Cecily Harrow
Cecily Harrow is the author of The Footnote Mysteries — literary mysteries that begin in archives and end somewhere considerably more dangerous. Her academic background in medieval Mediterranean studies has proven unexpectedly useful in plotting novels.
Her books are set wherever archives gather dust and the past refuses to stay quiet — Venetian libraries, English country houses, alpine foundations, and the sea-grey towns where retired scholars are quietly the most observant people in the room.
She lives near the New England coast, drinks too much Earl Grey, and maintains that the archive is always the most interesting room in any building. Her cat, Pliny, disagrees.
On the Footnote Mysteries
Every Footnote Mystery turns on a footnote — a detail dismissed, a citation overlooked, a marginal note no professional thought worth following. Martha Bancroft, the series's seventy-two-year-old retired history teacher, reads them. That is, on most days, the only difference between her and the rest of us.
The series is set in real archives, real coastlines, real country houses. The crimes are invented. The footnotes, mostly, are not.