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Marian Exall is an award-winning author of mysteries and historical fiction. She grew up in England, and lived in France and Belgium before moving to the United States. After raising a family while pursuing a career as a lawyer, Exall now lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest.

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	Daughters of Riga 4.62 avg rating — 34 ratings	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
	A Slippery Slope (Sarah McKinney Mystery #1) 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	A Dangerous Descent (Sarah McKinney Mysteries #2) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 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
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My sixth novel, Loners, will be published on October 13. Whaaat?! How did that happen?!

I remember the thrill of holding my first book baby, A Slippery Slope, in 2012: “Now I can die happy!” I’d self-published the mystery, and when I say “self-published,” I mean I did it all myself. I haunted the bookstore with a tape measure calculating margins, seeing where the page numbers went, and what was in

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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

by Val McDermid

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The Whitby Murders (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #6)

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Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, #1)

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