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V.S. Kemanis

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Award-winning author V.S. Kemanis has a professional background in the law and the arts. As a lawyer, she worked many years as a litigator in New York’s criminal justice system and as a supervising editor of decisions for the busiest appellate court in the country. An accomplished dancer of ballet and contemporary styles, Kemanis has performed, choreographed, and taught dance in California, Colorado, and New York.

Short fiction by Ms. Kemanis has been published in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies including Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Crooked Road Volume 3, The Best Laid Plans, Me Too Short Stories, and Autumn Noir, among others. Her book, Your Pick: Selected Stories, won the Eric Hoffer Award for best story collection a
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New in Audiobook!

My first two Dana Hargrove novels, mystery/legal thriller/suspense, are now available in audiobook, narrated by Yours Truly!

Thursday's List: A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery Thursday's List A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery by V.S. Kemanis
and Homicide Chart: A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery Homicide Chart A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery by V.S. Kemanis

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“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.”
V.S. Kemanis, Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor

“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there was something waiting for her on the other side of this crowd.”
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“Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position, the letter in shreds around her. The room had grown dark. Like a gentle snowfall, the cold mantle of an unbearable silence descended.”
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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
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“She lay in the dark and knew everything.”
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message 3: by Jenny

Jenny VS, thanks so much for noticing the Killer Nashville nom. I'm sorry I didn't see this till now!


message 2: by Jenny

Jenny VS, thanks so much for noticing the Killer Nashville nom. I'm sorry I didn't see this till now!


message 1: by V.S.

V.S. Kemanis Jill wrote: "Great to meet you V.S., and thank you for your friendship here on GRs. We seem to have gone along the same journey with sociology, the legal profession and the ballet. Amazing!"

Thanks, Jill! Interesting that I've met several lawyers in ballet class--must be all that discipline!


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