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Author · Storyteller
Marcus Wells
@marcuswells
Crime writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Marcus Wells writes mainly in crime and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Marcus Wells
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Borrower
When a quiet archivist at a coastal public library finds a returned book containing a handwritten confession, he assumes it is a prank. Then the details inside begin matching a missing person case that the town would rather leave buried. As he follows the trail through catalogues, marginalia and old borrowing records, he discovers that some debts are paid in secrets, not money.
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