LIZA CODY

And you can also get one of my stories electronically. "The Old Story" is included in The Crooked Road: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks.

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.

“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