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Other contact method: Contact form on my website: https://www.mariontodd.com/contact, my agent ([email protected]) or my publisher ([email protected])
Marion is a native of Dundee where she worked for many years as a college lecturer, a candle-maker and a hotel lounge pianist. She is the author of the DI Clare Mackay crime series set in St Andrews. The first of these, See Them Run was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut Novel of the year in 2020 and the latest, Dead Man’s Shoes, was published in January 2025. Marion now lives in North-east Fife.
Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian
Events will deliver
Chairing events; Panel event; Reading; Talk
Audience will work with
Adult learners
Topics of work
Contemporary fiction; Crime fiction; Editing & editing your own work; Mystery & thriller; Publishing & getting published