About
Glenda Carroll
If you want to find Glenda, she’ll be in, on, or under water—and writing about it. She understands water sports on a very personal level since she swims, surfs and sails.
Glenda wrote a weekly sailing column for the Marin Independent Journal for 19 years. During that time, she also wrote for local, national and international sailing publications. She branched into travel writing and her features have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travel & Leisure, Ford Times, Chevron USA, Defenders of Wildlife, and Bay & Delta Yachtsman.
She was a Communications Manager for Kaiser Permanente in the San Francisco Medical Center as well as the Northern California Region and the National office.
She writes the Trisha Carson Mystery Series. The series about the Marin County amateur sleuth features BETTER OFF DEAD, published in March 2025 by Indies United Publishing House, LLC. The debut book was DEAD IN THE WATER, followed by DROP DEAD RED and DEAD CODE DEAD. Her books are based on personal experience in open water swimming. She’s raced in more than 150 open water events in Northern California, as well as Hawaii and Perth, Australia.
She is the president of the Northern California Chapter of Sisters in Crime, and she lives in San Rafael, CA with her dog McCovey.
Featured Work
Better Off Dead
Successful Marin County, Ca financier, Andy Barlow, is training for a competitive open water swim in the cold San Francisco Bay. Unexpectedly, his support boat runs him over midstroke, killing the swimmer instantaneously. Consumed with grief and anger, Andy’s college-aged son Harrison, returns from London to probe what really happened. Although the local sheriff’s office and the Coast Guard called the death a tragic accident and closed the case, Harrison refuses to believe their findings.
He reaches out to amateur sleuth Trisha Carson to hunt down the real killer.
Trisha digs into the man’s history and finds fractured relationships in his family, his business and his marriage. There’s clearly more than one person who had reason to seek a deadly revenge, but would they go as far as murder?
