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 target, she is drawn into a criminal intrigue that follows her home to Decatur, Georgia.
"A suspenseful, intelligent debut"
Kirkus Reviews
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.
CLUE AWARD WINNER!
"Sharp and well-paced"
Chanticleer Reviews
“Nothing much happens in Britain during the week between Christmas and New Year.” Sarah McKinney’s plan for a cozy vacation turns towards terror when she travels to Britain for the holidays, and becomes embroiled in the search for a link connecting apparently random deaths.
CLUE AWARD WINNER!
"A great job of plotting, characters and use of language!"
Amazon 5 Star Review
Red Wheelbarrow Writers' anthology Memory Into Memoir includes Marian Exall's prize-winning tale about her year living in the South of France.
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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.
Discovery is Whatcom Writes theme in 2020. Exall writes about discovering that her mother misled her in Losing My Irish Grandfather.
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Exall's contribution to this collection
recounts the experience of a would-be emigrant from Liverpool in 1912—her grandfather.
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Exall is working on a series of short stories based on family anecdotes and set in Britain between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Losing My Irish Grandfather, in the anthology So Much Depends Upon . . . is the first to be published
Inspired by a true story of heroism, the narrative traces the intertwined histories of two mother-daughter pairs through the chaos of war and its aftermath. Exall has been struggling to write this novel for a decade. Publication date: uncertain
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