Mary Welk

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Mary V. Welk has drawn on her experience as an ER nurse to knock off sixteen characters in her "Rhodes to Murder" mystery series, winner of the 2002 Love Is Murder Readers' Choice Award for Best Series.

A Deadly Little Christmas was Mary's debut mystery and a finalist in the 1996 Hemingway First Novel Competition under the working title Four to Go. The book received a Readers' Choice Award for Best First Mystery in 2000. The Chicago Sun-Times said of it, "The novel shines for its scenes evoking the warm and fuzzy comforts of the holiday season." A Deadly Little Christmas was re-released under the title A Merry Little Murder in late autumn, 2007, by Echelon Press.

Echelon Press has released a new revised edition of the second book in the series, Something Wicked in the Air, under its new title, The Rune Stone Murders. This book was honored with a Readers' Choice Award in 2002 as Best Traditional Mystery. Romantic Times Magazine called this book, "A nicely woven campus mystery (with) characters so appealing you will think of them as friends."

A Chicago Sun-Times review of Mary’s third book, To Kill a King, called it a novel that "traces the political machinations of a large hospital beset with murderous intrigue." Her latest mystery, The Scarecrow Murders, deals with the trials and tribulations of motherhood and proves once again that even intelligent women can produce foolish offspring.

Mary's short stories include:

"The Case of the Fugitive Farmer" in Missing, released in February 2009 by Echelon Press;
"Code Blue" in Chicago Blues, released in October 2007, by Bleak House Books;
"A Family Affair", winner of the 2007 Lovey Award for Best Short Story, in Deadly Ink;
"Murder Most Politic" in Blondes in Trouble & Other Tangled Tales;
"Hickory, Dickory, Doc" in Mayhem in the Midlands.

Other credits include:

"Emma Lathen,"Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers, edited by Jim Huang, 2006
"To the Rescue", issue 92, Mystery Scene
"Small But Mighty: Indy Presses", issue 91, Mystery Scene
"Let's Hear it for the Independents! " issue 86, Mystery Scene
"Small Press News and Reviews" column, Mystery Scene
"Death Delivered" column, FMAM Magazine.

Mary's photo section shows not only Mary's books, but also some family pictures. Pictures include Christian Frederic, Mary's grandson and the newest member of the Welk family; son Matt preparing to fly; husband Fred with grandsons Dan, Christopher, and Zach; Cicero's Children blogsite photo; Mary's grandchildren with her daughter Mary Caroline; and Mary Caroline performing duties as assisitant volleyball coach at Dominican University. A native of Chicago, Mary is a member of Sisters in Crime. She served on the Board of the Midwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and as a reviewer for Library Journal, Mystery Scene Magazine, and Reviewingtheevidence.com. She currently tours with fellow Mystery Mavens Luisa Buehler and S. D. Tooley.