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Carrie’s memoir about her ride-along hours with MPD, FRAGMENTS OBSERVED: LESSONS LEARNED ON PATROL, is available now in paperback and e-book.

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Carrie’s current blog series Fragments Observed: Riding with the Mobile Police Departmentposts the third week each month.

Read the previous series, Fragments Observed: Life During Mobile’s Progressive Era” for information on historic events/places.


You can purchase books through The Haunted Book Shop in downtown Mobile, Alabama. (They ship!)

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Readers in the USA can order direct from Carrie on her Square shop.