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Kelli Stanley
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Kelli
Stanley is an award-winning author of crime fiction (novels and short
stories). She makes her home in Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco, a
city she loves to write about. Kelli earned a Masters Degree in
Classics, loves jazz, classic films, battered fedoras and speakeasies.
Kelli's second book, CITY OF DRAGONS-a dark vision of 1940 San
Francisco-introduces Miranda Corbie, PI and ex-escort, and will release
February 2, 2010, from Minotaur.
Kelli's debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA,
won the Bruce Alexander Award and is nominated for a Macavity Award.
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CITY OF DRAGONS
isbn978-0-312-60360-1
 Coming from Minotaur on February 2, 2010. You'll leave more than your heart behind in 1940 San Francisco ...
In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates
Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival
designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Stuck in the
crowd, Miranda Corbie, 33-year old private investigator, stumbles upon
the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants
it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is
justice--whatever it costs. From Chinatown tenements, to a tattered
tailor's shop in Little Osaka, to a high-class bordello draped in
Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city--her city--seeking the truth.
"Beautifully imagined and beautifully written-this book does everything great fiction is supposed to."
Lee Child
"CITY OF DRAGONS is a stunning recreation of
time and place that I greatly enjoyed . . . as will everyone who reads it."
Robert B. Parker
"... a great new dame in crime fiction. A smart, stunning thriller."
Linda Fairstein
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NOX DORMIENDA
isbn 978-1594146664
 Nox Dormienda won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery
Award, and has been nominated for a Macavity Award (Sue Feder Memorial
Historical Mystery Award). A Writer's Digest Notable Debut (July/August
2008), it marks the first of a new series and new genre: Roman Noir.
Set in first century AD Britain and featuring Arcturus, a hard-boiled
protagonist in the best Marlowe tradition, NOX is a new kind of
historical mystery, a suspense thriller that combines a classic noir
style with the rich texture of the ancient past.
Bruce Alexander Award Winner
Macavity Finalist
"... brings the
past eerily alive while leaving you hungering for the next book in what
surely will be an exciting series. Stanley is a terrific writer."
Gayle Lynds
"Imagine Ellis Peters re-written by Elmore Leonard ... and it moves like a gladiator on speed."
Ken Bruen
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FIRST THRILLS
"Children's Day", a short story prequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, will be
published by Tor in the upcoming International Thriller Writers
Anthology FIRST THRILLS, featuring twelve stories from the bestsellers
of today paired with twelve from the bestsellers of tomorrow. Edited by
Lee Child and with an Afterward by Steve Berry, it will include stories
by bestsellers Ken Bruen, Heather Graham, Wendy Corsi Staub, and
Jeffrey Deaver, and and feature tales by emerging writers Rebecca
Cantrell, CJ Lyons, Bill Cameron, J.T. Ellison, Grant McKenzie, and
Karen Dionne, Rip Gerber, Theo Gangi, Marc Paoletti and Cynthia
Robinson.
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