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Carrie Stuart Parks

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Missoula, Montana, The United States

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Carrie Stuart Parks is Christy, Carol, and Inspy award-winning author, an award-winning fine artist, and internationally known forensic artist. Along with her husband, Rick, she travels across the US and Canada teaching courses in forensic art to law enforcement as well as civilian participants. She has won numerous awards for career excellence. Carrie is a popular platform speaker, presenting a variety of topics from crime to creativity.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 10,577 ratings · 2,108 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Cry from the Dust (Gwen Marcey #1) 3.98 avg rating — 1,493 ratings — published 2014 — 20 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
	Relative Silence 4.16 avg rating — 1,379 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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
	Fallout 3.82 avg rating — 1,216 ratings — published 2022 — 9 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
	The Bones Will Speak (Gwen Marcey #2) 4.21 avg rating — 1,091 ratings — published 2015	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
	Fragments of Fear 4.16 avg rating — 985 ratings — published 2019 — 8 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
	Formula of Deception 4.08 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 2018 — 7 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
	When Death Draws Near (Gwen Marcey #3) 4.32 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2016	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
	Woman in Shadow 4.09 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2021 — 8 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
	Portrait of Vengeance (Gwen Marcey #4) 4.37 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2017	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
	Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces 4.20 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2002 — 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

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I love to get your emails, and wanted to answer some comments to all of you that I keep getting asked. After four books in the Gwen Marcey series, my publishers wanted me to write some stand-alones. Yeah, I cried. I really loved Gwen. I decided, after talking with my agent, to challenge myself with writing a psychological thriller--but I'm a purest. The main character can't know she's got psycholo Read more of this blog post »

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“We are training our minds to see the subtle shapes in the visual world around us. Shade”
― Carrie Stuart Parks, Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

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“I now have three binders overflowing with the success of this program. My husband and I travel across the country teaching composite and forensic art to law enforcement agencies ranging from the FBI to two-person departments. Our students' sketches have identified such perpetrators as child killers, rapists, abductors, murderers, bank robbers, drug dealers and the largest serial arsonist in U.S. history.”
― Carrie Stuart Parks, Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

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“So we're effectively cut off from the world with a badly injured woman and a homicidal maniac on the loose.”
― Carrie Stuart Parks, Woman in Shadow

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Polls

February 2017 Group Reads Poll

Deep Freeze (Northwest, #1) by Lisa Jackson

Deep Freeze - Lisa Jackson The Witness

4 votes, 17.4%

The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchison

3 votes, 13.0%

1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1) by James Patterson

1st to Die - James Patterson

2 votes, 8.7%

The Devil's Work - Mark Edwards

2 votes, 8.7%

Rage Against the Dying (Brigid Quinn, #1) by Becky Masterman

Rage Against the Dying - Becky Masterman

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False Memory - Dean Koontz

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

1 vote, 4.3%

Girl Number One - Jane Holland

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Vanished in the Night - Eileen Carr

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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French

In the Woods - Tana French

1 vote, 4.3%

The Dry - Jane Harper

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The Crooked House - Christobel Kent

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The Girl in the Picture by Alexandra Monir

The Girl in the Picture - Alexandra Monir

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- Nora Roberts

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The Vanishing Year - Kate Moretti

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The Hanging (Konrad Simonsen, #1) by Lotte Hammer

The Hanging - Lotte Hammer

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The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena

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A Cry from the Dust (Gwen Marcey #1) by Carrie Stuart Parks

A Cry from the Dust - Carrie Stuart Parks

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The Drowning Girls by Paula Treick DeBoard

The Drowning Girls - Paula Treick DeBoard

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Under Your Skin - Sabine Durrant

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I'll Be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark

I'll Be Seeing You - Mary Higgins Clark

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The Sleepwalker - Chris Bohjalian

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“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
― William Blake

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