Member: kestanley

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GroupsAncient History, Comics, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Facebook Users, Historical Fiction, History: On learning from and writing history, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsKen Bruen, Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresSan Francisco Mystery Bookstore

About meAward-winning author Kelli Stanley writes crime fiction (novels and short stories).

CITY OF DRAGONS--an explosively dark novel set in 1940 San Francisco, and introducing ex-escort and PI Miranda Corbie--will be published by St. Martin's Minotaur on February 2, 2010.

A small-time Japanese gangster is murdered in Chinatown ... and no one wants to know why. Miranda defiantly pursues the truth, uncovering searing racial hatreds and a legacy of pain and exploitation.

Kelli's debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA (A Long Night for Sleeping) (Five Star; July, 2008), won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award, has been nominated for a Macavity Award (Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award,) and draws upon her academic background in Classics for its first century Roman Britain setting.

The book broke new genre ground as the first "Roman noir", a pun on its unique combination of Chandler-esqe hardboiled style and rich historical texture.

Thorndike Press published a large print edition in October, 2008. NOX will also be published in Italy and Greece as a paperback.

For more information about Kelli and her work, visit her website at: http://www.kellistanley.com

About my librarySome favorite books ...

Farewell, My Lovely (all Chandler); The Maltese Falcon; Red Harvest; The Glass Key; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; Grapes of Wrath; Nightmare Alley; A Farewell to Arms; To Have and Have Not; The Sun Also Rises; Hemingway's short stories; Brave New World; The Great Gatsby; Emma; Pride and Prejudice, and the rest of Jane Austen; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; We, the Living; David Copperfield; A Christmas Carol; Bleak House; Journal of the Plague Year; Moll Flanders; Priest; The Aeneid; The Iliad; The Odyssey; Paradise Lost; Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; The works of Catullus, and many more ...

Homepagehttp://www.kellistanley.com

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Real nameKelli Stanley

LocationSan Francisco, CA

Emailkellikellistanley.com

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Member sinceJun 13, 2008