Margaret Fenton

Margaret Fenton is a former child and family therapist and a mystery novelist.

Fenton grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and graduated from St Martin High School in Ocean Springs in 1988. She earned her bachelor of arts in English and her masters in social work in 1993 from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

She and her husband, a software developer, moved to Hoover in 1996 and became president of the Birmingham Chapter of Sisters in Crime, a group of mystery fans and writers and has helped organized the annual Murder in the Magic City conference.

In 2002 she was encouraged by Anne George to try her own hand at writing. She published Little Lamb Lost, a mystery set in Birmingham, in 2009. The novel is centered around social worker Claire Conover who gets caught up in an unsolved murder of a child she helped to place in foster care.

Publications

• Fenton, Margaret (2009) Little Lamb Lost. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Oceanview Publishing ISBN 9781933515519

External link

• Margaret Fenton author website
• Margaret Fenton on MySpace.com
• Margaret Fenton's weblog