Mary V. Welk

Chicago native Mary Welk has drawn on her experience in the medical field to successfully knock off sixteen characters in her Readers Choice Award winning "Rhodes to Murder" mystery series featuring ER nurse Caroline Rhodes and history professor Carl Atwater. Included in the series are A MERRY LITTLE MURDER, THE RUNE STONE MURDERS, TO KILL A KING, and THE SCARECROW MURDERS (returning in print and ebook format in October, 2012). Caroline Rhodes also appears in the novella FRAMED, which can be found in HEARTS AND DAGGERS, a romantic suspense three-novella book written in cooperation with two other authors. Mary's short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including HOT CRIMES, COOL CHICKS; DARK THINGS II: CAT CRIMES; and CHICAGO BLUES. Several of her short stories are available on Amazon as Kindle Shorts. A former columnist and feature writer for Mystery Scene and Futures magazines, Mary is currently working on the fifth "Rhodes to Murder" mystery.