Elena
Santangelo is the author of the Pat Montella mystery series, which includes
Agatha Award finalist BY
BLOOD POSSESSED,
HANG MY HEAD AND CRY,
POISON TO PURGE
MELANCHOLY,
and now Fear Itself,
her latest. Her companion
guide to Agatha Christie's short stories,
DAME AGATHA'S SHORTS,
won an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction, and has been
nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards*.
Also an award-winning short story writer, Elena's mystery and ghost tales have
appeared in magazines throughout the U.S. and Japan, and in the four
DEATH KNELL
anthologies. She served as co-editor of
DEATH KNELL IV.
The stories are currently available in Kindle editions.
Elena's offers writing advice, observations, whimpers, and general nonsense on
her weekly writing blog.
If you like history, Elena has been entering the content
of the journal of her uncle, Joseph Chicco, at 1945chicco.blogspot.com,
which chronicles World War II action in the South Pacific between February and
December 1945.
When she's not writing, Elena sings with
Historical Harmonies, and
composes choral and handbell music which has been published and performed
throughout the country.
AWARDS
Agatha Award Nominee for By Blood Possessed for Best First Mystery Novel - 1999
Agatha Award winner for Dame Agatha's Shorts for Best Nonfiction of 2009
Anthony and Macavity Award nominations for Dame Agatha's Shorts for Best
Nonfiction of 2009
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the Author
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