<p><strong>Marian McCarthy</strong> is a novelist with a long career as a freelancer, corporate communications consultant, technical copywriter, columnist, ghostwriter, editor, and writing teacher.</p><p><strong><em>Murder and the Mortician </em></strong>is the first in the <strong>Last Responder</strong> mystery series, featuring psychic mortician Perrie Spock. When she discovers the body of a young woman on the driveway of her funeral home, Perrie begins to hear stories only the dead can tell. It’s “The Medium” meets “Six Feet Under.”</p><p><strong><em>Beneath the Wild Blue</em></strong>, her debut novel, is based on her experience as a mid-century military brat, part of a vagabond family that traveled the world and never clung to one place. She is an award-winning short story writer, independent thinker, rabble rouser, and two-time cancer survivor. Marian lives with her husband Jim in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is the fiercely loving dragon mother of two daughters, Madeleine and Caitlin. </p>
