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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    May 2007
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About the Author

Judith Kelman lives in Connecticut, USA. Mother of two, she gave up a successful career as a special education consultant to begin writing full-time. Her essays and articles have appeared in magazines such as Glamour and McCalls. She is the author of sixteen novels, including Someone's Watching and The House on the Hill.

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • The authors comprising the Adams Round Table are New York City-based mystery writers whose previous offering was Murder in Manhattan . In a concept again ``created'' by Bill Adler, their tales are set in various New York neighborhoods, where corpses ...



  • Five-year-old James Merritt lies in a hospital bed--the sixth victim in a series of accidents plaguing a peaceful Connecticut community.  'Maybe if he pretends to be asleep, the shadow man will go away.  He sees the glint of the needle.  The pa...



  • The psychopath: Released from prison after losing his sight and incarcerated in a once-deserted home at the edge of the woods, he is under constant electronic surveillance, his every move monitored by closed-circuit cameras.  There is no way he cou...



  • The Adams Round Table is today's counterpart of the legendary Algonquin Roundtable. Founded in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain, the members meet every month to discuss their craft and create some of the best-loved mysteries of our time...



  • When her college student son dies, the twelfth victim in what seems to be a series of suicides, Sarah Spooner becomes determined to root out the shadowy secrets that hide the truth behind the student deaths. Reissue....



  • Fear made their hearts race, palms sweat, breaths come in panicked gasps.  Dr. Maggie Lyon's phobia patients sat in their therapy group, imprisoned by their own secret terrors, depending on her to set them free . . .  "The bridge was just a few s...



  • Sarah Spooner, an investigator for the district attorney with her own young daughter, launches a probe into the Velvet Viper, a twisted, mysterious criminal responsible for the abduction of prepubescent girls, who are returned with little memory of t...



  • They say I cannot be held responsible. The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper Westport's Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short circuit of the m...



  • From the Adams Round Table, the same group of celebrated mystery authors that brought readers the national bestseller Missing in Manhattan comes this new collection of suspenseful tales set against the grimy streets and grand skyscrapers of New York ...






  • Strange, terrible things happened at Thornwood when Emily was still a child. First, her mother met a sudden, tragic death. Then her father slowly descended into madness. But this was years ago. Leaving Thornwood and its memories behind her, Emily...



  • A PREDATOR ON THE PROWL A self-proclaimed recovered child molester is the subject of Dana Saunders's controversial talk show, Back Talk. Though Dana deftly handles the tangled debate over the possibility of real reform, by the end of the taping she'...



  • Everyone on Rand's Island swore Eva Haskel was crazy. Ever since the well-publicized, unsolved kidnapping of her baby, she was a tragic figure on the tiny island off the Connecticut coast, wildly mourning the child who mysteriously vanished six long ...



  • Pregnant and unwed, Erica Phillips came to Bramble Farm to sort out her life and the papers of Theresa Bricklin. A stroke had left the legendary author a disfigured recluse totally dependent on her eccentric husband, who caters to her every need. He ...




  • Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...



  • A gripping new novel of a family torn apart--and struggling to survive... Prominent residents of an affluent town, Jess and Charlie Magill have a happy marriage and three beautiful, talented children. Then one day the police pound on the door of t...




  • Sometimes, Storms Hit Without Warning Anna Jameson was only three when her five-year-old sister, Julie, was murdered -- while her family slept through a tempestuous hurricane, in a season dubbed the "summer of storms." Sometimes, Lightning Strik...



  • A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an all-original anthology of compelling, provocative stories, revealing that the families that play together sometimes slay together. Featuring stories by: LAWRENCE BLOCK * MARY HIGGINS ...






  • Claire Barrow has found a fascinating focus for her late novel -- identity theft. But her invention turns all too real as Claire begins to recognize that someone is systematically stealing her life. Her nightmare deepens with the stunning news that t...



  • He delights in destroying lives; her mission is to save them. One of them will lose. P.J. Lafferty, a therapist assigned to the woman's psych ward at New York's infamous Rikers Island, is blamed for her role in the stabbing death of a prisoner. S...



  • It's Judith Kelman, but not as you know her! If you want to get to know someone, divorce him - The day Maggie heard her husband's office had burned down, she was heartbroken. But actually, the disaster was worse than she thought. Harold wasn?t in the...



  • He's a world-renowned, brilliant cardiac surgeon.But since Dr. Malik moved in upstairs with his family, Emma has started to wonder what kind of a man he really is. On quiet nights, home alone with her three-year-old, pregnant Emma can hear muffled th...


Award-Winning Books by Judith Kelman

Summer of Storms
2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Mary Higgins Clark Award


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Judith Kelman has published 23 books.

Judith Kelman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The First Stone, was published in May 2007.

The first book by Judith Kelman, The Kiss of Death, was published in September 1990.

No. Judith Kelman does not write books in series.