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CITY OF SECRETS has won the Golden Nugget Award for the best mystery set in California!

Click here to read more about the Golden Nugget Award. The award was announced on March 31st, at Left Coast Crime 2012, in Sacramento, CA.

Thanks for visiting my virtual home!

I hope you pull up a chair and stay awhile. You’ll find all kinds of extras about each of my books, from videos and podcasts to photo galleries, to my blog and a discussion forum.

My goal with the website and my writing is the same—to give you an enriching, immersive and entertaining experience … and one you’ll not soon forget.

I hope you have fun! Stop by and leave a comment in the forum, or send me an email—I love to hear from readers, and appreciate your time and support in reading my books and stories.

Take care—and thanks again for stopping by!

Latest Books

At book stores everywhere!

CITY OF SECRETS, the searing, heart-pounding sequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, will be releasing in hardcover and as an e-book on September 13th. Discover why Miranda Corbie is “one of crime’s most arresting heroines” [Library Journal, starred review], and explore the darkest secrets of 1940 San Francisco!

Read the first chapter here!

Another new Miranda Corbie story to celebrate the release of CITY OF SECRETS!

“Memory Book”, an original short story prequel to CITY OF SECRETS and CITY OF DRAGONS, now available as an e-book for Kindle, Nook and iPad—only 99¢!

You can also read it FOR FREE on The Criminal Element website!

NOX DORMIENDA, Kelli’s long out-of-print debut novel, is now available as an e-book! You can find it on Amazon and Smashwords, Apple and Barnes and Noble!

Only $3.99 in all formats!

Winner of the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award for 2008!

The debut of “Roman Noir …”

Latest News

CITY OF SECRETS just received an outstanding review from librarian and critic extraordinaire, Lesa Holstine. Click here to read it!

CITY OF DRAGONS is a finalist for the Shamus Award (Best First PI Novel)! Here’s the announcement!

CITY OF SECRETS just earned a starred review from Library Journal! To read the full review, click here.

“Memory Book” — a special Miranda Corbie short story prequel to CITY OF SECRETS and CITY OF DRAGONS — will be released as an e-book on September 6th! You can also it FOR FREE on the Criminal Element website!

CITY OF DRAGONS has been nominated for a Macavity—the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award! The Macavity is awarded by the world’s largest mystery reader organization, Mystery Readers International. The winner will be announced at Bouchercon 2011, in St. Louis, in September.

SHAKEN: STORIES FOR JAPAN, the first-ever charity e-book anthology, is now available for KINDLE! Conceived and edited by Edgar-nominee Tim Hallinan, the book features twenty stories by top authors, and all the royalties earned go straight to help the victims of the recent disaster. Kelli contributed a story set during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

If you don’t own a Kindle, you can download Kindle software for your PC or Mac for free. Please consider purchasing a copy—70% of your $3.99 goes directly to the 2011 JAPAN RELIEF FUND!

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