MARY W KENNEDY
Nursing in Wilmington, DE

psychologist at Focus Behavioral Health, novelist, author of the Talk Radio Mysteries and 34 MG and YA novels at Penguin Books

Writing and Editing

Focus Behavioral Health - Wilmington, DE since May 2012 - psychologist Penguin Books since Jun 2005 - novelist, author of the Talk Radio Mysteries and 34 MG and YA novels The News Journal 2012 - 2013 - free lance writer Penguin Books 2005 - 2010 - author Scholastic 1990 - 2010 - freelance novelist

Widener University 1993 - 1998
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame Indiana
French University of Delaware
Master's degree, Dramatic Arts and Speech

Mary Kennedy is a national best-selling author, and a clinical psychologist in private practice on the east coast. She has sold forty three novels, all to major New York publishers, and has made the Waldenbooks, BookScan and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists. Her early novels included middle grade fiction and young adult fiction for Scholastic and Penguin. Currently she's writing an adult mystery series, The Friday Night Dream Club Mysteries which is set in Savannah. The first title, NIGHTMARES CAN BE MURDER, will be released in August, 2014, by Penguin.

Romantic Times reviews DEAD AIR: Floridians can claim another sleuthing marvel--and Kennedy has the beginning of a hit series. Charming, humorous, sassy psychologist Maggie Walsh is a cross between Carrie Bradshaw and Dr. Jennifer Melfi as she deals with flaky co-workers, a screen-siren mother and the attentions of a sexy detective and a gorgeous hotelier. The plot lures the unsuspecting reader into the laid-back Florida coast before turning up the volume on the competitive world of new age gurus. Summary: Maggie left her Manhattan practice for sunny Cypress Grove, Florida. where she hosts a talk radio show on WYME.. . She receives threats on her phone lines while interviewing New Age guru Sanjay Gingii. When he turns up dead, Maggie's roommate Lark comes under suspicion by an annoying--and gorgeous--detective. Maggie not only has to prove Lark's innocence, she must find out who's made more than one attempt on her life. Pat Cooper

French