Lee Kelly Knihy

So close to her relaxing Atlanta weekend that she could almost taste it, beautiful, tough, Detective Lacy Fuller and her partner Chet Avery were suddenly assigned to a high-profile yet seemingly open-and-shut homicide case. Having found out that she was HIV positive, Shelly Farnsworth Stevens had taken out her anger on the only person she thought could have given her the illness: her husband, Todd. With one quick gunshot, the cheating bastard was out of her life. However, things are not always as they seem. Todd wasn't HIV positive and Shelly is but one of several people to have mysteriously contracted HIV in recent months. Atlanta becomes a hotbed of pandemonium as fear of a new, undiscovered mode of viral transmission seems possible. With the help of Dr. Sharon West and FBI Agent Margie Olsen, Detective Fuller uncovers a far greater evil than anyone dared imagine.

Set against the backdrop of New York City transformed into a POW camp by the Red Allies, two sisters embark on a gripping journey to unravel their family's history. As they navigate the challenges of their new reality, the sisters confront the secrets of the past, which hold the key to safeguarding their future. This thriller weaves together dual narratives, enhancing the tension and depth of their quest for survival and understanding.

In Lee Kelly’s “electric” (Publishers Weekly) fantasy novel, two young sorcerers experiment with magic and mobsters in 1920s Prohibition when a new elixir is created that turns their lives upside down. Washington, DC, 1926. Sorcery opponents have succeeded in passing the 18th Amendment, but the Prohibition of magic has only invigorated the city’s underworld. Smuggling rings carry magic contraband in from the coast. Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters’ crime sprees. Gangs have even established “magic havens,” secret venues where the public can lose themselves in immersive magic and consume a mind-bending, highly addictive elixir known as “the sorcerer’s shine.” Joan Kendrick, a young sorcerer from the backwoods of Norfolk County, accepts an offer to work for DC’s most notorious crime syndicate, The Shaw Gang, when her family’s home is repossessed. Alex Danfrey, first-year Federal Prohibition Unit trainee with a complicated past and talents of his own, becomes tapped to go undercover and infiltrate the Shaws. When Joan meets Alex at the Shaws’ magic haven, she discovers a confidante in her fellow partner and he begins to fall under her spell. But when a new breed of the addictive sorcerer’s shine is created within the walls of the magic haven, Joan and Alex are forced to question their allegiances as they become pitted against one another in a dangerous, heady game of cat-and-mouse.