Amesbury author Edith Maxwell's Local Foods Mystery series (Kensington) lets her relive her days as an organic farmer in Massachusetts, although murder in the greenhouse is new. A Tine to Live, a Tine to Die came out to critical acclaim in 2013. ‘Til Dirt Do Us Part (May 2014) chronicles the murder of a CSA member after geek-turned-organic-farmer Cam Flaherty’s Farm-to-Table dinner.

A fourth-generation Californian, Maxwell has published award-winning short stories of murderous revenge. She also authored Speaking of Murder (under the pseudonym Tace Baker), which features Quaker linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau (Barking Rain Press, 2012).

Edith holds a long-unused doctorate in linguistics, is a long-time Quaker, and and is currently writing a historical mystery set in 1888 featuring Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, as well as John Greenleaf Whittier.

A mother, world traveler, and former technical writer, Edith lives north of Boston in an antique house with her beau and three cats. She blogs every weekday with the rest of the Wicked Cozy Authors.