Alexander Marriott is the Department Chair of History at Alvin Community College and has published articles and reviews in The Objective Standard, The Journal of the Early Republic, The Journal of Southern History, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly in addition to his contributing chapter on the Mexican War in James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project (University of Tennessee Press, 2022). He published his first mystery novel, The School of Homer, in February 2023.

Murder with a Glass of Malvasia follows Virgil Colvin, the retired Chicago homicide detective we met in School of Homer, to the stunning and cloistered remains of the Byzantine castletown of Monemvasia in Southeastern Greece where, once again, he finds himself surrounded by murder.

Marriott grew up in the Chicago suburbs and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He lives in Houston with his wife, Maryam, and two children, Mani and Roxane. He is a member of both the Crime Writers' Association and Mystery Writers of America.

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