Bethany Beach Books Meet the Author: Michelle Cullen

Meet Michelle Cullen, author of "A Field Guide to Murder" at Bethany Beach Books, Saturday, July 18th at 630pm.

A cranky widower and his spirited caregiver team up to solve his neighbor's murder in this charming and original mystery.  Once a globe-trotting anthropologist, Harry Lancaster is now certain that all his grand adventures are behind him.  Recently widowed and suffering from a fractured hip, Harry spends his days and nights behind a pair of binoculars, nose-deep in his neighbors' affairs.  His millennial caregiver, Emma, is determined to get him out of his armchair and back into the world.

Michelle L. Cullen has lived, traveled, and studied all over the world: from working as a (decent if powered by enough espresso) bilingual secretary in Paris; to backpacking around Europe, Central America, and Southern Africa; to helping rebuild communities after war throughout Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific. She earned her master’s degree in anthropology at Melbourne University in Australia and her PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics in England. A fan of adventure, she has a black belt in Taekwondo, has summited nine hundred feet rock climbing, and has flown a helicopter (once, during a lesson, for five terrifying minutes). She currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where she’s either doing yoga, playing outside, or plotting murder.