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Anne Macdonald has worked in higher education, law, banking, and for herself, as an IT project manager, a webmaster, a freelance writer and an event planner. DEADLINES ARE MURDER is her first book in the Sam (Samantha) Monroe mystery series. WEDDINGS ARE MURDER, the second in the series, was released in December 2016, and the third, TRIALS ARE MURDER, is anticipated in early 2018. Sam Monroe is the protagonist and her extended family members and friends are featured in each story. Anne currently resides with her husband in a nice, quiet suburb of Boston, Massachusetts.

Writing since the age of ten, her first short story was inspired by her love of history, particularly the American Revolution, her love of a good story and an active imagination. Her love of history led her to a BA and an MA in History. Her unpublished MA Thesis on Asher Benjamin, architect and builder, is held in several libraries around New England. Her active imagination and the love of a good story inspire her novels and short stories. She is working on a biography of her grandfather, a Manhattan Project engineer.

• An unexpected discovery

  By anneswritinglife on March 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  On a day trip to Santa Fe, we discovered a Manhattan Project site.

• The Interview

  By anneswritinglife on March 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The spring I was ten we moved to a new home in a new town. We kids faced new schools, new friends, never entering Dad’s home office, and not knowing who hung up when one of us kids answered. Answering… Read More ›

• My next writing project

  By anneswritinglife on February 4, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  For the past two years I have been working on researching my paternal grandfather and his work on the Manhattan Project. In reality, I have been working on this since my tenth birthday, when what I knew about my Dad… Read More ›

• A trip to Scotland

  By anneswritinglife on October 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  We traveled around the beautiful Isle of Skye, including the Clan Donald Centre and then on to Edinburg for some culture. Back at Glasgow Airport it seemed like we had just left, but it had been nine days.

• Cast of Characters: Weddings Are Murder

  By anneswritinglife on February 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Weddings Are Murder, and Deadlines Are Murder, have a lot of characters. Hopefully this list will help to keep them straight.

• My Boston Story in 50 words

  By anneswritinglife on January 22, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Each Sunday the Boston Globe Ideas section has a 50 word story about Boston. After reading one recently, I remembered my own story that took place in Boston back in the 1970’s. The Boston Globe liked it, published it and… Read More ›

• Memories of Dad

  By anneswritinglife on December 17, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Life is fleeting, moving swiftly along through good times and bad; leaving behind memories. . .