Marion Todd

Marion Todd is a mystery author from Dundee best known for the “Detective Clare Mackay” series of novels. She now lives in Fife in the North just across the River Tay and opposite the small town in Dundee, where she was born and brought up. She was happily married for several decades and brought up three children with her husband who was a detective in Police Scotland. While Todd had been writing throughout her thirties and twenties, she had to concentrate on raising her children when her husband died. She was forced to take up a variety of jobs that included a hotel lounge pianist, candle maker and lecturer to make ends meet. While it was a difficult period in her life, she has said that it provided a lot of material that she would later use in her novels. Once her children were all grown up, she decided to go back to her passion. She had not lost her edge as she had several of her short fiction pieces featured in “My Weekly Magazine, “and the “Dundee Courier.” In 1987, she was the winner of the Short Story for Children Competition by Family Circle Magazine. Since then, she has been nominated for several awards such as the Scottish Arts Council Short Story Award and the Sunstory Award. Her debut mystery novel “See Them Run” was published in 2019 after she won a three-book deal with Canelo. When she is not writing, she loves to walk the Scottish countryside and tussle in her jungle-like garden.