Sarah Swenson
Sherman Oaks
California United StatesContact: sdswenson@gmail.comPen Name(s): Elizabeth McPhee, Chiara Dandolo
California United StatesContact: sdswenson@gmail.comPen Name(s): Elizabeth McPhee, Chiara Dandolo
A Death in Valdoro, The Villa above the Vines, A Death at the Festa, And the Value of None, A Death at the Wine Prize, Every Voice Leaves a Trace, No Voice Arrives Alone, No Voice Stays Hidden, Such a Good Man
The Valdoro Mysteries, The Giulia Vidoni Mysteries, The Cara Birkeland Mysteries
Amateur Sleuth
Subject Expertise
I am a licensed therapist specialized in supporting neurodiverse couples in which one partner is autistic. I speak English, Italian, and German and split my time betwen Northern Italy and the USA. Mensa Member.
Elizabeth McPhee writes atmospheric mystery and psychological suspense rooted in place, memory, secrecy, and the hidden lives of ordinary people. She is the author of the Valdoro Mysteries, an Italy-set village mystery series centered on Alice Marlowe, an American widow and former cultural attaché who inherits a house in a fictional village in the Prosecco Hills. Under the pen name Chiara Dandolo, she writes the Giulia Vidoni Mysteries and the Cara Birkeland Mysteries. The Giulia Vidoni Mysteries are set in Italy and shaped by questions of voice, testimony, memory, and the traces people leave behind. The series includes Every Voice Leaves a Trace, No Voice Arrives Alone, and No Voice Stays Hidden. The Cara Birkeland Mysteries bring a more psychologically acute mystery frame to questions of public virtue, private harm, social trust, and what becomes visible when accepted stories begin to fracture.