My son-in-law, Mike Cole, was a police officer for
Oxnard P.D. for 15 years. When he was a new officer and worked the graveyard
shift, he’d stop by my house when he came home from work for coffee. He’s
always ask, “Do you want to hear what happened last night?” Of course I did.
He told me lots of exciting tales—some funny and
some sad. Always a writer, I began to weave ideas together for a mystery novel.
He let me look at some of his case notes, giving me even more ideas.
The first book, Final Respects, deals with a tragedy
concerning a family dispute call, a main character who has a wife who hates his
job, an officer who is a publicity hound and involved with a woman with a
serious problem, a family who lose a husband and father, and three little girls
whose father owns a mortuary and torment the mortician who works and lives
there.
When I wrote that first book, I had no idea that it
would become a series, but I wanted to know what happened to those characters I
created, so I had to write the next, and the next and so on.
Here are the titles in order:
Final Respects
Bad Tidings
Fringe Benefits
Smell of Death
No Sanctuary
An Axe to Grind
No Bells
Angel Lost
Dangerous Impulses
Murder in the Worst Degree
and now:
A Crushing Death
Marilyn aka F. M. Meredith
Blurb: A Crushing Death
A pile of rocks is found on a dead body
beneath the condemned pier, a teacher is accused of molesting a student, the
new police chief is threatened by someone she once arrested for attacking women,
and Detective Milligan’s teenage daughter has a big problem.
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Bio:
F. M. Meredith who is also known as
Marilyn Meredith is nearing the number of 40 published books. Besides being an
author she is a wife, mother , grandma and great-grandmother. Though the Rocky
Bluff she writes about is fictional, she lived for over twenty-years in a
similar small beach town. Besides having many law enforcement officers in her
family she is counts many as friends. She teaches writing, loves to give
presentations to writing and other groups, and is a member of Mystery Writers
of America, three chapters of Sisters in Crime and on the board of Public
Safety Writers Association.
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