Kelli Stanley
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 Stanley's Books
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Ken Bruen
Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) nigh cost me a night’s sleep! A Roman noir … and with a depth of scholarship that should be off-putting but works beautifully. The language is a sheer treasure.
From classical to sheer class and for a book that is so meticulously researched, it has a wild and wondrous sense of humour. What a series this is going to be! Imagine Ellis Peters re-written by Elmore Leonard and you’ll have some notion of this gem of a novel—and it moves like a gladiator on speed.
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City of Dragons (12)
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. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Ta…
Nox Dormienda (a Long Night for Sleeping) (4)
One week to solve a murder.
Londinium, 83 AD. Vibius Maecenas, spy for Emperor Domitian, lies on an underground altar … his throat slit to the spinal chord.
One week to stop a civil war.
Arcturus, the governor’s doctor and sometime investigator, must find out who butchered him—and why—before Agricola and all of B…
Curse-Maker (4)
When Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife Gwyna arrive at Bath for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred spring. It turns out that the murdered man is a curse maker whose curses actually come true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there’s now a curse on Arcturus.
An exciting and exotic…
City of Secrets (0)
“Miranda Corbie is back in this sequel to City of Dragons. “Impressive…Stanley’s hard-boiled, strong female sleuth stalks Hammett’s San Francisco and does the job with all the panache of Sam Spade. Readers will eagerly await the next installment in this exciting new series.” —"Booklist (starred)
When Pandora Blak…
