It's Always the Husband (Campbell) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Aka—Michele Martinez
• Birth—ca. 1962-63
• Raised—state of Connecticut, USA
• Education—B.A., Harvard University; J.D, Stanford University
• Currently—lives in the state of New Hampshire


Michele Campbell, an American author of police procedurals and, most recently, a crime thriller, was raised in Connecticut. Her father owned an aerospace manufacturing company and her mother was an office manager.

Campbell received her Bachelor's from Harvard and law degree from Stanford. She worked for three years at a New York City law firm before leaving the practice to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. She spent eight years as a federal prosecutor, serving as deputy chief of the Narcotics Unit.

In the 2000's she wrote a series of police procedurals under the name Michele Martinez. The novels, which feature fictional prosecutor Melanie Vargas, include Notorious (2008); Cover Up (2007); Finishing School (2006); and Most Wanted (2005).

Around the same time, Campbell said her goodbyes to the big city law and moved with her husband and two children to New England where, in addition to writing, she teaches law at Vermont Law School.

Like the female characters in her 2017 thriller, It's Always the Husband, Campbell says she has had many close female friends, a few frenemies, and only one husband, who — to the best of her knowledge — has never tried to kill her. (From various online sources.)