Artemis Taylor

Artemis Taylor is the pen name for a lifelong reader and storyteller who found her voice in the quiet rhythms of small-town America.

Her debut solo series, the Big Muddy Mysteries, is set in Hannibal, Missouri — the town that gave the world Mark Twain — and follows Becky Whitmore, a veteran who inherits a magic bookshop and discovers the town has been waiting for her all along.

Artemis writes warm, witty mysteries with a touch of the unexplained, a deep respect for faith and grief, and characters who feel like people you already know.

She is a proud mother of two strong, brilliant daughters — one by birth and one by choice — and lives with her family and an unreasonable number of books.