Masters of Mystery: MJ Williams

I am Mary Joy Johnson (right), one half of the team writing under the pseudonym M. J. Williams; my sister-in-law Peggy Williams constitutes the other half. We teamed up to write mystery novels.

Peggy has been a free-lance writer most of her adult life, writing scripts for documentary films, magazine features, and online content. She has taught elementary school since graduating from Michigan State University. She also received a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Peggy and her husband, Mark, have two grown children and one new grandson, who, of course, is the light of their lives. When Peggy’s not teaching, she’s writing. 

When I’m not writing, I’m quilting. I retired from teaching writing at Bay College in Escanaba, Michigan several years ago. I earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at Central Michigan University. I also have two grown children, but I beat Peggy in the grandparent department; I have three teenage granddaughters  Since my retirement, I tutor ESL and learning disabled adults and have become very active in Madison’s quilting community.

We’ve recently independently-published our mystery novel, On the Road to Death’s Door, the first in a series, featuring a retired small town public safety officer and her husband. Emily and Stan Remington inherit a used RV and begin their travels in Wisconsin’s Door County where they are thrown into a murder investigation involving an old college buddy of Stan’s. It is available for the Kindle and as a print-on-demand paperback from Amazon.com.

The next book in the series, which takes place in Boston, is in production (read that as “we’re still writing it”).

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