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Erica Wright is a senior editor at Guernica Magazine. Her first novel featuring P. I. Kathleen Stone, The Red Chameleon, was published by Pegasus Books in 2014. Erica lives in Florida.
The Granite Moth: A Novel
by Erica Wright
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- Publisher: Pegasus Books
- Publication date: 11/08/2015
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 240
- Sales rank: 385,593
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“This new PI has got a smart mouth on her, and plenty of wigs to help her find her own true character.”—The New York Times Book Review (on The Red Chameleon)
It begins with a bang: Kathleen Stone is watching her friend Dolly and his fellow drag queens from The Pink Parrot perform at the Halloween Parade when their float explodes. Suspecting foul play, The Pink Parrot’s owner, Big Mamma, hires Kat to find the culprit.Meanwhile, Kat has not given up on her quest to bring gangster Salvatore Magrelli to justice and once more dons a disguise to infiltrate The Skyview, an exclusive club run by his wife, Eva. When she watches the club’s poker dealer drop dead during a high-stakes game, she decides to look into his death as well. Upon discovering that he was also gay, she suspects that this murder could be a hate crime connected to the parade explosion.
However, as Kat digs deeper, she realizes that the truth is much more complicated and the real villains are much more difficult to spot.
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09/07/2015In Wright’s so-so second novel featuring reluctant PI Kat Stone (after 2014’s The Red Chameleon), Kat is pursuing the big one who got away during her stint as an NYPD undercover detective—drug kingpin Salvatore Magrelli—until a second case distracts her. At Manhattan’s annual Halloween parade in Greenwich Village, Kat is watching the float from the Pink Parrot club pass by, with Kat’s friend Dolly and fellow drag queens performing, when a flaming baton ignites it, seemingly by accident. Or was it? Two fatalities and the revelation of prior death threats to Pink Parrot performers prompt club owner Lacy “Big Mamma” Burstyn to hire Kat to investigate. When a gay poker dealer is poisoned in a posh supper club operated by Magrelli’s wife, Kat suspects a link between the cases. Kat crisscrosses New York in various disguises, confronting persons of interest who unconvincingly flip-flop from good guy to bad guy and back again in a messy plot not enhanced by a depressed heroine. Agent: Penn Whaling, Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency. (Nov.)
Chapter 16
Much of the fun in this layered thriller comes from Wright’s sardonic humor, which is fresh and young and smart, and her prose style, which is not the sort of hackneyed fare that largely populates the thriller genre.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Struts into hard-boiled territory with a private detective who's skilled in disguises and has more wigs than Beyoncé (well maybe not quite), a BF, Dolly, who's a talented drag queen (he has more wigs than Bey), and she has a relationship with the NYPD that's fraught with tension the result of being thrown into undercover assignments right out of the academy. A lively read.O Magazine (featured in 'Killing It: The Summer's Best Thrillers')
Kathleen Stone is a private investigator well versed in the art of disguise. Her wigs, costumes and varied personae come in handy in the fight against a revenge-minded villain from her days in the NYPD.Charles Finch - USA Today
Brisk, dark, slinky. The Granite Moth confirms that Wright, an editor at the prestigious literary magazine Guernica, has a very promising second career on her hands.”O Magazine (featured in 'Killing It: The Summer's Best Thrillers')
Kathleen Stone is a private investigator well versed in the art of disguise. Her wigs, costumes and varied personae come in handy in the fight against a revenge-minded villain from her days in the NYPD.The New York Times Book Review
There's something very appealing about Kathleen Stone, a quick-change artist who can slip into the persona of Katie, Kat, Kitty, Kathy, Kate, Katya—or her personal favorite, 15-year-old Keith—at the drop of a hat or, more likely, the switch of a wig.Chris Grabenstein
Erica Wright is such a wonderful writer, you'll be burning through the pages faster than a chameleon changes colors.Justin Kramon
The Red Chameleon introduces us to a thrilling new hardboiled world. Wright has created a rich and nuanced protagonist, as well as a gripping plot, and she writes in a style agile enough to veer into surprising pockets of emotion.”Parnell Hall
A fast and funny private eye novel featuring Kathleen Stone, a kick-ass disguise artist who's a hoot under any name in any wig.Melodie Johnson Howe
A complex tale filled with humor and sharply drawn characters, Erica Wright takes the reader on a thrilling ride where confronting evil can scare you into hiding or help you come out of the shadows.Carolyn Haines
The Red Chameleonis a fast, exciting read that mystery lovers will consume in huge gulps.”Jim Fusilli
Erica Wright's The Red Chameleon is a gift to devotees of classical private-eye novels as well as contemporary crime fiction.”Kirkus Reviews
2015-09-03Private eye Kathleen Stone (The Red Chameleon, 2014) gives her wigs a workout trying to figure out who's menacing New York's drag queens. Everybody loves a parade, except maybe the NYPD, whose members worry that the city's annual Halloween trek up Sixth Avenue will somehow get out of hand. This year, the boys in blue have a point. As fireworks boom overhead, Darío Rodriguez, known to his fans at the Pink Parrot as Dolly, begins to belt out "Rocket Man." Suddenly someone in the crowd pushes a juggler tossing fire batons in the air near the Pink Parrot float, setting the papier-mâché stage ablaze, badly burning Dolly and killing fellow performers Bobbie Giabella and Taylor Soto. Grieving over the loss of two of her rising stars, owner Lacy "Big Mamma" Burstyn hires Kathleen to find their killer. She shows her an engraved funeral notice she received forecasting not only Bobbie's and Taylor's deaths but those of Dolly and fellow performers Herman White, Ravi Sethi, Aaron Kline, Carlton Casborough, and Juniper Summer. Believing the card to be from the homophobic Zeus Society, Kathleen dons a blond wig and a frumpy gray dress to pose as Kate Manning, who asks Zeus leader Cronos Holt to help cure her fictitious gay nephew. In addition, Kathleen asks her old NYPD pal Ellis Dekker to help her infiltrate the Skyview, a members-only club owned by Salvatore Magrelli's wife, Eva, hoping to catch the mob boss red-handed in some dastardly deed. Ellis' brother wangles Kathleen's red-wigged alter-ego Katya a place in a high-stakes poker game, where she watches the dealer crumple and die after a sip of champagne. When Kathleen learns that Ernesto Belasco was also gay, she suspects there's more nastiness going on at the Skyview than cheating at cards. But connecting Belasco's death with the fire on the Pink Parrot float will take grit, gumption, and even more disguises. More concentrated than Kathleen's debut, Wright's second entry begins to develop a detective who can shine through all those costume changes.