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Crossing Borders
“This splendid collection of border fiction is haunting and intense. Bravo to San Diego Sisters in Crime.” —T. Jefferson Parker, Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Good Guy
Good stories start with characters crossing borders and finding themselves in worlds filled with hurt, harm, and danger. In Crossing Borders , the first anthology from Partners in Crime, the San Diego Chapter of Sisters in Crime, fifteen stories capture moments before, during and after characters cross borders and find themselves stumbling around strange lands that abound with saints, sinners, and monsters.
Crossing Borders explores that liminal space—the place where people cross from not just from one place to another, like national boundaries, but the dividing line between life/death, stability/insanity, or innocence/guilt. This anthology contains stories that look at the duality of our lives, as we cross borders between people, values, and beliefs.
Join us as we explore crossings, where a character, involved somehow in a crime, must pass over a border, literally or figuratively. As Rachel Howzell Hall says in our “Be prepared to hold your breath” as we enter that special space of crossing, transitioning, change, and death. Welcome to the border.
Lauren Avenius, Greta Boris, Pam Clark, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Cornelia Feye, Cheryl Garrett, B. J. Graf, S.J. Haworth, Kim Keeline, Kathy Krevat, Melinda Loomis, Gerald Martin, Jo Perry, Barrie Summy, and Carl Vonderau.
Good stories start with characters crossing borders and finding themselves in worlds filled with hurt, harm, and danger. In Crossing Borders , the first anthology from Partners in Crime, the San Diego Chapter of Sisters in Crime, fifteen stories capture moments before, during and after characters cross borders and find themselves stumbling around strange lands that abound with saints, sinners, and monsters.
Crossing Borders explores that liminal space—the place where people cross from not just from one place to another, like national boundaries, but the dividing line between life/death, stability/insanity, or innocence/guilt. This anthology contains stories that look at the duality of our lives, as we cross borders between people, values, and beliefs.
Join us as we explore crossings, where a character, involved somehow in a crime, must pass over a border, literally or figuratively. As Rachel Howzell Hall says in our “Be prepared to hold your breath” as we enter that special space of crossing, transitioning, change, and death. Welcome to the border.
Lauren Avenius, Greta Boris, Pam Clark, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Cornelia Feye, Cheryl Garrett, B. J. Graf, S.J. Haworth, Kim Keeline, Kathy Krevat, Melinda Loomis, Gerald Martin, Jo Perry, Barrie Summy, and Carl Vonderau.
232 pages, Paperback
Published February 16, 2020
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About the author
Lisa Brackmann
13 books147 followersLisa Brackmann is the New York Times best-selling author of the Ellie McEnroe novels set in China and the thrillers Getaway and Go-Between. The first Ellie book, Rock Paper Tiger (Year of the Tiger) was one of Amazon Top 100 Books of the Year and a Top 10 Mystery/Thriller. Hour Of The Rat, the sequel, was shortlisted for Left Coast Crime's international mystery award and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Audio Book. Dragon Day, the third novel in the Ellie McEnroe trilogy, was a Seattle Times Top 10 Mystery of 2015 and was short-listed for a Lefty award. Getaway (Day of the Dead) was an Amazon Best Book of the Month and a finalist for SCIBA's T. Jefferson Parker award. Her latest novel is Go-Between, "a terrific noir tale that channels Richard Stark's stories" and a "Hottest Summer Books" selection from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Black Swan Rising, her new book about misogyny, mass shootings, and polarized politics, launches Sept. 8. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Travel+Leisure, Salon and CNET. She lives in San Diego with a cat, far too many books and a bass ukulele and is playing in a band again after a 17-year break. You can find her online at www.lisabrackmann.com.
That's the official bio. You can find out more about me (if you are so inclined) on my website (www.lisabrackmann.com)
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p.s. In the UK you'll find me as Lisa Brackman (one "n"). "Year of the Tiger" is the UK edition of "Rock Paper Tiger." "Day of the Dead" is the UK edition of "Getaway."
That's the official bio. You can find out more about me (if you are so inclined) on my website (www.lisabrackmann.com)
Thanks for visiting!
p.s. In the UK you'll find me as Lisa Brackman (one "n"). "Year of the Tiger" is the UK edition of "Rock Paper Tiger." "Day of the Dead" is the UK edition of "Getaway."
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June 3, 2020
I'm in this book so I am not unbiased. I will say that I enjoyed the other 14 stories very much. A very eclectic mix of stories taking a broad definition of "borders." My story is the most literal with a woman at a border crossing. Many of the other writers are looking at the borders of insanity/sanity, life/death, etc. Very interesting.
September 1, 2021
Crossing Borders/Ghost Walk - a review by Rosemary Kenny
A Halloween Ghost Walk by Greta Boris tells of a single Mom, who takes her daughter Cecilia on the eponymous organised walk after dark in their home town.
As they finally begin, having waited for earlier groups to precede them, the local ghostly legends are recreated by disguised actors.
Cecilia's enjoying every minute and isn't at all spooked, while her Mom thinks of Rob, her boyfriend (and Cecilia's father), who died tragically.
Leaving the guided walk early the pair wend their way homeward through the murky, deserted streets and towards the railway line where they're unexpectedly separated. How does the story end?
To find out the whole spine-chilling truth, get your copy of Greta Boris's excellent short story, Ghost Walk today...you'll find it truly haunting!
A Halloween Ghost Walk by Greta Boris tells of a single Mom, who takes her daughter Cecilia on the eponymous organised walk after dark in their home town.
As they finally begin, having waited for earlier groups to precede them, the local ghostly legends are recreated by disguised actors.
Cecilia's enjoying every minute and isn't at all spooked, while her Mom thinks of Rob, her boyfriend (and Cecilia's father), who died tragically.
Leaving the guided walk early the pair wend their way homeward through the murky, deserted streets and towards the railway line where they're unexpectedly separated. How does the story end?
To find out the whole spine-chilling truth, get your copy of Greta Boris's excellent short story, Ghost Walk today...you'll find it truly haunting!
May 1, 2023
Great anthology of short stories that relate to the title theme but all in very different ways. A couple of these stories will stay with you for a long time.
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