Kelli Stanley



Personal Information

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Full Name:
Stanley, Kelli
Home State:
CA
Personal Blog Link:
http://kellistanley.blogs...
Contact Info

Author Agent :
Kimberley Cameron, Kimberley Cameron and Associates
Publicist at the Publisher :
Sarah Melnyk, Publicity Director (Minotaur Books)

Welcome Note

Thanks for stopping by! It gets lonely around here with just a fedora, a typewriter and a bottle of bourbon.
For more more information about my books--including history, videos, and ephemera--please visit my website at www.kellistanley.com.

Author Bio

An award-winning author of crime fiction, Kelli Stanley's first hard-hitting novel in the Miranda Corbie series, CITY OF DRAGONS, was met with overwhelming critical acclaim and was a finalist for the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The next novel in the series is CITY OF SECRETS, out September 13, 2011.
Stanley also writes a highly-praised series set in Roman Britain, the latest of which is THE CURSE-MAKER. Her debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA, won the Bruce Alexander Award for best historical mystery of 2008.
She makes her home in Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco, earned a Master’s Degree in Classics, and loves jazz, old movies, fedoras, Art Deco and speakeasies.
For more information about Kellis books, please visit her website at http://www.kellistanley.com.

Author blogs on this site

Bibliography

City of Secrets
Author: Kelli Stanley
Published: September 13, 2011 by Thomas Dunne/Minotaur
Series Name: Miranda Corbie
Category: noir, historical, hardboiled, detective fiction, private investigator, female protagonist, mystery, thriller, suspense
Main Character: Miranda Corbie

Pandora Blake wanted to be famous. Instead, she wound up working at a peep show on San Francisco’s Treasure Island. And on May 25th 1940, opening day for the World’s Fair, the stage hands find her stabbed through the breast, an anti-Semitic slur scrawled in blood across her white skin …

Enter ex-escort and Spanish Civil War nurse Miranda Corbie, the one detective the carnies can count on. Summarily dismissed from the fair and the case, Miranda embarks on a quest for a new job and justice for Pandora Blake.

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Memory Book
Author: Kelli Stanley
Published: September 6, 2011 by Minotaur
Series Name: Miranda Corbie (short story)
Category: noir, historical, hardboiled, detective fiction, private investigator, female protagonist, mystery, thriller, suspense
Main Character: Miranda Corbie


Miranda Corbie returns in this stunning prequel story to Kelli Stanley’s acclaimed historical series.

San Francisco, 1939.


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The Curse-Maker
Author: Kelli Stanley
Published: February 1, 2011 by Thomas Dunne/Minotaur
Series Name: An Arcturus Mystery
Category: mystery, thriller, historical
Main Character: Arcturus, Gwyna

Sequel to the Bruce Alexander award-winning debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA ...from the author of the critically-acclaimed IMBA bestseller CITY OF DRAGONS


Arcturus—legionary physician and sometime investigator for Agricola, the
governor of Britannia—has seen enough of war. But the half-native,
half-Roman reluctant soldier faces nother battle for his beloved wife's
soul ...


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