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Katia Lief

(b.1959)

aka Karen Ellis, Kate Pepper, Katia Spiegelman

Katia Lief is the author of several internationally bestselling crime novels, including The Money Kill, the fourth installment of her Karin Schaeffer series published in 2013 by HarperCollins and nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. In 2018 her newest novel A Map of the Dark will be published by Mulholland Books under the pseudonym Karen Ellis. She teaches fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Genres: Mystery

Series

Karin Schaeffer
   1. You Are Next (2010)
   2. Next Time You See Me (2010)
     aka Hide and Seek
   3. Vanishing Girls (2012)
     aka The 12th Victim
   The Domino Killer (2013)
   4. The Money Kill (2013)
     aka Dead Rich

Searchers (as by Karen Ellis)
1. A Map of the Dark (2018)
2. Last Night (2019)

Invisible Woman
1. Invisible Woman (2024)
2. Women Like Us (2025)

Novels

   Soul Catcher (1990) (as by Katia Spiegelman)
   Peculiar Politics (1993) (as by Katia Spiegelman)
   Five Days in Summer (2004)
     aka Five Days to Die
   Seven Minutes to Noon (2005)
   One Cold Night (2006)
   Here She Lies (2007)
   Love, Sex & the Wrong Bride (2011)
   The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love (2011)
   Waterbury (2011)
   Names of the Dead (2013)
     aka Watch You Die
   House of a Thousand Eyes (2021)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Gift (2012)
   Heartbeat (2012)
   The Beautiful Years (2016)
   The Orchid Grower (2017)

Books containing stories by Katia Lief

Ice Cold (2014)
Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Raymond Benson and Jeffery Deaver

Suspense Magazine, September 2010 (2010)
(Suspense Magazine)
edited by
John Raab

Award nominations

2014 Mary Higgins Clark Award (nominee) : The Money Kill

Katia Lief recommends

Fireseed One (2011)
(Fireseed, book 1)
Catherine Stine
"Extradinary thriller with a facinating setting and rich, engaging characters."

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