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Carrie Stuart Parks

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Missoula, Montana, The United States

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Art, Suspense

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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: 4.12 · 10,485 ratings · 2,073 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Cry from the Dust (Gwen Marcey #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,490 ratings — published 2014 — 20 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 4.16 avg rating — 1,373 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Fallout 3.83 avg rating — 1,201 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) 4.20 avg rating — 1,087 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 4.16 avg rating — 983 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 — 949 ratings — published 2018 — 7 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) 4.31 avg rating — 848 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 4.08 avg rating — 864 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 — 722 ratings — published 2017	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 — 392 ratings — published 2002 — 4 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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Carrie Parks answered Kristi Kleinsasser's question: I’ve read all of your books and really enjoy them! Are you writing more books? Thank you sooo much for reading all my books! Yes, I have one coming out next year (title right now is Escape from Wolf's Lair.) I'm also writing a memoir for Trong Van Cao and Gary Gorans titled Of Good Courage. A third book is done but unsold as ye See Full Answer
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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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“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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