Maya Corrigan is a renowned American author, well-known for her cozy detective mystery series, the Five-Ingredient Mystery series. The series combines Corrigan's love for detective stories and food, featuring an amateur sleuth who is also a fitness café manager. The lead character's ordinary life takes a dramatic turn when she becomes entangled in crime and pursues justice with courage and quick thinking.
The Five-Ingredient Mystery series is set in a fictional historic town on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The series began with By Cook or by Crook in 2014, and subsequent books include The Tell-Tale Tarte, S'more Murders, Crypt Suzette, and Gingerdead Man. Corrigan's writing is influenced by her love for food, and each book in the series features five-ingredient recipes that readers can try out.
Before becoming a crime fiction writer, Maya Corrigan was a university professor, teaching courses in drama, American literature, detective fiction, and writing at NOVA Community College and Georgetown University. Corrigan's expertise in detective fiction is evident in her writing, and she has won several awards for her work, including the 2013 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence for an Unpublished Suspense/Mystery and the New England Readers Award in 2015.
In addition to her novels, Corrigan has also written several short stories and non-fiction pieces under her full name, Mary Ann Corrigan. Some of her short stories have been included in popular anthologies over the years. When not reading and writing, Corrigan enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords. Her website features trivia about food and mysteries, providing readers with an insight into her interests and inspirations.