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My new story, "Ghost Station", is part of this anthology marking the wonderful Peter Lovesey's 80th birthday.
If you missed "I Am Not Fluffy" in Ellery Queen's MM, you can get it now digitally from Amazon The Crooked Road, Volume 3: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men and Other Career Crooks.
I promise I won't flood you with tweets.
Interested in an update on Anna Lee? Well, there are some hints in my story in DEADLY PLEASURES, the CWA 60th Anniversary collection just out in the UK. The story is actually my second about a new character, Shareen Manasseh. The first will be available soon in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
And you can also get one of my stories electronically. "The Old Story" is included in The Crooked Road: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks.
This is a very sweet trio of stories by Michael Z Lewin which I helped edit. Factoids: my grandson Sam Camden-Smith was the photographer for this cover, his mate Nathan is the malefactor pictured, and I am about to be the innocent victim.
It's published by Bloody Brits (Bywater Books) ISBN-10: 1932859659 ISBN-13: 978-1932859652
Here's something unsual - and free. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has a podcast featuring writers reading one of their EQMM stories. A recent one has me, Michael Z. Lewin and Peter Lovesey all reading stories inspired by the same newspaper article. We also talk about how we came to write them, though the sound for that bit is not as clear as for the stories themselves.
Into the 20th Century at last. For another picture go to the bottom of the central column of this page.
“Electric with suspense, fast and funny...”
Publisher’s Weekly
“Add Liza Cody’s name to that remarkably long list of British women who have a special flair for turning out stylish, literate mysteries.”
Washington Post
“Eva’s one of those characters, like Salinger’s Holden Caulfield or Morrison’s Sethe, whose voices are so rich they create a whole world out
of a few sentences.”
Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio
“One of the best conceived and beautifully drawn characters in modern crime fiction.”
Mystery News
“A tour de force.”
Los Angeles Times
“It’s like a rock-and-roll version of Pilgrim’s Progress. Eva is rude crude,funny, touching and perhaps the boldest creation to land in recent crime
fiction.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Ferocious stuff … Exceedingly funny … Truthful too.”
Literary Review
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My latest story, Health and Safety, is first up in the March-April edition of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine!
This image, in different colours, adorns all the new Anna Lee books. The model is my daughter, Kate, wearing one of my hats.
Here's the new cover for LUCKY DIP - from a pencil drawing of mine.
Here's me toasting the arrival of LADY BAG - paperbacks and electronic versions, all available. For this book only the whole bottle would do.
My previous novel is MISS TERRY is in paperback and hardback and all the main electronic formats.
And here, the book before Miss Terry, can still be ordered from good bookstores and from online sources. There are paperback and hardback editions as well as low-cost electronic editions. There are already a couple of rave reader review ons the UK's Amazon site and one on the US Amazon site.
The electronic edition is available on Kindle, Nook and the other major electronic platforms at about $2.99. You can also get it to read on your computer even if you don't have an e-reader: for instance from iUniverse or Amazon.
And this is an early newspaper review from England's Morning Star:
"Adventurous in form, sparklingly written and with every page more gripping than the last, this bluesy novel may well be the already garlanded Cody's best yet." Mat Coward, 17 August 2011
To tell you the truth, I never thought that I'd ever have a website of my own. It's too technical. In fact, as someone who can cause a toaster to malfunction just by looking at it, I thought that even owning a computer would be an expensive catastrophe.
But in January, 2006, in the 21st century, l gave in and joined the 20th with my first computer.
Yes, until then I wrote everything longhand. Here's a page from GIMME MORE.
How 19th Century is that?
But there was one big advantage to working with paper and pencil: when stuck for words I could always draw.
Sometimes drawing clears my mind; sometimes it helps me think; sometimes it stops me thinking in spirals. Drawing, like a cup of tea, can be a remedy for many ills. It can also be a waste of time.
I did this drawing on the page next to the text that is circled above.
Now, as you can see, I have the sort of technology that allows me to continue writing by hand. It cuts out the typing stage in the life of a manuscript, but unfortunately it won't let me draw any more.
At work in July 08.
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Don't judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. "I didn't always look like this," she says. "Being barmy doesn't mean I'm stupid."
Lady Bag does have her problems - her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets hammered she talks to her dog. When she's extra-hammered her dog talks to her. Guess who makes better sense.
She and her greyhound, Electra, wander through the streets of London, seeing a Dickensian side of the capital city that's only visible to the homeless. Together they accept the kindness or unkindness of strangers with the same wry patience. Until, on one dreadful day, they meet the Devil outside the National Portrait Gallery.
All Birdie Walker wants is some justice for her husband, Jack. But since Jack was a rock star and the justice has to come from the music business, Birdie absolutely has to take some extreme measures.Click on the title for more information.
Short stories
All my short stories up to 2003 are in this collection. It includes two written specially.
Click on the title for a bit about how I came to write short stories and more information.
The Anna Lee series
I wrote six novels about Anna Lee.
Click on the titles for more information.
The Bucket Nut Trilogy
Professional wrestler Eva Wylie appeared in three novels in the '90s.
Click on the titles for more information.
Other stand-alone novels
RIFT is set in the Ethiopia of the 1970s. BALLAD is the story of a girl with a miraculous musical talent. MISS TERRY is the story of what happens to someone who looks different from her neighbours when a grisly discovery is made.
Click on the titles for more information.
The story collections I co-edited for Britain's Crime Writers' Association.
In the early '90s I helped edit these three books - aiming them to be more annuals than anthologies. They include many things we're proud to have published.
Click on the titles for more information.
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