Mari Labbee has been an avid reader her entire life.

Books of all kinds found their way into her hands, but she first fell in love with the mystery genre at the ripe old age of nine, when she read her first Sherlock Holmes story. Since then she has believed that life is always more interesting with a bit of mystery thrown in. She has worked in the corporate world most of her life and indulges her love of reading and writing at every opportunity. She currently resides in North Carolina with her husband and a cat that believes the backyard is really the Serengeti.  The Feel of Echoes is her first novel.