Molly MacRae spent twenty years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Upper East Tennessee,
where she managed The Book Place, an independent bookstore; may it rest in peace. Before the lure of
books hooked her, she was curator of the history museum in Jonesborough, Tennessee’s oldest town.
MacRae lives with her family in Champaign, Illinois, where she connects children with books at the public library.
Bibliography and Awards
Novels
Dyeing Wishes, NAL/Obsidian, July 2013
Last Wool and Testament, NAL/Obsidian, September 2012
Lawn Order, Five Star Mysteries, December 2010
Wilder Rumors, Five Star Mysteries, May 2007
Short Stories
"Cookies," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (AHMM) June 2008
"A Walk in the Park," Hardluck Stories, Summer 2007
"Wilder Dancing,” Mysterical-E, Summer 2007
“Practically Perfect,” Doses of Death, Lulu, 2005
"Fandango by Flashlight," AHMM, December 2005
"It Takes Two," AHMM, February 2002
"No Can Do," AHMM, July/August 2001
"Ah, Paradise," AHMM, November 2000
"Missing Something," AHMM, May 2000
"Speaking Terms," AHMM, April 1991
"My Trouble," January 1990
Nonfiction
Humor, Rumor, and Romance in Old Jonesborough, Overmountain Press, 1991 (editor)
"Book Pusher: My Life in and out of Fiction," Mystery Readers Journal, Fall 2005
"Wilder Rumors," an essay in the "New Books" section of Mystery Scene, issue 100, 2007
Mystery Theater
Interactive dinner plays available through Positive Solutions Through Stories and Tours
"The Dead of Winter Murder Mystery"
"Daggers and Old Lace"
"Murder in
Little Chicago"
Awards
2013 Lovey Award for Best Paranormal for Last Wool and Testament
2012 Suspense Magazine's Best of 2012 for Last Wool and Testament
2001 Virginia Highlands Creative Writing Contest, first prize for novel, Wilder Rumors
2000 Sherwood Anderson Award for short fiction for "More or Less"
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