MY PEOPLE and other crime stories

MY PEOPLE and other crime stories is Liza Cody's collection of innovative and cutting edge short stories written between 2003 and 2021. Two have never been previously published in English.

This prize-winning author is known for her outspoken yet subtle invocations of all aspects and consequences of violence and betrayal.

Cody was one of the first writers to put women at the centre of private detective novels and short stories.

About the Author

LIZA CODY is the award-winning author of many novels and short stories. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. It was adapted for television and broadcast in the UK and US. Cody's ground-breaking Bucket Nut Trilogy featured professional wrestler, Eva Wylie. Other novels include Rift, Gimme More, Ballad of a Dead Nobody, Miss Terry, Lady Bag, Crocodiles and Good Intentions (the sequel to Lady Bag) and Gift or Theft (a modern take on the Gothic Novel.) Her novels have been widely translated. In 2019 she won the Radio Bremen Krimipreis.

Cody's short stories have been published in many magazines and anthologies. A collection of her first seventeen appeared in the widely praised Lucky Dip and other stories.

Liza Cody was born in London and most of her work is set there. Her career before she began writing was mostly in the visual arts. Currently she lives in Bath. Her informative website can be found at www.LizaCody.com which includes her occasional blog. You can also follow LizaCody on twitter.

Book Review 1:

"Cody is a storyteller... Reading her is refreshing after the bravado... of the American style." "Cody's dialogue is always funny and full of purpose, and here she's found her perfect protagonista creative mangler of platitudes and uncontrollable shredder of pomp and hypocrisy," and "Great dialogue as ever and some gorgeous imagery. It all added up to a book I'm sorry to close." (About LADY BAG.) -- Newgate Callendar, New York Times Book Review; Mat Coward, The Morning Star; Peter Lovesey, MWA Grandmaster

Book Review 2:

"Eva is a wondrous creation an incorrigible innocent in a story that crackles with energy. Super Cody." "It's like a rock-and-roll version of Pilgrim's Progress. Eva is rude, crude, funny, touching and perhaps the boldest creation to land in recent crime fiction." (About BUCKET NUT.) -- Kirkus Reviews; The Philadelphia Inquirer

Book Review 3:

"Give me more books like Gimme More." "Probably the greatest rock'n'roll novel ever." (About GIMME MORE.) -- Laura Lippman; Nick Johnstone, uncut

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