Maureen Milliken

Maureen Milliken, the author of the Bernie O’Dea mystery series, is a third-generation newspaper editor, whose books reflect her love of her home state, Maine, and also for her affection for journalism, as draws on her experience as a newspaper reporter and editor in northern New England.

Cold Hard News, her debut mystery novel, was released in June 2015 by S&H Publishing. The second in the series, No News is Bad News, was released in June 2016.

She is the city editor of the Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine’s daily newspaper, and has worked at newspapers in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts in her three-decade career. She grew up in Augusta now lives in a small central Maine town, where she knows all is not as it seems.

Come meet Maureen Milliken and dozens of other Maine authors at Books in Boothbay on July 9!