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Carrie Smith

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Detroit, Michigan

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Carrie Smith is the author of Silent City and Forgotten City, the first two titles in the NYPD Detective Claire Codella mystery series from Crooked Lane Books.

Book three, Unholy City, will be published November 2017 and is available for pre-order now.

Carrie is also the author of a literary novel Forget Harry. She is the recipient of three Hopwood Awards from the University of Michigan, a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Killer Nashville's Readers' Choice Award. Carrie is also senior vice president and publisher of Benchmark Education Company, a literacy publisher. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Visit Carrie at www.carriesmith.nyc, Facebook, and Twitter at @carriesmithnyc.

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When I eleven or twelve--it was a summer in the early 1970s--I lived in a suburb of Detroit. This was a place where very little happened. We spent our summers riding our bikes to the city park to go swimming. One afternoon, I went out the backdoor to get my Schwinn out of the garage. As I approached, I looked up and saw a small, silvery object hovering above the open garage door.

For at least a minute, I stood there transfixed by this object a foot or so over my head. It was about the size of a quarter and somewhat translucent. It did not occur to me to reach up for it; nor did I ever articulate the thought that this was something otherworldly. I simply watched it.

Then, at some point, I called out to my mother so she could have a look. She gazed through the kitchen window, and as she stared out, the small object began to move higher into the air. By the time my mother was outside and standing beside me, the little object was well above me, seeming to navigate purposefully through the branches of our neighbor's tall tree. I watched it ascend until it blended into the silvery overcast sky and was gone.

Only in my mother's retelling did I realize she had seen something spectacularly different from what I observed that day. While I watched an innocuous little disk the size of a quarter, she saw, from the kitchen window, a vast object that dwarfed me in size.

Whose perception was "right"? What might have happened had I not called my mother? Did that event really last mere moments? So many questions come to mind...(less)

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	Silent City (A Claire Codella Mystery, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forgotten City (Claire Codella Mystery, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 175 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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message 1: by Sandra

May 13, 2017 11:27AM

hi carrie,
just a note: my email these days is sjgardner6@gmail.com
the hvc.rr.com one is old and I hardly ever check it.
thanks for the contact!
sandy gardner
sjgardner6@gmail.com

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