Winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award for mystery
writing from Romantic Times magazine, Nancy Martin
announces the release of the first book in her new mystery
series, OUR LADY OF IMMACULATE DECEPTION.
Set in Pittsburgh, the series features the
misadventures of Roxy Abruzzo, a tough girl from the
Rust Belt “with a heart of black and gold.”

Author of 48 pop fiction novels in mystery, suspense,
historical and romance genres, Nancy created
The Blackbird Sisters in 2002--- mysteries about
three impoverished Main Line heiresses
who adventure in couture and crime --as if
“Agatha Christie had wandered onto the set
of Sex and The City.” Nominated for the
Agatha Award for Best First Mystery of 2002,
HOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE won the
RT award for Best First Mystery and was a finalist for the
Daphne DuMaurier Award. Currently, she is at work on the
Roxy Abruzzo mystery series for St. Martin’s Minotaur.
In 2009 she received the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award
for mystery writing.

Nancy lives in Pittsburgh, serves on the board of Sisters in Crime and is a founding
member of Pennwriters. She blogs at the popular and trend-setting The Lipstick Chronicles.