About the Author

Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, twenty-four of them featuring Richard Jury. The recipient of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Reviews

Martha Grimes's novels are a hybrid of mystery forms, all of them hugely entertaining. The Old Success is a perfect example.
*New York Times Book Review*

the solution to these apparently separate mysteries proves much simpler than might be imagined - and who better to pave the way to that elusive truth than Ms. Grimes and Richard Jury, her brilliant creation?
*Wall Street Journal*

witty dialogue keeps the action moving to the satisfying conclusion. Series fans and newcomers alike will have fun.
*Publishers Weekly*

Read any one [of her novels] and you'll want to read them all.
*Chicago Tribune on THE KNOWLEDGE*

Delightful, surprising, even magical. They begin as police procedurals - someone is murdered, Jury investigates - but Grimes's love of the offbeat, the whimsical and the absurd makes them utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels . . . Although Grimes is American she has a wicked eye for English eccentricity
*Washington Post on THE KNOWLEDGE*

Delicious . . . Jury and his posse are terrific companions . . . Delightful.
*Seattle Times on VERTIGO 42*

Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle.
*Boston Globe on THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON*

Wondrously eccentric characters . . . The details are divine.
*New York Times Book Review on THE STARGAZEY*

Swift and satisfying . . . grafts the old-fashioned 'Golden Age' amateur-detective story to the contemporary police procedural . . . real charm.
*Wall Street Journal on THE LAMORNA WINK*

The literary equivalent of a box of Godiva truffles . . . Wonderful.
*Los Angeles Times on THE STARGAZEY*