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MARILYNN LAREW is a historian who has published in such fields as American colonial and architectural history, Vietnamese military history, and terrorism, and has taught courses in each of them in the University of Maryland System.

She has lived in seven states and two foreign countries, so she has always been interested in different cultures and different places. Being the “new kid” in so many places, she has always had to adjust quickly. Reading helped her deal with that, and her library card has often been her best friend.

She has always liked to write, but the idea of writing fiction didn’t occur to her until after she finished her PhD in history. Everybody who goes through that grueling program swears to write a book revealing how awful MARILYNN LAREW is a historian who has published in such fields as American colonial and architectural history, Vietnamese military history, and terrorism, and has taught courses in each of them in the University of Maryland System.

She has lived in seven states and two foreign countries, so she has always been interested in different cultures and different places. Being the “new kid” in so many places, she has always had to adjust quickly. Reading helped her deal with that, and her library card has often been her best friend.

She has always liked to write, but the idea of writing fiction didn’t occur to her until after she finished her PhD in history. Everybody who goes through that grueling program swears to write a book revealing how awful it is. Marilynn wrote a hard-boiled detective story with a female protagonist. It almost sold, but when it didn’t, she focused on her teaching and research. Perhaps her most interesting scholarly publication is about 300BC Vietnamese military history.

It was only after she retired from teaching that she was able to return to writing fiction. The two volumes in the Lee Carruthers series are the result. Her protagonist is still female, but perhaps she is not so hard-boiled. Lee Carruthers is a CIA analyst who has a conflicted relationship with the
Agency. She is often sent where no analyst goes, and she has the scars to prove it – one from a 9 mm. bullet and three knife cuts. She keeps trying to quit, but the Agency keeps coming back like a song.

There are two more Lee Carruthers thrillers in the pipeline, and she is currently working on a third book in which the protagonist is a medium-boiled female private eye.

She writes thrillers because she likes to read them. She also likes to read Vietnamese and Chinese history and military history of all flavors.

She lives with her husband in a 200-year-old brick farmhouse on the Mason-Dixon Line in southern Pennsylvania. She belongs to the Sisters in Crime, the Guppies, and the Chinese History Military Group.
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Average rating: 4.16 · 68 ratings · 39 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Spider Catchers (Lee Carruthers, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead in Dubai (Lee Carruthers, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hong Kong Central: Lee Carruthers #3 (Lee Carruthers series) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aftermath 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Bel Air: An architectural and cultural history, 1782-1945 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bel Air: the Town Through Its Buildings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1981	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I thought this day would never come. Today I pushed the button and released Dead in Dubai to an unsuspecting world. Not really unsuspecting. I’ve been posting everywhere and will again, but I did think the day would never come.

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“Rule number one. The good guys always win.

Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.”
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“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
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“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
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