What happened to Marianne?
The Dido Hoare Mysteries The disappearance from the writing stage of Canadian writer , Marianne MacDonald is a mystery worthy of her heroine Dido Hoare . Marianne was last seen and heard from in 2006, when she attended a writers' convention in Edinburgh , Scotland . At the time, she told her friend Val McDermid that she had been offered a 7-book contract by Severn House Publishing . Her last publication - Faking it - was published the following year. They left the convention, and as far as I can tell there is no further news; in the intervening years, all I have been able to ascertain is that she is not recorded as dying, and had an article published in the Daily Telegraph several years ago.