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Tara Laskowski

TARA LASKOWSKI is the award-winning author of two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders, which The Guardian named a best book of 2017. She has had stories published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Mid-American Review, among others, and is the editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. Tara earned a BA in English from Susquehanna University and an MFA from George Mason University and currently lives in Virginia. One Night Gone is her first novel.

Awards: Agatha (2023), Macavity (2020), Anthony (2020) see all

Genres: Mystery

Novels

   One Night Gone (2019)
   The Mother Next Door (2021)
   The Weekend Retreat (2023)

Collections

Bystanders (2016)
Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons (2017)

Books containing stories by Tara Laskowski

Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy (2024)
Thirteen Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection
edited by
Gay Toltl Kinman and Andrew McAleer

Come October (2023)
edited by
C M Muller

A Woman Unbecoming (2022)
edited by
Rachel A Brune and Carol Gyzander

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Awards

	2023 Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel : The Weekend Retreat
	2020 Macavity Award for Best First Novel : One Night Gone
	2020 Anthony Award for Best First Novel : One Night Gone
	2019 Agatha Award for Best First Novel : One Night Gone
	2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story : The Case of the Vanishing Professor

Award nominations

	2022 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Novel (nominee) : The Mother Next Door
	2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award (nominee) : One Night Gone
	2020 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel (nominee) : One Night Gone

Tara Laskowski recommends

You Can't Hurt Me (2024)
Emma Cook
"xploring the ways our closest relationships can destroy us and the dark downside of ambition, Emma Cook's tightly woven thriller You Can't Hurt Me proves that the worst pain isn't caused by physical wounds, but by the emotional harm we inflict on one another."

Under Her Care (2022)
Lucinda Berry
"Creepy and chilling, Under Her Care is a tense page-turner that leaves you questioning everything you ever knew about motherhood and the family bond."

The Red Canoe (2022)
(Buck Fineday, book 1)
Wayne Johnson
"Simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-pounding, THE RED CANOE is a gritty and yet tender novel about an unrelenting pursuit for justice, redemption, and revenge. With nods to classic noir, westerns, action movies, and wilderness survival stories, this novel has a cast of misfit unlikely heroes you'll root for 'til the bloody end."

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