Julie Smith (novelist)

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Julie Smith
Born (1944-11-25) November 25, 1944 (age 80)
Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Genre Mystery fiction
Notable awards Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel (1991)
Website
juliesmithauthor.com

Julie Smith (born November 25, 1944) is an American mystery writer, the author of nineteen novels and several short stories. She received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best Novel for her sixth book, New Orleans Mourning (1990). [1]

Contents

Works

Novels

Short stories

Fiction by series

Skip Langdon

  • New Orleans Mourning (St. Martin's Press, 1990)
  • The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
  • Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine, 1993)
  • New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine, 1994) (later reissued as Death Before Facebook, see Amazon author page)
  • House of Blues (Fawcett/Columbine, 1995)
  • The Kindness of Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine, 1996)
  • Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine, 1997)
  • 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine, 1998 - introduces Talba Wallis)
  • Mean Woman Blues (Forge, 2003)
  • Murder on Magazine (booksBnimble, 2018)
  • The Big Crazy (booksBnimble, 2019)

Rebecca Schwartz

  • Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co., 1982)
  • The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co., 1984)
  • Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press, 1986)
  • Dead in the Water (Ivy, 1991)
  • Other People's Skeletons (Ivy, 1993)

Talba Wallis

  • Louisiana Hotshot (Forge, 2001)
  • Louisiana Bigshot (Forge, 2002)
  • Louisiana Lament (Forge, 2004)
  • P.I. On A Hot Tin Roof (Forge, 2005)

Paul MacDonald

  • True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press, 1985)
  • Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press, 1987)

Essay

Progressive novel

Edited

Awards

Smith's 1990 novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Award for "Best Novel" and was nominated for the Anthony Award for the same honor in the same year. [2] [3]

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References

  1. Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007), Great Women Mystery Writers (2nd, revised ed.), Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 238–240, ISBN   978-0-313-33428-3
  2. "Best Mystery Novel Edgar Award Winners and Nominees - Complete Lists". Mysterynet.com. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
  3. "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". Bouchercon.info. October 2, 2003. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2012.