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Kelli Stanley
Dear Reader, Bells ring out, muffled by fog, as a cable car crawls up Nob Hill. Thin sunlight glints on the mammoth orange bridge. And in Chinatown, Eddie Takahashi lies murdered—a young Japanese-American hoodlum, shot during a festival for Chinese war relief—in the fight against Japan. This is the San Francisco of February, 1940 ... the San Francisco of CITY OF DRAGONS. A San Francisco where, this Valentine's Day, you'll leave more than your heart behind ... The authorities hush up Eddie's murder—he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But Miranda Corbie-thirty-three-year-old private investigator and ex-escort-wants justice for the boy ... whatever it costs. From tenements in Chinatown to a high-class bordello draped in Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city—her city—seeking the truth. CITY OF DRAGONS is the first in a new series, and I'm very honored that it has garnered praise from Lee Child ("Beautifully imagined and beautifully written—this book does everything great fiction is supposed to") and authors including Linda Fairstein, Robert B. Parker, George Pelecanos, Otto Penzler, Tasha Alexander, Cornelia Read, Louise Ure, and Michael Koryta. Visit my website, www.kellistanley.com, for excerpts, reviews, a readers' guide, an interactive map, videos showcasing the locations, audio podcasts, and more. If you sign up for my newsletter at www.kellistanley.com/newsletter, you can win a CITY OF DRAGONS basket, complete with a copy of the novel, signed and stamped with a special chop or jade stick, a silk scarf, a ceramic tea mug, and a jade dragon, as well as access to special features on the site. Four runners up will receive signed copies of the book. I look forward to meeting you at a conference or book store as part of the CITY OF DRAGONS tour, and I always love to hear from readers ... so please drop me a line at kelli@kellistanley.com. Take care, and thanks for reading! Kelli |