Marilyn Meredith has been a professional writer for thirty years. She's written for local newspapers and national magazines, and has published how-to-books and monthly newsletters for the community care business.

She's had two historical family sagas published based on her own family genealogy.

Her mysteries include the Deputy Crabtree series, Deadly Trail, Deadly Trail (an Eppie nominee), Deadly Omen, Unequally Yoked, and Intervention (a Bloody Dagger award nominee). She has borrowed liberally from the Southern Sierra foothills where she lives for the setting of the Tempe Crabtree books. The first in her Rocky Bluff series is Final Respects, located in a fictional coastal community. Guilt by Association is a stand-alone situated in an old gold-country village on Highway 49 and recently won the publisher's best mystery/suspense award.

Some of the above books are also published electronically. She writes in other genres as well, such as Christian horror and ghost stories. 

An instructor for Writer's Digest school, she is one of the judges for the Writer's Digest contest for Genre Fiction Category for Self-Published Books. She was an instructor at the Maui Writers' Retreat.

Marilyn is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the Police Writers' Association, and EPIC, and has been a featured speaker and been on panels at mystery conferences and groups all over the country. She has also spoken at schools in California, as well as for service and social organizations locally and in other parts of California.

For several years, she has served as an instructor for the Police Writers' Association annual conference, and serves on their board of directors.

On the personal side, Marilyn has been married for over 50 years to the sailor she met on a blind date. They raised five children and enjoy being around their 18 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.

Deadly Omen
Book 1, Tempe Crabtree Mystery Series
genre: Mystery: police stories -- women police detectives
A candidate for princess is murdered at a Native American Pow Wow while Tempe is working there in her capacity of deputy. Tempe's investigation takes her onto the Yanduchi reservation. Her pastor husband has difficulty with Tempe's growing interest in the spiritual side of her heritage as she seeks the identity of the killer.

Kachima Spirit
genre: Horror: supernatural horror
Madeline Kennon, a young widow, moves with her two children, Norman and Wendy, into an old Victorian house in Ojai, California to begin life anew. The house is haunted by several ghosts. Norman, the collector of all things horrible, is delighted. While Madeline tries to solve the mysteries of their new home, she becomes involved with an intriguing stranger. But it is Norman's policeman friend who saves Madeline from the fate that befell one of the ghosts many years before.
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ISBN: 1-58200=137-5 (electronic)
ISBN: 0-7599-0099-X (paperback)
publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory