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Shelly Jones is a professor by trade and a nerd by design. Woefully introverted, their pockets are full of post-it notes and their head is full of (unsaid) witty come-backs and un-won arguments from years past. When they aren’t grading papers or writing new cozy mysteries, Shelly can often be found hiking in the woods or playing a board game while their cats look on. Find them on BlueSky @shellyjones.bsky.social, Instagram @shellyjonesauthor, or sign up for their newsletter at https://shellyjonesauthor.com/. ...more

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	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 143, Nos. 5 & 6, November/December 2022 by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), John Shirley (Contributor), J.C. Hsyu (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2022	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
	Player Elimination (A Wren Winters Mystery, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings — 2 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
	Murder, She Rolled (A Wren Winters Mystery Book 2) 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 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
	Game Over: An Amateur Sleuth Mystery (A Wren Winters Mystery Book 3) 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 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
	ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction by Marissa Van Uden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author), E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2025 — 2 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
	Dwarf Stars 2023 by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Editor), Miguel O. Mitchell (Editor), Rasha Abdulhadi (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2023	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
	Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing Games by Shelly Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Evan Torner (Contributor), Julia J.C. Blau (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 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
	Of Weeds and Witches by Shelly Jones (Goodreads Author), Alien Buddha (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 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
	Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic: The Gathering and Its Influence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 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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I was not prepared for the news last week that my debut novel, Player Elimination, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. When I read the announcement, I thought there was some kind of mistake or that someone else had also written a book with that title. It is, without a doubt, a tremendous honor and one that I am extremely grateful for.

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The Second Stranger

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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife

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Dropped Like a Bad Habit (Nun the Wiser Mysteries, #2)

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