Nothing ruins an Amalfi Coast vacation like murder.
About
Hello, I'm Maree Church, and welcome to my author's website. I am the author of books for adults and children. My writing career started in 2020 with a quirky memoir of my twenty-year love affair with Italy, Dog Days in Italy: How I Became an Expat Dog. Now my portfolio includes children’s picture books, middle grade books, and cozy mysteries.
Before starting my writing career, I wore many hats (and left them in restaurants all over Italy). I've been a business consultant, small business owner, wine importer, English teacher, and slave to many pets of all types. When I'm not writing, I can usually be found in the kitchen baking bread or walking my dogs, Dino, the narrator of Dog Days In Italy and the sequel I Bark Therefore I Am and Mia, the star of my cozy mystery series, The Glass Ceiling Club. By the way, I'm also a fan of jigsaw puzzles and Wordle. Of course, I am an avid reader of cozy mysteries and historical fiction. Today I live in California with my husband and my two dogs..
You can follow me on social media - twitter @dogdaysinitaly or BlueSky @dinoandmia.bsky.social.
Hello, I'm Maree Church, and welcome to my author's website. I am the author of books for adults and children. My writing career started in 2020 with a quirky memoir of my twenty-year love affair with Italy, Dog Days in Italy: How I Became an...
Hello, friends. Today as I was working on what will be my fifth cozy mystery, I started to think about my journey to becoming an author. I trace it back to my seventh grade English class. That's the year I decided I was going to be an English teacher. I had a young, female teacher who always wore the most beautiful sweaters. That's the main feature that I recall about her after all the intervening years. When I think about it, it was sort of a weird time to decide I wanted to teach English....
Tomorrow, May 19 through May 23, my first book (Or maybe it is really Dino's first book) Dog Days in Italy: How I Became An Expat Dog will be free on Amazon. It seems so long ago since I left my home in Italy to return to the USA. I'm so glad that I took the time in 2020 to record memories of my life there.
If you love dogs, Italy, and a good laugh, this is the book for you. It's told as only Dino, my American Eskimo dog, could do it. It's a fantasy memoir like none other.
Dear Readers, Many of you know that I wrote my first book as a fantasy/memoir of my life in Italy. But did you know that the next books I wrote were middle grade fantasies? It happened like this.
After seeing Dog Days in Italy: How I Became an Expat Dog, three little boys in my life asked if I was going to write a story with them in it. Well, what started as a story became The Book of Mysteries, the first book in a fantasy trilogy for middle grade readers and readers of all...
