Elizabeth started writing when she was a child. She and her cousins and sister would write stories and read them to each other. They would write murder mysteries and challenge each other to solve them. She was always a voracious reader, making many visits to the public library branch around the corner to check out books. She knew practically from day one that she wanted to be a writer when she “grew up.”
Elizabeth majored in English in college because she thought this would help her achieve goal, but disliked having to analyze other authors’ writings. She thought that reading was something to be enjoyed, not dissected. She liked science, so she switched her major to biology and graduated with a BS degree. After college, she got married and taught science and math for five years while working on earning her masters degree. Soon after, she had a son and a daughter and decided to be a stay-at-home mom, all the while publishing articles in children’s magazines.
But Elizabeth's real dream of writing a novel was not realized until her kids were little. She wrote her first novel and followed it with thirteen more. As her children grew up, she became more involved with their activities and stopped writing for a while. Recently, however, she took it up again and published Her Father’s Eyes. Soon after, she completed the trilogy by publishing A Perfect Marriage and Sealed With a Kiss. They are all a combination of suspense and romance.
Her most recent novel is titled The Intruder.
Her Father’s Eyes begins with the violent kidnapping of an ordinary schoolteacher, Anne Thompson, and keeps its grip on the reader to the very end. As the story unfolds, we learn a secret from Anne’s past and the motivation of the kidnapper - that she is the disowned daughter of the rich and powerful Charles Kirkland. Charles refuses to pay the ransom for his daughter, despite pleas from Anne’s husband, Peter, and Charles’s mistress, Catherine. A cynical FBI agent, Eric Stern, who believes that Anne is secretly cooperating with the kidnapper to extract money from her father, makes Anne’s situation even more desperate.
Will Charles break down and pay the ransom for Anne? Will her abductor’s threat to kill her become a reality or will she escape unharmed? In Her Father’s Eyes, the first book in a series, we are introduced to the extraordinary storytelling ability of Elizabeth Marki Wisz, and cannot help but be beguiled by the cast of characters she brings to life.
A Perfect Marriage, the second book in the Her Father’s Eyes series, is a continuation of the story of Anne and Peter Thompson. Anne has recovered from the suffering caused by her kidnapper, and she and Peter are now living a normal life with their baby daughter. Their friend and fellow teacher, Scott Fairbanks, tries to forget his love for Anne and dates a new teacher, Chris Wells, who has fallen in love with him. Anne and Peter are very much in love and seem to have a perfect marriage. But Anne makes a serious mistake that hurts and angers Peter so much that he leaves her. Anne’s father, Charles, and his nurse play a part in keeping them separated. Chris ostracizes Anne and Anne’s loneliness draws her closer to her father, but this only serves to alienate Peter more.Will Anne and Peter be able to overcome the forces that have pulled them apart? Will they ever reunite and be happy again? Or will they divorce and marry others? The story twists and turns before it reaches its ending.Once again, as in her first book, Elizabeth Marki Wisz tells a story that keeps her readers spellbound from beginning to end.
Sealed With a Kiss is the third book in the Her Father’s Eyes series. Anne Thompson is missing her husband, Peter, and her friend, Chris Fairbanks, is missing her husband, Scott. The men are working on a ranch in California for the summer. Anne is overjoyed when she gets a visit from a man who gives her surprising news. She welcomes him into her home and her life and Chris, though she loves her husband, feels herself hopelessly drawn to him. As the summer goes on, the marriages of both couples are threatened, as are their very lives. Anne’s wealthy, estranged father, Charles Kirkland, also plays a part in the drama that enfolds.
Who raped Melissa Gray, the beautiful, intelligent college professor? Was it, as the police suspect, her boyfriend, Greg Russell, the rugged construction worker/engineering student she has been seeing for a year and who will do anything to get her to marry him? Or was It Ray Damon, her student assistant, who has a secret weakness? Or perhaps Donald Higgins, her stepbrother, who is jealous of her independence while he is forced to comply with his father’s view of what his life should be? Or could it be her stepfather or her recently returned long-lost father? Or maybe a past boyfriend who resents her breakup with him? Or perhaps someone neither she nor anyone else suspects?
Who raped Melissa Gray? This is a question that will keep readers of The Intruder in suspense until the surprising, frightening climax.