Francine Mathews

Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, New York, the last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written thirty books, including six previous novels in the Merry Folger series ( Death in the Off-Season , Death in Rough Water , Death in a Mood Indigo , Death in a Cold Hard Light, Death on...See more

Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, New York, the last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written thirty books, including six previous novels in the Merry Folger series ( Death in the Off-Season , Death in Rough Water , Death in a Mood Indigo , Death in a Cold Hard Light, Death on Nantucket, and Death on Tuckernuck ) as well as the nationally bestselling Being a Jane Austen mystery series, which she writes under the pen name Stephanie Barron. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado. See less