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Ashland, Or. June 10, 2011 flyer | Kelli Stanley's website | ashland mystery Kelli Stanley on Roman Noir  When
Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife Gwyna arrive at Aquae
Sulis (Bath) for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred
spring. The murdered man is a curse-maker whose curses actually come
true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there's now a curse on
Arcturus. Kelli Stanley's second Arcturus mystery is The Curse-Maker,
published by Minotaur /
Thomas Dunne in 2011. Meet Kelli Stanley on Friday July 15, 2011 at
6pm
at Bookwagon New and Used Books 1652 Ashland Street in Ashland, or at
the Medford Branch Library JCLS, 205 South Central Avenue in Medford on Saturday
June 16 at 2p. Both
events are free and open to the public. Stanley's Roman Noir series began with Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping), which won the Bruce Alexander Award for Best Historical Mystery and was nominated for a Macavity Award. "Nox Dormienda is a nightmare vision of Roman Britain, a lighting-paced historical mystery that blends hard-boiled prose and impeccably researched historical background. Compelling, immediate and classic private-eye storytelling, the book will sting your senses into a visceral past: you’ll hear the crunch of ice on a muddy Roman road, smell the stench of a cheap whorehouse, and down a tired swallow of sun-warmed wine. It is the first novel of a new series and a new genre of mystery fiction: it is Roman Noir." [www.KelliStanley.com] "Nox Dormienda nigh cost me a night's sleep! A Roman noir... and with a depth of scholarship that should be off-putting but works beautifully. The language is a sheer treasure. From classical to sheer class, and for a book that is so meticulously researched, it has a wild and wondrous sense of humour. Imagine Ellis Peters re-written by Elmore Leonard and you'll have some notion of this gem of a novel - it moves like a gladiator on speed." —Ken Bruen,
You can pick up The Curse-Maker and Kelli Stanley's other books at Bookwagon New and Used Books on Ashland Street, in Ashland, Oregon - call 541-448-4477. Kelli Stanley's visit to Ashland has been organized by the Ashland Mystery Readers Group and is sponsored by Friends of the Ashland Public Library, Bookwagon New and Used Books and Standing Stone Brewing Company. For more information on Kelli Stanley's visit to Ashland, Oregon call Ashland Mystery at 541-552-0743 or visit www.AshlandMystery.com.For more information on Kelli Stanley, visit www.KelliStanley.com. The Ashland Mystery Readers Group also produces the cable access television show Ashland Mystery, rvtv noir, airing Wednesdays at 7:30 pm on Cable Channel 15 in Jackson and Josephine Counties. The show is webcast at the same time from RogueTV.org
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Kelli Stanley reinvented the golden era of noir fiction with her
bestselling and critically acclaimed historical suspense thriller City
of Dragons, set in 1940 San Francisco, and featuring the heroine Miranda Corbie. Stanley holds a Master's degree in Classics, and is immersed in
the detail of the Roman Empire as well as San Francisco's unique
history.