Bio
Dawn Merriman lives in northeastern Indiana on a small pig farm with her husband and teenage children. She enjoys animals, auctions, reading, snorkeling and writing small town murder mystery novels. Dawn Merriman completed her first novel in Middle School and a few others in High School and college. She won 1st place in the Northeast Indiana Young Writers short story contest in 1990. After a writing hiatus to raise her children, she published her debut novel, "How Murder Saved My Life" in 2019. Enjoy her newest novel "Message in the Bones".Genres
Blurbs
Set in a small town, but definitely not cozy!
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Marked by Darkness - Maddison, IN Thriller Book #1
An intensely emotional, psychological thriller.Consumed with grief from losing her husband and children, Maribeth lives alone in a cabin in the woods. Haunted by her dead family and the choices that destroyed them, she just wants to heal. When a woman is murdered and left in her woods, Maribeth can no longer hide. The serial killer who destroyed her life has a copy cat determined to finish her off.
Message in the Bones - Messages of Murder Book #1
Long-buried bones have secrets to share – if you know how to read the message
Freak is a nasty word, but many people in this small town have no trouble calling me a freak, or worse. I have with the ability to “sense” things. Touching certain items often gives me visions, sometimes horrifying ones.
I normally hide my abilities from people, but the mysterious skeleton had a story that needed to be told. When I touched the bones, I saw what happened to her, lived through her murder.
No one wants to believe what I saw. Instead of a helpful hero, I become even more of an outcast in my small town. The only person who trulybelieves is the one man who knows the truth of my visions - the killer – and he’s desperate to keep his secrets hidden.
Message in the Snow - Messages of Murder Book #4
Gabby and Lucas finally find happiness together on Christmas Eve. It’s the perfect holiday evening -- until the drive home.
Gabby’s psychic gift leads her and Lucas to the scene of a nasty crime -- and missing children. Can Gabby find the kids and save Christmas before morning?
