Anne Wingate, born in 1943 as Martha Anne Guice, is a mystery writer currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

. Most of her mysteries are set somewhere within Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. She is an adult convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and this sometimes shows in her works. She grew up in the Disciples of Christ Church.

In January 2006, Wingate was brought into the media spotlight because her adopted daughter, Alicia Wingate, was killed along with her boyfriend in a police shootout in Kansas. Her daughter was being sought in connection with the murder of man in Utah. Wingate, who spent many years as a crime scene investigator, says that on the basis of published information about the crime, she is certain that if Alicia had had her day in court, it would have taken approximately 15 minutes to prove her innocence of the crime.

Wingate is partner, with her husband Thomas Russell Wingate, in Wingate & Wingate, Writers (www.Wingate-Firms.com). She is sole proprietor of Live Oak House, an e-publishing company which has published her fantasies and romances as well as books by numerous other writers including all three of her other children. At writers' conferences she tells of having ten times sent her son's novel back to be rewritten until he finally figured out what she was talking about.

Wingate also writes under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

s Lee Martin and Martha G. Webb.

Novels

These novels are part of the "Mark Shigata Mystery" series, about a detective in Bayport, Texas.

• Yakuza, Go Home! (1993), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802732267
• Exception to Murder (1992), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802732038
• The Buzzards Must Also Be Fed (1991), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802757731
• The Eye of Anna (1989), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802757499
• Death by Deception (1988), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802757146

As Lee Martin

These are all part of the "Deb Ralston Mystery" series, about an LDS detective in Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

.

• The Thursday Club (1997), St. Martin's Press
  St. Martin's Press
  St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
  
  , ISBN 1570083150
• Genealogy of Murder (1996), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312139756
• Bird in a Cage (1995), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312130287
• The Day That Dusty Died (1994), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312097794
• Inherited Murder (1994), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 031211415X
• Hacker (1992), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312069901
• The Mensa Murders (1991), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312051263
• Deficit Ending (1990), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312038135
• Death Warmed Over (1988), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312022212
• Hal's Own Murder Case (1988), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 031202925X
• Murder at the Blue Owl (1988), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312017952
• A Conspiracy of Strangers (1986), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312164335
• Too Sane a Murder (1984), St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312809018

As Martha G. Webb

• Even Cops' Daughters (1986), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802756379
• A White Male Running (1985), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802756115
• Darling Corey's Dead (1984), Walker & Company, ISBN 0802755828

Anthologies

These are anthologies

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 containing one or more of Wingate's works.

• Once Upon a Crime (1998), Berkley Books
  Berkley Books
  Berkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group that began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company". They renamed it Berkley Publishing Co. in 1955. They soon found a niche in science fiction...
  
  , ISBN 0425171280
• Women of Mystery II (1994), Berkley Books, ISBN 0425150542

Non-fiction

• Scene of the Crime: A Writer's Guide to Crime-Scene Investigations (1992), Writer's Digest Books
  Writer's Digest
  Writer's Digest is an American magazine devoted to both beginning and established writers, offering interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles....
  
  , ISBN 0-89879-518-4
• Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (1996), Writer's Digest Books, ISBN 0-89879-725-X

Sources:

External links

• Review of Death by Deception and The Buzzards Must Also Be Fed
• Review of Scene of the Crime