Marty Eberhardt

Bio for Marty Eberhardt

Marty Eberhardt is a retired botanical garden executive director and nonprofit professional who now delights in using the right side of her brain to write fiction. Death in a Desert Garden, her first novel, won the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for cozy mystery in 2022, two Firebird awards, and the bronze CIPA/EVVY award for cozy mystery. Bones in the Back Forty, the second in the Bea Rivers botanical garden mystery series, won the 2025 New Mexico Book Award for cozy mystery and two Firebird awards. The third Bea Rivers novel, Crime on the Coast, also won two Firebird awards. A stand-alone historical novel, American Innocents, based partly on Marty’s childhood in Vietnam, will come out on May 4, 2026. Marty and her husband divide their time between Tucson and the small mountain town of Silver City, NM, enjoying the enjoying the flora, fauna, wild areas and wild characters of both.