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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join us for a scintillating discussion of cold cases, history as a boomerang and crime fiction writing!

Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

THE RECKONING is out in paperback in the US today! A video of extant inspirations--Humboldt landmarks still here from 1985--seemed in order!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Honored to bits that stellar crime fiction critic Oline Cogdill has reviewed THE RECKONING for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel! Gift link below! www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/03/26/b...

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

THE RECKONING is coming home to Humboldt County in April! Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones at the Historic Eureka Book Store, in Eureka, CA!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Celebrating the NYT review of THE RECKONING today with a redwood--Humboldt County's biggest treasure!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm gobsmacked again ... THE RECKONING is #13 in the Kindle store for historical thrillers, and #51 overall! Thanks profoundly to the NYT and to everyone who is giving Renata Drake--and Garberville!--a try!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I am dazed and gobsmacked in the most wonderful way!! Waking up to your book in the NYT is ... well, I'm wondering if I'm really awake! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...

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In These Mystery Novels, Evil Lurks in Unexpected Places

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Mary Alice Kier @maryalicekier.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Congrats to our Cine/Lit film and tv client Kelli Stanley with this latest rave for her new thriller THE RECKONING!!👏🎬

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us." Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I am honored to particpate in STORIED ACCOUNT, the podcast from librarian, professor, and the all-around amazing @jenjumba.bsky.social. Please join us on 1/15 for a scintillating conversation about Humboldt County, the challenges of writing such a personal crime fiction novel, and THE RECKONING! 📚

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Episodes — Storied Account Podcast

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Please join Jim L'Etoile and I for an evening of discussion about THE RECKONING, some shared secrets, and Humboldt County lottery prizes! 😊 Please RSVP here: bookshopwestportal.com/event/2026-0...

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

THE RECKONING and I had a fantastic time at our launch party, held at the Bay Area's fabulous Book Passage! Launches are a a celebratory ritual about bringing a book into the world with love! ❤️

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today's the day! THE RECKONING has arrived! Find it wherever books are sold or checked out (libraries!) Audio comes out 2/24, narrated by award-winning Christina Delaine. I can't wait! Thanks for reading ... and thank you for your support!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

THE RECKONING arrives tomorrow! First stop on the first leg of a whistle-stop signing tour: the famed and fantastic Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA. Not everyone can afford a hardcover, so please ask your library to carry it!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I'm incredibly honored that the @thecwa.bsky.social has made THE RECKONING (from @severnhouse.bsky.social) their Read of the Month! Book launch is January 6, just three more days! Thank you, Crime Writers' Association!! thecwa.co.uk/crime-readers/

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Crime Readers - The Crime Writers’ Association

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“As the title of [this] fascinating mystery/thriller makes clear, there needs to be a reckoning. If you’re not familiar with northern California’s infamous 'Emerald Triangle,' you’re about to get quite an education.” David Morrell, author of the New York Times bestselling novel Murder as a Fine Art

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Behind THE RECKONING, Part I

The time and the place ...

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

ARC day for THE RECKONING is here! E-galleys are wonderful but nothing beats the thrill of paper! 😄❤️

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'm devastated by the loss of Robert Redford. A bright light of my childhood in the 1970s, a great actor and an even greater man.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"But let justice roll down like water ..." It's been a long dry spell between projects, and my next novel THE RECKONING touches on the symbolic power of water. Exactly how and under what circumstances? Therein lies the tale. Now available for pre-order on Amazon & bookshop dot org! bit.ly/4gl1znS

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The Reckoning

Check out The Reckoning - SHE KILLED A MAN. HE DESERVED IT. BUT JUSTICE ISN'T YET DONE. First in an explosive new thriller series set in the eighties...

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Back from a busy #Bouchercon in New Orleans, where we raised a ton of books and money for the local library system. Getting ready for the ramp up to my January 6th release, THE RECKONING!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Some happy news! And a reminder to myself that we need to savor the good bits even under the best of circumstances, as opposed to what we're collectively experiencing. Creativity is resistance.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Just had an #earthquake in Bay Area. Felt stronger than a 4.2.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Somebody needs to explain to Schumer why Neville Chamberlain is not a role-model.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

You've gotta love TCM. One of the films on demand is a documentary called "Resisting Enemy Interrogation"!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thieves broke into our car (sitting in the driveway) last night, stealing stuff valuable only to us. But it's not about $$--it's about the power to pillage anything they want. I hope they & all other sociopaths (major & minor) just like them meet medieval justice on the way to hell.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Lunar New Year is off with a bang and a new book deal!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy Lunar New Year! A chance to inhale, gather our strength, and make it count. Floods begin with a single drop of rain ... just be that drop!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Public Service Announcement: At all costs, avoid ordering through UberEats. Worst, most criminal violation of consumer rights I've ever experienced. Disgusting can't begin to describe it!

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Kudos to the TCM programmers for playing Cabaret tonight ...

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

(2/2) Anyway, don't let that stop you from diverting yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed MURDER BY THE CLOCK, and the next few weeks are the perfect time to read it and any other Jazz Age favorites, along with copious rewatches of Cabaret.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Penzer Publisher's new edition of Rufus King's classic mystery, MURDER BY THE CLOCK, is out. I wrote the intro. It was published in 1929, right before what felt like the end of the world: the Great Depression & a fascist sociopath on his way to assuming control of a powerful country ... (1/2)

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Here's a thought: how about investigating the murders of people of color as if they're CEOs of health insurance companies?

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I missed posting on Thanksgiving because for the entire week we experienced a literal flood of emergencies--from the standing water in the garage to the leak in the roof to a sudden car breakdown and other assorted stresses.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Joy is and will be in very short supply. Whenever you find some, protect it, fight for it, share it with others, and watch it grow. That growth may be infinitesimal, but it's Resistance.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I just unfriended & blocked an arrogant, privileged, narcissistic pseudo-intellectual thriller writer on FB who was ridiculing friends for expressing their fear & anger while lecturing all on how we should behave. Claims he's not a fascist, but he sure in hell acts like one.

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Kelli Stanley @authorkellistanley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I've just joined, posted once, and already had a creepy DM greeting from what is obviously a fake account. Be liberal with the block button and be careful out there.

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