City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() While I was researching CITY OF DRAGONS, I came across specific stories of fascists on American soil in the 1930s, extreme right-wing agitators who wrapped themselves up in patriotic names like “The Musketeers” or “The Christian Front”. ![]() Later, when I was in college and studying in Europe, I traveled to Dachau, and visited the tiny hiding place where Anne Frank spent her tragically short life.Įventually I discovered that America, too, had its anti-Semites, that we’d not accepted refugee Jewish children, that our own scientists legitimized and popularized the pseudo-science of eugenics and proved to be inspirations for Hitler’s programs of genocide. In high school, I tried to understand the cause, the psychosis behind it, how an entire country could perpetrate such an unimaginable, unspeakable crime. I distinctly remember hearing the term “concentration camp” when I was probably three or four. Though I’m not Jewish, relatives on my mom’s side (she’s Polish) perished in the camps. I first heard about the Holocaust when I was a child. What sparked the idea for CITY OF SECRETS? ![]() ![]() I recently had an opportunity to interview Kelli for TheBigThrill: Her latest novel is her second set in SF, CITY OF SECRETS, and a follow up to CITY OF DRAGONS. Whether she is writing about ancient Rome or San Francisco at the beginning of the 1940’s, Stanley can immerse the reader in that time. Kelli Stanley is one of the best historical mystery writers in the business. ![]()
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