My story.

Nora is a lifelong resident of the Durham-Chapel Hill area. She has a bachelor’s degree in English with Honors in Creative Writing from UNC, and a Masters in English from the University of Washington in Seattle.

She spent more than 24 years as a stockbroker and financial advisor with a major investment firm, working in the Durham office. She retired in 2005 to focus on writing.

Her first published novel, UNTIL PROVEN: A MYSTERY IN 2 PARTS, appeared in October 2012.  While the book is entirely fiction, the seed for it was a real murder that happened in Chapel Hill on Christmas Eve, 1963.

In 2013, Nora published a nonfiction book about that Christmas Eve murder, TIME OF DEATH, to further explore the questions it raised.

 Her second novel, THE WORST THING, appeared in May 2018.

 She lives and writes in Chatham County, inspired by her native landscape, her husband, and dogs. Her favorite word is "gratitude."

Now, let’s kick things off with a virtual reading, shall we?

Listen to my essay, Reading in the Time of Trump, as a part of Charlotte Readers Podcast’s FREE COVID-19 Read-in series. I’m proud to share the space with authors Randell Jones and Linda Phillips, as our literary community comes together to celebrate art during these strange and uncertain times.

Enjoy!

Click here to read an article I wrote for Shepard: Discover the Best Books called “The best noir and psychological suspense novels by women.”