Books
The Strangers' Tomb, The Soldiers' Rest
Book Series
Murder in the Cemetery
Genre
Historical
Topics
Subject Expertise
Public Speaking Details
Historical research; cemetery history; Boston history
Biography
Robin Hazard Ray is a crime fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She leads tours at historic Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. The cemetery provides the setting of her Murder in the Cemetery novels The Strangers’ Tomb and The Soldiers’ Rest. Her story “Clay” appeared in Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories of 2022. In her spare time she helps tend the courtyard garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and makes quilts. She lives in Somerville, MA, with her husband David and two black cats.
