Gather Still Waters: Crime Stories By New England Writers Translated By Kate Flora File

Flora grew up on a chicken farm in Maine where the Friday afternoon trip to the library was the high point of her week, She dreamed of being able to create the kind of compelling, enchanting worlds of the books she disappeared into every week, but growing up in the era when “help wanted” ads were still sex segregated, she felt her calling was to go to law school and get the job they told her she couldnt have.
After law school, Kate worked in the Maine attorney generals office, protecting battered kids, chasing deadbeat dads, and representing the Human Rights Commission, Those years taught her all a crime writer needs to know about the human propensity to commit horrible acts, After some years in private practice, she decided to give w Kate Flora grew up on a chicken farm in Maine where the Friday afternoon trip to the library was the high point of her week.
She dreamed of being able to create the kind of compelling, enchanting worlds of the books she disappeared into every week, but growing up in the era when “help wanted” ads were still sex segregated, she felt her calling was to go to law school and get the job they told her she couldnt have.
After law school, Kate worked in the Maine attorney generals office, protecting battered kids, chasing deadbeat dads, and representing the Human Rights Commission, Those years taught her all a crime writer needs to know about the human propensity to commit horrible acts, After some years in private practice, she decided to give writing a serious try when she quit the law to stay at home for a few years with her young sons.
That serious try led to ten tenacious and hellacious years in the unpublished writers corner, followed, finally, by the sale of her Thea Kozak series, Kates eighteen books will include eight Thea Kozak mysteries, five gritty Joe Burgess police procedurals, a suspense thriller written under the name Katharine Clark, two true crime books, Death Dealer and Finding Amy co written with Joseph Loughlin, a Portland, Maine Deputy Police Chief, a Maine game warden's memoir, A Good Man with a Dog, co written with Roger Guay, and a book about police shootings from the police point of view, Shots Fired: The misunderstandings, misconceptions, and myths about police shootings, co written with Joseph K.
Loughlin. Finding Amy was aEdgar nominee as well as a Maine Literary Award finalist, and has been optioned for a movie, Kates award winning short stories have been widely anthologized and Redemption and And Grant You Peace, her third and fourth Joe Burgess mysteries, won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction.
Flora's fiction, nonfiction, and short fiction have been finalists for the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Derringer Awards, She is a founding member of the New England Crime Bake, the region's annual mystery conference, and the Maine Crime Wave, With two other crime writers, she started founded Level Best Books, where she worked as an editor and publisher for seven years, She served a term as international president of Sisters in Crime, an organization founded to promote awareness of women writers contributions to the mystery field, Currently, she teaches writing and does manuscript critiques for Grub Street in Boston, She has two sons one into film and the other into photovoltaics two lovely daughters in law, an adorable eight year old grandson and five granddogs, Frances, Otis, Harvey, Oscar, and Daisy.
When not conducting research for her novels and nonfictionresearch that includes riding an ATV through the Canadian woods or hiding in a tick infested

field waiting to be found by search and rescue dogsKate can often be found in her garden, waging war against the woodchucks and her husbands lawnmower, or in the kitchen, devising clever and devious ways to get the men in her life to eat their vegetables.
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