Maisie Thorne

Maisie Thorne is a mid-career author known for her charming cozy mysteries with a touch of historical intrigue. Her novels are celebrated for their strong female leads, atmospheric settings, and intricate plots. Before turning to fiction writing, aisie worked as a history teacher and continues to draw inspiration from her love of the past and her deep appreciation for small-town life. She lives in Willowbrook, Vermont, with her watchmaker husband, their opinionated tabby cat Thistle, and a vast collection of antique clocks.

Her previous novel, A Stitch in Crime, follows seaside embroiderer Marnie Swift as she unravels the chilling secrets hidden in an antique quilt mysteriously linked to unsolved disappearances in the town's haunted past. Her next book, Murder in the Moonflower Garden, introduces herbalist Addie Green, who must decode a cryptic will and uncover the truth behind her mentor's suspicious death in a garden teeming with deadly secrets and botanical intrigue.

Whether set in sleepy villages or shadowed flowerbeds, Maisie's novels reveal that no town is too quaint for a good mystery-and no heroine too ordinary to solve it.