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Simone St. James

Simone St. James is the award-winning author of Lost Among the Living; The Other Side of Midnight; Silence for the Dead; An Inquiry into Love and Death, which was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel from Crime Writers of Canada; and The Haunting of Maddy Clare, which won two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America and an Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada. She wrote her first ghost story, about a haunted library, when she was in high school, and spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.

6 Supernatural Suspense Novels Not for the Faint of Heart

By Simone St. James

February 13, 2020

The supernatural thriller, to me, has always been a small sliver of a genre, one that takes a careful hand. Some books tip into straight horror, while others bury their scary happenings in innuendo and the feeling that something bad—really bad—is going to happen. Some read like mysteries, while others are psychological portraits of haunted…

Q&A with Simone St. James, Author of The Broken Girls

By Simone St. James

April 18, 2018

When plotting your books, do you take inspiration from established ghost stories and particular events or weave the story from whole cloth? I make them up! The Broken Girls, for example, started with an idea of a body found in a well. I wanted to know who she was and how she got there, and…

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