NEW: Read the first chapter of my fantasy murder mystery, BLOOD & STONE!
Tamara M. Bailey
Buy my fantasy-crime, BLOOD & STONE (a witchy murder mystery in a gritty, steampunk-inspired city) at Clan Destine Press. See below for more details, or read an extract.
Get your hands on my techno-thriller, THE OTHER OLIVIA (Orphan Black x The Matrix), with Improbable Press. See below for details or read an extract.
My short story, The Devil’s Teeth, appears in Clamour and Mischief, which you can buy from Clan Destine Press.
My short story, Ghosts in the Forest, appears in Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging (Volume Blue). You can buy a copy of this in hardback, paperback or e-book format either from the Australian site Clan Destine Press or the US (and worldwide) site Improbable Press.
Blood & Stone: A Radazan Mystery
Tomi Cardozo, the top Justice Official in the thriving metropolis of Radaza, has been called to investigate a gruesome murder of a professor who has been mutilated in his own apartment.
She discovers both the professor and his killer were witches, and therefore illegal residents of the city.
As Tomi is on probation for alleged witch sympathies, she is determined to prove her loyalty to the Justice Department by catching the professor’s killer within the four-day grace period given by the court.
But, as she untangles the knots of the case, Tomi discovers odd similarities between the professor’s death and the unsolved murder of her parents 23 years before.
She soon learns that she is tied to the world of the witches, and that no one in her life, living or dead, is who they appear.
Tomi must decide whether upholding the law is worth exposing the people she loves, while racing to catch a killer who has the one thing she lacks – magic
Read the first chapter of Blood & Stone here.
Buy Blood & Stone in paperback or ebook at Clan Destine Press.
THE OTHER OLIVIA
Pitched as Orphan Black x The Matrix, The Other Olivia follows Olivia Alexander (nee Sharp), who thinks her biggest problem is discovering her husband’s affair.
Then a stranger accosts her on the street warning, "Don't sign anything." When Olivia reluctantly follows his advice, everything starts to fall apart. Suddenly assassins, safe houses, and ruthless global corporations are her new reality, and she's running for her life.
In a shadow world unknown to Olivia, Livvie Sharp's partner goes missing, someone tries to kidnap her little girl, and now she too is on the run as someone hunts her. Someone who knows everything about her. Someone using her loved ones as weapons to bring her down.
Then Livvie meets the other Olivia.
Read an extract of The Other Olivia here.
Then order my techno-thriller at Clan Destine Press’s website if you’re Australian, or Improbable Press’s website if you’re elsewhere.
CLAMOUR AND MISCHIEF
A clamour of rooks. A mischief of magpies. A storytelling of crows.
All the corvids – the rooks and ravens, the jays and jackdaws, the crows and magpies – have the best collective nouns. A parliament and a party. Tidings and titterings, bands and trains. An unkindness.
Clamour and Mischief brings a veritable storytelling of crows to the corvidae, the bird family known for intelligence and cunning and for their connection with folklore and urban legends. These storytellers come from around the world and include award-winning and -shortlisted authors as well as emerging writers and fledgling authors in their professional debut.
This anthology’s sixteen striking stories are imbued with all the humour, darkness, wisdom, artfulness, vengefulness and magic of the birds that inspired them. Take them as a jest, a guide, or a warning – but don't, whatever you do, ignore them!
DARK CHEER: CRYPTIDS EMERGING
Here are stories for lovers of chupacabras and hulders, griffins and gargoyles.
Here be darkly cheery tales of ancient creatures beneath still waters, in the attic, or the shadows right by the bed.
Herein an autistic hiker meets a cryptid who wants her camera; a Japanese tanuki seeks his fox daughter; and two women fall in love, never mind one's a swamp monster.
Here be stories of changelings, nix, and demons adopted, of hungry kraken and cryptids we'd see if only, if only we looked into treetops, behind doors, or in our own back gardens.
Here there be monsters.
Thank all the gods.
