Julia Keller

Julia Keller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and former cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune, is the author of many books for adults and young readers, including A Killing in the Hills, the first book in the Bell Elkins series and winner of the Barry Award for Best First Novel (2013); Back Home; and The Dark Intercept. Keller has a Ph.D. in English literature from Ohio State and was awarded Harvard University’s Nieman Fellowship. She was born in West Virginia and lives in Ohio.
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The Dark Intercept
Julia Keller
Tor/Forge
Tor Teen
This discounted ebundle includes: The Dark Intercept, Dark Mind Rising, Dark Star Calling
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Dark Mind Rising
The Dark Intercept
Julia Keller
Tor/Forge
Tor Teen
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller continues her Dark Intercept science fiction series with Dark Mind Rising, a thrilling, speculative murder mystery set in a chilling future...
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Dark Star Calling
The Dark Intercept
Julia Keller
Tor/Forge
Tor Teen
Julia Keller's Dark Star Calling is the third and final book in the Dark Intercept Trilogy, a high-concept YA science fiction saga.
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The Cold Way Home
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
"[An] emotion-charged mystery.... Keller's sleuths are easy to like and the murder story is moving; but the object of fascination here is Wellwood, a state-run mental institution with a dark...
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Bone on Bone
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
Bone on Bone, the next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series, sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines...
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Fast Falls the Night
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a murder investigation leads West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins to the shattering truth about her own past.
Based on a real-life...
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A Killing in the Hills
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
In A Killing in the Hills, a powerful, intricate debut from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller, a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before...
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Bitter River
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
In the next stunning novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Keller, following the popular A Killing in the Hills, a pregnant teenager is found murdered at the bottom of a river
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The Tablet of Scaptur
The Dark Intercept
Julia Keller
Tor/Forge
Tor Books
In the 23rd century, there is a radiant world of endless summer where peace is maintained through emotional surveillance performed by a peculiar device called the Intercept. When Violet Crowley,...
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The Dark Intercept
The Dark Intercept
Julia Keller
Tor/Forge
Tor Teen
The Dark Intercept by Julia Keller is the beginning of a “riveting” (Emmy Laybourne) science fiction adventure that challenges the voluntary surrender of liberties for the perception...
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Sorrow Road
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
In Sorrow Road, the latest mystery from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Julia Keller, two stories—one set in the turbulent era of World War II and one in the present day—are woven together...
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Last Ragged Breath
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest...
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The Bell Elkins Series, Thus Far
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
In her powerful, intricate Bell Elkins series, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Julia Keller weaves haunting mysteries against the stark beauty and extreme poverty of a small West Virginia...
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Evening Street
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
By day, she's a tough-minded prosecutor in Raythune County, West Virginia, a region scarred by poverty and prescription drug abuse. By night, Bell Elkins takes on a softer role. She volunteers...
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Summer of the Dead
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
It's high summer in Acker's Gap, a small town nestled in the beautiful but poverty-stricken West Virginia mountains—but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks...
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Ghost Roll
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
Bell Elkins, prosecuting attorney and small-town heroine of Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Keller's A Killing in the Hills, Bitter River and Summer of the Dead, faces one...
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A Haunting of the Bones
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller comes A HAUNTING OF THE BONES, another suspsenseful and provocative story that will keep readers up all night...
Bell Elkins,...
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The Devil's Stepdaughter
Bell Elkins Novels
Julia Keller
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Minotaur Books
The Devil's Stepdaughter, a story from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller, takes us back into beloved prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins's past. The year Bell turns eleven, she's living...
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