Kelli Stanley

Thanks for stopping by! It gets lonely around here with just a fedora, a typewriter and a bottle of bourbon ...

My second novel is coming from Minotaur on February 2, 2010 ... CITY OF DRAGONS. You'll leave more than your heart behind in 1940 San Francisco ...

February, 1940. 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.

CITY OF DRAGONS is an Indie Next Pick for February, 2010. COUNTRY OF SPIDERS, the tentative title for the sequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, will be published in 2011.

"Children's Day"--a short story prequel to CITY OF DRAGONS--is included in the forthcoming ITW anthology FIRST THRILLS: High Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors, releasing June 22, 2010.

NOX DORMIENDA, my debut novel, won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award, and was nominated for a Macavity 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.

CURSED, the sequel to NOX DORMIENDA, will be published by Thomas Dunne/Minotaur Books in 2011.

I live in San Francisco, which proudly claims the mantle of Noir City, and hold an MA in Classics.
When I'm not writing, I can be found in bookstores, classic film festivals, speakeasies and anywhere the fog blows.
For more information about my books, please visit my website at http://www.kellistanley.c....