Julia Spencer-Fleming
Fiction
Mystery novelist Julia Spencer-Fleming is the author of the Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries series. Her books feature Rev. Clare Fergusson, a retired helicopter pilot turned Episcopal priest, and police chief Russ Van Alstyne. The first Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries novel, “In the Bleak Midwinter” (2002), won Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Dilys, and Barry Awards. Spencer-Fleming’s fifth novel in the series, “All Mortal Flesh” (2006), won a Nero Wolfe and a Gumshoe Award. Most recently, “Hid from Our Eyes,” the ninth Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries novel, was published in 2020.
Spencer-Fleming was born at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, New York, spending most of her childhood on the move as an army brat. She studied acting and history at Ithaca College and received her J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law.
Spencer-Fleming lives in a 190-year-old farmhouse outside of Portland, Maine. She has three children, two dogs, and one husband.
