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Kelli Stanley
Female
San Francisco, CA
United States
Profile Information:
- Hometown:
- San Francisco
- About Me:
- THE CURSE-MAKER--sequel to my debut "Roman noir" novel NOX DORMIENDA--releases on February 1st, 2011, from Thomas Dunne/Minotaur.
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 ...
It's the fall of 837 a.u.c. (84 AD), and Gwyna—Arcturus' headstrong and beautiful wife—is distant, troubled, disconnected. Agricola insists that Arcturus take her to Aquae Sulis (Bath), a fashionable health resort in the west of Britannia, where the hot springs and healthful atmosphere are sure to rejuvenate her.
Instead, they find the corpse of a curse-writer floating in the sacred spring of the goddess Sulis.
Evil has taken root in the city, and something has corrupted any goodness from the goddess' waters. Something wicked beneath the reflection of the blue, bubbling spring ...
From a haunted silver mine in the hills above Aquae Sulis to the underground tunnels of the enormous buildings built for the sick and dying that flock to the town, they encounter a city that festers with corruption, more hellish than health-spa, running on magic water and faith in cure-alls, populated by social-climbing boors, quacks, and nephews with rich, sickly aunts. A resort more dangerous than the war Arcturus left behind.
Now he must fight again—to save his marriage ... and their lives.
THE CURSE-MAKER is a sequel to the award-winning NOX DORMIENDA, the first book of the Roman Noir series created by Kelli Stanley (CITY OF DRAGONS). Wedding impeccably-researched history to prose and themes reminiscent of classic hard-boiled writers, THE CURSE-MAKER is a thrilling and suspenseful journey to a dark corner of Roman Britain. Don't go near the water.
My second novel and the first book of the Miranda Corbie series, CITY OF DRAGONS, launched from Minotaur on February 2, 2010.
CITY OF DRAGONS was an Indie Next Pick for February, 2010, a Killer Book selection from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, a #2 bestseller from IMBA, a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews, an alternate selection of the Mystery Guild, and earned three starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal. It is currently available in hardcover, e-book and audio, and large print. A paperback will be released in September, 2011.
CITY OF SECRETS, the sequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, will be published in September, 2011. "Children's Day"--a short story prequel to CITY OF DRAGONS--is included in the ITW anthology FIRST THRILLS: High Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors, published on June 22, 2010, and available in audio and e-book. A paperback will be published in June.
NOX DORMIENDA, my debut novel, won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award, and was nominated for a Macavity Award.
For more more information about my books--including history, videos, and ephemera--please visit my website at www.kellistanley.com - I Am A:
- Writer
- Website:
- http://www.kellistanley.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- In no order:
Raymond Chandler, Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Hammett, Woolrich, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, L'Engle, the Brontes, Fitzgerald, and many friends and contemporaries, too many to list ... - Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Film Noir, film noir, film noir. German Expressionism, early '30s musicals, Warner crime melodramas, B-movie science-fiction, Italian neo-realism, John Ford westerns, Judy Garland, screwball comedies, pre-code soaps ...
If pressed to name a favorite of favorites: Casablanca. Favorite Noir: Gilda.
And who has time for television?
Reece Hirsch
Nox Dormienda sounds really intriguing. And what a cool blurb from Ken Bruen!
Feb 4, 2009
Reece Hirsch
Feb 4, 2009
Sean Chercover
Sep 14, 2009