Marian McCarthy is a novelist with a long career as a freelancer, corporate communications consultant, technical copywriter, columnist, ghostwriter, editor, and writing teacher.

Murder and the Mortician is the first in the Last Responder 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.”

Beneath the Wild Blue, 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.