Marion MacKinnon Crook

Works by Marion MacKinnon Crook:

• Always Pack a Candle A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin
• Always on Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching and Rural Living
• Copper Creek Mystery
• Murder in Vancouver 1886
• Thicker Than Blood: Adoptive Parenting in the Modern World
• Cutting It Close
• The Face in the Mirror: Teenagers and Adoption
• Writing for Children and Young Adults
• Riding Scared
• Out of the Darkness: Teens Talk About Suicide
• Looking Good: Teenagers and Eating Disorders
• Island Feud
• Writing Books for Kids and Teens
• The Body Image Trap: Understanding and Rejecting Body Image Myths
• My Body: Women Speak Out About Their Health Care
• Suicide: Teens Talk to Teens
• Searching for Gold (The Megan Series Book 1)
• Please, Listen to Me!: Your Guide to Understanding Teenagers and Suicide
• Hidden Gold Mystery
• A Question of Justice 1886
• No Safe Place
• British Columbia Mysteries: The Gulf Island Connection
• Teenagers Talk About Suicide
• A Yen for Your Trouble

Marion McKinnon Crook is a nurse, an educator, and the author of more than fifteen books under three different pen names: Marion Crook, Emma Dakin and Marion McKinnon.

In addition to her nursing degree, McKinnon Crook holds a master's in liberal studies and a PhD in education. Now a full-time writer, she lives in Gibsons, BC. She appeared at the Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 1986. She participated in the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society's Art & Words Festival in 2022, 2023, and 2024.