Mark Troy

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
College Station, Texas (Aggieland)
About Me:
I write the Val Lyon Private Eye series--one novel, Pilikia Is My Business, and seven short stories. I'm currently at work on a new series featuring Ava Rome, a Honolulu PI, former MP.

When not writing, I do educational research at Texas A&M University, root for the Aggies, run marathons (the picture was taken during the Armadillo Dash half-marathon), and spoil my grandchildren, Morgan and Matt.
I Am A:
Writer
Website:
http://hawaiian-eye.blogspot.com/
Books And Authors I Like:
Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Dennis Lehane, Marcia Muller, Joe Lansdale, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendrix, Laura Lippman, Bill Crider, Lono Waiwaiole, George Pelecanos, Peter O'Donnell, G.G. Fickling
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
The Black Donnellys

Comment Wall:

  • Morgan Mandel

    Hi Mark,
    Likewise, it's good to meet you as well. As for Sox and Cubs, I'm a fair weather fan. When it means something, I start watching sports. Otherwise, I play on the computer or watch Home & Garden and see people fix up their houses and try to sell them.

    Mar 28, 2007

  • Mark Troy

    Jack, I think I deleted your question by mistake. Wish I knew when the next book will be out. I've got an agent and she's shopping it around.

    Mar 28, 2007

  • Robert Goldsborough

    Hi, Mark,

    I hope you & your wife like "Three Strikes." I had a lot of fun researching the Chicago of that era, through old newspapers and biographies or the real people ofthe era, including Dizzy Dean (traded to the Cubs at the start of the '38 season) and Helen Hayes, who was performing that year on stage in Chicago, playing Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina."

    Robert

    Mar 28, 2007

  • Deborah Turrell Atkinson

    Hi Mark, It's good to hear from you! Howzit going? Looks like your short stories are getting great buzz--when's the next book coming out? Hope to see you soon,
    Debby

    Mar 30, 2007

  • Mark Troy

    Hi Debbie,
    I have no idea about the next book except that my agent is working on it and she's upbeat about it.

    Mar 31, 2007

  • Leann Sweeney

    Hi Mark,
    good to see a familiar and kind face after I totally screwed up and annoyed a lot of people. When will I learn I DO NOT KNOW anything about public forums? Anyway, hi there! Wish we could see each other more often. Leann

    Apr 3, 2007

  • Patti McCoy Jacob

    Hi Mark - I'd love to read more of Rozan. Thanks for the recommendations and for saying hello.

    Apr 5, 2007

  • Arlene Sachitano

    Hi Mark,
    Thanks for being my friend. . . Although I live in Oregon, I have a College Station connection. My sister-in-law and her family live there - and he is a marathoner, also. I know it's a big place but if you've crossed paths with any Bohne's, that is them.

    Apr 27, 2007

  • Mark Best

    Hey Mark,

    Thanks for remembering...you said some nice stuff about my Nashville PI/songwriter Chris Cobb before. Oh, and I already corrected Jack about Pilikia. I told him I would gladly take credit for it, if he insisted. Anyway, I'd say he's back on the Marks, so to speak.

    Mark (the other one)

    May 25, 2007