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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 — 37 ratings — 3 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 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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I enjoy the annual NYCMidnight short story competition. Writers are assigned a genre, a subject and a character, and have 2,500 words and a week to craft their effort. Only once have I been assigned a genre I’m comfortable with—historical fiction—but that’s the point. Writing sci-fi, a ghost story, horror, political satire, or romance challenges me, keeps me on my writing toes, and provides a welc

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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

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

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