Molly MacRae

Molly Macrae is an American cozy mystery authors who has made a name for herself with the “Highland Bookshop Mysteries” and “The Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery”. The Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery series are about a textile preservation expert from a little town in Tennessee named Blue Plum, who has to deal with a depressed ghost. The Highland Bookshop Mystery series features four women who start new lives in the small town of Inversgail on the Scotland West Coast, where they buy a bookshop. The focus on small town living is inspired by Molly Macrae’s life, that for the most part was spent the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee. Living in Jonesborough, she worked as a curator of a history museum, and ran the now defunct independent bookstore the “Book Place”. For more than twenty years before she became an established author, Macrae had her short stories featured on Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. She currently lives in a small ancient house in Champaign, Illinois, in a small neighborhood within walking distance of a park, restaurants, and work. When she is not writing or editing her novels, she loves to go to the public library where she connects with children. She also loves to read, do crossword puzzles, try out new recipes, and find reasons for not doing any weeding or dusting.