Kelli Stanley is the critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning bestselling author of the Miranda Corbie literary noir series set in 1940 San Francisco, including CITY OF DRAGONS, CITY OF SECRETS, CITY OF GHOSTS and CITY OF SHARKS. Her other works include historical mysteries set in Roman Britain and numerous short stories and essays.

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, her proudest achievements have been her inclusion as a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in Publishers Weekly, and her founding of Nasty Woman Press on November 9, 2016.

Her next novel, THE RECKONING, is set in 1985 in Humboldt County, California.

Kelli Stanley