Kristi Bradley
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Once told to read Jeffery Deaver to learn how to write a mystery, I became hooked. He manages to instill a twist in everything he writes.
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Seems I'm just as twisted.
Find out by reading my stories. ;-)
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You can find my work as stand-alone stories on Amazon - free in Kindle Unlimited, and you may also find some of my work in anthologies and other publications.
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Midtown Memphis is the scene of a grizzly murder of a pregnant woman, stabbed multiple times in her own home. Detectives Hunter and Emerson land the case. They set sights on the live-in boyfriend as the attack is personal in nature.
But when suspects appear at every turn, the detectives are on a race against time to find the true killer.
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Review by Click Magazine says, “Murder in Midtown” by Kristi Bradley, a solid short with plenty of red herrings and emotional intrigue.
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Just about anyone who grew up in and around Memphis, Tennessee has heard of Voodoo Village. Urban legend says if you trespass, you will be blocked in and never heard from again.
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Hailey inherits a 1920's Craftsman home in Midtown Memphis. With a plan to renovate and start a family, she has high hopes for her future even after being laid off. Her boyfriend Tyler insists she sell because the place creeps him out. After a heartbreaking breakup, Hailey begins restoring the old home on her own, only to find herself haunted by a ghost who becomes more and more volatile. Meanwhile, disappearances in her neighborhood have the city on high alert. Her boyfriend returns with a change of heart, only to have him disappear the next day.
Will Hailey figure out what the ghost wants before she becomes the next victim?
Or is there something more sinister at play?
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In the summer of the 1960s, a woman in a blue dress was found raped and stabbed in Rainbow Lake located within Overton Park in Memphis, Tennessee. The case was never solved. It's said she haunts the lake to this day.
Years later, now retired, the first responder to the crime, remains tormented by the fifty-plus-year-old case. When his grandson is promoted to the homicide division, a similar case lands in his lap. Both victims have been raped and stabbed multiple times, the only exception to the original crime is the body isn't tossed into the lake.
Are the cases related, or is it a coincidence?
Will the current events help the retired Cap'n find closure to the cold case?
Or will he be forever trapped with the Blue Lady in Rainbow Lake?
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In Elmwood, Memphis' oldest cemetery, an unusual group of thieves has taken up residence. This group prefers to work nights, but times are hard. They must go where the loot is easiest to lift. Seems the dead don't put up a fight over their earthly possessions. But the living? They do not take kindly.
Will the bandits outsmart the cemetery employees, or will their crime spree soon end?
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As details of mutilated bodies surfacing in the state park behind her home blare through the car stereo, distracted veterinarian Mary Ellen Mhoonbeam hits a dog in the middle of the night. She takes the injured animal to the clinic, only to discover the dog to be a wolf. Additionally weird, is how quickly he heals. Then add the fact she can hear the wolf's thoughts, and Mary Ellen thinks she's losing her mind. She eventually takes the wolf home with her to figure out their connection. As their bond grows, she spends all her free time with the wolf.
And the killings stop.
Until Mary Ellen sends the wolf away.
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Mist is the tragic tale of forbidden love between a mortal Viking and Mist, Valkyrie Warrior Goddess.
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This is the fourth anthology by the Malice in Memphis Mystery Writers Group that I produced, but the first I received cover credit for editing.
“Mayhem in Memphis” received the Imaginarium Convention’s 2020 Imadjinn Award for Best Anthology.
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