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Cynthia Riggs
A Martha's Vineyard Mystery Writer
Cynthia's Books
 Shooting Star
 Double Murder on
 Martha's Vineyard
 Indian Pipes
 The Paperwhite
 Narcissus
 Jack in the Pulpit
 The Cemetery Yew
 The Cranefly Orchid
 Murders
 Deadly Nightshade
Meet Victoria Trumbull

In her first book, Deadly Nightshade, Cynthia Riggs introduces us to one of fiction's most delightful and most realistic amateur detectives. Victoria Trumbull is a feisty ninety-two-year-old who refuses to let the aches and pains of age stop her from enjoying her multifarious activities.

About Cynthia
Cynthia Riggs with McCavity

Cynthia Riggs, a thirteenth-generation Islander, lives on Martha's Vineyard in her family homestead, now a bed-and-breakfast catering to poets and writers. She has a degree in geology from Antioch College, an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College, and holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters License (100-ton). Cynthia has five children, and eleven grandchildren. BIOGRAPHY

News

• Riggs's seventh book, "Shooting Star," is now out in bookstores and also available online. MORE

• Vineyard Stories has published "Deadly Nightshade" and "The Cranefly Orchid Murders" together in one volume, titled "Double Murder in Martha's Vineyard." MORE

• Blackstone Audiobooks has now published four of Cynthia's mysteries on audiotape, all narrated by Davina Porter. MORE

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