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Jess Lourey is the author of the Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month mysteries set in Battle Lake, Minnesota, and featuring amateur sleuth Mira James. Jess has been teaching writing and sociology at the college level since 1998. When not raising her wonderful kids, teaching, or writing, you can find her gardening, traveling, and navigating the niceties and meanities of small-town life. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, The Loft, and Lake Superior Writers, and serves on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America. Jess resides in Minnesota.
 

Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
September 2024

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The Reaping
(Steinbeck and Reed, book 2)
February 2025

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A Whisper of Poison
 
Series
Mira James Mystery
   1. May Day (2006)
   2. June Bug (2007)
   3. Knee High By the Fourth of July (2007)
   4. August Moon (2008)
   5. September Mourn (2009)
     aka September Fair
   6. October Fest (2011)
   7. November Hunt (2012)
   8. December Dread (2012)
   9. January Thaw (2014)
   10. February Fever (2015)
   11. March of Crimes (2017)
   12. April Fools (2019)
   Monday Is Murder (2022)
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Steinbeck and Reed
   1. The Taken Ones (2023)
   2. The Reaping (2024)
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Novels
   The Toadhouse Trilogy: Book One (2012)
   Unspeakable Things (2020)
   Bloodline (2021)
   Litani (2021)
   The Quarry Girls (2022)
   A Whisper of Poison (2025)
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Collections
   Resort to Murder (2007) (with others)
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Series contributed to
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Picture Books show
 
Jess Lourey recommends
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Close Range (2024)
(Kate Fox Mystery, book 9)
Shannon Baker
"...a character to follow anywhere."
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Lost to Dune Road (2024)
Kara Thomas
"I enjoyed Lost to Dune Road from the first page until the last. The voice is snappy, the plot deliciously twisted, the characters complex, and the ending deeply satisfying. Bonus? It has one of the best opening sentences in recent history."
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Hurt for Me (2024)
Heather Levy
"Levy's latest grips you by the throat from page one and never lets up. It's a riveting, sexy, twisty mystery full of beautiful writing and characters you can't help but care about."

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Anthologies containing stories by Jess Lourey
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Shattering Glass (2020)
A Nasty Woman Press Anthology
edited by
Heather Graham
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Blood Work (2018)
edited by
Rick Ollerman
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Cooked to Death (2016)
Tales of Crime and Cookery
(Cooked to Death, book 1)
edited by
Rhonda Gilliland and Michael Allan Mallory

Awards
Anthony Awards Best Paperback original nominee (2017) : Salem's Cipher


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