Publications

Introducing Sarah McKinney, lawyer and international mediator. Celebrating the conclusion of a case in London, Sarah is hit by a stray bullet. When she meets the intended targets, a beautiful young Jordanian woman and her lover, a journalist on the hunt for the hidden assets of Middle Eastern strongmen, she is drawn into a criminal intrigue that follows her home to Decatur, Georgia.

An offer to help her mentor locate his estranged daughter takes Sarah McKinney to the Dordogne region of rural France. There, she uncovers a troubled history that parallels her own. To rescue the woman she has come to find, she must confront danger as well as her own demons.

“Nothing much happens in Britain during the week between Christmas and New Year.” Sarah McKinney’s plan for a cozy vacation with her lover turns towards terror when she travels to Britain for the holidays, and becomes embroiled in the search for a link connecting apparently random deaths.

Red Wheelbarrow Writers' anthology Memory Into Memoir includes Marian Exall's prize-winning tale about her year living in the South of France.

Available on Amazon.

In 2017, the theme of the Whatcom Writes annual anthology was forgiveness. Marian Exall's short story Pipestone Canyon reflects on this essential ingredient in a long marriage. 

In 2019, Exall's submission was again included in the anthology. Memorial pays homage to a World War II hero, and his daughter, now 92, who honors his memory.

Exall's contribution to this collection  

recounts the experience of a would-be emigrant from Liverpool in 1912—her grandfather. 

Available on Amazon.