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Carrie Stuart Parks

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Born

Missoula, Montana, The United States

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http://www.carriestuartparks.com/index.html

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Art, Suspense

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July 2008

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Carrie Stuart Parks is Christy, Carol, and Inspy award-winning author, an award-winning fine artist, and internationally known forensic artist. Along with her husband, Rick, she travels across the US and Canada teaching courses in forensic art to law enforcement as well as civilian participants. She has won numerous awards for career excellence. Carrie is a popular platform speaker, presenting a variety of topics from crime to creativity.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 11,041 ratings · 2,167 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Cry from the Dust (Gwen Marcey #1) 3.98 avg rating — 1,535 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relative Silence 4.15 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fallout 3.78 avg rating — 1,332 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bones Will Speak (Gwen Marcey #2) 4.21 avg rating — 1,119 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments of Fear: A Twisty Forensic Suspense Novel of Stolen Art, Murder, and Buried Secrets 4.16 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Formula of Deception 4.08 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Death Draws Near (Gwen Marcey #3) 4.32 avg rating — 870 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Woman in Shadow 4.07 avg rating — 894 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portrait of Vengeance (Gwen Marcey #4) 4.37 avg rating — 746 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces 4.20 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I love to get your emails, and wanted to answer some comments to all of you that I keep getting asked. After four books in the Gwen Marcey series, my publishers wanted me to write some stand-alones. Yeah, I cried. I really loved Gwen. I decided, after talking with my agent, to challenge myself with writing a psychological thriller--but I'm a purest. The main character can't know she's got psycholo Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 20, 2019 06:55 • Tags: formula-of-deception, fragments-of-fear, gwen-marcey

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Carrie Parks and 1 other person liked Margaret Daniels's review of Relative Silence: "Spellbinding I read Relative Silence in one evening- couldn't put it down! Intriguing, captivating, entertaining with a twist at the end."
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Carrie Parks liked Elizabeth "Eli" Olmedo's review of Relative Silence: "I really enjoyed Relative Silence. It kept a steady pace, kept me guessing until the end, and I especially liked the setting. I'll check out more stories by this author."
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Carrie Parks liked Hailey Miller's review of Relative Silence: "I was surprised on how much I enjoyed this book and was able to finish in a day, not wanting to put it down. This story was a fantastic mystery and was such a twisted tale. Piper and Tucker are two characters that just made sense together especially " Read more of this review »
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Carrie Parks made a comment on Matt’s review of Survival in the Mountains " Yes, Matt, it's a different market. Unfortunately there were not enough buyers of straight mystery/suspense/thrillers to keep the publisher happy. Sig ...more "
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“We are training our minds to see the subtle shapes in the visual world around us. Shade”
― Carrie Stuart Parks, Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

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“I now have three binders overflowing with the success of this program. My husband and I travel across the country teaching composite and forensic art to law enforcement agencies ranging from the FBI to two-person departments. Our students' sketches have identified such perpetrators as child killers, rapists, abductors, murderers, bank robbers, drug dealers and the largest serial arsonist in U.S. history.”
― Carrie Stuart Parks, Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

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“So we're effectively cut off from the world with a badly injured woman and a homicidal maniac on the loose.”
― Carrie Stuart Parks, Woman in Shadow

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A Cry from the Dust (Gwen Marcey #1) by Carrie Stuart Parks

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The Girl in the Photograph -Kate Riordan

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Carrie’s Quotes

“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
― William Blake

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