Margit Liesche’s childhood was enriched by the adventurous tales of her Hungarian refugee parents, stories that in 1956 turned into dark, hushed conversations filling an impressionable seven-year-old’s imagination— along with Life Magazine photographs of carnage in Budapest streets and a visit from an escaped freedom fighter. These memories underpin Triptych. The author of Lipstick and Lies and Hollywood Buzz, home-front mysteries featuring the engaging WASP pilot Pucci Lewis and highly praised for their WWII authenticity, Margit Liesche has appeared on PBS’s History Detectives
program. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. www.margitliesche.com
