Deborah Grabien is an American

United States

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 novelist and essayist. Her works cross several genres, including murder mysteries

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

, supernatural thrillers, utopian fantasies

Utopian and dystopian fiction

The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia...

, etc.

Deborah is currently a reviewer and guest editor for Green Man Review and Sleeping Hedgehog.

Deborah was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

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 in 2002. She has used her own experiences in dealing with the disease to illuminate character traits in her characters; particularly J.P. Kinkaid, the protagonist in the Kinkaid Chronicles mystery series.

Supernatural Thrillers

• Still Life With Devils (2007)
• Woman of Fire (1988/UK)
  • also released as Eyes in the Fire (1989/US)

Mysteries

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

• The Kinkaid Chronicles
  • Rock and Roll Never Forgets (2008)
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2009)
  • London Calling (2010)
  • Graceland (2011)
  • Book of Days (2011)
  • Uncle John's Band (announced)
  • Dead Flowers (announced)

• The Haunted Ballads
  • The Weaver and the Factory Maid (2003)
  • Famous Flower of Serving Men (2004)
  • Matty Groves (2005)
  • Cruel Sister (2006)
  • New Slain Knight (2007)

Young Adult

• Dark's Tale (2010)
  • also released as Dark e i fantasmi del parco (2010/Italy)

Short Stories, Essays & Reviews

• The Thing About Movements… (2011) appeared on Harlot's Sauce
• Goodnight, dazzling stranger. (2011) appeared on Sleeping Hedgehog
• The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (2011) appeared on Sleeping Hedgehog
• Nicky Hopkins (2011) appeared on Sleeping Hedgehog
• Ladies and Gentlemen: the Rolling Stones (2010) appeared on Sleeping Hedgehog
• Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street (2010) appeared on Sleeping Hedgehog
• Ronnie Penque: Only Road Home (2010) appeared on Sleeping Hedgehog
• An Unkindness of Authors (conversation with Peter S. Beagle, August 2008) (2008) appeared on Green Man Review, edited by Cat Eldridge, et al.
• Ghost, in the Key of B (2008) appeared on Membra Disjecta, edited by Deena Fisher
• Dear Richard, Please Will You Play...? Three shows, three settings, one happy woman (2008) appeared on Green Man Review,
• Truth, in the Middle (2008) appeared in For Keeps, edited by Victoria Zackheim
• The Boys in the Barroom (2008) appeared on Green Man Review,
• Sunrise (2008) appeared on Membra Disjecta, edited by Deena Fisher
• Love and Crit and the Whole Damned Thing—Finding the Fulcrum point between heart and head (in conversation with David Smay) (2008) appeared on Green Man Review,
• Talkin' About that Unbroken Circle—Deborah Grabien on Music in 2007 (2008) appeared on Green Man Review,
• Edge (2005) appeared in Dogtown Review, Issue One, edited by David J. Schwartz
  David J. Schwartz
  David J. Schwartz is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, whose book Superpowers was a finalist for the Nebula Award.-External links:*, the author's official site. Includes his blog and bibliography....
  
   and Keith Demanche
• I Am the Lion (2002) appeared in The Best Of Parisalon4665 Anthology, edited by Cantara Christopher

External links

• Author's website
• Author's website on Red Room
• Deborah Grabien @ FantasticFiction.co.uk