Kelli Stanley signs CITY OF DRAGONS

Bruce Alexander Award Winner Kelli Stanley’s new novel, City of Dragons, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which descried it as a “stunner.” Kelli transports readers back 70 years to San Francisco’s celebration in February 1940. As private investigator, Spanish Civil War nurse and ex-escort Miranda Corbie watches the Rice Bowl Party festivities, she witnesses the murder of a young man. When his race and criminal affiliations mean the police are not interested in pursuing the killer, she takes on the cause herself, a trail that will lead through her city and all its contradictions. Meet author, comic book lover and jazz lover Kelli on Friday, February 12, at 7:00 PM.

City of Dragons (Hardcover)

By Kelli Stanley

$24.99

ISBN-13: 9780312603601
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Minotaur Books, 02/01/2010

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the
city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three
day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China
war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator who
stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of
Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is
justice--whatever it costs. From Chinatown tenements, to a tattered
tailor's shop in Little Osaka, to a high-class bordello draped in
Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city--her city--seeking the truth.
An outstanding series debut.

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