Mary Coley is a mystery writer who lives in Tulsa, OK. She has published four books in her Family Secret Series: Cobwebs, Ant Dens, Beehives and Chrysalis. The first two books were each finalists in the 2015 New Mexico/Arizona book awards, and also earned her a 2015 and 2016 Oklahoma Creative Woman award in YA fiction. Chrysalis was a finalist for the prestigious Silver Falchion Award from Killer Nashville (2019). Her stand-alone mystery, Blood on the Cimarron, received the Hillerman Award (2018) from the NM/AZ Book Awards. She has also published two anthologies of short stories, and a Juvenile Nonfiction book, Environmentalism: How You Can Make a Difference, by Capstone.