a little bit about me
After seeing Murder, She Said on TV, my grandmother gifted me Agatha Christie’s 4:50 From Paddington. Though hugely disappointed that the real Miss Marple bore no resemblance whatsoever to the brilliant and funny Margaret Rutherford, I was hooked and devoured every crime novel I could get my hands on that my parents didn’t object to (I was ten).
Over the course of my fifty-plus years, I worked as a shop assistant in a hardware store, followed by over a decade of traversing the friendly skies as a flight attendant (best life lessons ever) before turning to my passion, photography. I even got my five seconds of fame, with much of my work finding its way into internationally published books, magazines, greeting cards, and calendars.
Recently relocated to the California desert, I’m happy to call Palm Springs my home, where I live with my husband.
Blackout, a man’s quest for the truth about his father’s murder in ‘77 while becoming himself a suspect in a homicide investigation, forty years later, is my debut novel. It was nominated for a LEFTY Award (Best Debut 2021), won Best LGBTQ Fiction at the Independent Press Awards 2022, as well as Best LGBTQ Fiction at the NYCBigBookAward 2021, and was a Finalist at the Best Book Awards 2021 for LGBTQ Fiction.
My short stories were featured in Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical (All In The Planning) and Saints & Sinners Anthology 2023 (Grace).
My current WIP, a hardboiled noir set in Palm Springs, is off to agents shortly, so…fingers crossed!
© 2024 Marco Carocari
