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  <name><![CDATA[Kelli Stanley]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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’s second novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kellistanley.com/Books.html&quot;&gt;CITY OF DRAGONS&lt;/a&gt; will be released by Minotaur on February 2, 2010. Next Valentine's Day, 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.

&quot;Children's Day&quot;, a short story prequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, will be published by Tor in the upcoming International Thriller Writers Anthology FIRST THRILLS, featuring twelve stories from the bestsellers of today paired with twelve from the bestsellers of tomorrow. 

Kelli's debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA (A Long Night for Sleeping) (Five Star; July, 2008), won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award and was a Macavity Award finalist.
The book broke new genre ground as the first &quot;Roman noir&quot;, a pun on its unique combination of Chandler-esqe hardboiled style and rich historical texture.

CURSED--the sequel to NOX DORMIENDA--will be published by Thomas Dunne/Minotaur Books.

For more information, reviews, excerpts, and multimedia about Kelli and her work--and coming soon, a chance to win a free advance copy of CITY OF DRAGONS--visit her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kellistanley.com&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Tacoma, WA</hometown>  <born_at>06/11/1964</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Nox Dormienda:: A Long Night for Sleeping]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[City of Dragons]]></title>
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