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Kathryn Lilley

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.kathrynlilley.com

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

influences

Nancy Drew, Stephen King

member since

July 2007

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As a pre-teen, I had two passions: Nancy Drew mysteries and Pralines ’n Cream ice cream. So it was perhaps inevitable that I grew up to write a series called the Fat City Mysteries.

My stories are set in Durham, North Carolina, the self-proclaimed “Diet Capital of the World.” And like my journalist sleuth, Kate Gallagher, I understand the Battle of the Bulge all too well. I once lost 90 pounds to land a job on camera as a TV reporter. And even today, I avoid the street that goes past 31 Flavors.

The first book in the Fat City Mysteries series will be Dying to Be Thin, scheduled to be published in October 2007. It’s a story about dieting, sex and murder set in a residential diet clinic (read: “fat farm”). In this clinic, the only things more d...more

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My afternoon with genre outlaws: Fiction without borders

Is it a good idea for writers to straddle genres? That was the subject of lively debate at a program I attended over the weekend. Moderated by Edgar Nominee Christa Faust (whose books have the hottest covers in town, by the way), the panel included comics author Steve Niles, Linda O. Johnston, and Matt Wallace, a Nebula and Bram Stoker Award Nominee.

Christa kicked things off by having the panel... read more »

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Books by Kathryn Lilley

Average rating: 3.45 · 262 ratings · 59 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Dying to Be Thin (A Fat City Mystery, #1) 3.32 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Killer Workout (A Fat City Mystery, #2) 3.53 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Makeovers Can Be Murder (A Fat City Mystery, #3) 3.60 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fresh Kills, Tales from the Kill Zone by Clare Langley-Hawthorne, Kathryn Lilley (Goodreads Author), Joe Moore 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Fresh Kills, Tales from the Kill Zone by Clare Langley-Hawthorne, Kathryn Lilley (Goodreads Author), Joe Moore 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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A Fat City Mystery (3 books)
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