Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron

The second series are books that are mainly spy thrillers that draw from her time working with the C.I.A.įrancine Mattews created the pen name Stephanie Barron by drawing from her middle name as well as her maiden name. One features a female police officer set in Nantucket in the New England region, depicting difficult New England life and economic issues facing the fishing industry. She has also written two series under her given name Francine Mathews. Barron lives in Colorado currently with her husband and her children. She says that professor John McPhee from Princeton and Elizabeth George were some particular influences of hers. She began writing as a job full time after her first book was published. for a couple years as an intelligence analyst. She then went on to graduate from Stanford University with a masters degree in history.īarron then followed that up by working for the C.I.A. At Princeton she wrote for the newspaper at the university and later landed jobs with the papers of The Miami Herald and the San Jose Mercury News. She did graduate from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and followed that up by earning a degree in European History from Princeton University. and was the youngest daughter out of five older siblings, all sisters. She has been featured as one of the Great Women Mystery Writers. She was born in 1963 in Binghamton, New York and is an author of mystery fiction as well as historical mysteries.

Stephanie Barron is the pen name of author Francine Mathews.

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron