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M.R. Collings

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Nashville, The United States

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M. R. Collings is an award-winning author and former spine surgery physician associate who traded the operating room for the page. Drawing on her medical background and fascination with human behavior, she writes psychologically layered stories that explore the tension between love and obsession, identity and illusion, truth and perception.

As Melissa R. Collings, she also writes humorous, heartwarming romantic stories about the messy, beautiful ways we love and grow.

When she’s not writing or plotting, she’s having deep, thought-provoking conversations with her husband and two children in Nashville, studying preventative health, or losing herself in a painting. Her imagination never fails to get her into trouble, and she lives by the philoso ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 29 ratings · 24 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

Kill the Thing You Love: A Novel
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I read The Woman in the Window after seeing it discussed by twin sisters I follow on TikTok/Instagram whose thriller reviews I love, and I’m so glad I picked it up. This was such a fun, twisty, addictive psychological thriller. I loved the claustropho ...more
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