Kate Gallison

Kate Gallison has written a series of books featuring Nick Magaracz, a Trenton private detective, as well as five traditional murder mysteries about Mother Lavinia Grey, a woman priest in the Episcopal church. Under the name of Irene Fleming, she wrote the Emily Daggett Weiss mysteries, set in the days of silent movies. The first of these, The Edge of Ruin, won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance prize for fiction.

Her current series, a work of biting satire, depicts the ongoing battle between seven women with assorted paranormal powers and their husbands and other enemies in Washington, DC.

Kate herself no longer lives in Washington, but in a small town in New Jersey with her two fierce cats. She is descended from a convicted Salem witch (the lady was innocent).

(Author photo by BallerinaBiker Photography)