quest to fulfill a long-time dream—to write mysteries and crime thrillers. She was derailed from those mystery plans, however, when she began researching her family tree. Inspired by ancestors she discovered, she began The True Colors Series, a paranormal mystery series with modern local settings and colonial history from Portsmouth to Williamsburg, which has garnered multiple awards and leads to a spinoff collection, The True Spirits Trilogy, which will be completed in 2024.
In November 2020, she released a standalone historical, Return to Afton Square, again with modern local settings, but this time with a WW1 mystery. Not only does this story introduce the central character of the “True Spirits Trilogy, but it also includes familiar characters from the original series.
She has contributed short stories to the ’Tis the Season Sweet Romance Novelettes, the bestselling Feisty Heroines Romance Collection of Short Stories, Murder by the Glass Anthology, with new contributions to several anthologies in 2024, as well as the release of prequels to a new planned historical mystery series to be set in and around Smithfield and the Isle of Wight.
Those other mystery stories? They still patiently wait for their turn.
Besides family, her passions are travel anywhere, and camping with her husband Jack.
You can find Allie here:
https://alliemariebooks.wordpress.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Allie-Marie/e/B017MXZSUO/
https://www.facebook.com/Author-Allie-Marie-846744515375049
https://www.bookbub.com/profile/allie-marie