Out at last: GIMME MORE was published in the US by Bloody Brits Press on November 1st. I've seen copies. It's real. That's what it looks like below but for a bigger picture and more information go to my Works page.


It's published by Bloody Brits (Bywater Books) ISBN-10: 1932859659 ISBN-13: 978-1932859652

Here's something unual - and free. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has a podcast featuring writers reading one of their EQMM stories. A recent one has me, Michael Z. Lewin and Peter Lovesey all reading stories inspired by the same newspaper article. We also talk about how we came to write them, though the sound for that bit is not as clear as for the stories themselves.


I don't have a separate events page but just to show that I do get out in public occasionally, I went to this year's Bouchercon in Indianapolis, Oct 15-18.

My public events there included "Dirty Rotten Liars, the Game Show" with Peter Lovesey and Michael Z. Lewin. We pranced about and gave out prizes. Later the same evening I also did backing vocals for Peter who sang his "Autopsy Song" in the convention "talent" show.

Then the next day I took part in the inevitable faminist panel, "Telling Women's Stories", with Sara Paretsky, Barbara Fister, Kate Flora and Mary Saums. We had some laughs along with the right-ons.


Into the 20th Century at last. For another picture go to the bottom of the central column of this page.

If you don't already know my work, here are a few comments about it.


“Electric with suspense, fast and funny...”
Publisher’s Weekly

“Add Liza Cody’s name to that remarkably long list of British women who have a special flair for turning out stylish, literate mysteries.”
Washington Post

“Eva’s one of those characters, like Salinger’s Holden Caulfield or Morrison’s Sethe, whose voices are so rich they create a whole world out
of a few sentences.”
Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio

“One of the best conceived and beautifully drawn characters in modern crime fiction.”
Mystery News

“A tour de force.”
Los Angeles Times

“It’s like a rock-and-roll version of Pilgrim’s Progress. Eva is rude crude,funny, touching and perhaps the boldest creation to land in recent crime
fiction.”
Philadelphia Inquirer

“Ferocious stuff … Exceedingly funny … Truthful too.”
Literary Review

Welcome

To tell you the truth, I never thought that I'd ever have a website of my own. It's too technical. In fact, as someone who can cause a toaster to malfunction just by looking at it, I thought that even owning a computer would be an expensive catastrophe.

But in January, 2006, in the 21st century, l gave in and joined the 20th with my first computer.

Yes, until then I wrote everything longhand. Here's a page from GIMME MORE.


How 19th Century is that?

But there was one big advantage to working with paper and pencil: when stuck for words I could always draw.

Sometimes drawing clears my mind; sometimes it helps me think; sometimes it stops me thinking in spirals. Drawing, like a cup of tea, can be a remedy for many ills. It can also be a waste of time.



I did this drawing on the page next to the text that is circled above.


Now, as you can see, I have the sort of technology that allows me to continue writing by hand. It cuts out the typing stage in the life of a manuscript, but unfortunately it won't let me draw any more.

At work in July 08.

Selected Works

Latest Novel
GIMME MORE
All Birdie Walker wants is some justice for her husband, Jack. But since Jack was a rock star and the justice has to come from the music business, Birdie absolutely has to take some extreme measures.Click on the title for more information.
Short stories
LUCKY DIP and Other Stories
All my short stories up to 2003 are in this collection. It includes two written specially. Click on the title for a bit about how I came to write short stories and more information.
The Anna Lee series
DUPE, BAD COMPANY, STALKER, HEAD CASE, UNDER CONTRACT, BACKHAND
I wrote six novels about Anna Lee. Click on the titles for more information.
The Eva Wylie series
BUCKET NUT, MONKEY WRENCH, MUSCLEBOUND
Professional wrestler Eva Wylie appeared in three novels in the '90s. Click on the titles for more information.
The other stand-alone novel...
RIFT
This novel is set in the Ethiopia of the 1970s. Click on the title for more information.
The story collections I co-edited for Britain's Crime Writers' Association.
1st CULPRIT, 2nd CULPRIT, 3rd CULPRIT
In the early '90s I helped edit these three books - aiming them to be more annuals than anthologies. They include many things we're proud to have published. Click on the titles for more information.