Nev March: Award Winning Author of Historical Mysteries

Author Nev March is the first Indian-born writer to win Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America’s Award for Best First Crime Fiction. Her debut novel Murder in Old Bombay was an Edgar and Anthony finalist. 

Nev’s books deal with issues of identity, race and moral boundaries. Her sequel, Peril at the Exposition is set at the 1893 World’s Fair, during a time of conflict that planted the seeds of today’s red-blue political divide. In Captain Jim and Lady Diana’s third adventure The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret they face a strange, otherworldly foe who causes Jim to question the nature of justice. In The Silversmith’s Puzzle, (May 2025) Captain Jim and Diana race back to colonial India to rescue Diana’s beloved brother Adi, who is accused of murder.

After a long career in business analysis, in 2015, Nev returned to her passion, writing fiction. She now writes and teaches fun courses on creative writing and movie analysis at Rutgers University, Osher Institute. She has been interviewed on NPR, written for magazines and edited issues of the FEZANA Journal. She also writes screenplays for TV and film.

A Parsi Zoroastrian herself, she lives in New Jersey with her family. She volunteers with local non profit Shine and Inspire and the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York (ZAGNY). She is President of the NY chapter board of the Mystery Writers of America.

In March 2024, Nev was recognized for her contributions to literature at the 114th International Women’s Day with the theme “Inspiring Inclusion” by the JK Yog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas.

At the 2024 North American Zoroastrian Congress in Houston, she was honored to receive the Dinshaw Framroze Joshi Award for Excellence in Performing Arts, Painting or Literature.

In addition, her novel The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret won the famed Bapsi Sidhwa Literary Prize (Honorable Mention) named for the legendary South-Asian author.